The Hudson Bay Company, founded 353 years ago still exists nowadays although they have stopped trading furs with the natives quite a while ago so yes, a company can recycle itself and change its vocation.

Another one of my favorites is Abercrombie and Fitch used to sell handguns.

And GMAC's Spark Plug Division worked on Apollo's CSM.

Nothing very concrete: https://www.tumblr.com/numbero...

I may also find it less extraordinary than others, having lived it with somebody else. My father ran a company for decades, I worked for him as a teen, and came back in my 30's. As a teen, many of the same people working there still in my 30's, we would do things exactly like that. I thought after a couple decades my father would notice, and when I explained back to him how the company functions around him causing problems he was quite upset. When I wasn't working in that family business I was mostly a consultant in tech and saw it there more than once I'm sure.

You missed the point completely. Musk is a genius *bussinessman* because it recognizes good ideas, and has the drive to make them happen.

SpaceX's first employees were rocket scientists and figured out how to contain Elon. Tesla he purchased, and there's some containment there. He appears to run the show at Twitter though.

Which is going about as well as dusting off the business plan that got you kicked out of PayPal would be expected to.

I'm honestly not sure if I'd know the difference if in the same situation. Not that I'm going to an NFT party, but just UV lights in general.

I do typically wear transition lenses which need UV to dim. They don't get set off by proper black lights but now I'm wondering if UV-C would dim them.

Maybe there'd be some ozone smell? That's usually easy to pick out.

Ebola is quite deadly, but also very complex so it can't just sit around on surfaces for a week like COVID did,

I remember hearing that they found COVID-19 RNA on a cruise ship after that long, but it wasn't a viable virus.

Was there other data on that that I missed?

Even if you assume 1 virus can cause an infection that leads to death if you were originally putting out 1,000 that's enough to infect 1,000 people. Reduce it to 1 and you've got... 1. You can't divide it in half to infect two people.

UPCs are a nightmare there too. Plenty of vendors don't know how to put a 12 digit number into a cell w/out it being formatted like a number, so they put dashes or other punctuation in them to prevent the formatting from happening.

Real nice when you're importing data from them.

The signal is too dirty. Clocks that sync to the 60Hz signal drift off after time.

I've been in Java since 1997 and .NET since 2002.

I'm quite OK with Java being a thing of the past. Once Oracle got a hole of it the writing was on the wall to walk away.

C# just seemed to evolve better. Java promised write once, run everywhere, but always fell short. Now with C# I'm quite happy to develop on Linux. MS has got Debian repos for me all ready to go, easy updates, everything stays where it should.

I do appreciate the cancer warnings I get on exotic stuff like... wood. Or a bag or rocks. Thanks, CA! Keeping me safe!

I'm given to understand previous probes used a radiation based heat source, most likely a small piece of plutonium just to keep things warm rather than generate power.

Most probes to the Moon haven't used a radiation source. I can't find any in the US Surveyor, Ranger, or Explorer programs nor the USSR Luna probes. China's recent Chang'e 4 lander/rover is the only one I can find.

They're probably wondering how the Earth-based testing came up short. It's a shame this didn't work.

They didn't design it to last through the lunar night so I don't see why they would have tried testing for it.

1800W is what you can get out of a standard US 120V outlet. Odd that your garage doesn't have any electrical outlets. You can run that load over a 12 gauge extension cord though.

There's plenty of research that can be done in sub orbital hops. NASA still uses sounding rockets for some of them. New Shepherd gets you the same thing, with a human there to attend to the experiment, and costs less.

And the BE-3 gets Blue Origin experience with liquid hydrogen systems which will be handy in the lunar environment.

ESA and JAXA are working on one. Approved in 2019 and set to fly in 2029. https://www.esa.int/Science_Ex...

But, instead of launching the rocket when we know a comet is coming this will wait at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2. Where JWST is at if that helps place it. In that little saddle of gravity it's easy to slip off into any other direction for an intercept.

NASA did something similar in the 80's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There was a crowd funded effort in 2014 to eek out another mission for it. Great little read.

They're putting live captions, an accessibility aid for those with hearing issues, as a premium feature?!

Argh. They better not!