A Mig29 ride would surely be a lot of fun!

But I'm certain that going up in a Dragon would beat that by at least an order of magnitude.

This is just insane. Going to 50 miles, or 62 miles, or even 200 miles straight up is utterly pointless. It does not advance us at all. It's a gimmick for people with too much money and not enough brain cells. Yes, it might be 'space' (for a few minutes) -- but so what?! This is really old tech. The USA did this in the 50s.

Getting to orbit is a lot harder, yes; but that's an actual achievement, instead of a publicity stunt. You can actually do useful stuff once you're in orbit. You can't do that from a jumped-up fairground ride.

I expect this whole fiasco will quietly fade from the public eye, once the backers realize that they've invested heavily in a pig in a poke. If they are smart, they won't plough (plow, for Americans) any more cash into this travesty.

It's a numbers station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

Perhaps this is one of the most piercing forms of trolling?

Look where that got the electrical engineers.

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

On a related topic, I had an issue with my motherboard, which hasn't been resolved. It's an Asrock Z87 Extreme4. Running Windows 7 - I notice that the first hyperthread of my i7 4770k is pegged at 50%. Lots of digging, it looks like it might be a faulty design, putting the intel management engine and the USB subsystem on the same interrupt. What do you lot think?

http://forum.sysinternals.com/...

Thanks -- I didn't really expect to be able to look at it!

I would be interested to see this book -- is there any way to get a copy?

Oops, correct, neither of those are fraud. But all are stealing, whether that is illegal or not.

This is, simply, fraud. It's the same as snatching a purse or looting a shop.

That's the least impressive option, as it's a 50 line script that inserts something from the list of "steak house", "golf course", "mistress", and several less palatable options.

OK, very funny; but I haven't seen mouldy petrol, diesel, kerosene etc. !!

Err, maybe I'm completely misinterpreting every other post in this thread, but as far as I can make out -- mBTU == kiloBTU; mmBTU == megaBTU. I think you're wrong here, maybe?

Anti-fungal agents? Hang on a second here, I didn't know that fungus could feed on hydrocarbons??