Posts by artificial bitterness

South Korea's Moon orbiter snaps India's lander

Computer...

Enhance!

This hero probe will smash into an asteroid to see if we can deflect future killer rocks

Giant rubber balls in space

Because everyone knows you can transfer more momentum by bouncing than just colliding. Giant rubber balls in space, please!

Massive rugby ball-shaped planet emerges from scrum of space 'scope sightings

Birth of a planet

If it's now getting further away from the star -- WHEN DID IT HATCH?

Scientists stumped by strange X-rays from Uranus

Um...

These X-rays are coming from where the sun never shines?

MIT boffins build rubber robot, invade privacy of unsuspecting sealife

Oil

I'm deeply disappointed they used mineral oil rather than cod liver oil.

Where did all that water go? Mars was holding it wrong, say boffins

obligatory Monty Python reference

Monty Python and The Holy Grail followers know that the only floating rocks are very small ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

What would happen if Earth fell into a black hole?

Good GReith

I always read black hole articles in Stephen Hawking's voice.

POLAR DINOSAURS prowled ARCTIC NIGHT, cast doubt on COLD BLOOD theory

Alaska?

It proves nothing. Probably the bones were carried there by African swallows.

Sengled lightbulb speakers: The best worst stereo on Earth

inside out

I can't help but feel that it would have been better to add light output to loudspeakers, rather than vice versa.

Boffins, feeling around in dark for Philae, lit up by bright spot on Comet 67/P

music of the spheres

in that case I hope Tiny Clanger is singing duets with Philae.

One USB plug to rule them all? That's sensible, but no...

Re: As the old saying goes...

RCA leads were good enough in my day. What did digital ever do for us?

Large Hadron Collider gives young ALICE a black-hole ray gun

yes, it is safe.

look, if it starts to go tiny bit wrong, we'll just drop in a baguette and make it stop. Ok?

BILLION YEAR SECRETS of baking hellworld Mercury UNLOCKED by NASA probe crash

Re: Yet another stunning achievement...

amazingly, bazaa, from the data you provide we can calculate a lower bound on your age!

Meet the man who inspired Elon Musk’s fear of the robot uprising

algorithm for making humans happy

step 1: kill all humans (instantaneously, natch, don't want them to die unhappily)

step 2: all (remaining) humans are happy, so stop.

MAYHEM in ORBIT: Russian cargo pod spins OUT OF CONTROL

Re: No Food?

"another fast supply mission"

trouble with that fast food is... no atmosphere.

One small shot for Man, one espresso maker IN SPAAACE: Dragon snatched by ISS

No cappucino of course

... because in space no-one can heat your cream.