arethuza

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by arethuza 3y ago
But James May said on the Top Gear British Sports car segment that there had been no reported cases of a TVR ever breaking down! I hated the BMW - in and out of the dealers getting fixed and very uncomfortable.
842.
by arethuza 3y ago
I remember a time where I was looking for a sensible family car and almost bought a Cerbera 4.5. I ended up buying a BMW that I hated...
843.
by arethuza 3y ago
I really don't think "British old money" was the target market for TVR?
844.
by arethuza 3y ago
Personally, I think that if we get into a war where SSBNs are being sunk then they have already failed. Of course, we have to behave like they work and that we'd actually use them - which is why this test result is so damning for the U
845.
by arethuza 3y ago
It's easy - just like changing which side of the road a country drives on - phase it so that cars change over one day and lorries the next and buses the day after that....
846.
by arethuza 3y ago
You are assuming that Agile can be killed? At this point I'm thinking that it has seeped into the very nature of the world - like Morgoth's Ring.
847.
by arethuza 3y ago
Well, in the case of the UK its going to be submarines or nothing.... Now you could question whether it is worth it - but that's a completely separate question.
848.
by arethuza 3y ago
Presumably the 1961 Goldsboro incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
849.
by arethuza 3y ago
Yes - it does rather look like the problem is at the UK side of things. Edit: regarding the "ish" comment one thing that makes the UK deterrent a bit more credible is that they don't have PALs - the crew have everything they
850.
by arethuza 3y ago
The UK and US missiles come from the same stockpile though - mind you it does rather remind me on Beatty at Jutland "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today".
851.
by arethuza 3y ago
Not VR, but I really enjoyed Devs : "The box contains us. The box contains everything. And inside the box, there's another box."
852.
by arethuza 3y ago
I suppose being the UK there would never be easy answers to questions like that....
853.
by arethuza 3y ago
The only times I have made significant route finding mistakes in the last ten years were after I started using a GPS for route finding - in both cases I took the wrong ridge down from a peak. My wife was also in a group that managed to de
854.
by arethuza 3y ago
HM Coastguard and the RNLI do different roles though - the former is more about co-ordination amongst different rescue agencies and the RNLI runs lifeboats.
855.
by arethuza 3y ago
Or the codes to make the Permissive Action Links (PAL) work.
856.
by arethuza 3y ago
"Beanz Meanz Heinz" is etched into my memory from my youth in the UK. Certainly when I think of Heinz I think of beans not ketchup.
857.
by arethuza 3y ago
It doesn't have a codified constitution in the US sense but it does have a constitution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_Kin... Edit: I would certainly agree that having constitution in th
858.
by arethuza 3y ago
They aren't immutable, but they can only be changed by Parliament: "the courts cannot overrule its legislation and no Parliament can pass laws that future Parliaments cannot change. Parliamentary sovereignty is the most important
859.
by arethuza 3y ago
Sunlight on Mars is about 40% of what it is on Earth - and given that potatoes seem to grow quite well in the less sunny parts of this planet (such as here in Scotland) then I'm willing to not get too critical on that particular point.
860.
by arethuza 3y ago
I remember one wit on Usenet saying that the strangest aliens ever portrayed in science fiction were the people in Robert Forward books.... Certainly the physics in the couple books of his I read was interesting but the writing left a lot t
861.
by arethuza 3y ago
But doesn't The Martian have a well-known scientific inaccuracy around the actual physical effects of winds on Mars - which is kind of vital to the plot? NB I really like The Martian (and like SF in general).
862.
by arethuza 3y ago
Sounds interesting, do you have some recommendations?
863.
by arethuza 3y ago
Here is a video from a boat in the Grey Dogs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLFG7x6rrKw Definitely not somewhere I would want to fall in!
864.
by arethuza 3y ago
The hotel we were at arranged a free room swap with another couple on another island for a few days so we even got a "honeymoon". We went to this hotel for a few nights: https://www.larchipel.com/
865.
by arethuza 3y ago
Scotland So we had to fly from Edinburgh -> LHR -> Seychelles Looking at the current price from the same travel company and hotel it would be ~£8K - still cheaper than most weddings. The actual cost of the "wedding" part was
866.
by arethuza 3y ago
My wife's mother was very keen on a large wedding, my wife wasn't - we were watching a holiday program on TV and they had weddings in Mauritius and she announced "we're doing that!". Anyway, we ended up getting marr
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by arethuza 3y ago
The Grey Dogs channel between the Scottish islands of Lunga and Scarba has a peak flow of about 15km/h with large standing waves - quite incredible to watch this up close and watch the sea shooting past!
868.
by arethuza 3y ago
I met a guy once who had actually done programming with a hand drill. He was working on an old mainframe that controlled a steel plant and originally this beast booted from paper tape but that had long since been worn away and replaced by
869.
by arethuza 3y ago
My mental model of London is basically the Tube map - when I look at a map of where the Tube lines and stations are physically located I find it quite disturbing.
870.
by arethuza 3y ago
Or a huge castle on the plug of an ancient volcano....

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