Agreed on the downlink.

I thought this was about the node to node communications. Blue origin and probably others are also using it for in orbit communication.

That’s what the lasers are for. It’s a solved problem.

If nobody is in the driver’s seat, then it doesn’t matter if the brake pedal exists. If someone does happen to be sitting there, but isn’t paying attention to driving, they might accidentally hit it. And it would be in the way most (hopefully all) of the time.

Sounds like this doesn’t include it, but I think it would be better to have some centrally accessible thing to manually activate the brakes. Then you could do it regardless of where you sat.

The machine can print a human and machine readable copy. Then feed that into another machine after verifying and you have two independent digital counts that can verify each other. You also have the paper that can be manually counted if you need to be extra sure.

This is what we had for a few years. Now the first step is replaced by manual bubbling. Still have the scan for the instant digital count though.

Yes, but more importantly they move the air around you. The air won’t be cooler, but will feel cooler.

https://youtu.be/_KWdCqpXB7A

All of the MS Office files with an “x” in the extension.

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