Recent content by Thaluikhain

One imagines that would be a factor, yes.

Whilst obviously a good idea, even if only the self driving failed, not everything else (I believe their are perfectly functional smart cars that cannot do anything due to software issues), one wonders how many drivers would be able to recognise the problem and take manual control fast enough to...

I'd personally expect this to happen in the form of simply bricking the car, rather than giving it false commands. Bricking a smart car in motion could be interesting, of course.

People clapped when they landed because of DEI.

Upon doing further research (ie, asking my father, who is a physicist), the reason it's easier to go out of the system than into the sun is because the orbital velocity of the Earth is more than half the escape velocity of the Sun. So we are more than halfway out to begin with. He also stressed...

I'd not be sure that would happen, TBH.

I remember thinking this wasn't as good as the S Club movie, Seeing Double, which dealt with broadly similar ideas, though not seen either movie in ages. I might be in the minority in comparing those films, though (I still maintain that the writing for S Club got weird and dark sometimes).

Even then, I'd expect damsel tying to be defended.

Remember in the 90s how Russia kept talking about putting a bunch of these in orbit for ages?

At least he didn't order an attack on Japan by mistake...so far.

"But that sort of thing won't happen to me, I'm special" is a way of thinking responsible for any number of preventable mistakes throughout history, and unfortunately there does not seem to be a good way to stop it.

All the usual quotes that people want to have stuck on walls and drummed into kid's heads are from the old testament. For some reason. :unsure:

Disagree there. The temperature it feels like can vary from the real temperature, sure, but the "feels like" temperature seems to be very vague and subjective, and probably don't effect everyone the same way. Knowing what the real temperature is, and the factors (such as humidity, wind-chill...

Yeah, not seeing why Musk is beyond the pale given who the US has as President. Unless one was to argue that Trump is exceptional, and a successor would not have his success, which...we'll see.

Smear job about Belgian players, how they were criminals and shouldn't have been allowed to play? Distraction bombing of somewhere? Sabotaged by Biden?