Author: Sam NelsonSam Nelson Date: Jan 18, 2008 13:16
In article 4ax.com>,
nospam@please.invalid says...
> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> How the fuck can someone describing something as a 'Star Trek-style ion
> engine' call himself a science correspondent?
His or her name's Nic. You don't really need to read the article.
Might as well be Nathan Barley.
> Then it gets worse expressing the engine thrust in units of weight of
> fractional kiwi fruits.
Gobsmacking. Why not `five grapes' or `three one-millionths of a
double-decker bus'?
> Don't think he knows the difference between brake and break either although
> in the context used neither make much sense.
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