AlexanderESmith

It’s not a minor nitpick. The comment was that “nobody calls a git repo a blockchain”. It’s because it’s not a blockchain, or even remotely similar to one.

Could it be? Sure, I don’t see a technological reason why someone couldn’t build a system like that.

Are they now (federated, or blockchained)? No.

Gps, transponders, radar, and other systems rely on radio waves to operate

So when I said “VFR” and “light guns”, and you totally ignored it, it proved to me that you’re spouting some armchair opinions, and have never flown a plane. Nor did any of the people who downvoted me. Looks like the reddit crowd is in full swing in this thread.

Also, I said I couldn’t speak to the ambulance radios. I have no experience with those systems, and said as much. Everything you said about them is beside the point I was making.

You don’t need radio comms to fly or land a plane. Could a shitty ham screw up the instruments? Yes. Is that a headache for ATC and pilots? Yes. Will they crash a plane? No.

Yeah, they’ll totally honor that.

Uhhh, no. I can’t speak to the ambulance comms, but a plane isn’t going to fall out of the sky because they can’t hear the radio. Even if they have to fly VFR and make an emergency landing (which would be the worst case). Waaay too many safeguards in place (including the pilot themselves being trained for loss of comms).

The radio in the plane could melt and you’d still be able to communicate with ATC via light guns.

You mean a “github repo”. Git by itself doesn’t give a hoot about validating authors what-so-ever (I could sign as "Bill Gates ", and git would happily accept the commit), and it’s not federated (multiple people manually downloading various states of the repo at various times doesn’t count).

Github ensures owners are who they are, as linked to their profile (though email validation only goes as far as “Well, they clicked the link in the email, so this must be their email account”). Github also isn’t federated, since that one site going down takes all the repos with it (unless someone had it cloned, but again, random people downloading at random times yields different states of the repo, depending on when the clone/fetch occured, but then you’d end up with tens/hundreds/thousands of sources of various levels of truth).

Musk is a douche, and these robots are vaporware waiting to happen, but;

These designs aren’t even close. Alex Proyas must be blind.