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Comment A single point of failure? (Score 1) 468

There are numerous reasons pilots can't see out real windows. Things like clouds, fog and night. Yet pilots can flight on instruments just fine and it is routine.

If I understand the idea correctly, isn't it true that all the instrumentation on board is to be integrated into this one big window?

Comment Re:Prior art (Score 1) 468

Science Fiction is not prior art.

Prior art implies that almost all of the practical problems that stand in the way of progress have already been solved. That the path ahead lies clear.

The bridge of the Enterprise.

The concept is quite carefully worked out in Heinlein's "Methuselah's Children." 1941, 1958.

The Enterprise bridge is a regression.

The New Frontiers had no mechanical switches or controls of any kind and none that could be triggered accidentally --- which is one-up on the touch screens of ST:TNG. The engineers who designed Heinlein's generation ships understood trigger guards, low voltage wiring, fuses, circuit breakers and so on.

Comment Re:HOSTS files = QUITE relevant (Score 1) 495

What are you sniveling about now? no-ip.com wasn't seized. The authoritive NS records for the domain still point to Vitalwerks' servers. Ditto for the other no-ip ccTLDs - all of which you listed. Face it, your list is wrong, and RANDOMLY capitalising and bolding WORDS doesn't change that fact, or that hosts files are irrelevant to this discussion.

Comment Re:"Wrong"? Prove it... apk (Score 1) 495

Hey fuckwit, I didn't say anything about your fucking hosts files. I said your list was wrong because it included a bunch of domains which aren't seized, which is correct.

There's a reason people resort to profanity when dealing with you: because you're a contemptible trolling cunt who needs to fuck off and stop acting like a 5 year old. If you actually read my comment history, you'd see that on occasion I have even agreed with you, where you say things which make sense.

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