Posts by Wombling_Free

Time to set space exploration free.

What, sponsored by CocaCola? Monsanto?

Space exploration is the kind of work (like the LHC) that can only be done by governments - perhaps a world consortium might be a good plan? You have to have the kind of procedures only governments can provide - would you rely on private enterprise to make sure Mars landers are properly sterilized?

Space exploration is crucial to our survival as a species!

Ummm, considering the history of the human race so far, fuck it. Put the money from NASA into religious studies; we deserve to die out. Lets give the prairie dogs a go at running the planet.

iDevice version please.

Now.

If you're going to throw stones....

...make sure you have better Photoshopping skills.

The Apple logo in the last photo is backwards, and I doubt that Apple have ever released a laptop with their own logo backwards (also: I don't think Apple ever released a white laptop when they had the multi-colour logo. An Apple fan may correct me on this); so either someone in your office has crap PS skillz, or the place where you lifted the photo from (B3ta?) has crap PS skillz.

Either way: an amateur hack that discredits your story, even if it did have a valid point.

Infringement of patents claim.

Dear Mr. Astrolabe.

We represent the patent holder for 'system of lung-based oxygen respiration', 'system of ATP-based organic cellular energy storage and conversion', 'system of musculature to maintain breathing'.

You have been found to be using these technologies without the appropriate royalty fees, and thus you are ordered to CEASE AND DESIST IMMEDIATELY any use of these technologies.

It is noted that you have not paid the royalties for 'system of neuron-based reasoning and intelligence' however we can find no evidence you have used that technology, based on the fact that you claim to be an Astrologer.

Yours, with much malice & hatred,

Troll, Camp, Snipe & Bastard, Lawyers.

Are you certain this ain't terrorism?

How do you avoid getting summonsed by the FAA / FBI on hazard-to-aircraft terrorism charges?

I'm just saying...

DELETE! DELETE!

"because they will then be Android people."

with little bluetooth headsets, natty silver suits and big stompy metal boots?

Yep, mines the fez. Fezzes are cool.

Drunk Parrots? Luxury!

Here in Sydney, we get drunk Flying Foxes.

For the unenlightened - Flying Fox = Fruit Bat. These aren't cute little critters; they are 1m wingspan evil-smelling loudly screeching bastards. That are also somehow 'protected endangered species' despite there being about 250,000 of them in Sydney alone.

Flying Foxes LOVE Mulberries, especially mulberries that have fermented on the tree. A drunken, screeching ball of sharp-clawed ferocious anger smacking into your face at speed is one of a Sydney summer's prime experiences.

Oh, and their poo gets stained a deep purple by the mulberries, and is the consistency of quick-setting epoxy resin. It is not fun to get it on you, your car, your house, your timber deck, etc.

For tourists, the best place to see them is the Sydney Botanic Gardens, where about 80,000 (yes, that many) have taken up residence in the past decade. The are destroying the gardens, and the area they live in reeks of rancid flying fox poo; the Gardens Trust isn't allowed to remove them because they are an 'endangered' animal. Animals seem to be worth more than rare plants!

Take a raincoat you can throw away if you want to see them.

Dear Mr.Turnbull, you fucktard,

I've just got an email from my internet provider about the new plans they will be able to offer me under the NBN.

Some of the highlights are:

10-20Mbps speed, compared with my current max of 1Mbps if I'm lucky.

About 4 times my current download capacity.

The same cost; which is still about half what I would pay for the same service on Telstrash.

So let's summarize: same cost (I pay the same as what I pay now), higher speed, higher capacity.

Problem?

The only problem is Mr. Turnbull - he and his lap-dog Liberal Party are a bunch of fucktards who clearly have some other agenda - perhaps massive investment in mobile / wifi company shares? Their superannuantion & investment portfolios didn't win the contracts in spite of all the traditional Australian back-room graft and corruption? Sore losers?

I can hardly wait....

for the Creationistas to leap out of whatever horrid little cage they live in and start bleating that this also 'disproves' Evolution.

T for Trololololol

Oh, this is too much fun.

P for Physics

P for Ptolemy

P for Psychic

P for Phone

Y for Yttrium

C for Cue

K for Knight

W for Why

W for Wide

W for Wren

W for Wrist

E for Ewe

E for Ere

U for Urn

O for Oestrus (also sounds funny if you yell it)

Q for Quaint

F for For

D for DNA

A for ABC

A for Aitch

B for Time Began

E for X

F for XXXX

G for Gnu

H for Heir

Sorry, this has got me riled up. That or the coffee.

"That's not in the 70-130 tonne class required for deep space missions."

My maths says 54t x 2 = 108t, which puts it slap bang in the middle of the lifting power needed for deep space missions.

Does anyone else remember way back when we could launch two rockets and have them rendezvous in orbit fairly easily? Like Gemini in the 60's? You know, like LAST FRELLING CENTURY?

Wasn't that the way we could get to Mars? (actually a better bet is Europa or Titan, pardon me for being an optimist!)

It isn't looking good for the human race, is it?

Bad news for the Fermi Paradox....

Planets orbiting a binary, eh? That just made the Fermi Paradox an even bigger problem; the result of the Drake Equation just got bigger.

Where is everybody? Staying the hell away from Earth, that's for sure. I guess they are fearful of the nasty viruses we have here - religion, new agers, economists.

I see your Heliconia and raise you a Tiamat , by the way.