Has a fool for a client.

Attributed to many people - Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, etc. Earliest equivalent quote: William de Britaine, 1682.

Jeff Bezos has been to space in his own New Shepard

Richard Branson has been to space in his own VSS Unity

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has been to orbit in a SpaceX Crew Dragon

Elon Musk has never been higher than his corporate jet flies (drugs notwithstanding)

The current and previous CEOs of Boeing have never ridden in Starliner

The director of Roscosmos has never ridden in a Soyuz capsule

If their trust their own spacecrafts is too low to expose their own lives to the possibility of trouble, my trust in those crafts with my own life is too low, too.

Quantum theory contains two facts that are intolerable to most physicists. First, the observer is itself a quantum object. Most physicists insist on dealing with observers in classical terms despite knowing that this is false. A few insightful researchers addressed this issue head on, notably Sidney Coleman in his 1994 Dirac lecture âoeQuantum mechanics in your faceâ.

Second, that QM is not a fundamental theory. The actual fundamental theory is quantum field theory, where particles are a derived phenomenon, and everything is perturbations of a set of coupled, relativistic quantum fields. Dealing with waves in fields as waves that extend throughout the entire universe is just too mind-stretching, so physicists drop down to a theory thatâ(TM)s easier, simple QM, and then wonder why itâ(TM)s got inconsistencies.

People who believe that their DNA sequence info is some precious ultra-sensitive private data need to be sure to be masked and gloved whenever they go outside, and perform secure biocontaminant disposal procedures on their PPE when they come back in. Normal people shed DNA everywhere, all the time, whenever they touch anything or sneeze or cough. 23andMe just facilitated the process of matching DNA data with other identifying info.

Scary press reports never go to the next level of detail, and ask about the actual DNA that customers gave to them, rather than the (partial) sequence data that they extracted from the DNA. Many customers, like me, gave them permission to biobank their samples, so they could do further sequencing later when the technology improved without the hassle of sending more saliva collection kits back and forth. Nobody is asking, or telling, what happened to those archived samples. Are they sitting in a freezer somewhere waiting to be sold without my permission, or did they get destroyed and thrown out with yesterdays trash?

âoeHowever I wonder if the loophole request is actually sneaky. That they are actually asking to permit ICE vehicles that are CAPABLE of running on synthetic fuel. But would actually run on whatever fuel was available. i.e. mostly still fossil fuel.â

Indeed. For this to work, they need to make it difficult to fuel these exempt cars with fossil gasoline. When they removed lead from the fuel ecosystem in the US, they required that the fueling nozzles be changed to a smaller size, so that it was physically impossible to insert the nozzle of a leaded-fuel pump into the filler port of a no-lead car. A synfuel-only car could have a flat side on the filler pipe, or some similar measure.

The U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign had a TRIGA reactor for many years, but itâ(TM)s shut down now. They undoubtedly want a new one to get back into the hands-on training game. Not to worry, though, there are thirty other universities that have reactors to train with if you are committed to becoming a nuke engineer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Itâ(TM)s a shame that the new reactors donâ(TM)t have the swimming pool water moderated design; students will never get to see the beautiful blue glow of Cherenkov radiation that occurs when the reactor is powered up.

Private planes with advanced instrumentation from Garmin have had emergency autoland capability for several years now. (https://www.getinpulse.com/how-garmin-autoland-works)

It can go as far as automatically determining when the pilot is incapacitated, notifying air traffic control of an emergency, figuring out the nearest airport within 200 miles, navigating there, and landing itself. Currently certified on planes from five different manufacturers, in the US and Europe.

Of course, doing the same thing with an airliner with a hundred or so passengers rather than a small plane with a handful of passengers is far more high-stakes, so the quality and reliability requirements are correspondingly stringent.

Hopefully the regular headsets are enough of a cash cow that they can fund the massive software R&D that is still needed to achieve the latent potential of virtual conferencing now that PCs and phones have the vision processing and graphics power and 5G bandwidth to make it real.

So, monopolies are bad. What a surprise!

If you're looking to plan a scenic route, or don't want to be locked into the results of Google's routing algorithm, and you don't have 20/20 vision, they don't care. They're thankful that ADA accessibility requirements don't apply to websites & apps..