
This is just a shakedown run, the high-speed stuff is still to come.
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:46, Reply)

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)

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)

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)

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)

While Thrust 2 and SSC both had their own difficulties, I donβt recall them being shut down repeatedly.
( , Mon 28 Oct 2019, 13:44, Reply)

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)

See red plumes of acid and heavy metals that certain Russian rockets leave.
( , Tue 29 Oct 2019, 21:51, Reply)

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)


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( , Tue 29 Oct 2019, 21:55, Reply)

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)

Title:
'I gave up a big salary for Extinction Rebellion'

( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 12:33, Reply)

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)

Once we've wiped ourselves out.
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 13:38, Reply)

A man who's willing put his money where his mouth is. Kudos.
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 15:25, Reply)

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)

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)

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)

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)

else it could be geldof or bono parading her about the lucky cow
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 16:16, Reply)

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)

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)

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( , Mon 28 Oct 2019, 3:14, Reply)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

"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)

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)

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)

'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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

I was thinking brexiters, trump supporters, the Tories etc etc
I like it here too
( , Mon 28 Oct 2019, 8:27, Reply)

Consume. Conform. Obey.
EDIT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLYQyA47d0
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:04, Reply)

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)

Euthanasia at 50
Mandatory veganism
A brave new world
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 17:12, Reply)

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)

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)

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)

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)

( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:10, Reply)

"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)

( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 19:28, Reply)

but it must be for pleasure, not penance.
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 20:12, Reply)

that a small percentage of people are responsible for most of the CO2 emissions.
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 22:36, Reply)

Edit
And its his daughter? That's just not right...
( , Tue 29 Oct 2019, 7:20, Reply)

Darth Vader Round Dutch Oven, anyone?
( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 8:31, Reply)

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( , Sun 27 Oct 2019, 9:11, Reply)

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)

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 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)

I made this shite
( , Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:31, Reply)

Very angelic.
Lovely vocal harmonies near the end.
( , Sat 26 Oct 2019, 20:34, Reply)

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)

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)

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)

Ace review, mind. *click*
( , Mon 28 Oct 2019, 22:08, Reply)

Unpronounceable usernames starting with t are the only thing we have in common.
( , Tue 29 Oct 2019, 7:28, Reply)

Title:
Migrating eagles run up huge data roaming charges

( , Sat 26 Oct 2019, 15:16, Reply)

retrieving ball from wherever owner throws it. Owner has a lot of leaves.
( , Sat 26 Oct 2019, 21:36, Reply)
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