Can't the cut the fiber optic spool with a laser? Or F it, can't they take down the drones with laser turrets? A kilowatt laser ought to be enough.

Just fucking use lasers.

We need some idealism back. The world got pretty uninspiring.

Do it on flat terrain.

How often do the switches fail by switching to CUTOFF? And what's the probability of two switches mechanically failing simultaneously? It seems like an astronomically low probability event. Even one switch turning to cutoff by itself would be a big fucking deal .. and the premise here is that two switches failed within one second of each other?

Before any pilot gets on a plane they have to sit in a room by themselves for 5 minutes with a loaded gun on the table.

The issues they are facing are with the structure. The Raptor engine hasn't had any issues. The problem they are facingnis that they need the vehicle to survive re-entry unscathed yet deliver a large payload to orbit. They need the solution that can be robust using up the least possible weight.

Dude goes from being CEO of a $3 billion company to an individual contributor writing code in a subdivision of a subdivision within Google? That is bad ass, if true.

I'd like to see the statistics on vacationing in the 1950s instead of how people claim to remember it. You bring up a good point mentioning the Flintstones, a lot of people think highly of the 1950s era when they're just basing it on nostalgia, cherry-picked coverage, and what they saw on Leave it to Beaver or Happy Days, which are scripted TV shows. Look at actual statistics to see what the real story was. People may have, for example, felt safer .. but that's because they didn't know better.

Conditions today are better than in the 1950s by almost every metric.
Home ownership rate in 1950s was below 60%, today it's 65%.
Unemployment rate was around 4.5% .. which is around what it is today.
Murder rate was about 4 per 100k, which was a historical low (it was well over 10 in the 1930s). Today's is about 5 per 100k and reducing.

I agree. I meant to say that the robot is not going to go nuts and cut people up like crazy like what the people I was replying to were asserting.

This is not gonna happen. It may make mistake and cut the wrong place but as it goes off track too many things will be unmatched and it will revet.Yit's not gonna go crazy off track. And btw human surgeons have done or been caught doing some nasty and crazy shit .. deliberately or by pure negligence.

They had some gall.

It's like a no-brainer to double down on solar. The government should just offer all unemployed people a job making solar (panels, batteries, installation etc). Then there's no excuse for being able-bodied and unemployed. You know how the United States built tens of thousands of airplanes, tanks, big ass submarines and entire fucking ships during WW2. Why the F can't we do that for solar? The USA .. your grandpa .. built 2700 Liberty ships .. within 3 years. 100,000 military aircraft anually.

We could easily do this solar shit if we tried.

They are cutting NIH (National Institute of Health) funding from 47 billion to $20 billion even though thanks to NIH research death rates from diseases like cancer have reduced by 30% of the last couple of decades. Reference: https://www.ctpost.com/lifesty...

And yes included in the cutbacks is $2.7 billion from the National Cancer Institute: https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Why is it even called "Reachy" when it can't reach for anything, or even move. Make an actual walking, or somehow mobile robot that can fetch useful things.