AVIATION COMMENTATOR ON TV
The thing you need to understand is that an Airbus has three laws...

MY BRAIN, AUTOMATICALLY
"An Airbus may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."

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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Objectively correct interpretation.

Carry on.

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No no, it's "an Airbus cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be converted from a disassembled state to an assembled state."

>AVIATION COMMENTATOR ON TV
>The thing you need to understand is that an Airbus has three laws...
>
>MY BRAIN, AUTOMATICALLY
>"An Airbus may not harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a
>human being to come to harm."

And the undisclosed fourth rule: Do not harm employees of Airbus

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-Pasha
"Don't change the subject"
"Too slow, already did."

Mentioning "aviation" and "laws" reminds me of this diagram, outlining the Fundamental Forces of Flight.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

What with everything else modern smartphones can do, it's odd that they don't have a temperature sensor. Maybe the manufacturers figure that since they're usually carried directly on people's persons, it wouldn't be useful.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Phones do have temperature sensors, but they're used to throttle the CPU in case of overheating. The one time I had a program to check my phone, its temperature was consistently about 45 °C.

There do appear to be some that have environmental temperature sensors. And supposedly the Pixel phone has a sensor to measure objects you point it at, which is one of those things that's theoretically interesting but also not something I've ever thought I needed my phone to be able to do.

-IA.

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One of these days, smartphones are just going to evolve into tricorders!

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

>One of these days, smartphones are just going to evolve into
>tricorders!
>

I vaguely remember a news story about somebody who had designed an attachment that turned a smartphone into a multipurpose medical recorder.

So, it's more a problem of fitting all the hardware inside a smartphone than anything else.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

>One of these days, smartphones are just going to evolve into
>tricorders!
>
>"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

If you have an iPhone look for "phyphox", which lets you read and record many of the sensors on the phone. There is an Android version as well, but I'm not familiar with it.
https://phyphox.org/

Code to interact with the device as well as the app source.
https://github.com/phyphox

-VR
At one point there were phyphox-ish apps that called themselfves tricorders, but they got shutdown. If you want special effects, look for Quadcorder on the iOS app store.
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