Posts by Chuckl

Go chemical or hypergolic

Some phosphorus sealed until needed perhaps or sodium and water

Something like potassium permanganate and ethylene glycol, peroxide or something similar. Mix as required, and add some iron oxide and aluminium powder for good measure.

Not sure of the min ambient temps at which these occur might need a slightly friskier combination at high altitude temps

Hydrazine and an oxidiser?

ammonium nitrate, ammonium chloride, zinc dust and water perhaps?

ONLY a quarter of all books sold in US in 2012 were ebooks

There, I fixed it for you.

B-Ark

Boiling frogs again?

Dawn of time, 1901

I always thought it was built from about 1901 or so, sort of an 'artists impression' of what a lot of clever people thought it ought to look like.

Apparently in 1877 it looked like this -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stonehenge_1877.JPG

'killed several Australians'

Justifiable homicide, clearly.

Channeling Canonical and Ubuntu then. Sounds like the usual 'it'd be a great place to work if it weren't for the *&^%%^ customers.'

Computer Technicians???? who wrote this rubbish?

interesting that hack journalists are incapable of understanding that 'rare earth' elements are not rare, but actually exist in abundance all over the place. The 'problem' about which they oibsess is simply that only China can be bothered to extract them at the moment, because it's reasonably messy to do, and there's very little money in it.

We don't need to know the time accurately. What mankind REALLY needs is a good excuse for being late.

Challenges in Tribology

Since the tides there are 2m, the weather station is at an altitude of 4m, and the highest point is listed as 81m, I'd say the whole article is suspect. Nay rubbish even.

'Any commenters know how to get Modis images into QGis? - RC'

Usually by being half competent at what they do.

If you ask a burglar alarm salesman whether you should buy a burglar alarm, you are unlikely to be surprised by the answer.

Dilithium crystals, we need some dilithium crystals

Rule 1. Provide a link to the content you're discussing. Abstract text discussions and descriptions of high res imagery are not terribly interesting.

Between the guided missile destroyers and frigates with no missiles, and aircraft carriers with no aircraft, it's probably our main front line defences at this stage.

Probably quite useful against Somali pirates, too.

I heard there is a sequence from the digits of pi hidden in there for him to find

Neither an engineer, nor a criminologist. Just two academics.

No, I think she was 'surprised'. The firemen were astounded.

Surely a Pixar/Disney animation would be more true to life?

The Clouspotters Guide, The wavewatchers Companion, do I see a pattern here?

The only relevance to anything is the 'OFFICIAL' bit. They haven't seen any since 2006. Non-news about sub-species.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Black_Rhinoceros

"There's a certain level of seismic activity that can occur even with a truck going past a house"

Useful example that, since a magnitude 2-3 tremor is about equivalent to that felt from a truck driving past a house

Questions to which the answer is ....

'Given the short-lived careers of the other Apprentice winners, she's probably done the right thing anyway...'

I think the question is rather, whether Greggs have done the right thing?