Posts by Chris 239

COWS IN SPAAACEEE!!!!

Re: If I may say IMHO there's too much over-engineering here

A standard many seem to be unable to match since even in the aerospace field as far as I can see.

By way of evidence:

The Boeing MCAS disaster,

the first Ariane 5 flight

the Boeing Starliner fiasco

Re: Putting Musk in charge of NASA

"repeat Trump's ridiculous lies or get fired." Yep, that is Trumps MO both to test loyalty and tie the fortunes of people to his own success by a self reinforcing process - the more people support him the more they are dependent on him so the more they support him.

At some point he'll have enough localists in the Federal government, then Democracy in the USA is dead.

Re: Yet another way Trump admin fucked the public

The only thing trump has been successful in is lying, scamming investors and using the financial laws to escape responsibility.

Re: Space, the messy frontier

May I be the first to upvote your comment. (I was).

Only thing I slightly disagree with is "it must come down", IMO a better option would be to safe it in the same way they do dead satellites (venting or removing anything that could cause it to violently disintegrate, including its air) then boosting it to a safe high parking orbit. that may even be easier technically.

That would avoid depositing a lot of possibly harmful stuff in the atmosphere when it burns up or in the ocean when bits of it survive re-entry, it would also be either a useful source of raw materials or an historic artifact to our future space faring civilization.

I have a colleague that messages in teams "can I call you Chris?" The dumb nuts can see my stus is either green or busy, just call if it's green FFS! He's already disturbed my concentration with the message anyway! Then there's others that call any time without checking if you are down as busy.

Re: If planes were built like “software”

When the software crash exposes certain government or security secrets to criminals and then actually yes people do die ☹️

Re: It's garbage

Yep,same here. Was very handy to see when a colleague or direct report became available.

Re: Cases don't really matter

You are wrong.

Being soft plastic the case reduces the peak g of the impact.

Also if the phone falls edge or corner onto a hard surface a case spreads the impact and reduces the point stress on the glass.

Re: Microsoft is shittier every day

"Teams came up and ran normally."

You mean badly then? Randomly unable to connect calls, silent audio etc.

Re: Not the ISPs Router

symetric? - it can be! I'm with Giganet and a test just now with Ookla speedtest.net gave 930Mb/s down and 941Mb/s up :-)

BTW just noticed that speedtest.net now showing "Allpoints Fibre Networks Limited" as my ISP - used to show as Giganet, what's that about?

My inlaws they call any vacuum cleaner a hoover and any tablet an ipad, I suspect this the same: any car with a camera on the roof is a Google street view car.

Re: Rule one...

Indeed, possibly quite competitive with the capacity orf micro SD cards these days!

You seem to have misspellt a word in your post, here's a correction -》"That should take them all of 15-30 seconds to scam ...."

Re: Web interface

I totally agree but the cyber security industry has management twisted round their little finger.

My company sells a solution that includes networks will never be exposed to the internet but the cyber teams insist every little vulnerability has to be patched, they even insist data in transit that will never leave the dedicated isolated network should be encrypted.

Really?? I have loads of slightly obsolete RAM gathering dust!

Re: HR Training

How has this only got 9 upvotes!? (10 now :-) )

Re: SN9 exploded in the air ?

Yep, they applied the lithobrakes at above their rated speed and orientation.

Re: re: How About

Totally agree, touch controls on a hob (what we call stove top in UK) are frustrating.

Recently was forced to use a hob with touch controls where if you had a large fry pan on one of the rings and had the handle toward you it would be over the main on/off control and the handle would turn off the whole hob. Basically the on/off button was too sensitive and to add insult the other buttons not sensitive enough so would only respond after repeated presses and swearing!

Re: The Interlock and Health and Safety

Carrying the cup of tea in your hand! That's a burn hazard!

Re: If you do have an abort mode...

@Flocke Kroes: Are you confusing this with LAUNCH abort?, the Apollo Lunar Module LANDING abort was abort BACK TO ORBIT. Sorry for shouty caps :-(

I'm sure phuzz is correct, there must be an abort back to orbit on the HLS Lunar landing, same as there was on Apollo. If after landing you have an issue preventing successful launch then yes you're SOOL

But lunar launch is I guess an all or nothing thing with no safe abort possible.

Of course Starship won't have a landing abort when it lands on earth but I don't think it will do that with people on board for a long time (not sure how the guy that is paying for Dear Moon is going to take that!)

My Theory -

is that most team sports have to have a certain amount of violence and in for example Rugby, American Football, Ice Hocky the on pitch violence reaches the threshold whereas in Soccer the fans have to supply their own.

First place I worked used A4 NCR pads for purchase orders/requests that had 5 copies. You had to write so heavy to get through to the bottom sheet.

The NCRs came in thick pads and you had to remember to put the card in below the set you were filling in or you would waste the next set below. They were specially printed and each had a preprinted serial number, must have cost a fortune!

Re: After 35+ yrs...

You were doing so well until the typo in the last sentence, did you mean:

"turns up and doesn't work"

Never mind, this money will achieve it's primary purpose i.e. line the pockets of government friends that the contracts will be given to and lubricate the ministers transition into a cushy job when they finally leave politics.

Re: Hint to Google

IIRC back in the days of 3 TV channels in the UK some party political broadcasts were simultaneous on all 3 channels. ! Nightmare!

At least in these days zillions of channels and streaming services they don't/can't do that so you can just go watch something else.

Not that there is often anything actually worth watching on TV anymore.

Re: Regional access

I would agree except that I doubt Starlink on your RV will work very well in the canyon between skyscrapers... (it wasn't me that downvoted you).