If they managed 27 with a single launch, I should think they should be able to do the job with 60 launches.
That's still a rather ambitious 4 or 5 launches or so a month for the next 14 months though if it's to be completed by mid 2026.

Had a bathroom zipper incident myself about 50 years ago when I was in pre-school. I don't remember anything else about pre-school but I sure remember that.
Anyone who has seen that movie won't ever forget that scene either.

I am currently trying to get my 7.5 sqm (80 sq ft) bathroom tiled with 600x600mm tiles (about 4 sq ft tiles), with an additional 30 sqm (322 sq ft) of wall tiles - about 6 days worth of work, including waterproofing and bedding. One guy -and they are mostly solo operators - even quoted me $90 to install each tile.
Even with me supplying tiles, the cheapest quote I have had so far is 8k, several around the 9 - 10k range, with the most expensive quote being 20k.
Even at the cheapest rate, that works out to 200 per square meter.
These guys are all booked out for weeks in advance, with loads of work - so assuming no major work gaps, at $8000 for 6 days work, working 5 days a year for 50 weeks a year, a tiler can earn at least 347000 a year.

Ok they have to supply tile cement and grout, so I guess deduct $1000 or so from the $8000 - for materials, excluding tiles. mabey they are only making north of $300000 a year.

Should have done that instead of IT.

The most useful button I find (in a 2023 Prado), is the mic button. When connected to my phone, using Google's voice recognition, the voice recognition works great - easily recognizing my requests for setting navigation destination, calling someone etc with an acceptable voice used for prompts. Unfortunately, the car's built in voice recognition is awful though, and worse than useless - it is actually distracting because it often fails to recognize what I have asked for (say, an address), and I have to keep repeating what I want and getting further frustrated until I have to look at the screen and mash the cancel button to stop the really annoying heavily female LA accented voice saying "could you please repeat that" in a way that grates on my nerves after the fourth failed attempt to "Call Jude" (it keeps thinking I'm saying "Call Judy") when it fails to recognize what I have asked for. It sounds like I am listening to one of the Heathers from "Heathers" Not that I dislike American accents in general, but this one is just super annoying, with apparently no way to change it.

Overall though, if you have good voice recognition, you could get rid of a lot of the problems of having to use a screen for most of the less used functions. I wish it was possible for it to play specific albums or artists etc. from my phone instead of having to use the screen for that.

Self driving cars may save parking space, but they will use more road space and create more traffic, because for some percentage of the time they will be driving around empty. To provide the same number of passenger miles with self driving cars, you will actually create more traffic congestion, unless there is also some kind of ride share mechanism to increase the passengers per vehicle average.
I think the problem with a lot of cities is the increase in apartment dwellings without providing parking space. Where I live, houses are increasingly replaced by apartment buildings and then high-rises, usually with only 1 parking space for even 3 bedroom apartments. Increasingly, developers are allowed to build apartments with no parking space allocated, which the council thinks will push people to use the sparse public transport system.
I think the opposite approach is needed - don't allow purchase of a car unless you can prove you have a legal and exclusive place to park it, and also require that high-rise apartment buildings have at least two car parks per car, especially for 2 or 3 bed apartments, because most adults generally need to work to pay the mortgage or rent. the days of full time stay at home mum looking after the kids is long over. Apartment buildings also need adequate visitor parking allocated too. This may require there be either deeper basements or have the first couple of levels be car parks, but it is better than filling the streets with parked cars.

A more benevolent app would be replacing all those long phone queues and press 1 for x, 2 for y... n for whatever phone menus with an AI that could actually provide reasonable answers and help for your problems at a similar to what questions in Chat GPT can already provide, with a callback option to talk to a human if you really needed it and couldn't resolve your query using the AI.

If you have 100mph hour winds, fire breaks would have to be miles wide to prevent sparks jumping over. Even 100 yards of clearance around your home isn't going to stop burning material and sparks blowing up against your home.

Why is having absolute transparency about rental prices considered price fixing?
The stock market lists actual prices that shares are bought and sold at, as well as what the current bids and offers are.
This enables share sellers to know what their competitors are selling at, and likewise lets knows buyers know what the other buyers are bidding, so sellers and buyers can choose to raise or lower their prices to meet the market.

The real estate market should be equally transparent, for both renting and selling property, with renters able to see exactly how much other renters are paying, as well as what other landlords are offering properties at. This will allow renters and property owners to get the actual fair market value for properties - instead of the current system where renters don't know they can get a better deal elsewhere, or landlords are asking above market rent or above market price when selling properties.

Don't know about companies, but my far the most fun car to drive I ever had was around 2000, when I owned a GTR33 v spec that I imported from Japan to the UK, which was only surpassed by my CBR900 motorcycle for grin factor when touring europe and especially on the autobahn.
If they had better security installed in that I might still own it. Sadly it was stolen while I was away in Aus one Christmas and probably ended up in Russia before I even knew it was gone.

On the other hand my brother's manual Nissan X-Trail is mechanically still functional, but feels like a complete piece of crap with the gauges located inconveniently in the center of the dashboard and build quality that has not aged well at all. Interestingly, the clutch has a very similar heavy weight and feel as the clutch in my skyline.

My next car, when in Australia was a cheap manual Mitsubishi Mirage that no-one would want to steal, and actually drove great and felt like driving a go-cart, though was vastly underpowered compared to the skyline of course. Had great AC though which performed superbly in the Australian heat.

I can only hope and dream they bring the engineering expertise of Hondas and Nissans together into their future product lines, with the solid AC performance the Mitsubishi mirage had.

I had a 1976 celica burst into flames in 1990 when I pulled over to the side of a country road for my mate who needed a pit stop. Foot high Long dry grass touched the hot manifold and caught fire, which lit grease and oil from my old leaky engine.
Luckily sand and a stinky contribution from my mate with the full bladder got the situation under control.

My rental property has 6 kw of panels that generate 35kwh of power a day, in the spring and autumn, slightly less in summer and about 15kwh/day during winter. My my house only uses about 20kwh a day.
I have my resistive 350 L hot water system on a timer to only heat during sunlight hours, and pool pump on during the day too, so most of that power is used. Since the property isn't connected to town waste water treatment, the property also has an envirocycle water treatment plant that also has a continuously running aerator as well as water pumps.
The house exports an average of about 10kwh a day, but export rates are bugger all here compared to power rates (typically 8c/kwh for export, 27c/kwh for power from the grid.)
Even with this 6 kw system, a battery would totally make sense, but since I am renting the house there's no incentive for me to install them, and obviously my tenants don't want to invest thousands on batteries either.
Many new systems are now 10kw, so batteries make even more sense - but more than 30% of people are renting, so it doesn't make sense for either landlord or tenant to get batteries.

  If there was some way to have a battery system which could be cost effectively added or removed from a house for say, a simple electrician call out for a couple of hundred dollars, this would be a huge benefit for many. Even better - if there was a standard plug interface and a tenant could just bring their own battery to the party, and take it with them when they move house.

Copyright holders who have by definition been granted a unique monopoly on information should be obliged to maintain archives of that information in perpetuity, to be made available to anyone who cares to access it for a reasonable fee.
  If they no longer wish to maintain that archive, or go out of business, they should be required to release that information to open public archives and relinquish copyright on that information.
If they fail to maintain the archive and lose information, or otherwise make a requested work unavailable, the penalty should be for them to relinquish copyright on a much larger number of other works they hold.

This was not practical when music and books were kept on lossy analogue formats, but now everything is digital, it should be entirely possible to preserve information in perpetuity, for as long as it remains of potential interest to anyone.

Put them in a gimbal. Problem solved.

Its really the secret kill switch so that bots can't take over the world - you just have to wear a headband with his name and any terminator units will fall into apoplexy as soon as they see it.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the anchor that does most of the holding - it's the chain. To properly secure a vessel, you typically have to let out 5x the depth in length of chain. The anchor just helps with the initial grab so the chain gets laid out properly.
If the ship just had 1.5x or 2x the depth of anchor chain deployed, it could easily drag the anchor like a plough.