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  1. Every heard of Newton's Third Law? on Highlift Systems' Space Elevator In The News Again · · Score: 1

    "but, it is actually the car pulling the trailer, not the other way around"

    This is in direct conflict with Newton's 3rd law, please explain.

    Also, in a rotating reference frame (such as anything fixed to the surface of the earth) masses do experience a centrifugal force.

    What is the difference between a 'real' and an 'apparent' force?

    Are you a Creationist too?

  2. Wrong Again... on Microsoft Reader Format Cracked · · Score: 3, Funny

    The correct anatomical term is the 'chin-rest'.

  3. Re:Let's see... on Unintended Aural Consequences of MP3 Compression · · Score: 2, Funny

    "They wont be happy until I'm sitting in a darkened padded room eating a liquid only diet."

    This is called a pub and believe me son, you'll like it.

  4. +5 funny on Slashback: Wireless, Radio, Ralsky · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, I thought this was funny, but then, you are Americans and I have imbibed far too much for a Thursday night.

  5. Medical Terminology on Sandia's Smart Heat Pipe · · Score: 1, Informative

    For those having trouble with the reference:

    phimosis: unretractable foreskin
    balanitis: inflammation of the helmet

  6. Re:Does anyone think... on British To Release UFO Files · · Score: 1

    Informative!

    You Yanks have no sense of irony.

  7. Re:Rejection on Getting More Face Time · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article?

    These transplants are for severely disfigured people. People who have lost large parts of the face: one or both jaws, tongue, nose, cheek bones etc.. People who eat through a tube inserted straight into the stomach. In such circumstances, wouldn't you brave the risks?

  8. Re:Macromedia on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Yeh, I just tried so I could experience the jerkyness incarnate but it required a login. Instead of all that hassle, I cracked open my latest batch of homebrew.It's good stuff.

  9. Re:Macromedia on Moving Your Kids to Linux? · · Score: 1

    You sure son? I just installed the 6 beta and tested here: http://www.beta-recordings.co.uk/americangirls/ http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/ looses sync after a while but I detect no jerkyness in the motion of those American girls. I just love American girls, but not the silicon enhanced ones. I'd rather have fried eggs man.

  10. Re:Antibiotics not the only option on Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think bacteriophages need bacteria to reproduce in. The meat stock is a culture for the bacteria rather than viruses - the type of bacteria that grow on raw meat are probably the same that infect humans. Bacteriophages specifically infect bacteria. Animal cells have a different cell structure to bacteria and aren't vulnerable to bacteriophages.

    I remember that the Russians were using hospital sewage as the source of bacteriophages. The sewage was contaminated with the most common patient infections.

  11. Vile transatlantic vernacular, how vulgar! on Taiwanese Capacitors Leaking, Exploding · · Score: 1

    Dear Boy Whilst perusing my faithful old friend, /. , I came across the word 'dude', which was not in my vocabularly. Some spare time granted by the search for my missing cat, Arwen, permitted me to peruse the Oxford Dictionary. It would appear that the word 'dude' is indeed a word not restricted to use by members of 'Easy Rider' and other 60s dropouts. I quote: "fastideous aesthetic person; foppish person; holiday maker in western US, esp on ranch." It would appear that none of the /. members fulfill any of these categories. Please explain. Perplexed, Mr Scratcher

  12. Re:We`ll have to on Homing In On Laser Weapons · · Score: 2, Insightful

    100 KW focussed onto what sized area for how long? You'd need pretty large active optics to create a small spot at a couple of miles through turbulent, dirty atmosphere. These weapons are not photon torpedoes: their main use will be to disable the sensors on missiles and humans (eyes); both will be blinded by a quick scan with a 100 KW laser. Forget star wars, these are anti-personnel and anti-sensor devices. The other issue is the laser tracking mechanism itself. This will rely on sophisticated and sensitive sensors : even a basic reflective mechanism might return enough energy for the laser to blind itself.Think 3 orthogonal mirrors, reflective bubbles etc.

  13. FRIED AFTERBIRTH on Lab-Grown Meat Chunks - It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    There was a celebrity chef programme in the UK where some bumpkin toff concocted a meal from afterbirth. Highly nutritious apparently. What do you yanks reckon of that? Might come in handy on a long Mars trip.

    Here are some recipes, including Plancenta Pizza:

    http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/etplcnt2.htm l

  14. W.T.F.? on Lab-Grown Meat Chunks - It's What's For Dinner · · Score: 1

    ...which would imply that men eating East Asian diets have a greater tendency towards growing breasts and developing scrotal cancer.

    They don't.

    This is pure B.S. diet pseudoscience. What fucks you up is red meat and saturated fat, the cause of 'Western' diseases such as bowl cancer and cardio-vascular diseases.

  15. GRAVITY DOESN'T JUST STOP MATE on Soviet Moon Rocket · · Score: 1

    "It's more relevant when the engine no longer has to lift the mass of the vehicle against gravity."

    The force of gravity at low earth orbit is practically the same as on the ground:

    International Space Station altitude = 393 Km
    Mean Earth radius = 6371 Km

    gravitational field at low earth orbit:
    (6371^2 / (393 + 6371)^2)^0.5 g = 0.94 g

    What you mean is escaping the atmospheric drag at low altitude.

  16. Re:Seen this before, be carefull! on Science in the Microwave · · Score: 1

    I tried rolling a camel once but it kept going out. Please advise. Regards, Mr Scratcher