It's like the Swiss cheese metaphor for the causes of aeroplane crashes. Every layer of safety has a few holes, like a slice of Swiss cheese. When you stack them up, the holes in each layer are norma… (View Post)

I'd be intrigued as to what sort of control software they do use. After watching the last Starship flight where it somehow managed to land vertically (in the sea) despite severe damage to its control… (View Post)

If it had a thrust to weight ratio of less than 1, it wouldn't be landing; it'd be crashing. (View Post)

I'd have thought that once they reach their eighties, everyone has some cognitive decline. (View Post)

Didn't we just have an election in which one of the parties most enthusiastic about net zero won a stonking majority? (View Post)