They don’t because increasing the cost of fuel by flying through denser less fuel efficient air increases costs even if the time remains largely unchanged. Arguably this is in the category of being diverted around them by using a more expensive and different flight path. If the costs of radiation exposure were baked in and mandated payouts by law then thr most cost effective route wouldn’t solely revolve around gas mileage.

The highest radiation exposure takes place when the plane flies near magnetic north where there is less protection from the field and where charged particles are funneled, at high altitude where there isn’t atmosphere to act as a shield, and during solar storms where massive amounts of extra charged particles are being hurled at the earth. Planes just fly through the worst case scenarios instead of simply increasing the cost and time by diverting around them which actually would reduce exposure and with no shielding and no equipment needed. Further, actually having at least one dosimeter on board when they are so cheap, light, and compact would go a long way to actually showing what exposures happen, but that would simply create liabilities so it doesn’t happen.

Don’t date robots!

Although the site provides a rather large range of launch inclinations, even down to ~25 degrees if you dogleg around the Florida keys, the real price here is polar launches. You launch South, and the booster comes in over open water for the catch. You wait 12 hours for the Earth to make half a rotation under your ship's orbit, and then you come in for a ship catch from the South, thus alleviating any problematic land overflights.

This is particularly interesting for shipping cargo to a South Polar Basin base on the Moon; a polar orbit on Earth translates beautifully to a polar orbit around the Moon, from where you can land straight in the Aitkin polar basin.

People who adopt those concepts into their worldview are famously blind to parody, they cannot tell it apart from reality. When your worldview is a broken pile of anecdotes that can’t be simultaneously true, reality is a nebulous thing that’s anything you believe it to be instead of a cohesive coherent system with little room for interpretation when it’s fact and science based. It’s a fundamental concept of parody news shows, and why people believed Stephen Colbert was serious and not acting parody on the Colbert Report.

The electric controls instead of a physical mechanical lever for the rear inside door latches should be a criminal matter. The idea that people unfamiliar with the car should just know to pull off a panel, dig inside for a cable, then pull to open the door when its life and death panic in a wreck is truly insane.

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Yea, I’m waiting until the free camera upgrade for the bedroom and bathroom comes with the service.

What’s left off these articles is the scope. The central black hole in these red dots are super massive at approximately 100k the mass of the sun. The most plausible mechanism suggested so far is direct collapse from significant density differences in the early universe where too much stuff wound up being in too small a place and it directly formed a black hole without forming a conventional star.

A solar mass scale black hole would be unable to grow that quickly, even if surrounded by gas. It differs from a quasar, some of the brightest objects in the visible universe created by a feeding black hole and studied for decades, mostly from the surrounding gas being spherical and acting as a radiator of the internal heat as opposed to an accretion disk and relatively open space otherwise.

Robots do need healthcare, and for the foreseeable future it’s going to cost more than humans. At least with humans if they get a virus the entire workforce doesn’t go down at the same time and the plant can still function.

It’s all funny because genetic evidence exists for the breeding population sizes of any animal and humans never got below a few tens of thousands. We have multiple lines of direct proof that the genesis and flood stories are myth, but at the same time thats a relief because the myth is we are all inbreds.

Not to mention he was a stable genius, able to somehow collect and pack two of all the species on earth into a small (by modern standards) ship, then feed and transport them all around the world without mishap.

Are you crazy? The AI will easily pick up on that.

Do we even know that though? Of course there is no lawsuit and will be no lawsuit and without actual discovery and legal proceedings we won’t know for sure. I, for one, don’t believe a word out of any of their mouths because this is all just advertising and not serious security violations and crimes to them.

Back in the teens we found a couple of instances where political actors were encouraging people to install screen savers or cryptocurrency wallets that turned their phones into reverse proxies. This was thought to be specifically for the sake of giving hostile foreign operations (read: Russia) access to U.S. domestic politics.

The fact that smart TVs are facilitating this is just ... we're going to need home networks that treat IoT stuff as different than our actual systems.

Oh, wait, TP-Link had well over half the U.S. router market, but they're getting banned over national security concerns?

Maybe there's a market for a router with traffic accounting as a service so one can see what's happening?

This is why the only device in my house with internet is a Roku. I simply will not tolerate the rest of that invasive junk.