... but then everything is relative and our solar system is moving at quite a lick. Could it be that we're the ones moving fast past it and this asteroid is more or less just hanging around minding its own business (so to speak)?

"Have you ever worked with engineers and programmers?"

Just give it up mate, you've clearly never worked in safety critical arenas.

"They are the people that despise in-person meetings"

No, not all of them, just the ones you've worked with. We don't hire those sorts of people. But hey, if the stereotypical antisocial aspie type fits your company then go for it, but they're a very poor fit when proper face to face collaberation is required and not only that - quite often one of them will be selected to attend final testing IN PERSON WITH THE CLIENT.

You have no clue, but feel free to have the last word, I'm done here.

Error correction isn't magic , it has its limits. If all you're getting is intermittent garbage then you're out of luck. Eg Digital TV in marginal reception areas.

A system that requires the laser beam to be reflected off the disk back into the detector is hardly going to work well if the disc doesnt reflect. Really sensitive new drives may pick up enough scatter to partly work but the data will be horribly corrupted.

"That is not true FOR EVERYONE. Not everyone works the same. You are not everyone."

Loner aspies happy sitting in a basement doing their own thing and chucking some code over the fence ever week or 2 are not the sort of people I'd hire in the kind of work I'm involved in. Teamwork matters whether you want to believe it or not.

I never said they'd be a replacement for missle defense, but they could be an addition to it. As for the enemy sending loads of the things - sure, thats exactly what russia is doing right now with drones in ukraine but you don't see the ukrainians sitting around saying "Meh, why bother". They shoot down as many as possible even though some get through because lives matter.

"they are insanely large and impractical,"

You ever seen the size of an aircraft carrier?

"they cost orders of magnitude more than simply rebuilding what that missile hit"

Good luck rebuilding the people killed in it. Idiot.

Normal people say "lessons" but I guess using that word doesn't differentiate the pointy hairs enough from the plebs.

"Hypersonic weapons can also maneuver unpredictably at high speeds to counter short-range defenses near a target"

They can't beat the speed of light so perhaps its time to invest more into laser and microwave weapons rather than the half hearted attempts so far.

No, you just phone up the person themself and get them to do it. How do you think most social engineering works? And please do tell me even if you have cloned their SIM so the SMSs get redirected , how do you get their login and passwords? Banks in the UK use 3 levels of security with SMS being the final one so tell me how you'd crack the first 2 Mr Security Expert.

"we wouldn't have any of these learnings."

If their engineering is as bad is this woman's grammar then no surprise the craft crashed.

"unless you write down what happened "

So you didn't read what I wrote, got it.

"Have you actually worked for a serious company? "

More than you I can guarantee it.

"You seem to still insist that work can ONLY be done in meetings."

No, thats not what I'm saying but since you're clearly too stupid to understand my point we'll just call it a day and you can continue to wallow in your ignorance.

.. this true benefit to britain probably be able to spend his time driving his 3rd hand bottom of the range tricked up beemer at double the speed limit around town like many of his community compatriots. Until it gets repossessed.

"Things can be discussed over email, zooms, phone calls, messages"

Unless you work for some mickey mouse web company or similar doing unimportant BS, then problems are best solved and designs generated when everyone is together in a room with a white board.

"the requirements were specified verbally and no one wrote them down. "

Then you don't work in a serious company if they don't minute important meetings.

Cart before horse - something has to be discussed before its put in a document. You don't just get some random engineer to put in whatever he thinks is suitable.