War games are good from a tactical perspective but that’s only 10% to 20% of winning a large conflict: infrastructure, intelligence, coordination, communication, and logistics are the “boring” parts that make up the other 90% to 80%.
[History Channel Gesture]
Rare Earth Nodules
America: where young people are coddled until they’re 18 then it’s either sell your body, sell your soul, or both multiple times over just to survive.
That moment when you take a drag of your Blue Raspberry vape and the dosimeter next to you maxes out.
Taste: slightly metallic, not great, not terrible.
So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?
Agreed, it comes off as petulant and is really grating when fellow supporters get all smarmy when said individual/group doesn’t immediately adopt the next thing in progressive politics the nanosecond it enters public discussion.
I can’t comment on why they failed because I don’t know enough about the launch method’s pros and cons.
But we British seem to have a bit of a jinxed history when it comes to rockets.
But that doesn’t mean we have zero space industry; Cornwall and just outside of London is host to a good number of space companies that produce satellites and other space hardware.
But as exciting as that is, it doesn’t capture the public’s imagination which is disappointing when we had a filmmaker like Gerry Anderson who created iconic TV shows and films like Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Stingray, Joe 90, Fireball XL5, and Space 1999.
But hopefully Scotland’s Spaceport will invigorate the industry here when they manage to Caber Toss a rocket into orbit.
Oi! Get out of my headspace, I’m already trying to build confidence without overinflating my Ego and he doesn’t need your enabling.
(I should stress, this is joke, good meme OP)
To the surprise of no-one. The UK sucks at space stuff: this, One web, Virgin Orbit.
Shouldn’t have stopped Black Arrow.
The gophers burrowed to greedily and took deep.
Yep. Ghosts in Machines are real.
I have witnessed it first hand multiple times.
At university there was an old 1st gen Makerbot 3D printer and if you took away one of it’s prints that were displayed around it, all of your prints would fail, even if you replaced it the printer held a grudge. And never EVER say a 100% certainty statement that the print would succeed like “it is printing ok, it will be finished in an hour”. Only say things like “the print is doing ok so far”.
The electronics lab was throwing out five old Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes so our little maker group took them in and two were working fine. The other three weren’t displaying the trace on the screen. One of our members, a chap from Romania who in his youth spent his time fixing old TVs in his home country, said to let him have a look. I swear down he plugged them in, leant his ear against it, said to the scopes “shh it’s ok, we’ll look after you”, and gave them gentle taps on top just behind the screen, and all three jumped back into life in perfect calibration.
And finally, my girlfriend at the time had a 1st gen iPod that would, at the most inopportune moments randomly wake itself up, play a few seconds of a random song, then shut itself down.
They’re betting that they can sell before that happens and someone else is left holding the bag: pension funds and 401k.
As is tradition dating back to cave paintings.
I’m glad for you but please remember that progress is not inevitable it is fought for to attain and needs to be fought for it to be kept.
Some guy working for Royal Armoury taking a stroll through the woods in 1941:
“Hmm that’s a nice stick.”
Picks it up, grips the “handle”
💡
“By Jove! I must call SOE!”
My new recipe book:
A Taste of Fire and Ice.
Just don’t expect the sequel to be released anytime soon.
Ea-nāṣir: “Ah a complaint! Another fine addition to my collection.”
Careful, you see which instance you’re on.