"spilling immediates is insane by itself"
Not if the immediate takes more bytes to represent in the instruction stream than the bytes needed to reload it from the stack, and the compiler was told to optimize for (insn) space.
Many other sources suggest otherwise.
"What could possibly be gained from further experimentation at this point?"
A rhetorical assertion of a negative is not very convincing.
"Smallpox isn't a weapon."
We're not talking taxonomy, we're talking possible utility.
"So the only thing destroying live smallpox samples does is reduce the chances of a catastrophic screw-up."
No, it also reduces the ability of labs to experiment on & learn from the thing.
An awesome way to smuggle a wifi sniffer - or something naughtier - into the googleplex!
"If we voluntarily destroy all our samples, and some other nation doesn't, then there will be that much less smallpox. This is a valuable goal in itself,"
Do you support unilateral disarmament too?
"This is give and take, not a debating society."
If all you have available to "give" are poor imitations of intelligent debate, frankly it's not worth "taking" any of it.
Bravo, ad hominem and straw man mixed together in one stinky mess of an argument.
Congratulations (?).
The relevance of flight recorders to a missile attack is
lololololololol, were you expecting anything else?
It's ESA, not NASA, and the focus of the work was apparently the vision-based guidance system, not the quadcopter propulsion (which indeed would be absurd on Mars).
They must be planning ahead for the time when terraforming is complete.
That.
If you squint hard enough, you can turn them into empirically testable predictions.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.