Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: WHAT GOES UP...

The new spicy-rocks are pretty safe, they are likely to be moderately enriched so not really an issue (don't use for piercings) if they blow-up on the way up.

It's only once they've been used for a few years do they get that interesting aged flavour that you really don't want to get on you.

So you really need a good deorbit (or ideally a don't deorbit) plan beyond - "aim for the Pacifc and hope"

Re: What could go wrong...

Still leave a bruise though, if it lands on you.

Re: 1st law of thermodynamics

>Just look at what the JWST has to do to keep the telescope cool,

Although JWST is trying to keep the telescope at 30-50K

This just has to keep the cold side of the engine colder than the hot side of the engine - although the bigger the delta-T the more efficient it is.

>even though it's in Earth's shadow,

L2 isn't in Earth's shadow. It needs to be in sunlight, otherwise its solar panels wouldn't work.

Re: Put your money where...

Hate to think what Barnsley council are going to pay to cleanup 250 years of coal mining

Re: Quantum slipstream

>Oh, and don't talk to me about damn tin quantum whiskers.

They what you get on Schrodinger's cat ?

Re: 1st law of thermodynamics

It's cold outside and there's no kind of atmosphere

... and incidentally, no one can hear you scream

Use Canadian Uranium. Worst case, it's recycling and you have returned it to the original manufacturer so you're covered for WEEE

Re: Actually the programme is being held back by....

Even a 3 letter acronym is 26**3 = 17,500 possible acronyms and you have to form a committee to study each of them - what's the public feedback, how will the kerning work on a T-Shirt, is it already used by a secret 3 letter agency?

Re: Quantum slipstream

>"dark matter flux".

You need it to make a good connection when soldering the Flux Capacitor.

Especially if you're using lead-free dark matter

Re: Quantum slipstream

>You need unobtainium. I don’t have several pounds of the stuff.

It's always out of stock. I assume it's used in the Raspberry Pi

What's a generator's generating capacity measured in ?

Better than paying $350M for a dead-dinosaur fire = US I-95 collapse

Re: What about the free market?

You generally can't agree to illegal conditions.

Otherwise my African-American-As-A-Service business wouldn't have faced all those regulatory issues

>And it'll never sell in Europe because it can't pass EuroNCAP tests.

That only applies to cars, legally this is an iPhone accessory (*).

Memo: hey boss that isn't going to work unless we charge with USB-C and offer user-replaceable batteries

Re: What about the free market?

If only there was some sort of public court that could first decide sale doctrine like this

Re: Economy 101

Bigger problem is getting NVidia to accept your newly printed money at face value.

>they should be rightly terrified that China could easily subsidise the production and sale of large volumes of cards - if they are competitive on performance.

Searches Alibaba for 3nm mask steppers and EUV light sources

Re: Duck, Dodge, Weave, and Evade

Always happens.

In the 80s the US banned the import of Japanese LCDs, because US manufacture of LCDs was vital for national security, so Toshiba were forced to develop and import laptops.

To protect Detroit the USA and Japan agreed to limited the number, but not value, of Japanese car imports. The USA knew the Japanese could never build expensive luxury cars like Cadillac, Toyota launched Lexus and catapulted itself to the biggest more profitable car maker for decades.

Re: need for 1,730 MW of additional data centre capacity within the SAZ (Slough Availability Zone)

But to think that adding an I was suddenly going to make it LA or SF speaks of a PR muppet doing too much 'invigorating morning powder'

Re: need for 1,730 MW of additional data centre capacity within the SAZ (Slough Availability Zone)

Friend of a friend was responsible for promoting IMK (International Milton Keynes) as a Global City on a world stage - from a spare room in Buckinghamshire

Re: England's planning system is a mess

Simply extend the Northern Line to Berwick

Then everyone becomes North London elites - levelling up the north and increasing house prices in Middlesborough to the levels of Hampstead

Re: Space Force?

And of course get to spend $MMM on new uniforms and badges

What I really wanted to see was a bunch of network operators in Colorado all wearing silver Lycra suits alongside their 'stolen form StarTrek' unit patches

What was even more stupid was they got camouflage uniforms, with their own unique pixelated camouflage pattern. So you are in an office building in Colorado motioning GPS satellites why do you need camoflage? and what kind of pattern would best blend into your environment of beige computers and office cubicles?

Re: Not happening in your lifetime

Lorry drivers do it with cyclists and bikers all the time, especially in London

Re: It may be legal in the USA, but

But Chrysler is now owned by FIAT (or they are both owned by a typo) so you are relying on exquisite Italian automotive electronics

Are Lucas still around ?

Re: It may be legal in the USA, but

The USA banned Huawei from its phone network cos it could be spying on them for evil foreign powers

Shouldn't it now ban foreign cars, and cars made in America by foreign companies. Similarly the Eu would have to ban foreign owned car companies

Re: I can see two cases here

I don't take my PC into Bestbuy every 4000mi to have the fonts changed and have the blue-shirts download a copy of my 'personal art collection'

Re: Stupid idea

Couldn't two 747s carry it on a line ?

Re: who would very much prefer their payloads to be launched on European rockets.

ESA don't build or operate Ariane, they are just a customer, they also don't have a budget like NASA to subsidise ArianeSpace

Re: Dumb Project

This is hardy a car.

Anyway I would have no problem with removing the wheels from Northern Line trains and adding rockets.

But much of this money would be wasted paying British workers and buying specilaist components form British companies

New graduate wanted for new rocket car driving job

Must have 5 years experience of driving at 750MPH

Re: Dumb Project

World record for a train is 6500 MPH - this is just the replacement bus service

Re: "The project has moved in stops and starts"

The secret is: start-stop, turn round, start-stop