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This is a link post Bloodhound is running in the desert at last
This is just a shakedown run, the high-speed stuff is still to come.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Impressive
looks to have nearly got to 30mph although I am sure it went faster.

Looking at the description, it got to about 100mph, which for a vehicle like that is like a Porsche doing 30 mph ;)

Seemed to not have all the aero parts fitted yet.

Can't wait for a real run.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I know funding has been tight
But I look at the pace of progress and I can't help but wonder. They've been in the desert 9 days and got one 99mph run out of it so far. That's not even as fast as they managed two years ago in Cornwall.

The project itself has been running for 11 years now and they're not even talking about doing record runs this year.

I also haven't heard anything about the hybrid rocket they were planning to use for years now. I don't think it's fitted to the car yet.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:45, Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair, they’re on a model validation exercise, not a speed run.
They also need to be sure that the lakebed handling works at low speeds before expanding the speed envelope.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 8:10, Reply)
This is a normal post
So my point about the timescale stands. ThrustSSC was five years from design to breaking the record. Bloodhound is still doing low-speed runs 11 years after the project was initially announced.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 10:28, Reply)
This is a normal post They’ve had a fair bit of funding trouble though
While Thrust 2 and SSC both had their own difficulties, I don’t recall them being shut down repeatedly.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 13:44, Reply)
This is a normal post What's the zero carbon option?

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 23:14, Reply)
This is a normal post about two gretas to one caroline these daze
or one and a half thunbergs to a lucas depending on the markets - you know how these things go
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 23:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Run.
Fast.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 8:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Hydrogen powered probably.

(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 16:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Not a good idea.
See red plumes of acid and heavy metals that certain Russian rockets leave.
(, Tue 29 Oct 2019, 21:51, Reply)
This is a normal post I wish Bloodhound success but..
as a project, it's a bit dull, 'worthy' and corporate for my taste. Land Speed Records should be broken by cars made by men in sheds, driven by charismatic dare-devils.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 11:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Those sometimes leave a mark - I hope it is paint.


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(, Tue 29 Oct 2019, 21:55, Reply)
This is a link post The Doncaster Chatterbox I made this!
This work is a piece of a survey as to what the people of Doncaster want for their town, and what they think of it. This work has been created with Doncaster Creates and with Doncaster Council and is a creative response to the survey. An origami template was made for people to fill in. This when folded made a chatterbox. Photos were taken of those involved. This was then placed atop of the chatterbox, witht he answers inside, revealed by lifting the flaps. .
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Don't mention the Doncaster
He was never here.
(, Tue 29 Oct 2019, 21:56, Reply)
This is a link post Heat remake I made this!
Tat version anyway...

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 14:23, Reply)
This is a normal post
I disagree. It's nice to see someone who considers the planet more important than money. Having said that, he was shafted anyway, trying to encourage young people to invest in pensions at the moment must be like trying to bring religion back.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 12:58, Reply)
This is a normal post The planet is going to be absolutely fine.
Once we've wiped ourselves out.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 13:38, Reply)
This is a normal post I take my hat off to him.
A man who's willing put his money where his mouth is. Kudos.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:25, Reply)
This is a normal post A man who has saved up enough to live comfortably well off for the rest of his life,
and whose 24 year old son has left further education, is now in a position to easily afford to put his frivolous spending money where his mouth is.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 15:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Maybe this has more meaning for him than shuffling money about.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:28, Reply)
This is a normal post He thinks he's doing a good thing.
But he's still an idiot.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I suppose he could have used his money to further causes.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:47, Reply)
This is a normal post At the risk of upsetting the right on Wolfie Smiths up there ^^
but extinction rebellion are full of shit.
Is the planet going to hell in a handbasket? Yes, but it's nothing to do with plastic drinking straws and funding for coal.
The underlying root of the problem is the sheer number of human beings on the planet. It took all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, by 1930 that had doubled, and doubled again to 4 billion by 1974. Since then it has shot up to 7,700,000,000 people on earth.
Until someone proposes a solution to this overall problem rather than worrying about the fall in birthrate in the developed world, then all this posturing is futile.
Step one: criticise religions that promote large families (start spraying red paint on cathedrals & mosques rather than the treasury)
Step two: promote access to birth control and abortion (ban the DUP?)
Step three: Get together with a large and powerful group to promote these ideals (stop Brexit?)
Once you've done all that, then feel free to fuck up my daily commute to work on an electrified mass transit system you cockwombles.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:49, Reply)
This is a normal post >The underlying root of the problem is the sheer number of human beings on the planet.
nonsense - it is how those human beings choose to organise themselves into some sort of a functioning society that counts.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:56, Reply)
This is a normal post The late Hans Roslig did a lot of work on this, and there's massive improvements in reduction of birth rates.
But it remains a fact that the best thing the smug twat in the picture could have done for the environment is not have the daughter he is parading.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:10, Reply)
This is a normal post yeah his daughter should be glad she wasn't born in a third world country in the eighties
else it could be geldof or bono parading her about the lucky cow
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Ooh you don't want me to get started on Live Aid...
Live Aid total money raised: about $150 million. Slightly less than the cost of a single F117 stealth fighter.
Total world military expenditure 2018: $1,800,000 million ($1.8 trillion)

"Take all that money we spend on weapons and defence each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world - which it would many times over, not one human being excluded - and we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever, and in peace"
RIP Bill Hicks.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Bread and circuses for the masses, like the Olympics etc.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:47, Reply)
This is a normal post I heard a number in the 80's
which I feel still holds true, although I have no hard facts that are current.

The cost of housing, feeding, and clothing the world for a year is roughly the same as the spending on the military every two weeks.

I do know that the Iraq war at its height was costing $25 billion a month (including costs like medical for returned vets), at the time adjusted for inflation the entire Apollo program cost $100 billion so for every four months of the Iraq war we could have had an entire moon program, including R&D, training, and 10 moon missions.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:45, Reply)
This is a normal post "Couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?"

(, Tue 29 Oct 2019, 17:31, Reply)
This is a normal post
rad edo
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:44, Reply)
This is a normal post now then now then i'm sure there was a lorra good work for charidee

(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 3:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Rosling said it would top out at 11bn
As he said, the birth rate will sort itself out once people are allowed to move out of poverty, and don't have to battle high rates of infant mortality.
This is happening already.

So, while it's true that having a child is the number one factor in determining your life long carbon footprint, it's probably going to be fine from a global population point of view.

Until I hear a convincing reason why not, I'm of the opinion that 11bn people will be fine,provided we get our shit together soon.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, but increasing inequality is making it impossible to rise out of poverty.
Average wages are rising across the Western world, but mainly because the super rich are raking it in; actual pay for the great majority is static, and compounded by worse access to education, housing, water and healthcare.
I agree that this could all be sorted out, but there's only one country with the will to tackle these thorny issues, and that's China!
(cue the unpopular opinion police)
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Get our shit together?!
We are failing to build adequate housing, transport infrastructure and can't even produce enough food in one of the richest countries. Hoping 'somebody' will sort it out is wishful thinking.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 18:50, Reply)
This is a normal post should have been more specific I suppose
I meant get our shit together and achieve net zero carbon asap (this was an XR post after all).

And on that alone, I don't expect 'someone' to sort it out, I think everyone will have to push to make it happen.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:28, Reply)
This is a normal post We're the only species on the planet that relies on a finite resource in order to function as a society.
Show me just one member of Extinction Rebellion who does not rely on fossil fuels or the byproducts of fossil fuels in some way or another.
It doesn't matter how many hearts and minds you think you're winning by disrupting people's morning commute. It doesn't matter how people 'organise' themselves. We've reached a point in our civilisation where we can no longer function without the aid of crude oil. No amount of boycotting plastic straws will change that.

As Da5id says, the only way to make a true, meaningful contribution the welfare of our planet is to stop making more people. We're an inherently selfish species. We always have been, and we always will be. It's just how it is. Extinction Rebellion seem to be under the illusion that they can change human nature. They can't. We'll all be dead from a Global Resource Conflict/major pandemic/singularity long before we can even come close to causing some kind of permanent damage to our planet, anyway.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:45, Reply)
This is a normal post I can't wait for eco-terrorists to be the new jihadis.
"People are killing the planet, so we'll save the planet by killing as many humans as we can."
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:09, Reply)
This is a normal post You OK hun?
want to talk about it?
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Nah.
But I forgive you for reproducing. The carbon footprint of their children isn't often something a prospective parent considers.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:23, Reply)
This is a normal post
Is this you
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:54, Reply)
This is a normal post A much prettier version of me.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 18:15, Reply)
This is a normal post It's not blame or forgiving
It's not about the actions of the individual living inside a toxic system.
People often do things because they have little or no choice.

It's about collectively getting together and standing up to make the system change.
(ultimately that might include changes that every individual contributes toward.)

Because the likely alternative of a slide into natural disaster, food and inhabitable land shortages, mass migration, chaos and war sounds really shit.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:44, Reply)
This is a normal post This opinion brought to you by the creators of
'let's just crack on with brexit' and 'i don't see anything wrong with calling them coloureds'
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 18:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Hiya Benny.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Surely you can see though
that, in an example taken to extremes to show a point, if there were only 10 people on the planet then they could do literally anything, drive the worst vehicle, club seals all day, eat all the meat they like, drive a tractor everywhere powered by coal which crushes animals every mile, or even fly their own jumbo jet daily on a constant holiday and not affect the planet at all.

It would carry on fine and be able to ignore them.

Conversely, if there were 100 billion people, just feeding them a vegan diet, while they were trapped in their homes trying to not breathe much or use calories, not driving, off-grid and being as environmental as they could then that would destroy the environment.

Somewhere in between is the number of people where we could live a life of excess and joy and not destroy the planet, and at a higher number is the amount of people the planet could support if we lived carefully. And it would not matter how they organised themselves, the sheer number of them is destructive.

Surely you can see that at some point, we will have to choose whether it is more important to have many people barely existing, or a lesser number living well?
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:19, Reply)
This is a normal post I took that as more of a...
In the context of how many people there are right now, and where that number is predicted to level off, population size is less of a problem then the climate.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:34, Reply)
This is a normal post True
As that bloke with the cubes demonstrated, we are nearing the maximum population and it will be roughly 11-13 billion.

Which is manageable IMO.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:47, Reply)
This is a normal post We should be shipping people off to space to colonise other worlds
It might take hundreds to years to reach the nearest system, but we should learnt to reproduce within limits and sustain a few generations for the journey. Once we reach a habital world we can colonise, if we're not eaten by the locals of course.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:23, Reply)
This is a normal post ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkYaZXCl8U
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 0:37, Reply)
This is a normal post ^ there's a brexit joke in there somewhere

(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 1:48, Reply)
This is a normal post You first then.
I quite like Earth.
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 7:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Not everyone obvs
I was thinking brexiters, trump supporters, the Tories etc etc

I like it here too
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 8:27, Reply)
This is a normal post You forgot: Stop being so greedy for toys and status symbols.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:44, Reply)
This is a normal post A good point!
Consume. Conform. Obey.
EDIT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLYQyA47d0
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:04, Reply)
This is a normal post Human overpopulation is also the result of increasing life expectancy
and being old doesn't stop people buying shit online. Over-consumption can continue until you die.

Also I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is going to like the idea of reducing human population.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:08, Reply)
This is a normal post One child per couple, conceived before 25, if it dies or is faulty then tough shit
Euthanasia at 50
Mandatory veganism
A brave new world
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:12, Reply)
This is a normal post I wouldn't go that far.
I'm guessing you'd like things to stay the same, infinite economic growth on the back of limitless consumption, blame the poor, greed is good etc.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:36, Reply)
This is a normal post I have no idea what the right way forward is.
But the screeching I've witnessed over the past six months, if it continues accelerating at this rate, will ultimately lead to some of the more sensitive types being guilted into suicide, while those that don't give a fuck will continue to not give a fuck. I dunno, maybe that's the intention.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 18:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Malthus. Wrong since 1798
Which was when he wrote an Essay on the Principles of Population. When the world had about 800 million people on it.
To many people is one of those 'common sense, innit' things which is utter horsehit. See also Brexit, flat earth and Cold Play.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 18:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Given finite resources eventually Malthus has to be right.
Sure, you can pack more and more people into smaller and smaller areas, there will become a point where stress, disease, conflict make living in the human battery farm awful for most.
This is the same for most mammals and birds.

If I'm wrong somehow, maybe we can alleviate suffering in poor countries by letting those people come here; after all, if population isn't a problem we could easily double our population.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Malthus wrote about population growth and food supply, not environmental degradation

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:10, Reply)
This is a normal post bucky balls
"It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Protestant work ethic covers a fair bit of it.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:24, Reply)
This is a normal post just think of all the spare time that could be created for other forms of self flagellation though

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:28, Reply)
This is a normal post Nothing wrong with a bit of S&M
but it must be for pleasure, not penance.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Never go full Culture

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:58, Reply)
This is a normal post ^ Arbitrary

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:08, Reply)
This is a normal post That doesn't really take into account
that a small percentage of people are responsible for most of the CO2 emissions.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 22:36, Reply)
This is a normal post You mean methane

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 22:57, Reply)
This is a normal post "Financial secure man gets young ideological girlfriend"
Edit

And its his daughter? That's just not right...
(, Tue 29 Oct 2019, 7:20, Reply)
This is a link post Like Star Wars? Like cast-iron cookware? It's your lucky day
Darth Vader Round Dutch Oven, anyone?
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 8:31, Reply)
This is a normal post A bit disappointing it's not news about upcoming Star Wars with iron cookware cast

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 8:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Star Wars is working together with Porsche, is that not enough already?

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 9:11, Reply)
This is a normal post

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This is a normal post Daisy Griddley

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 10:53, Reply)
This is a normal post John Boil-Egg-a

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 10:57, Reply)
This is a normal post Alec Guinness

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 11:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Mark Enamel

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 12:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Carrion Fisher

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 12:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Bobba Fett-ucini

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This is a normal post See crepe io

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Princess Aioli

(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 11:27, Reply)
This is a normal post E-woks

(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 23:08, Reply)
This is a normal post
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsYBArQECBg
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 10:02, Reply)
This is a link post jogging
richard dawson

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 22:59, Reply)
This is a normal post
Fan fucking tastic! As good as The Vile Stuff
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 0:00, Reply)
This is a normal post excellent

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 1:34, Reply)
This is a link post Another pointless cat video.
Mum loses rag about 6min in.
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 22:42, Reply)
This is a link post Woof!

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:45, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm glad they have definitely moved on from
Being a Die Antwoord copy and carved a far sillier, and better, niche.
Die Antwoord seem to be taking themselves far too seriously.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 1:04, Reply)
This is a normal post i think die antwoord
deserve to be taken seriously.
i like what they're doing with the house of zef.
especially this
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 1:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Agree. Saw that one a few weeks ago and brilliantly done.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:53, Reply)
This is a normal post what?
this is musically a carbon copy of die antword
and the video looks like a low budget version of their promos

skibidi had a far more individual voice than this
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 21:20, Reply)
This is a normal post I like this

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 11:55, Reply)
This is a normal post They are growing on me greatly.

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:38, Reply)
This is a link post Carving a spooky Halloween beer can lantern I made this!
I made this shite
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Cool
All efforts equal points
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 22:42, Reply)
This is a normal post It may be a wee bit shite...
...but at least you did it :-)

Like.
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:27, Reply)
This is a link post Itsumo Nando demo
Very angelic.
Lovely vocal harmonies near the end.

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 20:34, Reply)
This is a normal post A little too sweet and gentle for me.
Beautiful voice though
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:45, Reply)
This is a normal post How about this?
Quite the contrast.
I always liked this when i was in my teenage days.
Still pretty cool vocals though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6to2A4kbJs
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:55, Reply)
This is a normal post I'd have loved that as a late teen.
Edit Thinking of singers, I like what this lady has done with 'Lady Eleanor'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUHuNAB-xKs
(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 0:03, Reply)
This is a normal post I like that

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 11:24, Reply)
This is a link post Software review. NSFW
From the same chap who did the corporate music thing.

I know nothing about music composition software, but can't stop rewatching.

Not really NSFW but there are a couple of frames.
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 20:07, Reply)
This is a normal post crikey
reviews of the unexpected
clicks
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:54, Reply)
This is a normal post You clicked the button
Sibelius crashed.
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 22:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Every time you say 'Si-BELL-ius', my mind hurts..
Ace review, mind. *click*
(, Mon 28 Oct 2019, 22:08, Reply)
This is a normal post I can't take any credit unfortunately
Unpronounceable usernames starting with t are the only thing we have in common.
(, Tue 29 Oct 2019, 7:28, Reply)
This is a link post Something something jet fuel
Something something steel beams
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 19:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Pretend Jenga for incels.

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 20:49, Reply)
This is a normal post
There was a bill joke in there, but you missed it
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 19:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Too obvious...

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 19:19, Reply)
This is a normal post They should have switched to flight mode

(, Sun 27 Oct 2019, 5:31, Reply)
This is a link post USB Hub I made this!
Pluggin' in freebie crap.

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 14:04, Reply)
This is a link post The aye-aye has a pseudothumb
digital news
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 9:29, Reply)
This is a link post Dog loves jumping in leaves.
Dog loves jumping in leaves.
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 4:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Leaps, shits and leaves.

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 6:33, Reply)
This is a normal post seems to enjoy jumping leaves quite a lot

(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 13:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Dog loves
retrieving ball from wherever owner throws it. Owner has a lot of leaves.
(, Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:36, Reply)
This is a normal post Dog seems joyful, that's what matters.

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