"Arenas, whose father Gilbert played in the NBA, was involved in the single-car crash last April when he said the Cybertruck's keypad and steering wheel wouldn't respond. Arenas said he awoke to find the passenger side of the dashboard engulfed in flames and tried to use his digital key to escape, only to find the Tesla app had locked him out. I tried to open the door and the door wasn't opening," he said."
A few follow-up questions that occur to me: will an understanding of theoretical limits make the actual record breaking seem more routine and less interesting? And will many records be broken beyond the theoretical limit, making these calculations seem rather crude and short-sighted?
I found this aside on one of the graphics rather surprising:
> Sometime in the next 2000 years, the Sun is expected to leave a local cloud of gas and dust. After that, it may enter the G cloud. If it is denser, it would squash the protective magnetic bubble of the heliosphere, potentially exposing the Solar System to a barrage of cosmic rays.
Mostly surprised that I hadn't heard more about this. 2000 years is practically tomorrow in cosmological time!
"There is a simple way of... [accurately ascertaining] if a novice can indeed land an airliner, according to Patrick Smith: use a professional flight simulator, the kind airlines train their pilots with.
"Stick a person in a true, full-motion airline simulator at 35,000 feet, with no help, and watch what happens," he says. "It won't be pretty."
Have always been surprised it doesn't get more attention on this forum. It's a paid app, and it shows in the quality. Very smart and dedicated single developer (this is feasible for an email client since the protocol is stable and doesn't change very much), an active mailing list and user community. Clean with few bugs in my use. Definitely aimed at developers and people who want to peer into the internals of email.
I'm thinking more of an institutional solution, like if a research library or archive wanted to preserve the above article, with all of the original interactivity, for a viewer 20+ years from now, is there any kind of consensus on how to go about that?
"Arenas, whose father Gilbert played in the NBA, was involved in the single-car crash last April when he said the Cybertruck's keypad and steering wheel wouldn't respond. Arenas said he awoke to find the passenger side of the dashboard engulfed in flames and tried to use his digital key to escape, only to find the Tesla app had locked him out. I tried to open the door and the door wasn't opening," he said."