BRB trademarking “Gotatoes”

No they were full of fruit. Thing is nothing stopped you from squeezing the bag with your hands.

I don’t think any urine was dumped on the lunar surface but I’m sure all 12 men who walked on the moon urinated while they were there. Through a hose into a bag.

I have an alternative hypothesis: At least some people who say they don’t like onion are basing that opinion entirely on raw onion and refuse to consider and/or haven’t noticed cooked onion.

Go to restaurant, get served a house salad, bite into the purple thing, OH GOD WHAT IS THAT?

A nice refreshing bottle of Gotatoes.

IIRC the excuse for Juicero having internet access was to read QR codes on the fruit pouches that included the expiration date, and it would refuse to squeeze expired fruit. Because at it’s heart, it was a screw press. A severely over-engineered screw press. Like Jurassic Park, they spared no expense.

Allow me to break instance if not platform wide rules for attempting to inject some nuance into the discussion.

The discussion around intellectual property, especially copyright but it bleeds over into patent, is bent past yield on this platform. I mean, you’ve got the “Mao did nothing wrong” crowd who think communism isn’t just a red herring, and you’ve got the disaffected western kids who’ve spent a lot of their lives living under the thumb of megacorporations making their lives worse for a buck often using IP laws as a bludgeon. Both groups are of the opinion “IP BAD.”

The Wright Brothers patent on the 3-axis control system for heavier than air craft was applied for, granted, and enforced in good faith. That part was the system working, the men who did the work to develop a technology were given sole right to monetize it.

The problem specific to the Wrights is that they, especially Wilbur, were unwiped ass grade businessmen. They spent more energy trying to keep anyone else from profiting from their invention than to monetize it themselves. Wilbur lived only 9 years after their first flight, spending most of it living in hotels traveling from courtroom to courtroom suing any would-be aviators before dying of typhoid fever at age 45, with Orville blaming the stress of the patent suits for his brother’s condition.

They sold very few airplanes, they did basically no development on them; the Europeans were developing wheeled landing gear, enclosed cockpits and monoplanes while the Wrights were occasionally slapping together an open frame pusher with skids. Wilbur died in 1912, Orville sold his stake in the Wright Aircraft Company in 1915, and basically here ends their legacy. They took the first steps on mankind’s journey to the sky, and then tried their damnedest to make sure nobody took the second one.

They didn’t really build that many airplanes, they didn’t develop the technology much further, they sure as fuck didn’t license the technology to others, they just…sat on it.

Orville Wright lived to see a B-29 drop a nuclear weapon. He died in 1948.

Sounds like a Juicero.

TL;DR: The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down.

Do they get prep time?

That way, AFM machine isn’t redundant. I like the way you think. This’ll give pedants years of the same shit to talk about.

“They done it! They done it! Damned if they ain’t flew!”

The Wright Brothers basically failed to monetize their invention for fear of someone stealing it. Glen Curtis wanted to play airplane, the Wright Brothers wouldn’t let him, fearing competition they wouldn’t hire him or sell him a plane. So he started his own aircraft company, and to get around the Wright’s patent on wing warping, he invented the aileron. Instead of twisting the entire wing, he used hinged control surfaces near the tips on a rigid wing. Guess what practically all airplanes ever built have used ever since.

The Wrights were the first to fly a controllable, heavier than air craft. Controllable is the big word there. The 1903 Flyer had canard stabilators, rudders, and wing warping for roll control. Most others either attempted to make the aircraft perfectly stable, or used some incorrect notions on weight shift.

And they barely got it done; the Flyer required what pilots would call negative density altitude to fly. They flew at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (a barrier island a few feet above sea level) in December.

The engine was astonishingly terrible. IIRC it displaced something like 2 liters via 4 cylinders, but made a whopping 12 horsepower. It didn’t have a carburetor; a small pan of gasoline sat over an open flame to boil the gasoline to provide vapor. Mankind flew the very second we had a barely sufficient power plant.

They then went on to do dick all. It’s my understanding that at least one of the brothers was very concerned about IP theft, so they were very selective on who they sold planes to, who they hired and worked with etc. They had a monopoly on aircraft and basically did nothing with it. Glen Curtis wanted in, he wanted to develop aircraft with the Wright brothers, they told him to pound sand, he looked at their patent, the main thing it protected was the Wright wing warping system, to get around that, Glen Curtis invented the aileron. They did end up merging and they kind of puttered out of existence shortly after WWII when large radial engines fell out of favor.

For a good long while there were artifacting issues with the Core One that the MK4/S didn’t have running on largely the same motors and electronics.

So they’ll make black iron pipe illegal and require it to be replaced with plastic flex hose.

Any mechanical mechanism is out of the question. We’re talking about a message that needs to last 10,000 years. For context, the great pyramid at Giza is about 4,500 years old. You’re not going to build something complicated enough to act as a “solve this riddle and we’ll open the door” that’s going to last for 10,000 years without maintenance.

Every time I see this topic come up, I start to think: What is the oldest known practical warning sign? Like, Ancient Egyptian is a dead language, we forgot, and then deciphered it. And even then, we could tell the difference between “O ye who dost desecrateth my tomb, let your crops wither in the fields, your daughters be barren and your sons not inherit” and “Caution: Asp pit. Movie Protagonists Only.”

Forget all the pompous “This is not a place of honor” shit and just write the word “poison” in every known language including the silly made-up ones no one actually speaks like Esperanto, Klingon and Welsh. “Poison Disposal Site” “Le site disposale poissonneaux” “Das PoisondiBosalsite” “El sito disposalo poisono” etc.