Posts by Martin Budden 2493 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
As the walls are only teflon with cheap china-sourced aluminium support, you would be looking at SUCKING DECOMPRESSION HORROR.
Erm, teflon is acid-proof. Even fluoroantimonic acid, the mostest acidy acid there is, doesn't dissolve teflon. Teflon is about the only thing fluoroantimonic acid can't dissolve! So, no Goldfinger-in-space.
The Governator did one too, it is well worth a look: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/114612/original.jpg
Given that the "incomplete skeleton" had been severely messed-around with by poachers, can they be sure that all the different bits are really from the same individual? Could the reason for the "ornithomimid-like arms, tyrannosaurid-like legs, Spinosaurus-like vertebral spines, sauropod-like hips, hadrosaur-like duckbill, foot-hooves" actually be that there were bones from parts of several different types of dino all mixed together?
You know how old people often have an unhealthy obsession about one thing, and they complain about that one thing all the time? For some old people it's the state of the pavements these days, for others it's the clothes young people wear... you get the idea.
I must be getting old, because I'm becoming more and more obsessed with complaining about those stupid Americans still using their stupid units. GO METRIC ALREADY FFS!!!
to be fair, he probably also said we'd be flying around in atomic powered cars
Here is a (bloody huge) actual photo of an actual atomic powered car. Admittedly you can't just hop in and drive it, on the other hand we did fly it to another frikkin' planet which some might argue is even more impressive.
I've heard that colour-blind spotters in helicopters can spot camo against background bush far more easily than normally-sighted spotters. Something to do with camo inks not matching natural bush colours properly. If true, this means the drone camera can be programmed to look for camo just as easily as a bright yellow jacket.
One glance and I see a couple of problems.
The news feed is full of stuff posted by complete strangers. NO THANK YOU!!!
When I try to edit my settings to hide my birthday I can't save it because "Profession" is a mandatory field. I DON'T WANT TO SHOW MY PROFESSION AND I DON'T WANT TO SHOW MY BIRTHDAY!!!
If you can get nuclear waste out of the Earth's gravity well wouldn't you just fire it at the sun?
Because it takes three times more Δv to get from LEO to the sun than it does to get from launch to LEO. Getting to the sun requires a lot of fuel. You might find this diagram interesting.
"62 miles (100km) wide"
I hate it when journalists do this. The original figure was 100km, which is only 1 significant figure. The journalist has then converted this into another (non-standard) unit and given the result to 2 significant figures, which of course is just plain silly. Should have said this:
"100km (roughly 60 miles) wide"
I just looked up the location on Google Maps and I have to say it looks ideal (for an American company). Almost as close to the equator as you can get while still being inside mainland USA, and with plenty of water to the east in case of mishaps.
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