Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
That's not what the 60 Minutes report concludes.
The problems with the blowout preventer could possibly be laid to
incompetence, but that would have been recoverable if BP hadn't been
pushing for speed all the way down the line.
As I read it, there was some bad
On 05/21/2010 09:15 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
That's not what the 60 Minutes report concludes.
The problems with the blowout preventer could possibly be laid to
incompetence, but that would have been recoverable if BP hadn't been
pushing for speed all the way
At 09:58 PM 5/19/2010, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
Back home, when I was a kid, I was into model rockets. But it seemed
boring making something from a kit. So I set about making my own
rockets and engines.
For fuel, I had a few different things. The most common was common
sugar and potassium
I've been working on this, educating people about science, in
particular space travel, and rekindling that national interest in
going to the moon. A few friends of mine and I are working on
creating a non profit for that purpose. Sigh, the problem it seems
with non profits is no one will
On 05/19/2010 09:58 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
--- On Wed, 5/19/10, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax a...@lomaxdesign.com
wrote:
Well, I can understand, but I don't really miss that. Heathkits
were cheap, main point for me at the time, I built quite a few, but
assembly costs are now so low that a
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
And if it's surface mount, it's not clear a human even *can* solder it
in place, without a huge amount of effort. Easy for the robots, though.
Yup. Like Lasik eye surgery, only a robot can do it.
When computers robots were first invented they were seen as
On 05/21/2010 01:34 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
On 05/19/2010 09:58 PM, Kyle Mcallister wrote:
Put another way, nothing is made with sockets any more. It's all
hard-soldered.
Assembly costs! If there's a socket, somebody must put something in it
And reliability! Sockets lead
Some of the ICCF-5 papers were barely legible, and they generated
peculiar files in the ClearScan format. So I OCR'ed them and retyped
a lot of the text from scratch. Here is one:
Ogawa, H., et al. Correlation of Excess Heat and Neutron Emission in
Pd-Li-D Electrolysis. in 5th International
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
The Roomba robot carpet sweepers are borderline practical today, but better
ones will follow.
Oh, I think this furry feline might disagree:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf9wHkkNGUU
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