Donington Park is under the takeoff path from East Midlands; two CF6 engines a mile up drown out 24 Porsche 911 engines a quarter-mile away …

Reading off the positions and times by taking a photo of the big screen with a telephoto lens feels, hmm, convoluted

My emotions when watching motor racing maybe shouldn’t be so similar to watching wildlife docs: ‘I hope that one on its own at the back is OK, I hope the wolves don’t get him’

It's been fifteen years since compulsory annuitisation was abolished, but fifteen years of generally quite good market returns; if there were an even medium-sized cohort of people who have burned through their private pension and are relying on SP the Telegraph would be interviewing them weekly.

And presumably if they had the money to retire before he was fifty they have the money to sell up and buy another smallholding somewhere more rural

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The disjoint sets [1, 13, 18, 35, 37, 44, 54, 72, 75] and [2, 9, 23, 33, 39, 40, 57, 70, 76] have sums of first, second, third, fourth, fifth *and ninth* powers equal.

Nikon do brag about being the camera supplier for NASA; the equipment for this mission was bought in 2017 when they expected to launch in 2020 and the cameras do need modification (mostly to do with checking the lubricants won’t out gas) for NASA certification. D5 was pretty shiny for 2016

Which you get from communicating on bluesky, or indeed Facebook, with your genuine human friends; and because you're doing it on bluesky the world can watch. I've been talking to my friends plus the world in paragraphs since Usenet in the nineties.

You need to get to the frontier before you can get past it, and the frontier is in many places, particularly on large scale manufacture, noticeably beyond US local capabilities. You _can_ license in the frontier, China did in machine tools, but then you run into the counter-espionage issue.

China and the US both have sufficiently ready access to all resources; if you can use iron rather than manganese or cobalt you will, lots of the last few dozen billion yuan have gone into using common sodium instead of lithium. China needs to get its cobalt from DRC the same way the US does.

Spending taxpayer money on research that’s already been done in China seems not completely sensible. Getting to the Chinese level at batteries is by now as big a project as Russia cloning the atom bomb after WW2, though /perhaps/ against less ferocious counter-espionage.

And now I have been ambushed by arxiv.org/pdf/2505.04235 (examination and dismantling of the Large Hadron Collider beam dump, which is not water-cooled but is six tons of graphite); over a decade the beam left several curies of tritium embedded in the graphite.

Because most people in the UK are on fixed price per kWh tariffs so it makes no difference to them.

I don’t think it does. The solar panels on my roof are 4080W and produce 3900kWh most years which is about 11% power factor. Trackers get you to 13-16% so it’s almost always better spending the money on more panels.

"If we don't participate it'll just be lions with no Christian perspective at all."

Doesn’t it remove a substantial contribution to the Treasury, as wind generators with CfD contracts (basically compulsory for offshore) get paid the price of gas generation and have to give the Treasury the extra over the CfD price they agreed?

Or to reckon they can afford a certain amount of Danegeld and might end up reasonably fond of the Dane …

until the pipeline and railway to Fujairah are done, and I imagine China and India will be happy to offer material and labour.

There is that lovely archaeology talk that I’ve been to (possibly that we’ve been to) at multiple Worldcons where the presenter starts by breaking a hotel-provided coffee cup and adding it to the show-and-tell box of potsherds.

600k were sold, with a wide variety of RAM size and speed but pretty much always >=64kb and >=1MHz, so I don’t think it fits on even a monster phone

I am reminded of realising that the (slightly extravagant) server in my shed in 2016 had more memory than the complete production run of BBC Micros.

I’m more worried about the Philippines who reckon they will run out of diesel in May www.philstar.com/headlines/20... - in particular, about what happens if the Chinese are willing to trade the Spratly Islands for assured oil supply.

That’s up to the negotiations with the Israelis; it’ll be fifty years before we get to read the declassified transcripts and the Chinese decrypts but I strongly doubt anyone from the Pentagon had the option to veto targeting Khamenei; we don’t know whose flag was on the ordnance.

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I’m a bit surprised that you talk about behaviour 1980-90 with a graph that starts in 1998! Norway has been pumping gas pretty consistently for the last 20 years at a higher rate than Britain’s 2000 peak: it seems they just had more gas.

This has been available on the NHS in Britain for a year and a bit now, as has a viral-vector gene therapy for hemophilia B.

Yes, a new state; but not a new nation. The modern Japanese regime dates to 1947 and the one overthrown at some cost to make that dated roughly to 1889, but the two and a half thousand years of something Japan-shaped made building a new state for the Japanese nation much easier work.

The one thing Iran doesn't need is nation building: it's up there with Egypt in length of history, there had been a nation there in about those boundaries for fifteen hundred years by the time the goddess Amaterasu founded Japan.

A lot of Americans posted in Iraq complained bitterly that what they were doing was staying behind gates and leaving local warlords free to shake people down just outside; the model of nation building there did not extend to keeping the roads open, in the way that it had in former Yugoslavia.