Comment Streamer Recovery (Score 3, Interesting) 26
Way back when I launched Model Rockets, we called this Streamer Recovery.
Anyone can put a battery and a solar panel into the same case and call it 1 device.
But this is a Solar Panel that is the Battery
And they are already 3 times better than human drivers in terms of millions of miles between accidents.
While these driving-assisted accidents don't happen as often as human-assisted accidents, the accidents are all scary head-on collisions.
U.S. was going to return to the Moon in 2028. For what purpose? Supposedly it is to help us get to Mars, although no one has ever been able to provide a coherent explanation of how this actually helps going to Mars (other than - if we do "stuff in space" then it helps). Currently the only purpose of mission that has been described is just to "do it".
Three other countries have announced their intentions to put people on the Moon in the near future. The US will not allow another country to be first on the Moon the second time around too. That is the only reason that this got ramped up all of a sudden.
God I hope not. Every free person has a duty to watch as politicians make power grabs.
First they told you not to go to work
Now they are paying you
How much longer can this go on ?
Let the machine do the dirty work. -- "Elements of Programming Style", Kernighan and Ritchie
