Posts by Spherical Cow

Well I'm not going to lick it.

If you can send a fuel tanker all that way you may as well send a new probe with better instruments.

Re: Insufficicent

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.

Re: 1.2 million kilowatts

1.2 gigawatts is not quite enough for time travel, you need 1.21 gigawatts for that ;-)

Re: Earworm

Is that where Baby Shark lives?

What about when the booster hit the ground? While I haven't seen the footage of that yet, I'm willing to bet that if it was still intact-ish before impact it would certainly have burst into flame at that point.

The new reactors are being designed by proper engineers, not El Reg commentards, and I am 100% certain they are aware of the existence of earthquakes.

p.s. MMS not Richter ;-)

Summing up does not mean deliberately omitting the most important bit.

Re: Medic!

or as a staff car for moving officers around.

Re: Big problem with limited solutions

Small things in low orbit will get rid of themselves soon enough. Big things in high orbits are tracked. So if you want to know where to cast your net, the answer is somewhere in between.

Re: Is an ellipse…

It went titsup... did it then come titsdown? I suppose it did, with a premature re-entry.

Re: They still haven't started yet?

"Question is, how much money do they have left to burn?"

The article mentions $1.1 billion in cash and securities, plus $300 million to come from selling more shares.

You can, you just need the right combination of incense sticks in the right proportions, which is what they are calculating.

Re: Medical experiments

No need for a joystick, I just tilt my phone to fly.

Re: Science brings us together

Since you wrote that post, Russia has announced they are pulling out of the ISS.

Re: Tap, tap

I also had a cat who said Hello (Eh-Oh) as a greeting. He had a vocabulary of several distinctively different sounds for use in particular situations.

Re: RTSC

Aluminium is not "a terrible conductor". It is a reasonable conductor, which is why it is used in overhead power lines (and also because copper is heavier and too stretchy).

Re: practical but heavy

I was about to suggest a mercury bath bearing similar to those used in some old lighthouses, but then I remembered the vacuum on the Moon will cause the mercury to evaporate if the bearing doesn't have a really good seal.

Re: Moo

You rang?

Re: If ESA was smart

"Superheavy boosters will not splash down"

Yes that's the plan, but things don't always go according to plan... sometimes things fall out of the sky in a messy way.

That's an extraordinary claim! Got any extraordinary evidence?

To be fair, NASA did get to orbit slightly before Rocket Lab.

Re: Are you stupid????

Shielding, Shirley?