the real problem in the recent 2-3 generations of programmers is they aren't really "programmers", they are code kids who learned one computer programming language, having almost no background education in engineering and mathematics disciplines, so they have little diligence to learn a fairly simple language like COBOL.

You the customer are now the tester. The advent of phone apps, thank you so much apple,has led to several generations of developers who care nothing of computer science or software engineering discipline, they alpha & beta test on the consumer by blithely updating apps whenever they have a *fix* to release. No structured QA validation nor release notes, just throw it on the wall and see what sticks.

It's tragic that the prior management regime spent too much effort on the MAX expansion of 737 and started so late on the 757 replacement NMA project, it was 2015 when the concept was first explored, but MAX fiasco and WuhanCoronaVirus era torpedoed the program. I'd certainly hope the company didn't lose the bits of work done a decade ago, but it'll take a lot to spin up the program again, have to get the best aerospace design engineers moved over, and hire a lot of staff engineers to implement the design.

it's a solution looking for money

several firms have been trying to build and market giant airships for this purpose over the past 2 decades, producing lots of slick videos, but none have entered service at all

Harold Camping is their spirit animal

dingy harry reid raised obstacles to bringing Yucca Mountain nuclear storage repository online after earmarking tens of billions $$$ to Nevada companies to build it. Yucca Mountain could still be brought into operation, it takes some political will to get it done.

I'm of the end of the boomers and in grade school in the 60s tantalized by atomic power and the space race. Can recall predictions that nuclear power would be so efficient and inexpensive that electricity would be essentially free in the near future. Then came Three Mile Island which coincided with that propaganda movie China Syndrome, and finally Chernobyl a decade later, fueling the wacko enviro-anti-nuke cabal to create a regulatory system to kill nuclear power.

highly doubtful that the passengers paid for the ride, they were mostly there to be companions for lauren sanchez as this was alleged to be jeff's wedding gift to her

MSG group built the Sphere Studios complex just across the street from Bob Hope Burbank Airport, it's apparently 1/4 scale of the one in Las Vegas. The outside shell is stretched black fabric and has no displays, the inside has screens like the giant Vegas one. I see it every time I take a flight at BUR, have been looking for a way to get a tour of the facility.

sometimes four or five

Boeing should never have given up on their original idea to build an enlarged type of X-37 spaceship that would have been man-rated for up to 6 crew, using a proven propulsion and recovery technology. Instead they let NASA bully them into embarking on a brand new space capsule from scratch.

BAS neglected to adjust their clock about a year ago when Biden's UKR policies caused Putin to threaten launching actual nuclear warheads into Ukraine and even threatened USA in the same breath. One would presume that the doomsday clock should have been set at 1 second before midnight on that day, but lo and behold it wasn't even thought of.

Mazda has been quietly working jointly with Toyota to refine a miniature Wankel engine to serve as a battery charging generator that would not be in the drivetrain, sort of like a diesel-electric that trains and submarines use. Haven't seen any prototypes in a couple years, since the concept was announced about 5 years ago.

I'm an old stickshift driver and did end up with a Nissan Murano as a rental car some years ago, it was the most horrid experience, it felt like the vehicle was always in a mud pit slogging its way along. No wonder Nissan is dying off with those terrible CVT boxes.