Posts by ici.chacal

Russia has 'secret space warplane' to match US X-37B

The shuttle was proven...

in a military context, when the US deployed space-soldiers to attack Hugo Drax's space station. I wonder how many space-soldiers the X37 could deploy..?

BBC apologises for Top Gear outrage

I just don't get it...

I don't understand the mentality of a person that feels utterly compelled to make a complaint over some nonsense on TV. What kind of small-minded person takes personal offence over that kind of thing. Those people have a problem.

As for the Japs and the QI thing, gimme a break - those people are still in denial...

And I agree with a previous comment; the Aussies took far more of a battering where stereotyping banter is concerned, but they seemed to be a fun bunch of lads, and they all had a good laugh over the antics.

Still, I would like to see what would be in store for our lot if they were ever invited to a re-match on Aussie Top Gear, heh...

NASA hails 'amazing' exoplanetary system

Extrasolar..?

All planets are extrasolar... :-p

No new copters for Afghanistan troops

@AC

The "bring our boys home" argument is aimed at the criminal politicians who deployed them into an illegal war in the first place.

British forces personnel are _paid_ to defend British interests, not to be used as an instrument of oppressive and violent acquisition of oil wealth.

Opium..?

I thought the whole Afghan thing was to hunt down Bin-Laden, or at least that's how it started...

So what are we still doing there, I seem to have lost track..? Oh yeah, that's right, there's a new oil pipeline to protect, isn't there...

The UK is...

...a second-rate nation. We can no longer afford to fight these stupid Merkin-led crusades. We are only fit to defend our own shores.

And with all our shit tied up in the east, wouldn't now be a good time for the Argies to try again to take back the 'Malvinas'..?

Mexico demands apology for Top Gear outrage

Hmmm...

I can't decide whether Jeremy and chums ought to slightly tone down their derogatory descriptions of other groups of people or nations, or whether said subjects should get a life and quit moaning when, at the end of the day, it is nothing more than harmless comedy banter...

Boffins hope for dimensional portal event at LHC by 2013!

10^-26s

Hmmm, well if time slows down considerably as those pesky particles approach the speed of light, then 10^-26s might actually be long enough for hoards of lethal space aliens to come rumbling through the portal... !!!

Assange traveled in drag to evade gov spooks

@Charles Calthrop

I'm surprised the CIA hasn't hired you to eliminate Assange yet... Or have they..?

UK a 3D TV nation? Not half

It's just another...

...pointless GIMMICK forced upon consumers in a desperate attempt to sell us more stuff.

It's bound to die away once the novelty has subsided, like it did in the 80's, unless maybe some clever engineers can make it work without the need for some stupid flimsy glasses...

Assange to be released

Lonely...

If he gets lonely stuck in the house over the Christmas period, maybe someone could lend him a copy of Alan Sugar's biography..?

Air Force blocks access to sites that covered WikiLeaks

Internet Sensorship

Hmmm, it does seem that the good ol' US of A is becoming more Chinese than China..!!

Russia wins World Cup bid in parrot-sickening travesty

Qatar..?!

Errrm... Isn't it deadly hot in the Middle East in June..? I take it they will have to build indoor air-conditioned stadia then...

It's also not a very big place, so how many stadia would there be..?

To be honest, I don't care where the World Cup takes place, but it should at least be somewhere amenable...

Apple accused of iPhone ban on 'all single-station radio apps'

This is one of the reasons...

...why I will never buy anything Apple. People should have the freedom and right to run whatever they want on hardware devices they have paid for. Period.

Man denies charges he hacked Fed Reserve network

@Mark 65

Or perhaps the NSA et al have back doors into publicly available 'heavy encryption'..?

Is that the sound of rotor blades I can hear..?!