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I was always slightly suspicious of Sonos for the usual reasons that will be familiar to any other Reg reader, but it's lovely to see that Sonos itself has provided the vindication for that. I need a smug icon.

Re: It's not just the 737...

I think you've got that backwards

Borked mission timers, what is this, the 1950s?

That's up to the ISP, this news is from NBNCo

Re: Prelude to Mars

If I were sent to Mars with nothing to drink but Budweiser I might pull a Lawrence Oates before too long

Re: tumbler ??

Tonne is already metric, making "metric tonne" redundant. Is there a joke I've missed?

Canon monitors sound like expensive pro level stuff?

Re: There’s a reason people say

My car (not a Lexus; they equip Mark Levinson) came factory equipped with a Bose sound system. It sounds fairly decent, but then it's not a bunch of under-sized drivers dotted around a room; it's designed for the task. The listening environment is a very noisy one, and I listen to very noisy music, so if there's a lack of subtlety that doesn't really matter.

And the "subwoofer" hiding inside the spacesaver spare wheel is a silly thing, but does a reasonable job within the car's fairly small cabin.

Re: "anomaly"

There are plenty of things to be snarky about but the snark here does seem a bit out of place, considering everyone in the rocket business calls a departure from nominal performance, no matter how far, an "anomaly".

Re: Wild Boar..

I'm a bit sceptical about "wild boar" being used for drug sniffing.

Pigs, perhaps.

But Salmon smells good?*

* Unless you were eating Rakfisk?

Re: No, the UK was never in the running

Whatever the case, it definitely didn't help

Interestingly, SpaceX has been recovering fairings for various reasons since early 2017: https://www.spacexfleet.com/fairing-data.

SpaceX points to leaky valve as culprit in Crew Dragon test accident

They believe that oxidiser leaked past a check valve into the helium side of the pressurisation system. When the helium bottle was opened to pressurise the system (at ~2,400 psi) this drove the "slug" of NTO into the valve at high velocity, which ignited it (and would have destroyed it otherwise).

Re: Fallout games

NV desperately needs a remaster, even simply using the FO4 version of the engine would be a good start. I'm fairly certain the licencing (e.g. voice actors) won't allow that, but a man can dream.

Re: Not quite

I use the word in the road engineering context. The road surface is the pavement. That one was presumably driven by the seppos.

We also call the black stuff "asphalt concrete", just to cause additional confusion.

One of the "selling points" of Bitcoin was that ridiculous permanent record of all transactions ever called "the blockchain". Funny how these things work.

Re: Stop it Reg!

And I don't think I've ever seen Reg refer to thickness as "z-height" either. Cringe.

Re: Escaped my notice

It's okay, they'll likely have to sell it again soon anyway.

Re: WTF?

And there's nothing illegal about mailing gold to people.

Re: "who wondered whether Thompson might somehow have used uppercase or special characters"

It was the use of the word "somehow" that threw me, as if it was something that would be unexpected or thought impossible.

Re: Lunacy lander

NASA has quite a lot of experience with the type of lander you describe...