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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Awww... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68600093...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    On land the Romans at some point did use a semaphore style system, two sets of five flags gave a row and column for a grid of letters. It could also be used with torches instead of the flags. One...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    For those interested, the SpaceX coverage of yesterdays launch has been uploaded to YouTube by a reputable source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5yupEUs4U and spin about 33 minutes in to avoid the prelaunch waffle....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    There was a camera inside the cargo bay watching the door, and if there weren't several latch sensors I'd be extremely surprised. The ship was transmitting telemetry to the ground via Starlink, booster and ship both had two Starlink systems...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Short report on the flight from SpaceX on their site....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    They need to have a successful on-orbit engine restart before they can start carrying payloads. The ship would need to be in a proper orbit before it can deploy anything, and the test flights so far have been in orbits...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Ship was rolling for most of its coasting phase, and looked to be tumbling as it started re-entry. At one point it also appeared to be coming in sideways from the way the plasma was going so probably wasn't in...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    L'Académie Française si vous plais....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Ukraine have also taken out several Su-34 aircraft in recent days, probably because they shot down a second A-50 command and control aircraft out of possibly only 3 or 5 fully modernised versions. Russia can no longer keep one on...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    It was Pigeon's use of "electric shower" that was originally queried, and as he's UK based I'm reasonably certain he's using the term as understood in the UK. 404: Like for like replacement isn't subject to Part P or whatever...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Electric showers are very common in the UK. The heater is generally wall mounted outside the wet bit and only requires a cold water feed directly from the rising main. Reduces but doesn't completely eliminate sudden temperature changes when someone...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Glocktopus?...
  • Commented on Worldcon in the news
    Probably the same reason as places along the south coast here are consistent Tory/UKIP/Brexit voters. Huge retiree communities....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Money -> Dough -> Bread. Breadhead - obsessed with money....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Gravity Tractors. Nice heavy spacecraft with ion engines splayed outwards. Hover the tractor over the asteroid so the plume from the engines misses it and gravitational attraction between the tractor and asteroid can be used to steer the assembly. Easier...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Greenham Common is derelict these days, the base areas are now industrial estates and large chunks of the runway have been removed although the outline is still visible on overhead views from the supplier of your choice. There have been...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Usual suggested target is the north polar ice cap so that the water and CO2 there gets liberated. As I've mentioned before, most of the northern hemisphere of Mars is well below the datum so with sufficient liquid water you...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Doesn't really matter if it does. A few million tonnes of water vapour in the atmosphere following each strike is just as useful as a small lake or heap of ice cubes. Water vapour is a moderate greenhouse gas so...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Polaris Dawn is the first of three flights in the Polaris programme, paid for by Jared Isaacman. One of the other two flights is said to involve a rendevous with a Starship which may or may not be the same...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    The Orlan has straps inside that can be adjusted to fit anyone from 165cm to 190cm tall apparently. Arms and legs can be shortened using the straps, and there's a crotch strap to adjust your height inside the torso....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    The new ISS EVA suits got some news coverage a few days ago as they've just finished a series of tests on a Vomit Comet. Difficult to be sure from the video or still photos but I think it's still...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    AIUI, they usually sleep in the airlock suiting chamber the night before the EVA and adjust the pressure and purge the nitrogen then. I forget if it's just the two going outside or if a third person is in there...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Council Tax is basically a reversion to the old Rateable Value system where each residential property had a nominal value based on the likely rent the property could earn, but snapshotted at some date in the past. Council tax uses...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Saw a proposal recently for a swarm of Mars Exploration Vehicles (MEVs not delivered by a Zero-X unfortunately) on the surface using normal radio to talk to satellites in areosynchronous orbit, which then retransmitted to Earth via laser. AEO can...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    One problem with HPVs on Mars is that you would need sealed rotating bearings to transmit the pedal power out to the wheels. That's an additional maintenance and replacement cost, and new bearings are likely to have to be imported...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    Yes, 2022 with the Cambridge area starting a few months after the Cambourne one. They queue patiently at light controlled crossings....
  • Commented on The coming storm
    The Cambridge area is some distance past Reality Checkpoint so students tnd to automatically assume There Be Dragons and never venture that far......
  • Commented on The coming storm
    You have to unload it so it can toddle off for its next run, but that sort of thing has been running in Cambourne for a while, and is now being extended to bits of Cambridge. Seems to be a...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    The Scillies are actually a part of Cornwall. Before the forced unitary authority was imposed on the county and the district councils abolished they were one of the districts....
  • Commented on The coming storm
    And on the first of January this very year, The Shipping Forecast celebrated its 100th anniversary....
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