This, however, is far from that point. ... But I *do* prefer LibreOffice. However my use case is different.

Not necessarily impossible...but almost always inadvisable. They can be sure that all their actual competitors already have copies before they get the takedown issued.

In this case I don't think a takedown will even limit the damage...it might well exacerbate it.

Well, he did say "for some imaging tasks". That's probably a reasonable goal...but you've got to be *very* selective.

Muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments...
The all need exercise to develop properly.

It won't be that way, at least for the first several decades. Bodies need to be exercised to grow properly. After that, I suppose we might be able to slip an AI operated control inside the brain cavity, and have it exercise the body properly...but this opens the door to other problems.

You seem to be assuming no accidents.

Would that be an explosion powerful enough to disassemble a satellite? I think it's more likely that a battery blew up. Those can be powerful.

If it's pushed higher (or lower) in the orbit, that makes the orbit more eccentric, and at the other end of the orbit it will be lower (or higher). It's the ones pushed ahead that will end up in a slightly higher orbit, but I thing still more eccentric. Every piece will have an orbit that passes through the "point of disassembly" once or twice per orbit. (Usually twice.)

That requires that you be able to measure the momentum of the individual pieces. Velocity is a lot easier to measure. "Indicated" is probably the correct term. It's a reasonable guess that most of the pieces are pieces of metal...but metallized plastic would probably reflect radar the same way.

Fiction is a poor guide to reality, and the Andromeda Strain is worse than many. (Because it hides fallacies in techno-babble that looks vaguely reasonable.) Even Jurassic Park was better.

This is NOT a criticism of fiction. But the purpose of fiction is to consider plausible human reactions in simulated environments. There's no requirement, and frequently no desire, that the simulated environments be realizable. (I like many stories that invoke magic...but the magic better not be the point.)

I don't think low earth orbits can generate an actual Kessler syndrome, because thing in low earth orbit tend to fall out of orbit in a few years. The real problem happens higher up where there's essentially no friction.

Isn't this specifically supposed to allow groups to coordinate on documents over the internet? That would seem to require opening sockets.

It's a bad idea because it hinders trade. However, if only one side is profiting from the trade, the other side doesn't have much reason to support the deal.

This is probably fallout from Trump's "pleasant comments" about our allies.

I think you've never tried to understand the code of a large project written by a different group of people.

I believe there was a period right after the civil war that was as bad.