Posts by Crisp
1279 posts • joined Monday 16th January 2012 14:00 GMT
How do McDonalds ever manage to make a profit!
I'm sure that Ms Finch never intended for the owners of the franchise to go hungry.
Re: Vulcanism
That comment is going to cost you a small fortune in keyboards.
Re: What ever happened to the "Right Stuff"?
Actually, I believe that ablating part of a chunk of debris with a laser would impart some delta-v to the chunk in question. Vaporising or blowing up a chunk of debris would be an unfeasible solution. But providing enough thrust with laser to either knock it out of orbit, or knock it off course enough to miss the station is entirely doable. You use the laser to provide power, and the debris itself is it's own reaction mass.
I think that there are rocket engines based on the idea of firing a powerful laser from a distance to ablate material from the back of a space ship in order to provide it with thrust.
Re: Doomed!
Yeah, it's the apocalypse all right.
Re: What ever happened to the "Right Stuff"?
I contend that the only way to effectively deal with space debris is with a giant frickin laser.
That way, the first bit of space debris to cross the ISS path could be blasted to smithereens and made an example of to others.
I would also accept a swarm of micro satellites as a solution for the job.
Those crazy Astroboffins!
What will they discover next?
Clever little bastard
Anyone can use a computer. But it takes a little dash of genius to come up with something like that.
E-Lending?
What's the issue? The content is all digital so it should be very easy to provide a copy of a given book to anyone that wants to borrow one.
Why are they picking on the trolls?
What did they ever do to you?
Posted in Einstein's brain FOUND ON APPLE iPAD
Einsteins Greatest Mistake
Not transferring his brain into a killer robot when he had the chance.
Sugar, do do do do do do
Ah, honey honey
Re: This happens every time.
They are replacing the faulty item with another faulty item.
There's your contempt.
Re: alas not
It's not protectionism! It's Innovation!
This happens every time.
They show nothing but utter contempt for their customers when they refuse to make any kind of comment on issues like this.
That's a rather serious design flaw.
Maybe they should have gone with a standard cable for their new product rather than "innovating" a new patented design.
Re: I remember when...
You had chisels! I used to dream of chisels.
Back in my day we used to code by hitting rocks with other rocks. And we were *grateful*!
If God had a problem with it,
Then He would have hurled a few lightning bolts onto the pitch.
Fuck I love Science!
See Title :D
Medicine Prize
I wouldn't have thought that the chances of patients exploding were that high during colonoscopies.
Now a colonic irrigation, I can see that having explosive consequences.
Re: Star Wars holiday special
Not only is it a Swedish site, but access to it has been completely blocked by UK ISPs.
There are plenty of other search engines out there.
Google is not the portal to the entire internet!
Climate Skeptics
They are probably the ones that move my tools when I can't find them, and responsible for moving my coffee table in the dark to that I bang my shins on it.
From the tone of the article I reckon that Professor Stephan Lewandowsky believes that climate skeptics kick puppies and make potholes too.
Re: Moon riches
And moon sapphires. Don't forget about those!
Re: But think about...
It's not the clangers you have to worry about.
It's that enormous Soup Dragon!
That app sounded like a really good idea!
I really can't see any good reason why anyone would want to ban it.
I've half a mind to show up at 8am on Friday, 21 September
And then cut in line!
So where exactly are they drawing the line?
Offence is subjective. Telling one person that they suck might be construed as a criticism, to another person, it might be an offensive put down.
Re: Life of Brian?!?
Mohammed has made an appearance on South Park too.
I think you'll find
That's an artefact of the translation from the original German.
Well at least it's taken the muslim eyes away from that Channel 4 Documentery
Let's hope that they can broadcast that now.
Re: He's not a deity...
He's a very naughty boy?
Re: Get rid of Internet Explorer
Thanks for trying help, but I develop in a windows environment, so that doesn't really count as a getting rid of IE solution.
Where can you get Exotic Matter from?
I hear that it's very hard stuff to come by.
Re: Star Trek isn't real.
You'll be telling us that the White Walkers in Game of Thrones aren't real either next!
Mobile phones don't cause cancer?
What am I supposed to do with my tinfoil hat now?
Can I play Master of Orion 2 on it?
Are you telling me that it will be easy to set up an IPX lan game?
Are you Microsoft? Really?
Re: "communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy"
A Marconiphone and some wax discs would be perfect!
But it doesn't side step using electrical or electro-magnetic energy to make the recording so I'd probably have to record that somehow as well.
"communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy"
I'm pretty sure that my tongue interprets electrical signals from my brain to facilitate communications.
How the hell do I go about recording that?
Re: If true...
It would be patented.
Probably already is.
Someone has gone to a lot of trouble to make Fox look bad
You don't really need to go to that much trouble to make them look bad!
Get rid of Internet Explorer
Is that even possible?
I clicked on the link
I was sorely disappointed at the lack of pictures or footage of half crazed birds slamming into windows.
Paris. No end of pictures or footage there.
Re: Projector Blind Spot
My living room has five walls.
So.... um...
@Dave 62
I for one would totally support a manned Mars Mission even if its only goal was to do just that.
Posted in Manchester is 'PIRATE CAPITAL of the UK'
So the general gist of the article is:
If you want free music, BitTorrent is totally the way to go.
Certain criminal threats - do not exist when cars are designed
They certainly do.
An unsecured "back door" into the system is a definite no no. The threat was a clear and present when the car was in the design stage!
Thinking about it from the point of view of physical keys and locks: What good is a car with a sold lock on each door if all a potential criminal has to do to get in is pop the hood?
I read the article
And I'm still none the wiser as to how safe my personal data is.
UK boffins get £3.8m pot to probe 'science of cyber-security'
That's an awful lot of scientists that are going to be surfing 4chan then!
Posted in Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE
Re: Pig tentacles?
Just don't keep an Octopig and a Dogapuss in the same tank.
Or you'll just end up with one very fat happy Dogapuss.
