* Posts by Apollo-Soyuz 1975

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Intel NUCs find fresh life in Asus, but rights are 'non-exclusive'

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Meh

Re: pushing PDFs

In my experience, it is a perfectly accurate description of modern office dronery.

Meta chops another 10,000 employees, closes 5,000 vacancies

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Stop

Re: > YouTube is a very good source of learning...

cyberdemon, you seem excessively enamoured of your own opinions.

US military spends weekend shooting down Useless Floating Objects

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Canada’s prime minister posted on Twitter (sigh …) to inform that he had requested that USAF aircraft shoot-down the object. As to why USAF and not RCAF, your guess is as good as mine. https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1624527579116871681?s=20&t=D5ErnLoZPcmjHiQiAfmu1g

Mitsubishi gives up on Japan's first domestically manufactured passenger jet

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Re: SpaceJet

Also worth noting that Bombardier offloaded the entire CRJ program into MHI’s lap in mid-2020: https://bombardier.com/en/media/news/bombardier-concludes-sale-crj-series-regional-jet-program-mitsubishi-heavy-industries

Presumably this was an effort to stabilize the balance sheet after the bath that BBD took on C-series development before Covid.

NASA, DARPA to go nuclear in hopes of putting boots on Mars

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Flame

Re: Where is the handbrake?

Aerobraking in the atmosphere of the target body, surely?

Virgin Orbit doesn't

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Holmes

Re: Seventh time lucky, maybe

Also worth noting that removal of the interior creature comforts is a necessary prelude to freighter conversion, which has been a second lease on life for hundreds of 747s in the past.

Aviation regulators push for more automation so flights can be run by a single pilot

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Windows

Re: Simple solution

In fairness, we Seppoes have to hear people make comments like that earnestly… in real life.

It’s all so tiresome.

End of an era as the last 747 rolls off the production line

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Holmes

Re: 666

And the Antonov 124.

After lunar orbit trip NASA's Orion capsule is on its way back home

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Re: Working flawlessly - and stultifyingly boring

Bandwidth becomes a bit of a problem with a craft that far from Earth. Remember that all of the fantastic footage from the Apollo flights was recorded on 16 mm film that had to be bright back and developed after the fact. The video footage beamed back from the lunar EVAs was either a) not very fantastic (in terms of resolution), or b) transmitted from a collapsible high-gain antenna that was too large to bolt to the side of the lunar lander and required manual setup by the crew.

Chip fab locations more important than oil well placement, says Gelsinger

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Stop

Re: Cast off those Crutches Sin'a... and do the Chicken Dance across the stage...

It’s time to take your meds again, Lordrobot.

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

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Go

Re: Not wounded pride.

I recently (e.g. within the past month) came across a stock car race TV broadcast that had a snippet of two-way radio chatter in which a Southern-born and -bred driver described his race car’s handling as “evil.” If Blasphemy Guy is a New Yorker as you say, then I suspect you probably just had the misfortune of dealing with a hyper-religious pedant. We find them annoying, too, but learn to just tune them out. American religious observance rates are still higher than the UK, but have declined severely in the last 40 years… and internet access has exposed younger Americans to acerbic British humo(u)r on an unprecedented scale.

How to watch NASA Jupiter probe's flyby of Earth

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Holmes

Periapsis

Not to be a pedant, but the ISS orbits much closer to Earth than 790 km. According to this NASA Goddard SFC video ( https://youtu.be/BD7SVOQA440 ), the space probe will dive down to a ~352 km perigee.

Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada

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Trollface

Separated by a common tongue

We (& Canadians) will recognize aluminium as soon the rest of the world recognize platinium and molybdenium.

Or perhaps we all should revert to the original “alumium?”

NASA battens down another Artemis launch window as hurricane approaches

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Alert

Re: Fingers crossed!

Looks like it’s edging eastward already… youtu.be/WF7UHwvyjmo

Cloudflare stops services to 'revolting' hate site

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Re: Proud Boys = Antifa

sir, this is an arby’s drive-through

Artemis I will get 3 launch attempts after termination system extension agreed

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The Rocket Lab flight is testing a very slow — and very propellant-efficient — ballistic trans-lunar trajectory, while SLS-Artemis will use the Apollo brute-force method (huge trans-lunar maneuver + huge lunar-orbit maneuver) to get to the moon in three days. Doubtful that any feelings would be hurt, TBH.

Spent Chinese rocket booster splashes down over Southeast Asia

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FAIL

Re: HOW DARE THE CHINESE... NASA's exploding Space Shuttles fell to earth Predictably

Please tell us that that was just a subpar attempt at a piss-take.

Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more

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Re: "the Epoch Media Group"

It looks to be affiliated with the Falun Gong movement's mass media effort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

Houston, we've had a legend: Boffin behind NASA Mission Control signs off for final time

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Re: And if you watched "Armstrong"

I was under the impression that the side-swinging LM forward hatch essentially required that the mission commander (Armstrong) had to egress first…

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

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Coat

I'm Idaho.

Who will kill power companies? TESLA, says Morgan Stanley

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Meh

Re: Net energy gaiin?

Although anecdotes ≠ data, I find that the majority of vehicle-related noise pollution relates to the sound of the tires rolling along the roadway. Only large trucks, muppets with opened-up exhausts, and muppets on modified motorcycles pump out distracting levels of engine noise.

Cold War spy aircraft CRASHED Los Angeles' air traffic control

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Holmes

Nope, but it WAS contracted out to the company that fucked up the Mars Climate Orbiter mission!

French drug dealers regretfully announce 'temporary closure'

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Unhappy

Re: Allô ?

> To be fair, a great deal of English (or its

> barbaric derivative from across the pond)

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Hey, leave Canada out of this!

Human error blamed for toxic Russian rocket explosion

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I hope I'm not the only one wondering why there wasn't a range safety system to blow the rocket up _before_ it hit the ground...

Confirmed: Bezos' salvaged Saturn rocket belonged to Apollo 11

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Headmaster

Re: If the Cosmosphere were on I70....

Interstate highways and US Routes (US-50, etc. as mentioned above) are federally funded/maintained highway routes. The K-roads mentioned are references to Kansas state routes, which are state-funded/maintained. Usually, people will refer to a state highway generically as "State Route xx" ("route" usually pronounced identically to "rout") unless they are Michiganders, in which case they refer to M-xx as state routes, US routes, and Interstate routes aren't forbidden from using identical numbers in Michigan. More confusingly, Hawaii now has a trio of Interstate routes (H-1 through -3) even though Hawaii doesn't border any other states!