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Why am I not surprised? Sometimes us boys have less intelligence than a cheese sandwich. Still, my sister worked in Greenland for several years, and once, whilst climbing up a tower (for work purposes) she put something in her mouth to hold it without thinking, and that thing was metal. After...

How I wish the UK wouldn't keep dropping the ball on these things. As much as the whole Brexit thing was an unwanted (by many) and unmitigated disaster, we could have at least capitalised on that and brought the support to doing our own thing, properly backed and supported. I have little hope...

No, uninformed people are killing themselves by stupidly eating said mushrooms. It's not like the mushrooms are roaming in packs and hunting people down!

Seems like everyone in the comments above is done with the MCU. I still enjoy all the films, and will see this one (although not in the theatre, I just don't do theatres now). Yelena Belova has quite quickly become one of my favourite characters, but I think that's a lot to do with how Florence...

Pfft! I wouldn't trust them to open a can of beans. Not that I really give a shit. I've got this far without engaging with TikTok, I'm sure I'll be happy to continue the rest of my life in the same way.

Go to a few places in East Anglia and it's not much different now! Speaking as a Norfolk boy who grew up 30 odd miles from that location ;) I've passed Barnham a few times on my way back to visit my parents. Never knew about the interesting Neanderthal history that sat there.

First off, I'm not a fan of what has been enforced upon us here in the UK, but given I already used a VPN, I can work around it, for now. But, the floodgates have opened for age verification, and I don't expect to see that reverse. If we are now living in the age of access to content on the...

DS9 is better. Fight me! :p

I for one, wish them luck. I recall watching SpaceX's first attempt to catch the first Starship booster, thinking it would all go horribly wrong, but they succeeded. Yes, they had an awful lot of experience with the Falcon boosters to draw upon, but it was an entirely different ship. So if they...

In some ways I hope it comes to this. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple made those noises, and then the backlash from the public would be immense. Imagine if everyone had to stop using their iPhones! The horror! I'm disappointed that my government still thinks this is a good thing. I see the...

Can the US just stop with all the winning already? The rest of us are struggling to keep up, and you're making us look bad! :p

From what I understand, they're not planning to rebuild the test stand for Block 2 variants, but will instead rebuild it for Block 3. They've built the adaptor for the launch stand to allow for test firing of Block 2 ships, although it does appear to be a little messy to put together and remove...

With the amount of gas I produce after consuming Huel, I reckon I have a better chance of reaching orbit than this thing has! ;) It's a cool looking ship to be sure, but I just don't see it being any more practical than what we already have. If they'd got it flying a few years ago, maybe it...

Hope they've sorted this problem out then. https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2021/LG-Energy-Solution-Michigan-Recalls-Home-Energy-Storage-Batteries-Due-to-Fire-Hazard

If NASA is not going to step up then the rest of the world needs to. Arguably it should already be doing so, as any significant asteroid event is going to be felt worldwide. I don't see much chance of that happening though, much as I'd like to see the tired disaster movie trope of Americans...

I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was, but I found it really hard to read. It just didn't flow very well, dialogue felt forced. Just a bit disappointing. I'm also re-reading Iain M Bank's works, and the comparison is night and day. Very different eras though I accept, and one has to...

I recently re-read the first Foundation book, as the last time I read it was probably 35 years ago. I was struck by two things. It's badly aged from a sci-fi standpoint, but also, it's very poorly written. I remember Asimov being better than that, but perhaps time has altered my perception. I've...

As a Brit, I couldn't agree more. We've also historically been far too trusting with overseas partners with which we've shared our technology, only to be shafted later. Very frustrating. At least we still have some lovely working Victorian engineering marvels to boast of... 😉

One assumes that if the solar panel is always pointing towards the sun, the backside would always be in relative shadow (ignoring earth radiance). A radiator there would be able to dump all it's heat into vacuum. How large that would need to be for the necessary efficiency I have no idea, but it...

Somewhat surprised that Musk and his DOGE goons haven't cut funding to that one already.