I would start to suspect my employers of bank robbery.

Simple! Just change the gravitational constant of the universe.

It’s weird to say there’s no upper limit. Somewhere around magnitude 46, the entire universe would collapse into a black hole. I think once you’ve destroyed the universe, you can stop counting.

I started learning Japanese recently. It’s made me realizehow sloppy English is with vowel sounds.

Liftmaster and Chamberlain are the same company, so it’s highly likely (though not guaranteed) that the parts are compatible.

I recently replaced my opener in a similar situation. Mine’s chain drive and I did reuse the existing chain. I’d be less confident reusing a belt; rubber degrades faster than metal. But, based on my experience, replacing just the belt or chain isn’t much harder than replacing the motor unit. I had to loosen my chain considerably in order to get it around the new motors sprocket. At that point, it would have been just a few more turns of the tension screw to fully remove it.

The cure for ignorance is education. Even PhD-holders can be stupid.