My first thought was the “native land” activists in Hawaii, but that doesn’t explain the Chile telescope.

Minecraft doesn’t deal with spherical geometry of a planet. But other games do, such as NMS and Star Citizen.

But how many students are going to be searching for a college that would not accept their actual score?

The question is not if they spent more money, but how much of it was expenses for daily operations, compared to capital investment for future profits. (And how much of that was actually wise investment.)

It’s in vacuum, so there’s no reason to streamline. I’m not even sure what “today’s design concepts for modern technology” is for moon landers. And it does include a small 6-wheel rover similar to the Sojourner rover the US sent to Mars.

they’re forever tainted now, again.

The new tech doesn’t change the shape of the lander. It still needs solar panels, rockets, tanks, and insulation. It probably has the latest sensors and computers, but that wouldn’t change the basic design.

It reached a high enough temperature during impact to melt or vaporize things, even if there was no combustion. (It was moving fast.) But there would also be a bit of fuel and oxidizer remaining in the tank which could combust. It was probably hypergolic, so it would burn just by mixing the two tanks on impact, even…

This is probably related to the number of states which ban manufacturer direct sales. Of course it’s the dealerships which support such laws, and Tesla doesn’t do dealerships.

Jet engines actually have a “containment ring” designed to prevent shrapnel of a failed engine from hitting the plane and causing further damage.

They seem to have at least three officers, so a bit more than 10k.

Or leave it exclusively to those with big pockets. Yeah, that always worked out well.

Agreed, but I’m saying it’s not a place where you would normally expect any extra barrier to be needed in the first place. But something weird is happening there to bring so many cars his way. And that ADA-compliant pedestrian ramp doesn’t help slow them down.

No. There might be something better by then, but there will still be plenty of batteries of the right kind to handle repairs. Or maybe even a way to take advantage of new battery tech during the repair. Because batteries are a lot more general-purpose and interchangeable than a fuel cell.

I switched to a color laser 9 years ago, and it’s still going strong. It happens to be HP, but thankfully before they started some of their worst greediness. I use 3rd party toner and will never update the firmware. I will never buy a new inkjet, of any brand.

Worse, it’s just a standard T intersection. Either people are trying to make the right turn with too much speed, or people can’t drive straight on a straight road. Maybe the sign for the cross street needs to be much further back so people know when to slow down.

Also, in more southern areas, there’s less need to protect the car from the environment. It’s not going to melt in the rain, and neither are you. It spends all day in a parking lot at work, a bit of overnight outside air is nothing.

The number of claimants shouldn’t change much: they are not accepting new claims, and have only a small percent of the claims which are still being reviewed.

The hardware is built in, but autonomous driving is a lot more than just hardware. They will need to continuously update the software to keep autonomous driving safe, plus there needs to be an active data connection, presumably bought from a cellular provider, and servers must be maintained to provide updated map data…

Or the Northwest Passage.