History, Politics And Current Affairs

This is a DC Comics origin story set in the Wuthering Heights universe, and is non-canon. The music and songs varied from irritating to inconsequential. Martin Clunes put in the best performance of his life as Cathy's father. The pretty boy and girl are adequate, and do at least get the idea across ...

https://youtu.be/Do-wDPoC6GM Damn, he nails it, and the other ones are fun. Lummers might also have been a great Doctor, even with (or because of) Dalek bumps. Script writing is rather better than real Who, obviously Moffat having a good day. Emma, the only companion he's ever had. Classic https://e...

Wow. Visual tracking is a good idea, it is passive and cheap. But of course it doesn't work at night.

Yup, and Australia. The local bees are solitary.

Yeah you have to wait for 22/July in the RoW. It's about 20% less inaccurate.

Very good, I don't recognise any of the faces. https://youtu.be/CDXjttnASME hosted by the reliably sarcastic Jack Dee

Tricky one. It's not exactly a major issue here, but does generate froth and bubbles, dingoes were only brought to Australia a few thousand years ago. They outcompeted some of the local wildlife species(the extinction of mainland Thylacine and Tasmanian Devil roughly coincide with the Dingos arrival...

https://www.inventorsmindblog.com/p/the ... march-2026

Author thinks there are systematic problems with automated SAM IFF. He recommends reverting to defined safe corridors and defaulting to not firing.

They are different. Ah is the capacity (amount of charge) it can hold, whereas CCA is the current it can supply at -18 deg C for 30s without falling below 7.2V, which is typically where the ECU drops out. A car battery typically has a high CCA and a fairly low Ah, whereas my off grid batteries are d...

"Especially with CAD/CAM allowing full 3-D Solid Modelling, so such 'Oopsies' should have been caught." Best practice, widely ignored is to reuse 70% of the components in a new car design. So if you can reuse a component from a different car then it is likely to be used even if it causes s...

Yup 49 is a tiny battery for a car. Batteries in general are a problem for OEMs, they are heavy, unreliable, easy to steal, often broken before they get to the factory. Conspiracy theories about deliberately designing the car to be hard to repair are common on the interwebz, I've never heard of a di...

A smooth water boat. It would be terrifying in a storm. I thoroughly approve of the nav station, and the handrails.

Yes, the Parker design manual is easy to use and authoritative. They didn't use enough compression. The O rings may also have been attacked by the oxidiser which leaked because they used Teflon seals instead of the recommended metal ones on the oxidiser side.

The summary at the front of the report is succinct and devastating. Unfortunately parts of the report are redacted, especially how the Boeing engineers screwed up on the O ring design in the helium system.

Our shack in the woods is off-grid (not by choice). Woke up, switched light on, absence of photons. Checked the constellation of LEDs in the living room, all out. Fusebox, nah. Wander outside to the battery shed, as I approached I could hear the inverter moaning about low battery voltage. Yup each s...

One of my favorite SF novels on that is China Mieville's Embassytown.

Sometimes I rewatch old films. I was looking forward to Interstellar, mainly the score and the water planet. Matt Damon was good as the nutter. The cornfield scene is just a bit of filler, and once he goes into the black hole I lost interest. Arrival is clever but a plot summary would tell the whole...

I'd have thought if it happened then Musk's lot would figure out how to do a clean up. Flypaper springs to mind. The problem then becomes how do you regulate the inner space region so it doesn't happen again. The tragedy of the commons, sort of. Here's the paper, haven't read it yet https://aquarid....

Sabine has a look at the rate of satellite destruction https://youtu.be/8ag6gSzsGbc