The pending Bartlett case will determine whether Mensing applies to design-defect claims and whether it requires a finding that such claims against generic drug manufacturers are similarly preempted.
Additionally, when our sources last checked around June and July, the N94 had yet to hit the DVT stage, so it's hard to determine whether these parts will remain the same in the final design, or whether the N94 will even make it to the production line at all.
He's attacking rocketry the way he would assemble software: design, build, test and repeat in rapid-fire succession to quickly determine what works and what doesn't.
At the same time, the experiment's clever design makes it possible to distinguish between man-made and naturally occurring dust particles, and so determine their relative proportions.