I bet you didn't know that this thread would have a part 2

ohnonotgmail · 17-11-2021 5:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181824#Comment_118181824

Because windows stores the make, model and serial number of every USB the computer has ever seen in the registry. Which means it's all traceable.

that just means you can look in the registry and see whatever USB devices have been plugged into the computer you are currently. the list of computers that a USB has ever been plugged into is not stored on the USB drive as far as I am aware.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-11-2021 5:59pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soW6hO010z0

Pulgasari is an odd Kaiju film that came out of North Korea. It was produced and directed by Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean director who had been kidnapped and taken into North Korea and features special effects by the Godzilla effects team at Toho. It's complicated.

While it's a terrible film, if you only watch one North Korean man in a rubber suit monster movie today this is probably the one to choose. Note Shin and his wife escaped to the US later on.

On one hand, Pulgasari is a cautionary tale about what happens when the people leave their fate in the hands of the monster, a capitalist by dint of his insatiable consumption of iron. But it is also tempting to read the monster as a metaphor for Kim Il-sung, hijacking the "people's revolution" to ultimately serve his purposes.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-11-2021 6:10pm

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Look what happened to Sigurd Eysteinsson. Because Máel Brigte was bucktoothed.

Long story short Sigurd was riding home after the battle with yer man's head strapped to his saddle, which was the style at the time, and his leg got wounded and infected from the sticky out teeth.

Jeff2 · 18-11-2021 12:14am

Teeth.

Periodontitis / gum disease can lead to cardiovascular problems and kill the person.

Some king or Roman leader died from it 100,s years ago.

Capt'n Midnight · 18-11-2021 1:10am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118183760#Comment_118183760

The First recorded evidence of Tooth Decay / Caries has been seen in the Reptile named Labidosaurus hamatus or the “lipped lizard” 275 million years ago.

One thing that sucks about being a mammal is not having continuously tooth replacement.

Capt'n Midnight · 18-11-2021 1:15am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118181886#Comment_118181886

No Windows does not update the USB key. But investigators could tell if you looked at a key. And TBH I would not be at all surprised if Windows doesn't 'touch' your key.

But like I said Red Star OS phones home and stamps each file so it's moot.

Capt'n Midnight · 18-11-2021 2:04am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118152806#Comment_118152806

NASA still have the plans for the Saturn V so in theory you could make a new one. But you'd use modern materials and modern techniques, welding robots and 3D printing are way cheaper than doing it by hand. And you'd use modern off the shelf electronics.

But the big change would be to replace the F-1's with RD-170's because over 3/4 of the takeoff mass is fuel in the first stage.

The Russian engines have 7% more thrust at sea level and more importantly 17% higher specific impulse.

The first means you can load 211 tonnes more propellant in Stage I , just super chill it to fit in the existing tanks.

The second means it's more fuel efficient so you can keep burning the increased fuel load for longer.

Plugging the numbers into the rocket equation and you get something like another 717 m/s from the first stage / 2,500 kmph more / 28% more (neglecting air resistance and gravity drag etc etc)

Capt'n Midnight · 20-11-2021 7:27pm

The fastest animal alive today is a small carnivorous dinosaur.

Capt'n Midnight · 20-11-2021 7:46pm

A 2x2 Lego brick can take the force equal to a tower of similar bricks 3.5km tall

22-11-2021 3:15am

The MGM lion was Irish born in Dublin zoo.

magicbastarder · 27-11-2021 10:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118184044#Comment_118184044

further to this (and replacing the F1s) - as one of the comments says, it's the difference between being able to read a recipe, and being able to cook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0

Capt'n Midnight · 27-11-2021 5:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118231098#Comment_118231098

Simple Exhaust Duct - The RD-170's were more efficient because they didn't waste the turbopump exhaust and ran at a much higher pressure.

Soviet engines or modifications are used on US Atlas III , V and Atares. South Korean Naro , Chinese Long March 5,6,7 and India's GSLV , and the Ukrainian Zenit/Sea Launch. Iran and North Korea also used older models on their space rockets. Europe just uses whole Soyuz rockets , engines and all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-xyXDiC92s

Soviet Rocket Engine family tree - 94 minutes. Summary text version

Lots of the American designs flying today date back to the Apollo era or stuff that was meant to replace Apollo.

SpaceX make their own engines. Blue Origin are years late with their BE-4 that ULA are also relying on. Bigelow Aerospace had plans for a commercial space station but they were relying on ULA...

Capt'n Midnight · 29-11-2021 4:55pm

The divorce rate of albatrosses has gone up. Just another sign of global warming.

Capt'n Midnight · 29-11-2021 4:57pm

You tend to find higher mountains in the tropics because old mountains are limited to a height of 1.5Km above the snow line.

Capt'n Midnight · 29-11-2021 9:54pm

65 years ago on Nov 30th 1951 Lyons tea shops ran the world's first commercial programs on a computer LEO that they designed and built themselves.

The really impressive bit wasn't the technology but that they got customers requirements right something that sadly seems to be a lost art these days.

29-11-2021 10:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118183945#Comment_118183945

I think elephants have something like continuous tooth replacement.

WildWater · 29-11-2021 10:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242002#Comment_118242002

I always though that they first ran it on the 29th. LEO stood for Lyons Electronic Office. They wanted to build it years earlier but the war forced them to delay. After the war, they went to look at pioneering computing efforts in both the UK and the USA but realised that those computers, which were designed for military purposes, were unsuited to business. That’s ultimately why they decided to build it themselves.

LEO was so successful, that that they immediately realised that the company would become completely dependent on it. Thus they set about building more enhanced version. These LEO Mark IIs were also sold to other companies and eventually they formed a separate company that lasted into the 70s.

Capt’n you are completely on the money, re the customer requirements. The didn’t really view themselves as a computer company, more of a technology business consultancy. They were way ahead of their time. The Science Museum in London has some great exhibitions about LEO.

BTW Lyons were also the first company in the world to have a graduate recruitment programme.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-11-2021 12:07am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242043#Comment_118242043

It's something like.

Their cheek teeth do get replaced six times, new teeth at the back of the mouth move forward to displace worn down teeth, but then it's not good news.

New Home · 30-11-2021 12:17am

Sharks are the luckiest, in that department.

Capt'n Midnight · 30-11-2021 3:41am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118240676#Comment_118240676

Until 2 billion years ago there were less mountains because the cyanobacteria were too small and so there less organic carbon in the earth's crust.

Obvious really.

bonzodog2 · 30-11-2021 7:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118242282#Comment_118242282

for anyone interested, theres a youtube history of LEO on tonight at 7pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzu68nRVwtE

New Home · 05-12-2021 2:14am

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larchielads · 05-12-2021 3:47pm

Hope your all sittin down for this guys, Rod Stewart is English, born and raised in london.

Capt'n Midnight · 05-12-2021 5:06pm

Which is faster the hare or the tortoise ? Over short distances a hare can hit 80km/h.

During the height of the space race in 1968 the Russians sent Zond 5 to the moon and back before the US Apollo 8 mission.

The Zond 5 caused a scare in the United States when on 19 September 1968, the voices of cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky, Vitaly Sevastyanov and Pavel Popovich were transmitted from the spacecraft and intercepted by Jodrell Bank Observatory and the CIA.[35][36] The cosmonauts were apparently reading out telemetry data and computer readings, and even discussing making an attempt to land. At the height of the Cold War, there was a real concern that the Soviets might actually beat NASA to the Moon. Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan remarked that the incident had "shocked the hell out of us."[37]

Popovich would later recall: "When we realized we would never make it to the moon, we decided to engage in a little bit of hooliganism. We asked our engineers to link the on-the-probe receiver to the transmitter with a jumper wire. Moon flight missions were then controlled from a command centre in Yevpatoria, in the Crimea. When the probe was on its path round the Moon, I was at the center. So I took the mic and said: "The flight is proceeding according to normal; we’re approaching the surface..." Seconds later my report – as if from outer space – was received on Earth, including [by] the Americans. The U.S. space advisor Frank Borman got a phone call from President Nixon [actually Johnson], who asked: "Why is Popovich reporting from the moon?" My joke caused real turmoil. In about a month's time. Frank came to the USSR, and I was instructed to meet him at the airport. Hardly had he walked out of his plane when he shook his fist at me and said: "Hey, you, space hooligan!"[38]

Zond 5 contained the first earthlings to go round the moon. A pair of tortoises. Reentry velocity was close to 40,000km/h

Capt'n Midnight · 07-12-2021 2:17am

You know things are serious when President Biden release oil from the US strategic reserve last week.

You know things are really serious when Canada's (who controls 70% of global supply) most strategic reserve has been released by the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers 😮