Recent content by Ryujin

I have yet to find a voice, on Android, that has a clue how to pronounce Strachan. Before ubiquitous voice assistants and car GPS systems, I bought a Garmin external GPS module and had been planning on using it with a slimline laptop. I got it working reasonable well but then my Province banned...

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those is working." Yes, you have two Outlooks. One is installed as part of Microsoft Office/365. The other is an abbreviated version that is part of the operating system (what used to be branded as Microsoft Mail). Odds are that neither was...

"There's food in them thar comets!"

I tend to assign the "Mid-Atlantic Accent" to Lovecraft's characters.

I have no idea how the copyright trolls get away with it.

Odds are they were sharing one laptop/tablet and things get weird when people "switch user" instead of logging right out.

As far as I can tell they haven't defined what "broken" means, in this context. It could be as simple as the primary vacuum hose came loose. It's pretty much a fancy vacuum cleaner and without negative pressure, it wouldn't work.

I'm certainly not going to argue that the ocean need to boil in order for us to end. I never did. I've had heat exhaustion, if not heat stroke. But there are ways other than the direct heat that we output, that can cause catastrophic climate change.

NASA has a couple of feeds going; views from Orion and ongoing coverage.

Don't forget that the biggest threat isn't the additional energy that we're pumping into the environment, but the byproducts of it that increase the results of solar radiation. Our industrial heat pales by comparison to what the sun does, but our actions can have an impact on how much of the...

Only if you're including the costs for development since 2004, I would think. The cost of the Artemis II mission, by itself, is something a little over US$4B.

It was a day that I chose to take a rare mental health day off from work. Seeing the zoomed in shot and thinking, "There shouldn't be flame there..." <BOOM!> It's been a lifetime since I was sitting in the "gymnatorium", at school, watching a moon shot on TV.

It feels like a few are actually in the "stop space exploration" camp. I suspect that at least a little colonization would be necessary, for resource acquisition, if only in the way that we currently do FI-FO for mining and oil recovery. Even if you have machines to fix the machines, that fix...

Presumably the probes that were sent back, with the information, could make the transit faster because their drive to mass ratio could be higher. They just needed to carry basic navigation and data.