If they have a smoking gun? Sure. And the SEC will want in, too. Otherwise? GLWT

Humans have flaws. Taxi drivers sometimes commit crimes. Nothing I will say here is meant to imply that humans are perfect. But they can at least be trusted to do something predictable most of the time. A computer cannot, so you can't trust it on its OR even as much as a human. But you also can't trust central management. QED, you simply cannot ever trust an autonomous taxi.

Finding ways to replace human work is the backbone of progress, but sometimes replacing a human is not actually a good idea.

Yes, defending victims is a famously arrogant activity.

Still probably true BTW, though ironically my example is the opposite. I bought a pair of issue desert boots and a paid of issue arctic boots at the same time. The arctic boots came with two sets of liners, were flawless, I still have them. The desert boots came apart on like the second wear, which sadly was long after I bought them. They disintegrated at a seam.

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.

Sigh. I meant to write more there that would make that comment make more sense as a reply to your comment.

Anyway... why not just tampered with clones? Fix your defects, with a broad definition of "defect"

You seem to be assuming no accidents.

This story is about clones.

The word "Clones" appears in the headline, summary, and article.

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.

You can't even see that the summary says the so-called age verification is being done with ID verification and you want to tell me I'm missing something? Pure clown shit that EVERYONE BUT YOU figured out.