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I'd imagine something as important as docking would go more like USB-C adoption. There will be a standard, but a powerful holdout will insist on their proprietary solution because …

I watched one of his videos and quit pretty early because it was boring. Thinking back on what I remember, it seems very weird. It was the one where he "gave away" a chocolate fact…

This is the last line of the linked article: "Canadian news outlets have also reported on cases where people with disabilities have considered assisted dying due to lack of housing…

We had a saw with a mechanism that was non destructive and SawStop sued them out of the country (Bosch REAXX). It's why my feelings on SawStop are complicated, they say they're all…

This would be great in engineering for specifications and such. We have product lifecycle management software to track document revisions and handle approvals but it doesn't integr…

Don't be daft. Animals certainly interfered with awnings when they were common, but there weren't alternatives then.

The prestige of these schools is a significant, if not the main part of their appeal. Admitting too many students would cheapen their name. It's an open secret that the admissions …

I'm aware they will attempt to call you, I still think it is fair to call it all or nothing because the only reasonable response to a PLB activation with no response from the phone…

I bought the Ocean Signal RescueME PLB1. It was the cheapest model I could find at REI. Not what I would necessarily choose for myself, but since it was a gift I wanted to buy it f…

Well yeah of course, but there are going to be more bugs and they can't roll out fixes instantly.

Hypothetically, if a situation like this were happening where self driving cars are causing a disruption in a particular area, could someone place traffic cones around the cars to …

How much is the subscription for the Garmin device? I'm curious because I bought my parents a personal locator beacon, since they are retired and hike constantly. It costs more up …

I recognize "A Court of Thorns and Roses" because my wife likes to complain about it. To hear her tell it, they're middling fantasy novels that are popular because they include gra…

Astronauts historically work closely with the people that build their spacecraft. I wonder how much they knew going in and how confident they really were. They decided to go throug…

Lockheed has Orion, they could modify it for Vulcan or Falcon. Overkill for LEO but at least it's functional. Realistically NASA will have to go through another round of requests f…

ULA is one thing, they are highly successful and established. Starliner is a lemon. I think it would be better for them to develop a capsule based on their own New Shepard vehicle.…

It's a fixed price contract, they've been paying for Starliner out of their own pocket for a long time now, not to mention any penalties NASA will levy.

On the defense side, Boeing may be "too big to fail". After the the post Cold War consolidation, losing any of the big 5 USG contractors (Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing, Raytheon, Gene…