You would be surprised. PLENTY of places including my house in the USA have no municipal trash service. Just because you have something, never assume everyone does.

THIS!!!!!!!!!! While they make CoPilot about impossible to get away from where I work, they don't use it themselves! If THEY know it sucks, why do I have to use it? BTW - How is it that CoPilot can't write two lines of PowerShell without making 5 syntax errors? If it could do anything at all, you would think it could do something invented by them.

That is not a good idea. I have done plenty of 4-on-4-off trips on boats and it takes a couple days to settle into it and you never seem well rested. There are better schedules, I use 0600-1200-1800-2200-0200-0600 so you get 6 solid hours off in 24.

At the very least. I would guess 3. This is not a real fun flight for any of the crew, sleeping on the plane is not going to be as nice as being in a hotel with a nice shower. OT out the ass though, so some good money in it.

Some rare cars are essentially hand made and so are most airplanes. They all cost more than my house. One has to be close enough to the 1% to hit it with a rock to buy stuff like this.

Besides for all that, is the goal really to live like our great-(great?)-grandparents in the 1930s buying only what you absolutely can't make yourself and saving every penny for when things get worse? Sure it might work for a person right now, but if it ever got popular the economy would utterly crash.

IIRC companies layed fiber all over the world for the coming boom that ended up dark for 10-20 years. We do use it now though, so eventually it was needed.

I am not saying they shouldn't have done it, just that it seems like not much of a surprise that it works. My feel is that the size and power supply issues were more of a challenge than wondering if they could actually take images with it.

This was life prior to railroads. Sunrise was the start of the day and the local town council or a shop with a clock would set it to solar noon every so often. When railroads got invented we had to have the same time in different places and time zones too.

Other than the issues of actually fitting the gear into a spaceship, I can't see why X-Ray machines would care about gravity, they would work in space the same way as ever.

In the Warsaw Pact days Social Security would make you the richest person in your village in Poland by quite a bit!

When my wife complains about how much avgas costs I remind her what the OTHER choice is, TSA 2 hours early line hell.

Fixing airplanes flying them.

I am a pilot and this is utter nonsense. I can say for SURE I care very much if a plane crashes while I am in it, flying it, or under it. If you look at 121 carriers in the First World, no safer transportation system exists and you would need a very long time to collect 100 crashes to analyze.

Those ADs frequently specify something like "within the next 100 hours, within the next 6 months, etc.", it has to be fairly bad to just ground the planes where they sit.