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The suit is kept in a climate controlled environment to slow degradation of the suit material, particularly parts of it made from rubber. A lot of this money is being used to make a 3d digital model that includes scanning the individual layers of the suit using CT scans. The suit will then be displayed online for people to see.

I may be wrong about the technology being used in the digitization process, but in principle the aim is for people to be able to see the suit without causing further damage to it by exposing the physical suit to further environmental damage. I heard this on UK radio by spokesperson for the Smithsonian

If you only want to make one car, have it consume only 500Watts, generated from a plutonium RTG, work for 40 years and travel 20 billion kilometers then NASA is a great place to get your engineers.

There are always early adopters willing to pay a premium for the latest and greatest toys/gadgets. Rarely is cost or return on investment an issues with these purchasers.

There are some quality/safety standards for UK automotive software

I am not sure how many software engineers are employed by Range Rover, but I expect that the subsystem providing the central locking features will have been outsourced just like all the major components to companies like Bosch, Visteon, Wipro, Yazaki etc.

In order to reduce costs the software engineers will have been outsourced to Eastern Europe and India, and although just like everywhere else the software teams will be a mixture of the competent/incompetent, it will likely be the management who will have screwed up trying to do things cheaply and quickly*

* Jaguar/Land Rover, made in Britain owned by Tata (Indian company)

Yes, and because the donors have the threat of offering the money to another candidate.

Now the politician has the choice of refusing the donation thus allowing a rival candidate candidate to benefit, or accepting the donation and denying a rival candidate much needed campaign funds knowing there is some obligation to the donor for accepting the donation.

USB is pronounced Ooosb! An Ooosb!

"Hot stuff coming through!"

Here is what happens when you get carried away with printing money Zimbabwe dollars

I miss the subtle movie references and social/political satire the writers imbued in the programs, as well as the classic lines as in the snake killing episode, "Gentlemen, start your whacking!" Both me and my kids laughed, although for entirely different reasons.

There might be some benefits if companies could not offshore their profits to tax havens. Even China is losing jobs now to the Philippines and Malaysia because they are lower wage economies.

And that means all the high value products shipped to China will suddenly be looking a lot more expensive. No more foreign holidays and shopping trips, cost of energy and raw materials will rise pushing up factory output prices. Labor intensive industries will benefit though.

We only have to look at Russia with the collapse of the ruble to see the effect of a devalued currency. Russia has the advantage of being energy self-sufficient but is struggling to buy replacement parts for those industries because of sanctions

Yes, no one is irreplaceable, but I would like to think that Harry Shearer contributes to the personality of these characters even if the quality of the scripts are not as good as they used to be.

This is a perfect example of moral hazard, and the bank executives should either be in jail, have their fortunes confiscated or both