Comment Re: Metric, please. (Score 1) 137
Agreed, though I wonder what the incremental complexity/cost is above the air conditioning that is already there? A little bit more complex than running the motor backwards, but by how much?
Comment Re:Does the store work like their online search ? (Score 1) 73
Then maybe we'll go back to this: "The Two Ronnies - Fork Handles" but with Optimus behind the counter
Comment Yes, and I'd have gotten away with it too... (Score 2) 37
...if it wasn't for these meddling kids and their dog!
Comment Re:disappointed.. (Score 4, Funny) 140
Far more sophisticated.. it's running on Vista!
Comment Rate of progress (Score 3, Interesting) 44
The first chip I designed was based on a 2 micron gate array process. Initial parts were laser-exposed resist, stepped on an x-y table, yeah Swiss company 37 years ago...
Comment Re:Its refreshing to see so many Slashdot comments (Score 1) 148
Imagine a Beowulf clu... Wait a minute, he is Beowulf!
Comment Re:Combadge? (Score 5, Funny) 85
... used as a hand grenade.
Samsung: Already on it!
Comment Please fix the headline (Score 5, Insightful) 227
"Earth to Hot" -> "Earth too Hot"
Some old grouches are irritated by this. Especially when it's so damn hot around here.
Comment Re:Has anyone been able to find actual specs? (Score 1) 97
I think I'd want a Li-ion home power system to have an eject button - have the whole thing roll out into the middle of my driveway where it's less likely to burn down everything around it.
Could be problematic, living on a hill. "Eject the warp core"
Submission + - Russia To Rescue ISS Crew On Backup Rocket After Capsule Leak (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Russia said on Wednesday it would launch another Soyuz spacecraft next month to bring home two cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut from the International Space Station after their original capsule was struck by a micrometeoroid and started leaking last month. The leak came from a tiny puncture — less than 1 millimetre wide — on the external cooling system of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule, one of two return capsules docked to the ISS that can bring crew members home.
Russia said a new capsule, Soyuz MS-23, would be sent up on Feb. 20 to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22, which will be brought back to Earth empty. "Having analysed the condition of the spacecraft, thermal calculations and technical documentation, it has been concluded that the MS-22 must be landed without a crew on board," said Yuri Borisov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and U.S. astronaut Francisco Rubio had been due to end their mission in March but will now extend it by a few more months and return aboard the MS-23.
"They are ready to go with whatever decision we give them," Joel Montalbano, NASA's ISS program manager, told a news conference. "I may have to fly some more ice cream to reward them," he added. The MS-23, which had been due to take up three new crew in March, will instead depart from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as an unmanned rescue mission next month. If there is an emergency in the meantime, Roscosmos said it will look at whether the MS-22 spacecraft can be used to rescue the crew. In this scenario, temperatures in the capsule could reach unhealthy levels of 30-40 degrees Celsius (86-104 degrees Fahrenheit). "In case of an emergency, when the crew will have a real threat to life on the station, then probably the danger of staying on the station can be higher than going down in an unhealthy Soyuz," Sergei Krikalev, Russia's chief of crewed space programs, said.
Russia said a new capsule, Soyuz MS-23, would be sent up on Feb. 20 to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22, which will be brought back to Earth empty. "Having analysed the condition of the spacecraft, thermal calculations and technical documentation, it has been concluded that the MS-22 must be landed without a crew on board," said Yuri Borisov, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and U.S. astronaut Francisco Rubio had been due to end their mission in March but will now extend it by a few more months and return aboard the MS-23.
"They are ready to go with whatever decision we give them," Joel Montalbano, NASA's ISS program manager, told a news conference. "I may have to fly some more ice cream to reward them," he added. The MS-23, which had been due to take up three new crew in March, will instead depart from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as an unmanned rescue mission next month. If there is an emergency in the meantime, Roscosmos said it will look at whether the MS-22 spacecraft can be used to rescue the crew. In this scenario, temperatures in the capsule could reach unhealthy levels of 30-40 degrees Celsius (86-104 degrees Fahrenheit). "In case of an emergency, when the crew will have a real threat to life on the station, then probably the danger of staying on the station can be higher than going down in an unhealthy Soyuz," Sergei Krikalev, Russia's chief of crewed space programs, said.
Comment Re:People actually get intimate with their vacuums (Score 1) 52
What the Roomba saw.
Comment Burn off the CO2 with coal (Score 0) 114
...gives more CO2 to sequester
Comment It's made off with the 't' now (Score 5, Funny) 22
Darn info-sealer. I'll get you.
Comment As it should be (Score 4, Funny) 21
"This strongly suggests that significant underground mining activity"
Comment Re: not intelligent (Score 1) 291
Bet we could build an AI to detect that!
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