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To say that using the play store to find anything other than what you already know you want is a frustrating experience would be an extreme understatement. Even thinking about it now makes me tense.
We saw the casualties from self driving cars and thought that was bad. Now imagine the smear on the road that these things will make as they trundle over a victim.What's the comparison in terms of crashes, injuries and fatalities per MVKT between regular cars and driverless ones?
They haven't even got the 'play God' algorithm for self drive cars yet, how the hell would a truck have chance to decide who dies out of a child, elderly person, person with a pram etc etc?I guarantee you that's not a calculation that human drivers do in a crash.
I'm no astro-boffin but I understand that the gravity assist manoeuvre exploits the relative motion of the body providing the assist. To gain velocity relative to the sun, spacecraft approach from the trailing side of a planet's orbit. If you were to send two objects around from opposite sides, with mirrored trajectories, one would gain velocity while the other would lose it. Would balance out, though.
I bet the moment they realised that high pressure NTO could ignite titanium that easily* was mildly hair-raising...
It's probably a fair assumption that the Superdraco's feed systems weren't primed during Demo-1 but blimey, this thing was attached to the ISS!
* For particular definitions of "easy".
I originally posted this eight months ago but then deleted it when it turned out that none of the EMUI 8-dependent OpenKirin ROMs could operate the goofy dual camera setup without crashing. Quite the fatal flaw. This was corrected following the recent release of EMUI 9, allowing me to finally use the phone, and I haven't had any noteworthy issues since. With the benefit of hindsight, I might have gone for a Nokia 8 instead.
The Nexus 5 was almost perfect IMO. No nonsense, powerful at the time and reasonably priced. It should have had more storage and the speaker and camera could have been better but what are you going to do.
Mine was really showing its age so I gave up and went down the alternative route of buying a cheap(-ish) 2017 model Huawei and putting an OpenKirin custom ROM on it. It was a bit of a faff (edit: which turned into an eight month long wait for one that worked properly...) and involved paying for an unlock code, but now I've got a 128GB (+µSD) ~5" phone with a reasonably modern 8 core big.LITTLE SoC, 50% more battery capacity and yes, a headphone socket for less than the Nexus 5 cost originally. And, importantly, vanilla Android rather than Huawei's EMUI nonsense.
A forward exit cone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qeX98tAS8&t=2m18s
Explosion icon because... well...
I bought two items of NF gear about 15 years ago. They're still going, so they're good enough quality, but I never bought any more after discovering very soon afterwards that despite being "50% off", they were still more expensive than the prices Americans were paying for the same stuff.
...onboard Hall thrusters, powered by krypton...
Hall thrusters, of course, are powered by electricity, in this case the craft's solar panels. The krypton is merely the working fluid.
Interesting that they're using krypton as propellant rather than the more common xenon, trading off performance for a substantial cost saving.
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