Posts by retiredandouttolunch

After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts

"the width of a human hair held 200m away"

another new Reg unit of measure?

Hyperloop One lynched in hangman lawsuit

Looks like a rescue attempt

Clearly that's a bowline not a hangman's noose. Probably throwing him a lifeline...

Supermassive BLACK HOLE to stuff MYSTERY gas BLOB into open maw

Re: "Bated breath", dammit

Too bad - I was hoping they'd tell us what kind of bait the modern astrophysicist uses to catch black holes...

Delegates launch dawn spitball raid in battle for INTERNET DOMINATION

two more solutions...

1) (current approach) Wad up sheets of paper and pile it around the marbles on the tray until they can't roll anymore. After that's done, balancing the tray is just an engineering problem.

2) (political approach) Have two marbles jump off the tray and join the other "foundation marble" in a tripod formation. That way the tray will balance no matter what the rest of the marbles do...