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Charlie van Becelaere
Alien

Oh dear

"The real Curiosity lifted off atop an Atlas V rocket stack on 26 November last year, and is now sailing towards a 5 August date with destiny."

The real Curiosity? <snort>

Charlie van Becelaere
IT Angle

Re: Hang on...

And how, pray tell, will an archaic spreadsheet help us now? Were you simply seeking the IT angle?

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

Re: They haven't found life on Mars

"... finding something that looks for all the world like elephant footprints."

Perhaps better would be " ... finding something that looks vaguely like what elephant footprints are thought to resemble."

Ignoring my nit, "Well done, sir."

Charlie van Becelaere
Thumb Up

"Hah, bumhug! "

I see what you did there. Well played, sir.

Charlie van Becelaere
Thumb Down

Of course, this means

I may be buying a PS3 at a bargain price when these things come out.

That's the only plus I can see here. What a bunch of dopes.

Charlie van Becelaere
Mushroom

Re: Don't all of those...

Mr President, we cannot afford a DEATH-RAY gap!

Charlie van Becelaere

It seems obvious

that there will soon be a recall of the iPad 2 (and earlier?) for operating at too low a temperature.

The other possibility is that they are also now operating at these elevated temperatures without the reality distortion field which formerly obtained.

Charlie van Becelaere

In Russia

computers reboot you.

Charlie van Becelaere

No worries

A good dose of sea water will generally end these threats.

Charlie van Becelaere

Was I the only one

who read that as Yahoo! confounder?

Charlie van Becelaere
Alien

I could have told you

it wasn't the Americans.

It's all "detailed" over at my second favourite site -

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/01/are-russian-space-troubles-from-beyond.html

Charlie van Becelaere

It's been 'shopped

I can tell by the pixels.

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

Based on the link

to the Python-based Squirrel Defence System, it seems that the Russians may want to buy up a shed-load of these to help with their space programme.

Charlie van Becelaere
Alien

Hmm

This fellow seems to think some of these exoplanetarians are already in our neighbourhood:

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2012/01/are-russian-space-troubles-from-beyond.html

Charlie van Becelaere
Pirate

Clearly

that's a purloined Windows activation code!

Charlie van Becelaere

It wasn't just Thomas 4

I mean, I knew the CEO types at RIM were a bit warped, but this is carrying it all a bit too far, don't you think?
Charlie van Becelaere

Where is this happening?

Discworld, perhaps?

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

Apart from the design

and I don't mean experimental design - is there anything really there?

From this post, it seems there might, and this "fellow" has been a CERN-hater for quite some time, it appears.

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/still-playing-uncerntainty-card.html

Charlie van Becelaere

Agreed.

Further, I would prefer not to be marooned on it.

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

perhaps no one missed them ...

according to these folks, they were brought back from the past by a massive time warp or something.

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/12/extinct-bees-back-from-dead.html

Charlie van Becelaere

I, as no doubt many others,

cry fowl, sir.

Charlie van Becelaere
Unhappy

Somehow ...

I thought an atomic time boffin would be much more imposing.

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

Clearly

these must be made from the Wompom. There is nothing that a Wompom cannot do.

Charlie van Becelaere
Pint

Right -

Here are your choices then:

Gary Oldman,

John Cleese,

Richard Hammond (with Jeremy Clarkson as his companion - killed off in the first scene),

Morgan Freeman,

Bob Hoskins,

Christopher Walken, or

Sean Connery

That should cover it.

Thanks.

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

Onychoteuthis banksii

Onychoteuthis banksii was named in honour of Banksy.

As you can see, it tags itself, thus the name.

Dispute it if you will, I ignore mere facts and grab hold of convenient appearance and coincidence.

Charlie van Becelaere
Big Brother

While I may be

a small mental hippie child, I must deny being at all patient.

Thanks, Simon.

Charlie van Becelaere
Alien

I for one

welcome our puzzlingly structured asteroidal overlords.

Charlie van Becelaere
Facepalm

Wait a moment

are you saying my retirement home on the Sea of Tranquility may not be on the up and up?

Charlie van Becelaere

Cheap and Complex

I think that beats Expensive and Complex hands down, no?

Charlie van Becelaere
Big Brother

So this fellow may be right?

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/we-didnt-start-fire.html

I tend to take opinions at that site with a few grams of NaCl, but the Silk post and their Ritchie RIP were spot on.

Charlie van Becelaere
Paris Hilton

This is not an American Car

This is to be built in the Republic of Texas - a whole nother country, as their tourism adverts recently had it.

Paris, because I'm hoping the plant will be in Paris, Texas.

Charlie van Becelaere
Boffin

I'm fairly certain

that imaginary mass would mean that an apple would fall sideways and miss Sir Isaac's head altogether.

Perhaps it would catch in a (Kip) Thorne bush?

Charlie van Becelaere
Childcatcher

Optional

Davis reportedly described the lavatorial escapade as "an exercise of his rights to protest and free speech".

Do we know just what he was protesting? Low quality paper products? Morons who chat on the phone while on the crapper? Bomb-sniffing dogs?

Charlie van Becelaere
Black Helicopters

Sounds like this guy

agrees with you:

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/nasa-avoids-smelling-like-musk.html

Black helicopter because who calls himself "Procrustes 17" unless he's waiting for them to find him?

Charlie van Becelaere
FAIL

You're correct

That's why forced air heating systems don't have fans.

Charlie van Becelaere
Pint

Another lesson from Belgium

Setting aside major contributions to the world of bier en kaas, it is important to note that Belgium have shown us that a nation needn't really have a government. Over a year, and no one had noticed until now? Remarkable!

Charlie van Becelaere
Coat

Further,

the question will then move to diatomic Helium (He2 - please forgive the lack of subscript there). After all, there is essentially no data available regarding the physical properties of this molecule!

Charlie van Becelaere
Headmaster

Of course

one assumes that what you really wanted was to filter by poster's sex. Gender options would be masculine, feminine, and (depending upon your choice of language) neuter. It appears to me that you are addressing male and female.

I'm always happy to help.

Charlie van Becelaere
Alien

Perhaps they've already been found

This fellow seems to think it's all a game -

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/09/seti-home-is-back.html

He's probably at least as right as most of the others posting on the topic.

Charlie van Becelaere
Paris Hilton

One of my favourite

bull-semen-related memories (the only one, actually) is of driving through Iowa or Nebraska (it's hard to tell the difference, really) and seeing a "collection" facility where the large sign out front read:

"MANY ARE CULLED, BUT FEW ARE FROZEN"

Charlie van Becelaere

ComScore

are the only reason the Reg can sell all those lovely ads we get to see so we don't have to pay for access to the site.

I for one welcome my keylogging advertising sales motivated overlords.

Charlie van Becelaere
Black Helicopters

I don't think this guy read this correctly

but he's probably right that it's a conspiracy.

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/08/slowly-i-cern-step-by-step-inch-by-inch.html

Charlie van Becelaere

I for one

am very much looking forward to the new BeOS Macs.

Charlie van Becelaere

And yet

one wonders whether we'd actually know that we'd been sucked into an uncontrollable black hole. I'm fairly certain that's where my missing laundry has gone, and it's only a matter of time before we all catch up and I find it.

Charlie van Becelaere
Black Helicopters

Is there anything

without a conspiracy theory?

http://iheardacouplethings.blogspot.com/2011/07/cern-to-hide-higgs-boson.html

Charlie van Becelaere
Childcatcher

That's precisely why

I didn't sign up with Klout. I have far too many apps / web ecosystems / "communities" trying to track my every move through one another already.

Won't someone think of the children?!

Charlie van Becelaere

What was that last bit

about and Army for Poutine? Sounds like our Vlad is a regular Reg reader.

Charlie van Becelaere
Childcatcher

I for one

welcome our amnesiac, file-folder-shuffling overlords.

Charlie van Becelaere
Headmaster

Was I the only one

to read that subhead with a (phantom) comma as:

Cambridge IT guy 'was the Spanish Guy, Fawkes', say cops.

I was wondering, "who is this Spanish guy named Fawkes?"

I love punctuation, even when it's not there.

Charlie van Becelaere

You're

not from around here, are you, mate?

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