User: rossdee

Re:Why do they need fuel?

On: Intelsat To Start Refueling Satellites In Orbit

There shouldn't be much 'decay' in geostationary orbit. Its not like there is atmospheric drag like you get in LEO

And anyway how do they expect to refuel them? Do they have a cap that can open automatically to put a nozzle in? Does it work in the vacuum and cold of space?

The Hubble was designed to be refueled and serviced in orbit, but I didn't think the geostationary ones were.

Re:Godwin agrees

On: Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies

And Yasser Arafat, and also one of the israeli leaders that was also formerlly a terrorist

Re:too late for wikipedia

On: 3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else

I'll have 2 aspburgers, large fries, and a large Mt Dew please

Dates

On: Happy Pi Day

Except that 'the world over doesnt use mm/dd/yy

in Commonwealth countries we use dd/mm/yy
in europe they use yyyy/mm/dd

Islamic countries use a completely different calendar

But its less than a week until Naw-Ruz (persian new year
At sunset on 20th March all 'The Friends' can stop fasting

Don't forget to 'wear the green' on the 17th for St Pats day

And it would be cute to 'wear purple' tomorrow (15th) to signify that
"the Ides of March have come'
'Aye Caesar, but not gone'

People who live in glass houses

On: Solar Powered Table That Wirelessly Charges Your Gadgets

will love this, , not so useful for the rest of us.

Of course we could put the table outside, as long as there is no other weather (rain, snow, dogs etc.)

Re:I know where it is

On: Researchers Find Possible Atlantis Location

Whooooshhh

(thats either the sound of that joke flying over your head , or STS 135 going up to rescue Congreswoman Giffords husband and the rest of the Endeavour crew.( if some chunk of ice fell of it on takeoff and damaged it so it may not be safe for reentry.

A possible Location for Atlantis

On: Researchers Find Possible Atlantis Location

Great, will Joe Flanaghan and David Hewlett be back as Col Sheppard and Dr Mckay ? I could care less about Ronin and Teyla

So when does

On: Japan Battles Partial Nuclear Meltdown

Godzilla turn up to kill those that survived the quake, tsunami, and fallout?

I can't tell the difference

On: Why We Should Buy Music In FLAC

I can't tell the difference between an original CD and an MP3 of the same track (at 256kbps)
(admittedly I am old, and my hearing at high frequencies wasn't that good even in high school)

Re:So much for the safety of nuclear energy

On: Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan

What would you sujjest for Japan then? They have no coal, natural gas or oil. Maybe they should try geothermal.

tragically still not a federal holiday.

On: What Pi Sounds Like

Who benefits from Federal holidays apart from Federal and maybe state employees?

The rest of us don't get a day off.

And Federal Holidays tend to be Mondayized anyway, to make it a long weekend. 3/14 may fall on a monday this year, but most of the time they wiuldn't have it observed on the right date.

I work night shift

On: Study Shows Technology May Inhibit Good Sleep

And I get woken up during the daytime by telemarketing robocalls

Re:Good for space travel.

On: 3D Printers Create Edible Objects

It helps us if they realise they can just print out their food, then they don't have to come here and eat us

Crazy Eddie drive

On: Stellar Wormholes May Exist

But you need the Alderson drive to get you through the wormhole that you find inside the red giant star

Say did Larry and Jerry ever do a sequel to The Gripping Hand ?

Re:What do you mean by 'Clean'

On: Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy

But when the price of oil skyrockets, the price of coal hardly moves - at least as far as the contracts the power companies have with the coal producers

So its not an incentive to switch from coal to wind etc

What do you mean by 'Clean'

On: Mideast Turmoil and the Push For Clean Energy

Most of the 'clean' energy projects are not for replacing oil (as a transport fuel) but are for replacing fossil fuels like coal and natural gas in electricity production.
Until we get a big breakthrough in battery technology we are not going to be able to run our cars on wind and solar power.

Re:Counter proposal

On: Canadian Songwriters Propose $10/mo Internet Fee

Dingoes are Australian, not Canadian

Anyway I download music from Amazon, and pay for it there. I assume that some of that money goes to the artists and songwriters, none of whom are canadian AFAIK

Human != fast

On: Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human

Lots of natural quadrupeds can outrun a human.

The question is can it outrun a real cheetah?

How about a real swallow?

Re:Like what?

On: Glory Satellite Lost To Taurus XL Failure

You left out the 'profit' step. Without that, nothing will get done.

20 years ago ?

On: 20 Years of Innovative Windows Malware

So before 1991 malware wasn't innovative?

(I don't really know, I wasn't dealing with "windows" back then, but I was dealing with viruses.- I thought the disk-validator type virus was particularly nasty. Workbench 2 fixed that backdoor, but there were a lot of people running WB1.3 amigas.

Two answers

On: No P = NP Proof After All

Either

N=1
or
P=0

Re:Time for another IAU meeting

On: Two Planets Found Sharing One Orbit

Does the IAU have jurisdiction over extra-solar planets?
It would be interesting to see them tell some advanced alien race 'sorry the world you live on is not a planet'

so

On: Discovery's Final Launch Successful

Do Endeavor and Atlantis also have one last turn,each or is that it?

Did they invite

On: Xerox Opens Virtual Research Lab

Steve Jobs to come and steal their ideas?

Does anybody remember

On: Secrets of a Memory Champion

Kevin Trudeau

After watching his 'Mega memory' infomercial enough times I could remember all the items on the list too.