Tim Lambert examines one of the specific fraud claims in the CRU code.
Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline
Posted in Climate, Humor, idiocracy, tagged CRU, Deltoid, Lambert, Raymond, smoking gun on Tuesday 2009.12.01 | 3 Comments »
Waiting for the Start Signal
Posted in Humor, RLV:s, industry, tagged Arianespace, china, Newspace, Russia, ULA on Tuesday 2009.12.01 | Leave a Comment »
Would You Get On?
Posted in Humor, Motivation, industry, tagged Amusement, Robot on Saturday 2009.11.28 | Leave a Comment »
With workers like these, everything like cars should be super cheap! It isn’t, there’s a fault somewhere…
Energy and Calories
Posted in Humor, idiocracy, tagged Energy, Hydrive, SI on Sunday 2009.11.15 | 2 Comments »
The latter is an obsolete unit for energy anyway. The SI unit is Joules. 1 J = 1 N * 1 m = 1 kg * 1 m²/s² = etc etc – see that’s the whole idea of the SI system – you don’t have any coefficients.
Yet using Calories further makes it easier to construct [...]
Sneezes in Slow Motion
Posted in Humor on Friday 2009.09.11 | Leave a Comment »
From the blog of Improbable research.
Ok, I’ll post something real soon. The LLC is going and Armadillo might fly a proper L2 course soon! They have already test landed on a simulated lunar surface. Masten is doing tests and additions and Unreasonable is refining their vehicle…
Law, Politics, Advertising
Posted in Humor, idiocracy on Monday 2009.09.07 | Leave a Comment »
The chief disciplines of bullshit, i.e., law, politics and advertising, have developed a culture that is very good at misdirection, to the point where the best information not only doesn’t win out, arguably truth is at a disadvantage.
Michael Tobis on In It For The Gold (on the blogroll to the right). Some day there will [...]
Magic Highway and the Astounding World of the Future
Posted in Demotivation, Humor, Transportation, idiocracy, tagged Future, magic highway on Monday 2009.06.01 | Leave a Comment »
Changes of lifestyle in the future have indirect effects that are perhaps unexpectable to some but were probably predicted by many.
Solarnator
Posted in Humor, Uncategorized on Monday 2009.04.20 | 1 Comment »
I really don’t know what to say. It’s a parody, piss take, a statement, a joke, a nice thing, a red herring… (I also don’t think what they say makes much sense but yeah whatever.)
A Secret Finnish Rocketry Project – or Two!
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Humor, Motivation, Suborbital, Uncategorized, tagged Finnjet, Kuravesi, Silli on Wednesday 2009.04.01 | 1 Comment »
You read it first here!
In the sixties, with the cold war at its tightest and the threat of Soviet Union the greatest, Urho Kekkonen, then president of Finland, with inside info about the coming world politics problems, ordered a crash program of massive air defence developments. That included very long range very fast missiles. Since [...]
Optimum Rocket Cruise
Posted in Architecture, Demotivation, Humor, Motivation, RLV:s, Science, Spacecraft, Suborbital, Transportation, Uncategorized, tagged cruise, hypersonic, hypersonic cruise, rocket on Friday 2009.03.20 | 2 Comments »
With some caveats. Let’s assume a rocket is launched, and accelerates to constant speed v_c. Then it stays cruising at this speed and at a constant altitude. Landing is disregarded.
The cruise
We must modify the rocket equation slightly for the cruise: dm/dt is mass flow, v_ex is effective exhaust velocity, F [...]
