Respectfully, you’re mistaken. Radiation-hardened chips use a SOS process which involves replacing silicon substrate with sapphire substrate. The sapphire crystals have to be artificially grown to a high purity level (a considerably more expensive process than for prefab sapphire substrate) and a second crystal…

Don’t think Prime Directive said that..... but you did say this (which you’ve neatly contradicted a few replies later):

Except they do not have a captive market. Neither the buyers nor the sellers are the only players in this game. Any company or country that wants to put any sort of electronics in space is in the market for radiation hardened parts.

I think the wooshing sound might have been you missing what I said: Radiation hardening has a cost price in the tens of thousands alone. This hardware costs the manufacturer more than a standard retail CPU, not even factoring profit from what you believe to be a monopoly price.

Radiation hardening has a cost price in the tens of thousands alone. Where are you going to get a rad-hardened, wide thermal range, high durability chip for less than a modern desktop processor?

“Compared to the [Intel] Core i5 in your laptop, it’s much slower…it’s probably not any faster than your smartphone,” Matt Lemke, NASA’s deputy manager for Orion’s avionics, told The Space Review back in 2014.

As the father of a two-year old, I can’t imagine that level of grief. My sincerest condolences.

Would you two mind not cutting onions in here?

You. You are a wonderful person and parent.  Big hugs, and I just know your boy will have an incredible life because of you.

This hit me hard... My son just turned one. Obviously we don’t know each other, but my heart aches for you. I simply can’t even imagine. I’m so, so sorry. 

I’ve used this on a few pictures of my baby boy, who died when he was six months old.  I don’t care if I’m selling my soul - getting animated pictures of him is a fucking gift.

Exactly how I remember them!

Spike Lee isn’t everyone’s taste, but I love your description of Malcolm X and think I want to watch it. My first introduction to Spike Lee was “Do the Right Thing,” and as someone who had never been in a large city, that was quite the rude introduction to life in such a place.

I suppose it depends on the car, location, and time. An early 80s car set in the upper midwest in 1989...yeah, that could be a rusted out crap can.

One of the things I like about the Narcos series are the cars. I have no idea where they found mint versions of an early Dodge K-car or other early 80s econoboxes. Not to…

one thing that always gets me when i see movies where the stories take place a long time ago is how all the vehicles or buildings are completely run down... like a completely rusted out 80s car in an 80's setting movie. 

When Malcolm finally arrives to the ballroom and pulls into the parking space there is this poignant image that is so relevant today I think it must boggle Spike Lee’s mind. Then again, maybe not. It could have been exactly what Lee intended.

Was the giant completely upright windshield somehow a requirement?

The increase in door to door deliveries and a growth of 20-25% expected in the next decade will fulfill Last Mile logistical needs.

I’m sure they are switching to LED anyway, so might as well make it as small as possible. A single modern high-brightness LED (even a single 10 year old HB LED for that matter) can generate more than enough lumens to signal the driver’s intent to others around them. After being stuck behind a new Escalade a while back…

Comment prior to reading — I assume all the arrows in the diagrams are where it was beaten with an ugly stick.