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Comment Re:Brand necrophilia at its worst (Score 1) 124

I had an LG slide-style phone with a physical keyboard, and if I could get something with that same form factor that would work (and had a decent camera) today, I would happily carry and use it. Sliders were perfect, and I'm still sad there's no current equivalent.

Comment Re:Now, this might strike some regulars as harsh, (Score 1) 175

but I would not mind if everyone involved in this case as litigants and their reps dies an unpleasant death.

Won't solve the basic problem of modern capitalism's complete subversion of democracy, but it might slow it down a bit.

Drone state of the art puts us closer to such a world every day.

Comment Re:Seems pointlessly unsafe (Score 1) 203

A dummy load and some chemistry to use oxygen would do the same job with zero human risk. If they're not putting boots on the Moon, they shouldn't have their asses in the rocket.

The Artemis I unmanned mission flew in 2022. The Apollo Program followed a similar progression to test things in succession.

Which Apollo misson was was "fly the talking meat by the Moon in a can"? Apollo 7 was a flight test in Earth orbit. Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit and returned to Earth. Apollo 9 was a Lunar Module test in Earth orbit. Apollo 10 was a full dress rehearsal for Apollo 11. The only Apollo mission that just sent a crew and their ship around the Moon and back was Apollo 13... and even they had a perform a - heroic under the circumstances - maneuver to put it back on the free return trajectory.

Comment Not even remotely (Score 0) 150

Write code that's very inefficient and readily fails but no one cares because there's money to be made has been the status quo for computer programming for quite a while. And in turn, that is just one facet of the modern world's willful ignorance and wholesale rejection of resilience. That ignorance and chosen brittleness are what's going to crash human civilization. Our modern programming is just one self-destructive tool among many.

Comment The whole Artemis Program seems off (Score 1) 23

It seems largely like an excuse to keep using (and paying for) decades-old shuttle hardware until its gone. Plans for SLS hardware beyond the pre-existing kit seem unlikely to come to pass. And while there's a little science getting done along the way, Artemis II doesn't appear to be anything like the pre-landing Apollo flights, more publicly stunt than dry run for Artemis III.

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