Search:

There are neodymium magnets in hard drives that are brutally magnetic -> disassemble/reassemble with care.

Read/write heads are designed to float ~10nm over the disc surface. Dust is a killer.
...

If I were you* I would do what the rescue company would probably do. Source an external hard drive of the same/similar make, pull out the disks from the broken unit and try reading them in the new...

I see, up here, the latest Mori poll puts UKIP support on...

0.2%

That's a refreshing reflection of their insane political beliefs. Catch up, England!

Andy

May I just interject and point out I played the word "SQUIB" in real Scrabble, with the 'Q' on a double letter and the 'B' on a triple word? :o)

We're not paleolithic humans.

A paleo diet would be great if we weren't agrarian humans: most of us carry the ability via (ta-da!) evolution to handle wheat and other processed foods unavailable...

Almost. More a case of other people not being as good Europeans as the Germans.

Andy

Who started the Great War? I think it's a toss-up between Bismarck and the man with a robin on his hat:

http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/egi/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/history11.jpg

He's the perfect...

...and they wouldn't occur at all if there was no vapour content. Do you maybe sense a link there?

Meanwhile, I know what clouds are: living here in Scotland I've seen one or two over the years.
...

Thing is, more water vapour in the atmosphere = more clouds = less insolation.

Up to a point.

Andy

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=43214.0;attach=123711;image

I don't know about that.

Andy

^ I like Verbosity's post.

As to the O/P, as the US has spent the last decade or so fighting lunatics perverting a religion to further their insane ideas of a world theocracy of misogyny,...

What an unfortunate camera angle. ...Or do vast (and presumably noxious) emissions of hot air really come from his butt whilst he speaks?

Andy

When "we" went there in 1814 and trashed the place, there were only 4000 or so armed with loaded weapons. :p

Andy

I did notice the italics, and suspected the meaning. I just wanted clarification.

I once worked with a woman who - aged forty or so - gave up her life as father to her children and husband to her...

Great pictures.

Book IV, Commentarii de bello Gallico:



Andy

I find this dubious, at best.

I've heard many homosexuals speak of knowing themselves to be inately "different" from heterosexuals from (pre-sexual) childhood. What are you suggesting: that...

...Amazing.

There's a simple fix to avoid (most) abortions, of course: perhaps it's time the Catholic Church woke up to reality?

Andy, not holding his breath.

What's really infuriating is that the plug was pulled on HOTOL (Skylon's predecessor) back in the late 80s by the UK government. So short-sighted. Cheap access to space in the 90s would have been a...

I've not had a cup of coffee in 37 years.

The smell makes me gag.

Andy

^ Two excellent books. He's a very good, engaging writer.

Andy

If you feel that is an appropriate subject for a thread, please feel free to start one. Here, it seems too off-topic to be properly addressed.

Andy

Take it back one.

Why should people have the right to own firearms?

Andy

Or Steve Hillage?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psSrLwgRwBM

This thread is incomplete without 'em.

Andy

What, no Daevid Allen?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TlxloQuNI

Andy

I bet that gets buyers flocking.

Andy

Unless I'm reading Boston very wrong, he's suggesting (a fraction of) (normal-looking) galaxy images in Hubble Deep Field images are the result of multiple lensing events.

Since there is no...

I suspected as much!

As to the Jutland matter, we're three years away from the 100th anniversary. A (CGI-heavy) documentary would be great...

...But I live in fear that we'll get a film of...

Indeed. Gravitational lensing tends to produce arc-shaped images from point-like sources.

No way are you going to get pretty pictures of galaxies after multiple lensing events, any more than you'd...

...Robert K Massie, I think you mean.

Andrew Gordon writes (extremely well) on the chaos of Jutland, in part brought about by "institutional issues" in his book The Rules of the Game: Jutland and...

Really? I think Wiki gets the award for being nearer the mark:



Andy

...Measles wrecked my eyesight.

This Welsh situation, of course, demonstrates rather well the potential risks inherent in conspiracy theories in action. We ought to learn from lessons like this.
...

I was rung up by my brother nearly thirty years ago. "You've GOT to see this film," he said. "it's called Zone Troopers."

So I went to the local video shop and hired it.

It was execrable. A...

I wouldn't bother with a firewall on XP. Run something like Spybot Search & Destroy (it's free!) now and again, don't download what you don't know, and don't open attachments you didn't ask for.
...

http://www.thefreckledfish.com/racundra/shackle.jpg

A one-eighth scale brass shackle - the pin's threaded.

It's been made by a better model engineer than I'll ever be.

Andy

When wild camping? Toilet paper.

Andy

More of an axe to grind, with Sam.

Andy

Many thanks, Peter - it's priced around £20 here in the UK. (Adds it to the "must buy" list).

Andy

Well, I'm still building Racundra - real world has taken a terrible toll these last few seasons - and I've a question to the assembled brains here on the forum.

Rigging.

As seen in the picture...

About a fiftieth of one gravity.

Sounds about right for the Isp.

Andy

My garage problem is that I don't have a garage. I do, however, have a host of potential projects with nowheretobuildem - which is doing nothing to help my garageenvyitis.

Incidentally, my Dad...

Camping (for me) equates with "leave the chargeable gadgets at home". So I make do with one of these:
...

...for sure - but the hull form, oval ports, high coaming, gaff ketch rig: the list is long. I wonder where Otto Eggers (Racundra's designer) got his influences from?

Andy

Holmes' Eel has - to my eye - more than a bit of Ransome's Racundra about her.

http://intheboatshed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Eel.JPG

Yes. The benefits:

Diesel/petrol are used today because they're energy rich, easily stored liquids. They'll always be that. The technology to burn these fuels is still improving (3.2l/100km...

The elephants in South Africa don't. Sasol make diesel and petrol economically from coal and natural gas. There's no reason the process couldn't use hydrogen from the OP's biomass link.

Andy

I don't like the better than 100% return on energy the article suggests. What you're doing (of course) is releasing the stored energy of photosynthesis economically.

As to Norm's dislike of...

You all think they're launching - but I'm guessing they're parking. |;)

Andy

Surely Sam's version of The Truth (including issues such as sex, women and child-rearing) has to be passed on to him by that sequence of celibate old fellas who have the direct line. Them's the rules...

Another interesting point.

In 1968, the US had the technology and the chutzpah to get people to the back side of the Moon. In 2013 they don't.

Andy

Me too.

Meanwhile, I spotted an intriguing use of the phrase "six metres" in this US-voiced documentary film about British engineering.

Andy