Sorry, it didn't seem to parse right when posting from my cell. It went straight to the table when I opened it from Google. I'll try to fix it when I get home.
It would surprise me if this was a thing. You're only looking though 50 miles horizontally and less than a thousand feet of elevation. Not a lot for lensing. Refraction corrections were made for celestial navigation in the Navy (looking through the entire atmosphere) but I don't think we did...
I recently had dinner at a friend's house, where he had gotten one of those telescopes for his little daughters for Chanukah a few months ago. It didn't work? Well, at least until I pointed it at Jupiter and focused it for them. Meanwhile, @jtbell took this picture during the 2017 eclipse(I...
This is an aside, but studies have shown that chimpanzees and dartboards pick stocks as well as professional brokers do. But chimps aren't very good salesmen. That's what brokers are and what people pay them for, even if they don't realize it. Individual fund managers are compensated based...
Sure, maybe commercial aircraft manufacturers should be licensed, like run-of-the-mill structural engineering firms who build hotel walkways are?
That doesn't require legislation, just an angry executive with a pen.
I know I'm punting here, but I'm pretty sure that happened on a stealth bomber...
Here's my two-fold theory on this: 1) Boeing is too big to fail and 2) government agencies have a mandate to fix the operations (consent decree) vs shutting down the company. And the way the regulations are written, some companies are licensed and others aren't, which makes shutdown clear-cut...
The charge would be instructing employees to falsify federal paperwork. That's already happened, at least for the company.
It's not impossible because it's happened before, as my example shows (though the first was a silly suggestion - nobody in these businesses intends to kill people). I'm...
In the pharma example I gave, the execs lost their jobs and went to prison because of the fraud they committed that got people killed. What it takes is primarily the will to hold them accountable for their decisions/actions.
Ironically, financial fraud is easier to prosecute because the...
The entry-point is that they were charged with and admitted to conspiracy/fraud:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-conspiracy-and-agrees-pay-over-25-billion
One could see other more severe charges branching out from that(literally, people died in part because of the...