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There was a very clear steer in the press that the FAA was negligent in monitoring the company and holding them to account for failures. This was at the time of the 737 MAX 8. The re-design with larger engines mounted as they were changed the centre of gravity drastically and the FAA operated as...

Not sure it is a lie in the human sense - though it is a misjudgement as we (it and I) later came to agree. Tony said : "So what do you NOW make of your first remark in this chat? Hopeless optimism? You don't now seem to be thinking that way?" ChatGPT said: "You’ve got me there, Tony1951! My...

Yes we don't know enough yet about the Korean crash, but just looking at the recent history of Boeing disasters, failures and bad manufacturing problems - not forgetting that two astronauts sent on a few day trip to the Space Station have been stranded there for months because their Boeing...

Is Boeing finished? I don't think I'd be that happy to get on one these days and I still ride my motorbikes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4glr85l2ldt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxvkq109ko#:~:text=Not%20only%20has%20it%20struggled,programme%20has%20been%20in%20trouble

Don't link that with my point. I have no need of such things and I doubt anyone else here does either.

Just playing about with it I find that you can argue it into a reversal of its initial responses. I made a jokey statement and it replied in similar vein, then I hit it with some argument and it admitted it had changed its mind. In its last remark it admits it had been too flippant...

The REALLY impressive thing to me (but there is more than one) is that it absolutely' knows' what you want when you ask a detailed question. I put 'knows' in quotes because it doesn't know like you and me, but it gets the point almost perfectly, unless you ask the question in too brief a way -...

Chat GPT continues to amaze me in its question answering usefulness: https://chatgpt.com/share/6772710b-e2fc-8001-9ead-51d65d295f61

And how did that happen? UK population in 1950 - - - - - 50.4 million Uk Population in 2024 - - - - - 69.138 million And don't forget in England there are six million more people registered with a GP than the government thinks are living here so really, the population here is about 75...

Found this entertaining link about off grid life in BritishColumbia. A resourceful, family making their way without a grid connection. At first I watched a video about making wood gas from firewood to run a generator, but watched many more videos about their life in general. You could never buy...

Why don't you read the voltage on the discharge / output port when it is turned on? I have always done that, and it is also the way that any voltage measurement on the LCD measures the voltage.

If your battery has a capacity of 180 watt hours, that works out at 12.4 watt hours per mile. Riding my Argos folder in its mid setting, supplying power up to 11.5 mph, in up and down terrain uses 12.2 watt hours per mile. If I ride it with assistance to 15.4 miles an hour I use 16.4 watt hours...

Yes - it's not like we have been using dangerous technology for transport for a hundred years and more.

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Why would that be true? Yes - you can create a short circuit and set wires on fire with a lead acid battery, but it is hardly common. The battery chemistry is not prone to fire itself, unlike the lithium cobalt and manganese chemistry which when 'out of sorts' can run away and then start making...

There is a logical flaw there. Nobody said all batteries develop faults and light up. But some do. The fact that you are coming to your conclusion on the basis of a sample of twenty batteries, does not mean that the man over the road will not have a fire event. If batteries did not sometimes...

Any battery where cells are in series can be subject to the plating effect as copper gets moved when one failing cell in the series is run flat and then gets reverse charged by the others passing current through it. Of course the higher quality involved in cell structure and cell monitoring...

Since the car had not been used for ten hours and it was not on charge, I am supposing that there must have been a fault in one of the battery cells, such as the development of a short circuit - perhaps from copper deposits migrating from the anode backing layer, and breaching the separation...

No need for an ejector seat. He will automatically ascend into Heaven like the boss.

I am more and more convinced as the information has come in and sunk into my skull, that the bike is performing as you might expect in colder weather and the reduction of range is down to the temperature change as the seasons have changed. I have just roughly worked out how much energy per mile...