KiwiJohnno

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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
But interestingly, Boeing has manged to increase the fees from this program to the point that they will charge NASA a higher cost per seat than the Russians do: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/nasa-rep
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
SpaceX have unlisted their CRS-7 broadcast, but they have not taken it down. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeiBFtkrZEw
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
I've been using the same email address, at my own .org domain for 20 years now. Changing that would be a proper PITA, and I'd hate to have to do it just because ICANN sold out in such a transparently corrupt way.
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
Nope, same guy. Scott Manley has a degree in astrophysics (I think) and worked as an astronomer for a while, then got a job coding at Apple. He's a smart guy
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
I second that. Great book. The sequel, anvil of stars is pretty good too, but its a different setting
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
>crazy gravitational interactions Thats putting it very mildly. Its actually quite an interesting thought exercise - As this black hole approached earth its gravity would counteract earth's gravity, meaning everything near where it
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
I've done it, just this last weekend infact. Went from a Pentium G3258 nicely overclocked at 4.5ghz to a 2nd hand 4670k overclocked to 4.2. But if you are thinking of upgradeability of CPUs you are much much better sticking with AMD,
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by KiwiJohnno 7y ago
Except, NBNco are in many places finding the existing last-mile copper going into people's homes is too degraded to support FTTN or FTTC (Fibre to the curb) So... They are ripping out the copper going into people's houses, and rep
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by KiwiJohnno 9y ago
That is bad reporting. SpaceX always planned to burn the 2nd stage until it ran out of fuel. Elon always said they weren't sure exactly what the final trajectory was, just that the roadster would be sent out as far as possible. They w
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by KiwiJohnno 10y ago
The light bulb conspiracy is, frankly, a load of shit. What was really happening is the consumers were choosing which lightbulbs to buy primarily on their rated lifespan. So, because of this market pressure, manufacturers naturally started