Comment Re:The most plausible theory (Score 5, Funny) 61
its not politically correct. They prefer to be called undocumented martians
So their abort system isn't a total waste.
That's an understatement. If everything goes according to Elon's plan, we might have weekly or even daily Dragon launches in the future. Calling the US Navy and having them send out aircraft carriers every day to retrieve capsules from the Pacific would get pretty expensive!
Having the capsule return to the launch site and land with precision is gonna be a big money-saver.
In almost 300 manned space launches a Launch Escape system has only been of verifiable use in a single incident(Soyuz T-10-1).
If Shuttle had a launch escape system, it would've been used at least once (Challenger) with 7 lives being saved.
Oh FFS its mind blowing how you can be on slashdot and still be too stupid to figure out that you can just switch to manual updates. This is seriously a problem for you?
...would dictate we look to other methods of input rather than re-engineering the wheel to fit inside a thimble.
I agree completely. And why does it even need to be QWERTY??
Graffiti, which was suggested by the submitter, doesn't satisfy the QWERTY condition. And for good reasons, all the design constraints that were there when the QWERTY keyboard was created, are no longer there when changing to that much smaller form factor.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
