The motors are much less expansive than the battery, so using oversized motors is a cheap way to jazz up the sales pitch. Being oversized, the motors can also regen at a higher deceleration/braking rate, which increases range.

The video shows them testing it with a seated person. A disabled person would need to transfer out of their wheelchair, but that’s true for many of Disney’s rides, some of which do have special ways to allow access. They wouldn’t be able to move around by walking, of course, but they could still enjoy the video…

I’m surprised at how many different implementations are covered in this one patent. Some of them have hundreds of individual motors, others have just two or three.

It’s a reference to the Apollo 12 mission, which landed within walking distance to Surveyor 3. They collected parts of Surveyor for detailed study of the long term effects of the space environment on the materials.

It’s about the same, but they are more specific about what it does or doesn’t do:

There is an extra mechanical door release, but the primary release does require power.

The challenging part is making a screwdriver that will not scrape off tiny fragments of metal which would contaminate the sample.

That’s apparently part of one of the time capsules.

(seriously—why is always the valve??)

It’s not the fall that kills you(r phone) it’s the hard stop at the bottom. Don’t drop phones on a tile floor.

It was not an emergency row, because the plug was not configured as an exit door. (The plane has 10 door holes, and not all are required to be an exit when the seat count is below some number.) The inside of this door plug was just regular paneling, with no door handles or other indication of an exit.

If you take my car, it doesn’t matter what you plan to do with it, it’s still stolen. Resale is not a requirement. The driveway was removed without any type of compensation to the lady.

The next sentence still has the error. India’s Vikram lander crashed in 2019. The successful 2023 mission is named Chandrayaan-3, and had a lander with the Vikram name. (Same module name as the failed Chandrayaan-2 mission.)

I think “near miss” in general usage is used to differentiate from a “far miss” rather than a hit. In other words, almost a hit, instead of missed by a mile.

They do switch off PIC duty, but they would both have heard the ATC and the read-back, and either could have objected if the other started going beyond what they were cleared for.

It is their fault that 14,000 bad passwords could leak the info of 6,900,000 people. Why did each of those compromised accounts have any access to an average of 500 other people.

17 was the number of injuries on the JAL plane, where no one died. There were 5 deaths and one survivor (the captain) in the Dash-8 Coast Guard plane.

The good news is the main fuselage stayed intact long enough for a full evacuation. But I’d guess the Dash-8 is even worse off.

These are great images considering that the camera was expected to fail due to radiation years ago. JunoCam was originally almost an afterthought when they added it to the mission, since Juno’s primary science tools study the magnetic field.

But for that maneuvering sat to work, it has to dock or connect to the other satellite, which would be much harder if it’s tumbling. Which is why this detumble device is useful, if it’s already on the sat. (It can’t be added later when the sat is already tumbling.)