You could even power it, too: https://powerlighttech.com/autonomous-vehicles/

And now they're dead, and every single person involved in in the execution of that process is a murderer.

Hrm, what about a thin film supercapacitor that's charged by a piezoelectric component fueled by the regular flexing?

He had no secret wife, but 3 non-secret official affairs. The last one with Sophie Hess lasting for 18 years, in which she had a second lover. https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20190122/540398/Die-geheimen-Lie...

The rumor is that his first love interest in Russia Anna Desry preferred the mathematician Franz Lemarges.

https://simanaitissays.com/2018/08/23/on-alfred-nobel-and-go... and https://simanaitissays.com/2018/08/24/on-alfred-nobel-and-go... is possibly a better reference here.

Google gives the following definition of apocryphal:

> (of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.

So it seems to be certainly apocryphal.

An impulse sealer bar, like you'd use to seal the vacuum bag originally.

This is not higher-order thinking (insofar as such exists). The search tree is first-order -- in a sufficiently complex game that the search tree cannot be fully examined, the heuristics necessary to perform at a high level without the need to explore the search tree are the second order. The third order is left as an exercise to the reader.

How long do you think that humans have existed?

Depends on what humans we're talking about. 200k years, if we talk Homo Sapiens.

> I hear this from time to time but it doesn’t pass the sniff test. If we assume the vehicles are points...

Ah yes, the "sniff test", in which things which are untrue are assumed, which make the interlocutor sufficiently confident to pontificate. "Sniff test", as a concept, doesn't pass itself, rhetorically (-- or maybe it's a "code smell").

We have no evidence that we will ever be able to build sufficiently adaptable systems to engage with unfamiliar environments without constant direct human intervention, which is not possible at light-year (or even light-second) ranges.

And yet, the chestnut is one of the very few commonly eaten botanical nuts (along with the hazelnut and some acorns) -- nearly all other culinary nuts are otherwise (drupes, seeds, legumes, etc).