Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Hydrogen is HUGE

> including 95% H2O2...

Highly Testy Peroxide ?

Re: Third time's a .... ?

>and that reason is...Oops.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is safe?

Re: Third time's a .... ?

>Boeing have a delivery model?

Yes it's 1/72nd scale and you can make it yourself !

Re: ... but it is pain to handle.

It didn't take the Tweetmeister to decide that H2/O2 first stage is pants, everyone with a copy of Rocketry for Dummies knows that and prefers methane, aga-fuel, or if you're feeling brave, UDMH or if you're suicidal, chlorine trifluoride+just about anything

H2/O2 is what you use if you're told to make a rocket with no time, no budget but access to the NASA parts bin

Re: Third time's a .... ?

Yep, nobody actually cares about the moon. SLS is going to the moon because putting persons on the moon is the simplest achievable goal that the public understands.

Cos wasn't JFK cool and weren't the 60s awesome (if you were a square-jawed white guy fighter pilot)

So we are going to do that again, only this time one of the persons will be an ethnic and one will be a women (although all will be squared-jawed ex-fighter pilots)

Mars has CO2 so we can make methane locally, there is no real advantage in landing on the moon and taking off again to get to Mars

Re: Hydrogen is HUGE

Solid hydrogen is a bit denser than liquid, but then you would need firemen/stokers to shovel the fuel into the engines.

Re: Recycling

Boosters are a really cheap way of getting extra-zoom, they just occasionally go kaboom.

The Shuttle used oxygen/hydrogen engines purely as a time+cost saving redesign. The statement at the time accepted that it would lead to higher launch costs but didn't mention any risks

Re: WHY GO? Are you insane... MURICAN BLOWHARD IS AT STAKE!

But they did invent the terminal CAPS LOCK key

Re: necessary for the operation of its network and to provide services to customers.

>In what possible way does logging someone's location for longer than the duration of the call provide a service to the customer?

Depends who is the customer. If someone is prepared to pay for this data then aren't they customers too ?

Re: Classic coding approach!

Leaving things like that to chance is too risky.

Instead since we know that the majority of Shuttle launches weren't catastrophically destroyed by falling ice we will install special ice cannons to launch lumps of ice at the aerodynamic surfaces, thus reducing the risk of destruction to <1%

Re: Rollbacks & Paranoia

>One bit I really don't understand is why they're not recovering the SRBs

Building a reusable Space Shuttle was an expensive, unreliable, dangerous project

So not reusing the stuff will make this not-expensive, not-unreliabe and not-dangerous

Simple !

Re: Chances middling for last min engine problems or unscheduled pyrotechnics.

>What other metric is there for SLS?

That it lands on some large public infrastructure project, destroying it and allowing a private enterprise replacement ?

Re: Please do it.

Unintended consequences.

This increases the costs of legitimate devices so much that consumers end up buying no name Aliexpress specials that ignore these rules.

It makes a lot more sense for a cloud service than a co-lo

You can't have 800 different users all with their own server who all want access, but you can have AWS where they keep running it until >10% of the servers fail and then replace it

Re: Most EV chargers already support time based charging

It's a pity that people mainly need to use AC when it's hottest and sunniest - otherwise solar would be great

Re: Apple stepping back?

Except what happens if the day before the release of some new Apple product based on Webkit, Microsoft decides that it violates their terms and conditions and block access ?

Yes Apple can take some developer local copy and upload that to Gitlab - but why would you risk it?

I'm betting that Apple don't run their business on Office365.

Re: Apple stepping back?

Especially since they are effectively handing over control to Microsoft.

Re: If the transfer had been cryptocurrency

I remain contemptuous of my phone's autocomplete

Re: an account number was accidentally entered into the payment amount field

> did anyone think of adding validation to confirm large transfers?

It asked them to re-enter the number without spaces - and they did

>How did she ever expect to keep the money?

If she'd been richer and the bank had accidentally paid her $900M she could have kept it.

Re: If the transfer had been cryptocurrency

Presumably held her indefinitely for content of court until she handed over the password.

Re: If only

> I ask that you first give a definition of Nazi that doesn't boil down to "whomever I say it is".

What about: I want the government to remove/discourage/exterminate group X because they are inherently inferior to group Y which I happen to have been born into,

ps. If you are thinking. I think that and I'm not a Nazi, I have news for you !

>But wouldn't they fall asleep as soon as they got cold?

You just keep the spaceship pointing at the sun.

That's why you sent dogs into space and not cats, the cats would just find the ray of sunlight and go to sleep

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

That's the nice thing about building codes, they are 10x overspecced for somethings while hopeless inadequate for others - but they are the rules so what can you do?

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

You would just need an International Building Code for software. The spec says that apps must be 640K and that remains the law until every jurisdiction and every professional body agrees to a change

Re: Software Engineering - NOT

But if everyone who uses computers professionally is required to have certification then it wouldn't expire.

As long as you keep paying your PEng subs they aren't coming round to make you re-take any exams.

After all if a civil engineer can graduate and then keep stamping drawings for 40years why would that be different for software?

>Are you trying to say we have other people up there, just not ones that have been publicly acknowledged?

That's why you never see Lizard People astronauts - even though they would make much better astronauts than mammals.

Re: 372 miles

So instead of kwh/kgal would kg/m/s^2 make more sense ?