The whole claim that he was building it for her was clearly a lie to help drive news coverage because he started the project before she was born in 2009 (I saw it, or an earlier version of it, when I interviewed at Applied Minds in 2005 or so) and at least as of the linked article from 2020 he still hadn’t actually taken it out on a real trip yet.
I should probably try to get back on topic after this massive derail though. Here’s some time capsule related news:
