Comment Re:bit3h (Score 1) 65
Comms Section. He's conjuring up a co-ordinated crapflood of said ASCII art and press releases in an article defined in the encrypted message you see.
Comment TOM CRUISE WAS RIGHT ABOUT PSYCHLOS! (Score 1) 83
Donald Ewen Cameron says "GET OFF ME LAWN!"
Comment YAFCJ (yet another flying cock joke): (Score 1) 76
Can anyone explain why Jeff Bezos is doing the same thing that SpaceX is already doing
To put Richard Branson in his place.
That's a perfectly reasonable motivation.
It also explains the shape of that fairing.
Comment more anti-Darwinist claptrap (Score 1) 514
THANKS A LOT, Elon!
How the hell are we going to kill off the Stupids if you remove a primary source of carbon monoxide poisoning?!
Ok, to be fair, this might balance out push-to-stop on IC automobiles.
How the hell are we going to kill off the Stupids if you remove a primary source of carbon monoxide poisoning?!
Ok, to be fair, this might balance out push-to-stop on IC automobiles.
Comment "The xxxx in yyyy years" (Score 4, Insightful) 55
Humans remember about thirty years back. Anything that's different today from thirty years ago we feel to be "unnatural". Most processes on earth work over much longer time scales than that - while still being completely natural.
The holocene, our current interglacial, is ~12000 years old. During that time the climate has both been a lot warmer (the Holocene optimum) as well as a lot colder (the Little Ice Age) than now. What we don't really know is how the climate has changed regionally during these thousands of years. We have some insight (the Sahara desert was a lush savannah around 8000 years ago) and there's a lot of research into how the rise and fall of civilizations might be correlated with natural regional climate changes much more than the popular image portrayed by, for example, Jared Diamond.
We do have written records from the last 2000 years (se the linked PDF). It's fascinating read into how heat waves, droughts, extremely cold winters and hot summers etc have affected our forefathers in a way I think we have problems grasping today. If anything, it seems the climate has been unnaturally stable over the last century - even including the famous dustbowl in the US.
Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost 108
schwit1 writes: The Russians have declared lost the Progress freighter that had been launched to the ISS yesterday. They never could regain control of the craft, plus it was in an incorrect orbit. Moreover, the U.S. Air Force has detected debris nearby, suggesting a significant failure of some kind. The Russians are now considering delaying the next manned launch, scheduled for May 26, while they investigate this failure. Both Soyuz and Progress use some of the same systems, including the radar system that failed on Progress, and they want to make sure the problem won't pop up on the manned mission. At the same time, they are also considering advancing the launch date of the next Progress to ISS from August 6. Based on these reports, I think they might swap the launch dates for the two flights. A Dragon is scheduled to go to ISS in between these missions, though that schedule could be changed as well to accommodate the Russian plans.
Comment he did a little too much LDS in the 60's... (Score 3, Insightful) 247
holy crap, you're picking at the pointlessness of putting windows in the tanks?!
You don't have a problem believing mankind being embarrassed when SPACE WHALES drop by to check in on their far distant relatives?!
You don't have a problem believing mankind being embarrassed when SPACE WHALES drop by to check in on their far distant relatives?!
Comment brought to you by MomCorp (Score 1) 34
surely this better merits a Futurama reference.
Is an ayePhone the same thing as an ayeayePhone? Does Charo have an ayayayPhone?
Is an ayePhone the same thing as an ayeayePhone? Does Charo have an ayayayPhone?
Comment Dr Charles Luthor IS ON TEH SPOKE! (Score 1) 216
Music Industry Argues Works Entering Public Domain Are Not In Public Interest 302
An anonymous reader writes: With news that Canada intends to extend
the term of copyright for sound recordings and performers, the
recording industry is now pushing the change by arguing that works
entering the public domain is not in the public interest. It is hard to see how anyone can credibly claim that
works are "lost" to the public domain and that the public interest
in not served by increased public access, but if anyone would make
the claim, it would be the recording industry.
Comment Re:Poor Design... (Score 1) 73
Or, it could be that some people were lazy and decided to use a crappy library? If you choose to use security by obscurity library 'x', is it Apple's fault when that security hole is discovered in your App?
AFNetworking is MIT-licensed, FYI. You can look it up on Github.
Comment Re:like no problem humanity has ever faced (Score 1) 197
note to self: design a set of deviously interlocking set of mechanical turk tasks to commit the perfect murder without being able to hold any one person culpable. Be sure to secure the film rights.
Comment Re:Seizures? (Score 2) 96
You only need 1 bit if the only message you send is " DIE! ".
Comment like CORONA, in The Road Warrior (Score 1) 342
I was going to suggest a tower with a grapple just tall enough to hold the returning stage suspended.
But recent events have convinced me that snagging it out of the air with a giant auto-gyro and flying it back would be the most awesome solution.
Unfortunately, the nearest volcanoes are in the Caribbean. Although operating from St. Kitts might help with recruiting.
But recent events have convinced me that snagging it out of the air with a giant auto-gyro and flying it back would be the most awesome solution.
Unfortunately, the nearest volcanoes are in the Caribbean. Although operating from St. Kitts might help with recruiting.
Comment Elon's King of Swamp Castle (Score 2) 342
When I first came here, this was all swamp.
Everyone said I was daft to land a rocket on a barge, but I built in all the same, just to show them.
It sank into the ocean.
So I built a second one.
And that one sank into the ocean.
So I built a third.
That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the ocean.
But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest rocket in all of aerospace.
