You’re looking at it with hindsight. Sure it feels like spending another million $ designing, testing, and adding additional weight, along with removing weight from other parts looks like the right decision now.

Every design makes compromises, and every failure looks stupid when looking at the end result. The team had decisions to make and if they had the extra time and money, then making the existing design more robust with more testing and reliability would have been the better solution.

Good explanation. People that design space missions have a lot of restrictions, and things that seem obvious on the surface can cause a lot of problems in practice.

Weight. That’s the only actual answer.

It’s extremely expensive to send weight to the moon, everything you list is more weight.

It’s actually not, because the exit condition is “when you get the joke”

Don’t give her sudo permission then.

This is 100% a painter who’s worked with this person/company before. In the contract I’m betting it says “before we paint, remove all utilities and covers from the wall, anything left will be painted”

The first six times they did the work, stuff was left up, and they spent an hour removing everything before they started. This time, they said fuck it. We told you to take it down, this is what you’re getting now.

Airplanes fly typical routes, so it’s possible, but not guaranteed.

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever read.

Not all cd players had an accessible lens. A car deck had a slot insert and there was no way to get at the lens without disassembling the whole thing.

Computer CD players also had a tray that extended so the lens was mostly hidden.

Boomboxes and portable CD players had pop up lids where you could see the lens, but there were probably an equal number of players where you couldn’t access it.

If you intentionally turn on your sprinklers as a deterrent, and it does damage to a person or property, you’d be liable for that.

What if someone had important papers that you ruined. Or you broke their non-waterproof phone? What if someone was stepping off the sidewalk to let a wheelchair pass and you just doused them and the person in the wheelchair?

What if your automated sprinkler starts spraying the EMTs or Firefighters coming to help you cause you fell in your bathroom and can’t get up? What if it shorts out the Lifepack they were going to use to check your heart and deliver an AED shock, and now someone died?

Automated booby traps are always bad because you can’t judge the intent of the person, or animal, that might trigger it.

Shift-A and Shift-I to append at the end or insert at the start.

Once you know the system, it’s much easier to do everything without having to take your hands off the keyboard to use a mouse.

Literally the only thing I code in at work. Have done so for decades.

Can’t stop, won’t stop.

I write code every day at my job. I use vim.

It does everything I need it to do, and it works exactly the same way on every system I touch, and functions the same way since I started using it decades ago (aside from being able to use arrow keys now instead of hjkl)

If I HAVE to do any coding on Windows, I use notepad++.

Mark Rober lost me with his porch pirate booby traps.

First of all, booby traps are illegal for a reason. Second of all, a lot of it was staged and it was pretty obvious.

Ha! I loved back bear forge during my year of blacksmithing obsession!

He had racist and anti trans jokes in all his videos. I wrote them off as just innocent friendly jokes for a while, but they were in ALL his videos. I unsubbed and blocked him after I realized it was a pattern with him.

Use the subscribe feed, not the home feed to watch your videos.

It shows your subscriptions in reverse chronological order.

Starship Troopers had the highest survival rate, so that one.

Absolutely not The Thing because you have no idea if escaping means the end of the world. You’d have to murder suicide the whole place.

Aliens… Maybe. It’s survivable, but just barely. You’d probably want to hold a live grenade with the pin pulled the whole time, so you’d at least never have to be brought back to the queen.