I admit no such thing. But I also know that 90% of people consider themselves to be superb drivers, and 50% of them are wrong. Perhaps more.

Maybe this would help?

But using Bluetooth compounds the problem. If you have a wired headset, it does still compress it for the conference software. But if you have bluetooth, then it gets compressed by Bluetooth, then expanded and re-compressed by a different algorithm for the conference. (And possibly recompressed a third time if the…

Who would want to be a pedestrian, stuck outside of the metal shell that at least provides some protection when the other idiots make mistakes?

They probably started stopping quite some time ago, when they saw the truck on the track.

If it’s rolling towards you, I’m pretty sure the only thought is, “better get out of the way.”

Surprisingly, yes.

Surprisingly, yes.

But a board game would have much lower startup costs, (printing, etc) than an electronic device with a custom plastic molding and circuit boards.

But a board game would have much lower startup costs, (printing, etc) than an electronic device with a custom…

The SpaceX proposal has two independent airlocks, and associated elevators, on opposite sides.

They’re bigger than I am, so it would not end well for me in any case. There’s been a few times they pop up right in front when I didn’t even know they were close.

But even with a full flight director autopilot, (I can do routes with my boat autopilot, too.) the pilot is still responsible to avoid other aircraft and follow any requests from ATC.

People are going to assume it does that no matter what name you put on it. I have an autopilot on my boat, but that just means it can sail in a straight line. I still have to keep watch and adjust course to avoid other boats, whales, or islands that might get in the way. Airplane autopilots are the same - it flies a…

They do have funding, just not as much as Blue Origin asked for.

Right, but it will be the same as if you fell at that final velocity (25mph based on sakim’s calculations above) with another person on your back. Even though you could do a static lift of the suit using a few fingers, it will still hit like a sack of bricks when you fall.

The problem with jumping in a suit like that on the moon: It might “weigh” only 30 lbs when you are carrying it while walking, but it still has all of that 180 lbs mass when it comes to inertia. So when you land after that jump, you still have to stop the full mass.

I’m not sure you want to. Too little tongue weight, or even negative tongue weight, can be a major contributor to fishtailing and spin-outs.

If that winch jams, you are stuck far from being able to fix it. An elevator could be designed in a way so the mechanism is accessible to the astronauts riding it. Or a device that clamps onto and climbs a static cable or track would be a useful backup. It might even use the same track as the elevator, so they…

Probably worse injuries, though. They will be in a spacesuit with a large backpack of life support gear. The weight of carrying the backpack might be low, (the Apollo backpack weighed 13 lbs on the moon) but it still has all of its inertia (84 lbs for the Apollo backpack) that your body will have to stop when you…

But all of that risk happens before the crew is even launched. By the time the crew board the lander, it’s fully fueled and tested.

The same tanker may be used to deliver multiple loads of fuel. Maybe they have two tankers and alternate them. There’s also a lot of [deleted] in this document, which might indicate some kind of fuel depot.