It'd be easier to train clamp scientists to static fire than to train rocket scientists to clamp.
wouldn’t changing it just end up performative
Exactly. Sidereal time does get rid of time zones and leap years, but it's still referenced to a single physical object and relies on a arbitrary choice of start point. So it doesn't create some perfect cosmic time standard.
The international date line doesn't help since that's just 180° offset from Greenwich itself.
The point of standards is that they can be followed by everyone. The AD/BC epoch is fine. The Greenwich meridian is fine. UTC is fine. Changing them would cause so much disruption that it cannot be worth it.
Daylight savings can go die in a ditch though.
doesn't change
Citation needed.
Do you use leap seconds to stay in sync with earth's rotation? When would they be applied? How would spacefarers be notified of these updates?
Also, what meridian do you choose for this 'universal' time? Is it still Greenwich? Because that's peak colonial baggage.
I thought one thruster has been permanently disabled now? Not that that's a major problem, but it does eat into their redundancy somewhat.
How will they filter it out? If they just don't mirror anything with 'forbidden' terms, we can poison repos to prevent them being mirrored. If they try to tamper with the repo histories then they'll end up breaking a load of stuff that relies on consistent git hashes.
Starship is about 80% the width of Falcon Heavy - but all the way around and practically all the way up!
That is fun, I didn't know that was a thing. I imagine that roll-overs are more common than submersion in water, but even so, that doesn't sound like a great trade-off. Even in a crash, being able to quickly jump out the window is good — especially if the vehicle is on fire.
The front ones don't seem to be hidden, but yeah - if they're not meant to be used regularly, people won't remember them in an emergency. I guess the rear ones are hidden because they probably bypass child-locks.
I don't know how child-locks work on mechanical door latches. If the vehicle locks when in motion and the child-locks are on I don't think there are emergency releases on most vehicles? The only ways out would be to get into the front cabin, break the windows, or find the internal boot release.
There's a panel that can be popped out to open the hood with a 12V power supply: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-34181E3A-B4A7-4658-906A-38C6647B5664.html
You could make a religion out of this.