Geostationary orbit is waaaaay high.

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Agreed, reading this summoned the SpongeBob narrator in my mind.

In a spray can somewhere

For the hero image, that could possibly just be an attempt at a “fun” way of showing that they can carry a lot by mean of hyperbole.

“Look at that tiny truck, it’s bursting with boxes!”

Because if they didn’t have human form they, by definition, wouldn’t be humanoids ? :)

Thanks

Yeah the 777X. Weird, the 777 is so successful.

Exactly. I flew the 777 for a living. It’s a tank. Extremely reliable, flies like a dream, plenty of power. I haven’t flown the new generation 777 though and you can bet it’s not as safe. Nothing Boeing makes now is.

I used to be a “if it’s not Boeing I’m not going” pilot. I feel stupid now.

Airlines suffer the exact same problem. Greed. Boeing doesn’t make the engines. GE does (or Pratt and Whitney). They are very reliable engines too. If they start failing in a specific airline, it’s a maintenance problem.

Edit: also as comments started, this could be nothing but normal issues, haven’t read the article. I stopped reading at “engine issues, including tyre falling off…” What??

There’s a guy, Isaac Newton, he’s 57. Ask him about his second third law, hopefully he came up with it already.

I steer gigantic metal birds pulled by armies of horses carrying dozens of people, to the antipodes… in less than one day… using dead animal juice.

Yes, otherwise he would have said “les Anglais”.

Interesting, but I’m skeptical. Couldn’t find anything that corroborates.

I understand your premise as a quality deficit, but really the issue I had was typing speed / convenience.

It’s more of a QOL thing. The final code is the same quality I think.

Also, we spend much our time reading and thinking about the code rather than writing it.

Well, after trying a US keyboard for coding I never went back to a french one. It’s so much easier…

If you tried copilot at the beginning, it’s improved a lot since, now it’s using GPT-4.

Only for transonic people.

Don’t blast heavy metal.

That, my friend, is called a ghetto upgrade haha.

Also, can they be built without fossil fuels ?

I’d think so. They may have been talking about a ground air conditioning cart.

Edit to add: APUs burn fuel, are noisy, and some airports are very picky about their use, rightly so. But typically these airports offer ground air conditioning. If not, you ask them to start the APU when it gets too hot in the plane.

I worked for an airline that was picky about it, but the bottom line was a riot on board was worse than burning fuel. Never been told no by the airport in reasonable conditions.