So... a bit like a tendon?

Does it actually have a mechnical advantage?

Again, does it? Have you tried to break someone's leg, versus breaking their blade? Of course, one definite advantage is that if it does break, you just put on a new one, rather than spending months in rehabilitation.

But it's not like running with a blade doesn't have any disadvantages. Not having any ankle muscles is presumably one such.

I think they mean it's longer because it's got the usual curving blade shape. He still stands the same height on it.

I'd think that the main thing that keeps runners from "opting into" prosthetics is that most people don't want their fucking legs cut off.

That won't be enough. You need to drop a heavy door on it's neck.

Uh, actually it kinda does.

It's why we now call that tasty fruit an orange, and not a norange, for example.

I don't suppose it occurred to you that, perhaps, not all OLED displays are created equally?

Try engaging your brain before spouting invective next time.

And how much of an impact do you think that would actually have on the military's ability to do any of this stuff? Hint: it's about the same as the amount of damage a bulldozzer would suffer if it rolled right over you.

Trying to define an objective standard of something as subjective as "evil" is bad enough, but asking a committee to do it?!

Correction: they'd be able to flush once. Make it count!

I have a similar issue with my contacts, and was told it was for the same reason. The corrected area in both laser surgery and when wearing contacts doesn't cover the entire pupil when it's fully dilated, as it is in the dark. So I reach for the ever reliable specs when I want to go stargazing.

Perhaps if you'd read more than the headline you'd see that this is not what IR remotes and lasers have been doing for ages, at all.

It's actually a pretty good summation of a very clever bit of engineering. What's your beef?

I agree. And yet, I recognise that this is just my opinion, and I don't expect everyone else to confirm to my sense of humour.

Right. Because posts like yours in response to what is actually quite an interesting and newsworthy event in the commercial space sector - and not just another crazy pipe dream from old man Musk - aren't masturbatory at all.

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You clearly know nothing about extrapolation. The more legs you break, the faster it goes!

Obviously the solution is to break one of your own legs to level the playing field.

*twitch*