I don't see any way competitors will be able to land people on the moon by 2027. I'm not convinced space x can do it either. But reopening the contract at this late stage is a little strange politically. All it will do is delay it further and ultimately cost more. Which may actually be fine for SpaceX who will certainly keep the contract.

You mean the CCP doesn't encourage or otherwise condone thus sort of crime by criminal gangs? Not quite sure what you're getting at.

When I want to point out to the kind of morons who post on the Internet, I'll tuck this post away.

Nope. Almost certainly it was not.

Wait what? Where did you get that from? The SD card was encrypted with luks and the computer ran Linux.

No that's not correct. The key is generated and burned into the firmware. Scott Manley covered that in depth. They had to recover the flash chip from the wrecked camera as well as the SD card.

They didn't. It was all in the camera firmware. But encrypting it at all is kind of silly.

Actually they didn't have the key. It was in a flash chip on the computer board that had to be removed and placed in a working camera from the manufacturer and then it was able to read the card. It's beyond me why they felt the need to run a fully encrypted file system on an SD card inside of a hermetically sealed camera unit that would normally never be opened by any customer. Companies have strange ideas about preserving their trade secrets I guess. Like instrument makers that require hardware keys for their software. Surely a million dollar instrument is a good enough hardware key!

Near as I could tell the idea that this was something from space originated from a random Twitter post by someone who claimed to know someone who was on the flight (but obviously not in the cockpit). Scott Manley covered this pretty thoroughly on his space oriented YouTube channel. But the plane definitely hit something and if it had been hit in slightly a different spot it might have killed a pilot. So serious stuff.

Yup, the sad truth is that if you really want to save children, you need to ban parents.

Oh, and no, he didn't sleep in a tent. He slept in his truck's bunk. European trucks are very compact and most of them have full sleeping bunks but you'd never realize it if you only knew what American trucks look like.

How many truckers in the UK don't sleep in their own bed at night? Is a "sleeper cab" even a thing in Europe?

Do you know how big Europe really is? Just watched a two-part video of a German long-haul trucker who made a trip from Germany to central Turkey, and back to Portugal. Took him many days (two weeks I think) with an average driving speed of 80 kph for several of those days. Some days were 500 km, some were 800. Took him over 24 hours to cross the border from Turkey into Bulgaria. There were hundreds of trucks lined up there. And every where he goes, there are many, many trucks with drivers who are very far from home. And the open nature of the EU makes it even more likely that a lory you see on the road is from a far country.

Oh and by the way he was driving a new Mercedes Eactros 600 truck, fully electric. Charging coincided with mandatory breaks periods, which worked out great for him. I can't remember the total distance he covered but Germany is roughly 3000 km from Turkey. And Turkey to Portugal is about 5000 km.

Pretty interesting to watch his travels with electric, long-range semi trucks.

Yes my ICE vehicles lose 15% range in winter. Partly from the cold in general, but also because of ethanol in the gasoline.

I'd say real-world EV experience in cold climates seems to show about a 1/3 decrease in range in cold climates, such as you'd find in Alberta, Sask, Manitoba, North Dakota, etc. Up in the northwest territories I have not heard any data but I would not be surprised to see 50% when it's -40 for any length of time.

As for towing, even ICE vehicle can lose significant range, so it's no suprised EVs would too. I have a pickup truck that fuel economy drops in half (or worse) with a large trailer.

What makes you think ssds are more reliable than spinning rust? Especially at data center scale?

Of all the jobs out there, CEO should be the easiest to replace with AI, and the most logical. If AI great, start at the top!