I’m more disappointed that they didn’t mention what ISP was produced in the test, as that will ultimately be why such an engine gets selected for future missions. The thrust level can be scaled up later, but ISP is why they are pursuing this new design.

They could have had a relative come pick them up when they arrived.

Commission is nearly always a percentage. And sometimes it’s a percentage of the margin instead of the net. (Which would make it negative in this case.)

Yeah, but a salesperson is not going to give away a car for $1. (At least not without it coming out of their paycheck.)

In a way, that is what they did on the Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. It was originally to only study the magnetic fields, and the camera was almost an afterthought. But what amazing images it has sent back. But Psyche would not be a great subject for a budget camera, which does already have a camera better suited to the…

That is part of what they are trying to test. But it also requires the right equipment on both ends, so no, it won’t work with Voyager 1/2. We would need to send a new spacecraft to that distance to test it.

They are talking bandwidth, not ping time.

If I apply my numbers to your example, there is little risk of death in driving 20,000 cars to their recall appointment at the dealer. The 1 potential death of not fixing is greater than the 0.005 potential death from normal accidents, so they should fix it. But in the article, it says 55 million cars are involved,…

There’s a big gap between 1 in the next 33 years, and 1000 per year. Do you think the reasonable number might be somewhere in the middle? Nothing made by man is ever perfect, and spending billions to stop one death might be a bit much.

Exactly. It’s not Tesla’s place to change the car title or remove ownership. Until the court says otherwise, it’s still partly his car. We don’t want companies just changing the terms of ownership just because someone says so.

That’s actually not bad compared to what I imagined a tomato lost for a year would look like.

had. They did fix it.

I thought we were talking about the Banks upgrade, not the original stock HMMWV.

Probably more like if the car bricked because you changed a tire.

The hackers didn’t do the repair work. That was done by a company that specializes in repairing trains. The hackers just removed the code that was artificially blocking the train from working after the actual physical repair.

They were hired by the owner of the train. This is the same invalid argument as a car manufacturer saying the car can only be fixed by their dealer, and not a corner mechanic. (Which in the US is protected by the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.)

I thought a turbo would improve altitude performance?

Someone even trained crows to exchange litter for food in a vending machine:

Also, the Apple trial was only the judge. Epic vs Google was a full jury.

Sideloading can work, but it still throws a lot of scary warnings to the user. That would greatly reduce the audience they can reach that way.