Posts by Colin 4
54 posts • joined Friday 12th June 2009 11:42 GMT
@If you want a stable climate
Man has been wiped out regularly ? Wow, nice job re-evolving us to the same species every 150000 years, evolution !
stupid bloody reality
Er ... no. The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Re: P-P-P-P-P-P-P-
Nearly perfect ! Best I can come up with to help is the grammatically dubious but poetically plausible :
"Page provided perfect prose pondering performing pachyderms perched precariously 'pon pencil proof planar products"
Re: What Are We Waiting For?
Nope, the mission is intended to determine whether Mars has ever had environmental conditions favorable for life, NOT to find evidence of life itself.
Re: UK: Cyclists already pay for the upkeep of roads, as do pedestrians
"All the extra cycle lanes" eh ? All they do around here is paint a line a couple of feet in from the edge of the road and call it a "cycle lane".
This has rather hilariously resulted in quite a lot of roads where the car lane is actually not wide enough to FIT a car. Especially hilarious when there's a bike going each way, and a bus going each way ...
Posted in Soak up CO2 with sponges, says CSIRO
CCS is dangerous fantasy
CCS is such a bad idea. Eventually, no matter what we do with it, it will burp it's way out and then we're stuffed.
And in the meantime it diverts resources from ACTUAL solutions. The future is carbon-neutral power generation, that's just all there is to it.
Posted in El Reg contemplates the ultimate cuppa
Luxury
In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
A cup ' COLD tea.
Without milk or sugar.
OR tea!
In a filthy, cracked cup.
We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
Sure, it may not be easy, but ...
SpaceX are a business after all - they aren't out to throw money away and they're doing pretty well.
Elon's a very switched-on guy and I'm sure they've thought this through.
I predict they'll make this work, despite all these objections.
Posted in Einstein's brain FOUND ON APPLE iPAD
Re: Einsteins Greatest Mistake
Presumably if he'd done that, there would also be an Android app ...
Re: Re: Time Lapse?
Yep, sure is, can't miss it !
Surely
they're using fanbuoys ?
This is new then is it ?
I did all of this in school. That was Australia though, and a couple of decades ago - has it always been this slack here ?
re: Solar = Joke
What a ridiculous comment ! All our power comes from our star. What's so ridiculous about cutting out the middlemen ? We're going to have to do it eventually.
hoodies !
you gotta love that they're wearing hoodies ... if they had trousers no doubt their jocks would be showing too
What about the LIFE "astronauts" ?
What about the Planetary Society LIFE experiment ? Spare a thought for the hardy Tardigrades, Conan the Bacterium, and all the other microscopic astronauts attempting to survive the journey ?
Come on you Russians, where's the guy from Armageddon bashing it with a wrench shouting "this is how we fix things on Russian Space Station!" ?
one to miss
well, that looks crap.
grabbing coat now ...
Fell on his Pork sword, presumably ....
mine's the one with tissues in the pocket
Posted in Windows 7 gets the Star Wars treatment
Not a Fit
"was not a fit with the Windows brand" .... yeah, the jokes on these shows work.
Posted in Nokia talks Pure typographic cobblers
cats
"instinctively kicked the cat" ... brilliant, nearly lost my fish finger sandwich there ...
Posted in Leslie Nielsen dead at 84
favourite quote
Lt. Frank Drebin: ...blowing away a fleeing suspect with my 44 magnum used to mean everything to me, I enjoyed it, well who wouldn't?
Mrorons ...
What else would you expect from "moron" airforce base ? That was just asking for trouble ....
Posted in Middle-aged sex is crap: Official
69
Ironically, thats how many comments there were when i posted this .... I'm guessing there's not much of that going on either ....
@Black Holes
I think its about the seperation - a singularity has infinite density and zero size / radius so as the gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the separation distance, other particles can get so close that the gravity is much higher. It only needs to eat enough other particles to outweigh the energy of the hawking radiation and it will keep growing forever. Then again, I may not have much more idea than you. No doubt some more boffinly commentards will sort us out shortly ....
WOW
That is SO frikkin' awesome !
more research required!
tut tut ... as any trekkie worth his salt knows ... the warp drive compresses space in front of the ship and stretches it behind. the ship never moves even close to light space relative to the real space around it.
what a load of crap
that is all.
Posted in DARPA scientists demand lightning on tap
DARPA
Nice DARPA description Lewis .. back on form !
More effort on DARPA descriptions please
I remember when DARPA descriptions were sure-fire keyboard-ruiners. Like how about this gem :
"The Pentagon's famous bad-boy scientists, DARPA* - who slap the pendulous jowls of established wisdom with the gauntlet of disregard ?"
Or this one :
"the famous Pentagon research bureau which, when scrumping apples from the tree of knowledge, ignores the low-hanging fruit in favour of the harder-to-reach pomaceous treat which often turns out to be beyond its reach."
Or :
"DARPA* - who are to ordinary insane scientists in their dungeon laboratories as platinum-selling popsters are to teenage-saddo garage bands"
Nowadays you hardly even seem to be trying Lewis. "renowned Pentagon brainiac-breeding bureau" - not bad, but not brilliant.
yeah right
The US are obviously just wetting themselves ... they know the best they will manage in the next 10 years is to get halfway back to where they were in 1969, whereas the Chinese will probably have a yum cha restaurant at the moon's south pole by then. So the seppo's figure - lets jump on their coat-tails ....
keyboard please
'flaccidity and empurplement'
got some coffee out my nose that time, cheers !
hasnt gone far enough
hopefully the no-talent bimbo will cry off microphones and cameras too, and we wont have to see or hear her ever again.
@Standard Units
By my calcs, that ship will be 52.0664 Double Decker Buses / 3.4711 Brontosauruses long, weighing in at an impressive 142.8571429 MEGAJubs ! Thats Alotta Jubs !
Posted in Swedish bloke attempts lactation
idiot
obviously skipped biology class.
although if he tries hard enough he might get some blood out ...
Posted in Illinois bright spark sparks car inferno
Natural Selection
Damn, natural selection was thwarted again by society ! These genes will now probably be passed on to the next generation. Human Devolution continues apace ....
only the beginning !
this could go a lot further ... the hull could have a full complement of little BUGs that can crawl all over it, not only anti-fouling but also performing repairs. just like the R2 units on the spaceships in Star Wars eh ?
Could do with being a bit more streamlined though - unlike the R2s, these guys will have to deal with some pretty heavy resistance from the water if they want to work when the ships are underway
yawn
sent me off to sleep nicely. good story, but man, what a boring video.
smashed to bits
isn't it likely that the actual impactor DID smash to bits, and this is just one of the bits that got thrown clear of the original impact site ?
Restrained Innuendo
Not like you Lewis, to be so timid ! The innuendo in this article could have been much more explicit methinks ... still, very interesting.
i feel ill
Why oh why didn't i heed your warning Reg ? I guess I'm just not very good at following instructions of the form "don't look at this" ....
Posted in IT grad sues school over failed job hunt
All i hear is
boo hoo, poor little me. she needs to grow up and face reality - the world does not owe her a living.
poor fit ?
The girl looks like hers is poorly fitted - she looks extremely uncomfortable.
Either that or she is walking awkwardly for some other reason ....
Chose Paris because I'm sure she walks like this way pretty often ;)
Posted in Walmart goes green with solar build-out
offset credits ?
How does this help ? Surely they are still using the power, which still comes from fossil fuels.
What happens to the money they pay for these 'credits' ?
waste water ?
Isn't there no such thing now they have their funky multi-million dollar water recycling equipment ?
f'ing fascists
won't say any more, or I'll REALLY get pissed off
Posted in Jupiter takes a serious knock
Planetary Defense
That bright spot looks pretty bloody big compared to little 'ol Earth ....
A timely reminder that we need to address the issue of planetary defense from space impacts. Sooner or later, we are gonna get hit. It's the one natural disaster we can prevent, and its the most deadly one there is too.
We need to get our arses into gear and find all the objects we can. The earlier we spot 'em, the easier they are to deflect.
Posted in World's oldest mum pops clogs
selfish ?
ALL parents (including myself) have children for selfish reasons. Who else are you doing it for ? Certainly not the child, who does not exist yet. The human race clearly does not need more kids.
No, every single person who has intentionally had a child has done so because THEY want to.
There's nothing wrong with this - this is the biological imperative that drives all living organisms to reproduce.
@Scott Mckenzie
The sky is not blue because it's showing a reflection of the sea, it is just that the air is preferentially scattering the blue light in the sun's spectrum, so it looks like there is blue light coming from all directions.
Posted in Rogue Atlantis knob removed by hand
Call AutoGlass
They'll repair it, invisibly, same day - usually for free ! (although in this case, maybe a small charge will apply). Better do it now before it develops into a crack ...
Posted in Ecopocalypse causes giant fish ears
duh
"anything that departs significantly from normality is an abnormality". Well, no shit. Really ?
Posted in UK climate change funding cut by 25%
@John Angelico
The difference is that the trees burnt in the bushfires will be replenished in years or decades, thus removing the CO2 added during the fires, whereas the coal and oil humans are burning will not be replenished for many thousands of years, if at all. This is pretty basic stuff; if you can't work this out you probably shouldnt bother comenting on the climate change issue.
