noughtnaut

What kind of comms do the wires allow? Sending guidance and simultaneously receiving video?

What was the physicality of wires back then (and do you know what they are today)? Would it feel like walking into a spider's web, or how sturdy were/are those wires?

How often would a write break, and would that mean total loss of control or is there some form of fall-back?

Curious minds want to know! Thank you.

Imagine walking into a spider's web, and you couldn't just wipe it off your face.

It's a minor concern when a nation's existence is on the line, but I do wonder how all those wires will affect the fauna and environment.

Curiously, the first wired torpedoes, you'd propel the torpedo forward by pulling on the wire that came out the back of it.

I have never put it into words like that, more like "make zero assumptions".

I suppose that being overly thorough can make documentation prone to becoming tedious (unless cares is taken to not talk down to the reader) or too tightly coupled (incurring the need to be updated more often as details of the process change).

How do you usually deal with that aspect? What I do is to make the documentation easily skimmable (for advanced readers) and just accept the need for rework.

You're brutal. You're not wrong tho.

Adams family doorbell.

Precrime wioll haven be here.

Perhaps this is all just highly refined British humour?

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term “Future Perfect” has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

It would be hilarious to see random civilians being casually followed by a policeman (policeperson?), overtly and cheerfully "nah mate, you haven't done a thing. I'm just here to watch. For now. Carry on."

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I'm grateful to you for digging those up.

Huh, interesting. Thank you for educating me. 🙂

Extremely low cost of living abroad certainly varies by which abroad you mean. You'll find Peru or Nepal much cheaper than Switzerland. Most of Europe is likely to have a higher average cost of living than the US average.