In the hours before it comes in, the uncertainty will still be a line thousands of miles long. Another variable is how long since it passed over a tracking station to update the data. It might do so only a few times per day, so there may be several hours with no update, and then it’s just not there anymore.

I think the Loki version of Kang was one that had lived too long, with nobody, (as a peer) to talk with, so he was a bit quirky by that time. He was at the point that he could not care less if Sylvie was going to kill him or not.

He even mentions that. But hard drives can often be recovered in some cases by replacing the electronics and/or motors. There are even professional services which will do so, for a fee. As long as the disk inside is still intact, there’s a chance. (The outside case is tough, but if the compactor managed to bend it in…

Especially other people’s money. Notice how he has investors to this attempt to recover his lost money. Who pays them when they come up empty?

Maybe because a good number of people actually make that drive, and not just fly over it while sleeping half the time.

I really enjoyed “Webbed” which puts you as a spider in a forest rendered as a 2D platform puzzle game.

Many of the people with a device like this in their car might not even know it’s there, or at best, might only know that the dealer said they could shut down and repo the car. It’s something a dealer would install on a leased car or for “no credit check” loans.

Depends if the Senate Launch System keeps getting more money to burn. It’s not a decision the smart people have much of a say in, just the politicians.

Liability is different than wrongdoing. If they admit doing something wrong, that could open them to other lawsuits in other districts, perhaps including punitive awards.

This particular first is “first non-government landing”. It might be a minor thing, but it’s a small step.

But the same can be said about chip cards and Android Pay, neither of which require an extra fee from the bank.

If you’re using Apple Card, then you’re not using one of the banks that’s complaining here.

I looked it up, and it’s a Michigan State Police thing that dates back to the 40's. It’s basically just a stop sign they can light up when the situation doesn’t call for the full flashy light thing. It’s apparently not used much now, but kept for tradition.

True, but the chance of bumping into them would be rather high if they started a million years ago, which isn’t much time compared to the age of the universe.

It’s worth noting that the app will still need to ask for each permission before it can use it, and this is enforced by the device. So what permissions are listed on the store are less relevant than what it actually uses at runtime. (i.e. even if they update the app later to use a new permission, it will ask you…

I think that’s why doing it when energy is cheaper is important. It will use more total energy, but at a time when it doesn’t cost as much. It also assumes your house has enough thermal mass to retain the coolness for a while. Many houses do not.

The Starship Booster will be following a flight profile that is MUCH closer to the Falcon 9 RTLS landing than a Starship flip and burn. The Raptors have been tested in flight, (though this will be the first flight of version 2.0 Raptors.) and they will have a pretty good idea of how well things are performing before…

Somebody calculated that if you make rather conservative assumptions of no FTL, only colonizing very nearby stars, and only sending a colony once every few thousand years, (things even we should be able to accomplish in that time frame,) a civilization should be able to completely colonize an entire galaxy in a few…

The trigger of the article was a lawsuit by “Pharma” saying that US Customs is changing the rules which previously allowed the Mexicans to come in for this purpose. The lawsuit contained previously unreleased data about how much of Pharma’s supply was coming from this group, and now will not be.

Maybe JWST would see something, but FRBs are usually not visible in optical or infrared light. They are also very fast, disappearing from view in seconds, so getting a different telescope pointed that direction in time has not happened yet.