This kind of software makes very sparing use of the heap, or only does one allocation at program launch, meaning memory leaks are very rare.

Is there something they’re demoing with a subset of users, or maybe on certain platforms? I don’t see anything different.

They have blown up a giant COPV out on the ocean. What happens in September?

GTO is not geostationary orbit. If you use the DCSS for direct insertion to GEO, you lose half your payload.

Also keep in mind that that the Delta IV Heavy rocket NASA has can carry over 28 tons of payload into Geostationary orbit.

To put it bluntly: automatics belong in commuter appliances, manuals in fun cars. Note that ‘fun’ and ‘fast’ do not have an identical meaning.

Manual transmissions are like vinyl records. The only reason to have one these days is because you enjoy going through all those extra motions.

Once licensed, they will be attending the Skip Barber school for a more serious training.

The idea is that it removes direct control from a government that may change on a whim every couple years, and allows the agency to take unilateral action. For a prime example, look how congress jerks NASA around with launch vehicles.

You can always go to court and try to get payment, but the kind of person that doesn’t have insurance generally doesn’t have much to take either. The innocent person gets shafted. Don’t get “liability only” insurance.

Somebody light a match

There’s a suspicious lack of things taped to that van.

That depends on how invasive your troubleshooting becomes.

And I also maintain that BMW either includes mechanics in the design phase or has engineers that know how to work on cars.

If I had actually tried fixing something or installing a part I designed, union members could have filed a grievance and I’d have gotten in trouble

“I hit 40 in a genesis 5.0 for a min”

I still have no idea what happened two years ago that changed the face of aviation. You’re not talking about that EDF demonstrator they did a three years back, are you? The one that’s going to require an order of magnitude higher specific energy batteries before it has a chance of being relevant to commercial flight?

What changed two years ago? As far as I can tell, commercial aviation still follows the same basic design that started with the 707, 60 years ago.

In every previous case, when hijackers asked for access to the flight deck, they got it...because no one ever conceived they’d then proceed to kill the crew, take the plane, and play kamikaze with it.

The TSA’s job is not to prevent terrorism. That happens kind of upstream. Rather, the TSA’s job is prevent people from bringing things on aircraft that could yield injuries, kill people, or destroy a plane.