Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
Discussion
The apparent inability of environmentalists to do maths 
Today's example...
Some are whingeing about 2.3 tonnes of waste being ejected from the ISS to be burnt up on re-entry:
"it should be fired into the Sun" - obviously no idea how much deltaV ( i.e. propellant ) that would require
"it should be returned to Earth for disposal" - exactly how ? Any capacity for returning stuff to Earth is taken by much more valuable cargo
"it should be recycled" - again, just how do you plan on recycling old batteries etc in orbit ? How much would it cost to launch a recycling plant into orbit, as well as a manufacturing plant to use the recycled material ?
And of course they totally ignore the estimated 15,000 tonnes of meteors which enter the Earth's atmosphere every year, consisting of all sorts of materials including many found in the stuff being ejected from the ISS - because "that's natural"
Morons !
Today's example...
Some are whingeing about 2.3 tonnes of waste being ejected from the ISS to be burnt up on re-entry:
"it should be fired into the Sun" - obviously no idea how much deltaV ( i.e. propellant ) that would require
"it should be returned to Earth for disposal" - exactly how ? Any capacity for returning stuff to Earth is taken by much more valuable cargo
"it should be recycled" - again, just how do you plan on recycling old batteries etc in orbit ? How much would it cost to launch a recycling plant into orbit, as well as a manufacturing plant to use the recycled material ?
And of course they totally ignore the estimated 15,000 tonnes of meteors which enter the Earth's atmosphere every year, consisting of all sorts of materials including many found in the stuff being ejected from the ISS - because "that's natural"
Morons !
The use of medical research statistics that, at best are unhelpful, at worst deliberately misleading.
Cancer ones are particularly newspaper friendly. e.g.
Research by the University of Ballyboggin has revealed that eating spam more than once a week
increases the risk of diagnosis of bowel cancer by 18%.
What it doesn't reveal is that the risk of anyone being diagnosed with bowel cancer is 2.20%, so the risk of
eating spam more than once a week only increase the risk of being diagnosed to 2.68%.
Cancer ones are particularly newspaper friendly. e.g.
Research by the University of Ballyboggin has revealed that eating spam more than once a week
increases the risk of diagnosis of bowel cancer by 18%.
What it doesn't reveal is that the risk of anyone being diagnosed with bowel cancer is 2.20%, so the risk of
eating spam more than once a week only increase the risk of being diagnosed to 2.68%.
Jader1973 said:
The "search" function on SBS on demand (an Australian TV channel). It appears it was developed by a drunk IT moron. Either that or the spec simply said "we need a search function" and they are unable to argue it isn't.
Allow me to demonstrate with a search for Taskmaster.
T = no results - probably fair enough
TA = no results - again, fair enough although it could possibly show anything beginning with "ta".
TAS = results, none of which are Taskmaster. In fact none of them seem to contain "tas":
TASK = 2 results - neither of which contain "task"
TASKM = no results
TASKMA = 1 result, which...well you can guess by now
TASKMAS = no results. No, honestly, look, not a single result
TASKMAST = Taskmaster!!!! At last!
I cannot work out what sort of perverse logic it is using when it searches. A primary school child would look at it and think "That is s
t".
It isn't just Taskmaster either - other searches generate utter ste until almost the entire title has been entered.
Have you tried searching it as Taskmaster rather than TASKMASTER?Allow me to demonstrate with a search for Taskmaster.
T = no results - probably fair enough
TA = no results - again, fair enough although it could possibly show anything beginning with "ta".
TAS = results, none of which are Taskmaster. In fact none of them seem to contain "tas":
TASK = 2 results - neither of which contain "task"
TASKM = no results
TASKMA = 1 result, which...well you can guess by now
TASKMAS = no results. No, honestly, look, not a single result
TASKMAST = Taskmaster!!!! At last!
I cannot work out what sort of perverse logic it is using when it searches. A primary school child would look at it and think "That is s
t".It isn't just Taskmaster either - other searches generate utter s
te until almost the entire title has been entered.coppernorks said:
If you cut out the swearing your post might be interesting to read.
It's not big, nor is it clever.
Given your comments on the ADHD thread I dont think you have any right whatsoever to dictate whats big or clever. It's not big, nor is it clever.
Things that annoy me beyond reason? Hypocritical sanctimonious clowns.
Flibble said:
MartG said:
"it should be returned to Earth for disposal" - exactly how ? Any capacity for returning stuff to Earth is taken by much more valuable cargo
Well obviously burning several hundred tonnes of fuel to bring back 2.3t of waste is an excellent trade off. 
Bobberoo99 said:
Moronic people who defy a ruling saying that the gathering they're organising is unsafe and illegal and yet still turn up, you bunch of ignorant arrogant halfwits.
Moronic people who demand the removal of Cressida Dick (sorry, top cop UK) when arrests are made at a gathering at which a ruling has been made that it's illegal and unsafe but they go ahead and gather anyway.
People who misuse the word "costed".
I.E. The ticket costed me £5.
No it fking didn't. The ticket cost you £5. Costed is not the past tense of cost. Cost is the past tense of cost.
Costed is only used in future tense and has a very specific meaning which is "to calculate the future cost of something" (copied from the Cambridge English dictionary).
I.E. the project was fully costed at £28,000.
I.E. The ticket costed me £5.
No it f
king didn't. The ticket cost you £5. Costed is not the past tense of cost. Cost is the past tense of cost.Costed is only used in future tense and has a very specific meaning which is "to calculate the future cost of something" (copied from the Cambridge English dictionary).
I.E. the project was fully costed at £28,000.
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