Posts by Lars

Re: This is a no-win for China

Size matters.

This on the transfer topic.

The importance of China’s high-speed tech transfer policy.

https://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurethe-importance-of-chinas-high-speed-tech-transfer-policy-5748075/

But I would shut up regarding the "stealing", companies are there because they expect to gain from it, and if they are not somebody else will and they don't like that to happen either.

If we want to be really worried about technology transfer we would close universities for foreign students but that would perhaps bankrupt them so it won't happen.

The African ex president indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt9QtHHx-9M

Re: Whatt???

It's indeed called the Brussels effect:

"The Brussels effect is the process of unilateral regulatory globalisation caused by the European Union de facto (but not necessarily de jure) externalising its laws outside its borders through market mechanisms. Through the Brussels effect, regulated entities, especially corporations, end up complying with EU laws even outside the EU for a variety of reasons. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

Re: “Norway is the only neighbor that Russia has not been at war with.”

@Irony Deficient

Yes, sorry you are right. I stand corrected as they say.

Re: A number of sound decisions?

"The UK got vaccinated quickly".

It might be too early to celebrate, unfortunately, and several EU countries have by now surpassed Britain in vaccinating the population, as expected.

Re: Sutpid

The article says this "Google hasn't said if the networking equipment that rebooted belonged to it, or a supplier.".

Re: I've got a suggestion...

"character set would be restricted" argument is nonsense."

I wonder, are miss understanding it all on purpose or what is it.

It's not about the number of words in the Bible or elsewhere.

Somebody provided a link to an ascii-table, link below, and as you can see in that table there are 127 different codes, removing say lower case characters will leave a smaller number of different codes, and that is all there is to it.

https://www.alpharithms.com/wp-content/uploads/340/ascii-table-overcoded-scaled.jpg

ESA

A few points on ESA and for those more interested try:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Space_Agency

"The political perspective of the European Union (EU) was to make ESA an agency of the EU by 2014, however, this date was not met. The EU member states provide most of ESA's funding, and they are all either full ESA members or observers. ".

Note Britain was a EU member in 2014.

Budget contributions in % 2020.

France 26.9

Germany 20.1

Italy 13.7

Britain 9.5

Spain 5.1

.....

.....

Non-full members

Canada contr. 0.6%

Lithuania

Latvia

Slovenia 0.1%

Apart from that the EU also takes part in the budget.

I don't think Brits working for the ESA are all that vocal.

Re: licensing technology

free and better is even tougher to beat.

Re: golf ball exterior

Perhaps water sticks to a surface in a different way than air, not to mention that the speeds are very different.

Re: Vertical orbit??

Top surface and bottom surface, compared to what?

@imanidiot

While this topic is not of great interest to me I think you could have done some due diligence regarding Zarya.

Quoting the Wikipedia here:

" Zarya (Russian), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian: "Функционально-грузовой блок", lit. 'Funktsionalno-gruzovoy blok' or ФГБ), is the first module of the International Space Station to have been launched." The FGB provided electrical power, storage, propulsion, and guidance to the ISS during the initial stage of assembly. With the launch and assembly in orbit of other modules with more specialized functionality, and as of August 2021 primarily used for storage, both inside the pressurized section and in the externally mounted fuel tanks. The Zarya is a descendant of the TKS spacecraft designed for the Russian Salyut program. The name Zarya ("Dawn") was given to the FGB because it signified the dawn of a new era of international cooperation in space. Although it was built by a Russian company, it is owned by the United States.".

Note it's owned by the United States.

And NASA again:

"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research.".

Re: Lynched?

I would agree with your view on extradition but fraud is still fraud and being a superb snakeoil salesman should not count as less fraud.

Re: @AC

He is a normal sane person and having looked and listened to a totally insane person like Trump he does feel like something out of a world that died long ago.

"Any surprise I felt was that it was "only" 10 years ago. It feels longer".

My feeling too but I think this is because in February 1, 2003 the Columbia disintegrated during re-entry.

I think that mentally ended the whole program right there almost 20 years ago.

@msobkow

I could be wrong but I think it's the huge amount of sugar they get in everything.

"half the nation will gladly die to prevent anything the other half might want to do".

That is the two party idiocy in a nut shell.

Re: A rose by any other name...

On EFTA

"The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.[3] The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European Single Market and are part of the Schengen Area.[4] They are not, however, party to the European Union Customs Union.

EFTA was historically one of the two dominant western European trade blocs, but is now much smaller and closely associated with its historical competitor, the European Union. It was established on 3 May 1960 to serve as an alternative trade bloc for those European states that were unable or unwilling to join the then European Economic Community (EEC), the main predecessor of the EU".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association

So welcome sneaking or not but I don't think it will happen any time soon and I very much doubt those countries are all that keen on it either.

Re: Well

Eso's Extremely Large Telescope will have a mirror of 39.3 meter (128 ft 11 in) .

World's Biggest Optical Telescope - ELT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjhldjESGo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Large_Telescope

Re: Well done!

No Ohain did not go for a centrifugal engine but for axial flow which of course is the winning solution.

The Whittle engine was sent to the USA and was then made axial flow too.

Re: How will it not damage competition

Yes I can understand that concern, but regarding the "homegrown" and Arm we must remember Hermann Hauser too.

"..When Hauser was 16 he went to the United Kingdom to learn English at a language school in Cambridge.[15] After a master's degree in Physics from Vienna University,[1] he returned to King's College, Cambridge to do a PhD in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory.".

"Hauser is probably best known for his part in setting up Acorn Computers with Chris Curry in 1978.".

Re: Serious question

@Shooter

While I am not British I would claim - "I went to hospital" is like I went to sea.

There is a difference and mostly it's the foreigners like I who forget the "the".

Re: If it's not on the side of a bus...

".....and in doing so make the leave campaign's point that the UK was a net contributor to the EU".

Does that mean that there was Brits living in the happy world were Britain, the fifth richest ....and ... and ...second in the EU only to Germany, was paid by all other EU members for their pleasure and glory of having Britain as a member.

Amazing and probably true, like also that some seem to believe Britain was the only net contributor to the EU.

Some countries have been net contributors from the very start, Britain not so.

Re: Hang on

"I thought that there was this massive ITER project that was supposed to demonstrate that fusion was possible."

No, the ITER Project is a globe-spanning collaboration of 35 nations. The ITER Members China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States and the United Kingdom and Switzerland who participate through Euratom, while the project has cooperation agreements with Australia, Kazakhstan, and Canada, trying to solve the problem of producing energy with fusion technology.

We know fusion is possible like in the sun for instance.