Posts by DHJ

Wannabe space 'superpower' UK tosses £1.6M at eight research projects

Unfair comparison

This is one of 6 rounds of funding in the uksa emerging technologies call; and is one of many different funding calls they announce each year. As such its unfair to compare the £1.6m announced here to the total annual r&d budget of NASA.

Clueless do-gooders make Africa's conflict mineral mines even more dangerous

Re: DHJ

Speaking as a so-called 'do-gooder'...

a) Do-gooder doesn't automatically equal naive. In fact there are plenty of naive people on the sidelines, or on computer forums, whos contribution to the problem is far less helpful.

b) That an AK, a few bullets and a gang is addictive, and not something you'd just give up when the going gets harder, is not something i've ever questioned. Instead i'm asking what happens when your gang can't afford as many AKs or bullets.... Mozambique is now a relatively bandit-free country. Just because banditry is normal now doesn't mean it can't be beaten eventually.

What about the (mostly) successful Kimberley process?

And are we to believe that these militia's will continue fighting to the same degree when there are smaller financial returns, and, probably as a result, fewer weapons available?

Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers

Safety of Nuclear Power

Perhaps there have only been 56 deaths acredited to the nuclear power industry because of the 'imposition of cripplingly high health and safety standards'?