Posts by Aladdin Sane

Re: Centrifuge

Plans are available here.

Re: "Apple's 'education' iPad is still a case of won't – not can't – so we graded it accordingly"

I would imagine it's more a case that if it were not possible to build a repairable tablet, then they would score higher. Since it IS possible, Apple get a lower grade.

They do care, when it affects their bottom line.

Also worth noting that the moon sequences were done PRE Apollo.

Re: Britain had an empire before the RAF.

Phantom - Jag write up here.

I know this is from Pirates in Mens' Pants, and I'm technically a millenial.

Does it involve moar boosters?

Was there a happy ending then?

Re: we're all going to die!

Obligatory xkcd

Re: >... serious aggravating factors.

Sigh. It's not been abandoned, it's simply been put on hold until the smug little twat gives himself up.

Re: THE CAKE IS A LIE

What is cake? Well, it has an active ingredient which is a dangerous psychoactive compound known as "dimesmeric andersonphospate". It stimulates the part of the brain called "Shatner's bassoon", and that's the bit of the brain that deals with time perception. So a second feels like a month. Well, it almost sounds like fun, unless you're the Prague schoolboy who walked out into the street, straight in front of a tram. He thought he'd got a month to cross the street...

Re: could be handed hundreds of millions in tax cuts

You never know, it COULD happen. Same as Lord Lucan could appear at any moment.

Re: *Points in disappointment*

I blame Brexit.

Re: No shame in cocking up!

Worked fine in dev, ops problem now.

Re: and Pigs might fly a.k.a F-35

They can modernise the avionics all they want, if the airframe design is 50 years old (as is the case with the Tu-22M and Su-24) then its stealth characteristics will be negligible. They'll stick out like a sore thumb on modern radar.

Re: Shame.

3 comments until we hit Godwin's law. Nice. Though Nazism != Fascism.

Re: So what was blockchain used for?

Not false, exaggerated.

Re: stone cold, but she liked them

But what about the food?

Re: Anti-GMO

Surely that would involve removal of bollocks?

Re: C'mon guys, we are all guilty of something!

Calm down Vimes.