intelligence is an abstract concept, and sure, iq is a lossy way to measure it. but the idea that you could quantify intelligence into a scalar is absurd on its face and impossible to take seriously
there's a really interesting book called "When Prophecy Fails" that documents a doomesday cult. the cult had predicted a huge flood sometime in the 1950s and some sociologists infiltrated the group posing as believers to document their psychological response to the calamity not occuring
one of the core theses of the book is that adherents to a prophecy paradoxically believe in it much more strongly AFTER it's been disproven
Oracle did what they always do, buy shit out and then milk people for money. That's all they do with it, and why nobody actually uses Oracle's JDK anymore.
Low earth orbit is in space ('outer space'), so unless they have been to other parts of space not sure it's more correct - perhaps more specific, but I think the more general correct claim wins out.
If they'd previously been up in sounding rockets, or high altitude aircraft, or like a Blue Origin sub-orbital hop we would likely have an interesting discussion here - I will take anything that has surpassed the McDowell line as being 'in space' but think making orbit is more impressive.
Keep in mind, in the really malicious cases where an extension has changed hands, they often just sell the credentials to the Google developer account, so this won't detect those cases.
But are these developers initially criminals? I doubt so. And putting at risk associated accounts (same phone number for registration, recovery email address) isn't a comfortable game to play for most normal developers.
