Our forefathers put their tooth fairy money in a trust to maintain the sum total of human knowledge. Ever notice how people back in the day all had missing teeth? Like Washington and his wooden dentures? We owe them mightily.
Can’t tell if this is about ethically hacking the government for the good of the people or about making four cylinder Japanese cars sound like a dying mouse.
I don’t think this is a blind person thing. Ask any nerd about something they’re into, and you stand a pretty good chance of receiving a firehouse of words representing their steam of consciousness.
Everyone enjoys the right that if you are unable to fulfill your job due to a disability, and a reasonable accommodation could be provided which would allow you to fulfill your job, you’re entitled to the accommodation.
You could have originally bought it on sell and that sell is no longer available.
You could have added value to the ebook by way of adding annotations.
The ebook could have had better display than its competitors, if it and all other equal quality displays vanished, they are now very rare. Someone would be willing to pay more than your original purchase price if they could now get that display experience.
Because they first chose the result they wanted — age of universe and worked backwards to derive that result. Is it true? Sure, probably. The method flys in the face of the foundations of science and was done for sensationalism.
What’s special about 462K? Is it a local min/max? Doesn’t seem so.
If you accept premise of unlimited budget and outsourcing, sending something to space is about as difficult as saying “Hey Elon, I want this thing to go to space.”
The point here is that college students are able to pull this off with a small budget and lots of DIY.