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...and for this reason, I would say there **IS** a race, like it or not, between the U.S. and China. Sending humans to orbit, to the Moon, and beyond is a major way of basically showing whose the boss nation, so-to-speak. It's why we poured so much money into the Apollo Program to beat the Soviets.

So the Starliner's astronauts are currently stranded aboard the ISS as the Starliner is having issues. It had a small helium leak before launch, but Boeing and NASA determined this would not affect anything. However, turns out it had four additional helium leaks that were discovered after launch...

Why is this? Cost issues?

Also it is important to remember that Apple has been wrong multiple times in gauging whether there would be consumer demand for its products, with some products failing to catch on. Others have been great successes. Apple's main product is the iPhone, which accounts for over 50% of its sales.

There was a fun prank call I saw of one of those AI call things. It (well really a radio station) calls the guy up asking if he wants to renew the warranty on his 2012 Toyota pickup truck. This isn't the EXACT conversation, but very similar: Fake AI: "Do you wish to renew the warranty on your...

😖😖Your post came across (to me) as you thinking I was surprised about touchscreens being cheaper.

On the privacy front, another one that gets me is the "God's eye" they'll get from these new swarm type satellite constellations that SpaceX is pioneering. Another technology that will allow for massive good in terms of Internet and communications access from anywhere in the world, yet which...

Well yes, I wasn't disputing that. Another reason is because from a (car) manufacturing standpoint, it is easier to just stick a tablet in versus a bunch of physical buttons/dials/knobs.

The automakers also do it because touchscreens are cheaper. Physical buttons and dials cost more money. However, lots of people hate them in terms of things like the HVAC controls and they also aren't safe, like trying to mess with your smartphone while driving, and so some auto companies are...

First part was just some light humor. Second I think is very interesting from a standpoint of history. Lighten up.

Out of boredom and curiosity, I tried one of those AI girlfriends:) Asked her/it to do something pornographic and got yelled at and told I am a terrible person (!), turned out it had for some reason interpreted me as saying something evil (I forget specifically what). You know you've hit rock...

Is it pride though, or just plain 'ole greed? For example, look at all the people the college admissions scandal guy was able to bribe.

So going back to this original point, this leads to me have a question----basically, how does this play into the airlines when such pilots leave the Navy to become an airline pilot? Does this mean the airlines have a lot of pilots who are not very safety conscious...? I ask because I see in the...

The post was meant as a fun trivia in response to Hair Warrior's pointing out that the Earth isn't "technically" a sphere. It was just meant for fun, as this is a fun thread. I notice you are knocking on Hair Warrior too, I would say his post was just meant for fun as well, as he mentioned how...

Most people believe the Earth also orbits the Sun, but technically speaking, it doesn't. It instead orbits a central gravitational point that exists between it and the Sun called a barycenter, however given how tiny the Earth is to the Sun, said barycenter is still pretty much at the center of...

Actually, no. There is a huge misunderstanding here I think. I wasn't trying to state what types of personalities the service attracts at all, my argument was that such people being attracted into Naval Aviation doesn't mean they can't be made safety conscious. I am sure many guys who join the...

A guy at work told me the Moon is actually an alien space station and hollow because of a video online he saw (it was from an episode of Ancient Aliens). In insisting to another coworker it is hollow, the coworker said, "Yeah, so is your head." Another coworker says we did eventually land on the...

People said to me many in Naval Aviation are not the most safety conscious, so I was explaining my reasoning on why I do not see doing such and being safety conscious as mutually exclusive.

I think one can be into doing dangerous things but still be safety conscious. For example, you might love skydiving but still be VERY safety conscious. Or bungee diving. Or race car driving. Doing an adventurous, adrenaline job partially or fully for the fun of it doesn't mean one must lack a...

? That doesn't mean they aren't safety conscious.

That is perplexing to me. Yes Naval Aviation is dangerous, but I mean so is firefighting, and firefighters are pretty safety conscious from my understanding.

Not trying to be condescending. It just struck me funny is all. I think it was an oversimplified idea, but not that you are stupid or anything (nor myself smart).

No offense intended, but just the image of this made me burst out laughing. F-22s retail for $350 million per plane and have all sorts of super secret technology, and you're saying you'd just toss them up onto some flat beds and take them out among the general public? You'd be moving literally...

I am thinking of Weird Al's "Like a Surgeon."

Wow, the little Honda actually pulled it?

Nope.

How could Naval Aviation, which had to launch planes off of ships, and with catapults after the jet age began, NOT have much of a culture on safety? You'd think Naval Aviation would've set the standard on that. I can understand not incorporating psychological factors until later, as the...

Well there's that age-old saying, "A woman marries a man thinking she can change him and she can't. A man marries a woman hoping she won't change and she does."

I don't agree with a lot of Chuck's points, but he is just expressing his enthusiasm about the car and it's self-driving in a thread specifically about the car and it's self-driving (shrug) Also there's no such thing as "Just a car" to a car fan, no more than "Just a game" to a sports fan:)

Not necessarily. These are tech people and engineers. AI training cluster sounds pretty literal to me, i.e. a cluster of computers for in this case training A.I. It does not strike me as salesmanship or a cult. Cult like behavior to me is when people start talking about how Steve Jobs had a...

I do not like the Cybertruck, I do think self-driving capability could be a good safety feature in the event a person say falls asleep while driving, in order to pull the car off the road.

Make sure he is aware of the accelerator pedal recall. It was found due to a lubrication residue issue, that the accelerator pedal can get stuck to the floor.

Well don't go to sleep on a long trip, I missed an exit once and the GPS "recalculated," told me to exit onto a connected highway where it would be about 500 miles or so to get to my destination (which otherwise was like five minutes away). Don't want to go for an hour drive and wake up to find...

Well I actually wasn't referring to movies per se. Chuck said Seinfeld, Clooney, and Tom Hanks are male role models. Seinfeld and I suppose Hanks I understand, but not Clooney.

So I am lost on this, what is it referring to?

Government has actually played a huge role in the development of our economy, as far back as the 19th century. In 1765, A French general demanded interchangeability in the production of muskets. The U.S. Army, heavily influenced by French military thinking, founded two armories to work on this...

So for years, the max takeoff weight allowed has actually been significantly under what many aircraft are actually capable of?

Yes, the taxpayer always pays one way or the other, but smartly done, subsidies and/or government programs reduce the price of a particular good or service while spreading the tax burden out enough to be fairly minimal for people. If you have to tax people $2,000 a year to reduce their annual...

Talk radio I think is on AM.

To some degree there is such a market. For example my 4Runner has a manual transfer case (other models come with an electronic transfer case). It will be more difficult though powertrain-wise I think, because with the fuel efficiency requirements, vehicles now have engine-turbocharger...

I didn't say it was a good thing, I said it made meat cheaper from what I had read. How would it make corn itself more expensive?

How can they just increase the max takeoff weight by that amount?

I understand your point about the importance of government regulation, however I've read that government actually reduces the price of meat due to corn subsidies. Don't know how true that is though.

What has Clooney done that is good?

IWhat is meant by "Intel nerds" if they are becoming obsolete?

Lots of Nepalese mercenaries are deserting.

Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamned time.

Never played the games, but I agree, the show is great. You can tell it is an honest adaption of a video game to a show format. The only major pet peeve of mine is how Lucy has been raised to believe the surface world is extremely savage, yet then goes and builds a fire her first night on the...

Interesting points from all, but isn't this thread supposed to be Europe-focused?:)