You absolutely cannot dig out that dirt on your own without some proper support. If you just try doing this on your own you might have the structure collapse on you.

A structural engineer can tell you if it can be done and specific methods for supporting the home during the dig out.

I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to disclosure that level of information. The other guy in my head said so.

This is correct. I used to work on the design of cameras for an aviation company and one of the contacts we were awarded was to design a new low friction mechanism gimbal for small camera systems.

As you would imagine, in aviation you're heavily space and weight constrained so it meant lots of careful design to fit the allocated constraints.

You can imagine my surprise when I learned that the government wanted to sign an exclusive manufacturing contract when they learned that we were producing this commercial for airlines. Help I've gotten myself so deep into this compulsive lie I don't know how to stop. The governmeny turned around and ended up using it in most regent design for birds and due to the lowered friction it resulted in a more prominent head bobbing.

So yeah, pretty spot on.

What? That makes no sense.

Even with 24" oc he should hit two studs minimum.

With a TV that wide you should be hitting three studs even with arbitrary positioning.

I mean I built the network (and most of the app / server infrastructure) for one of the local international air terminals...

It's not that uncommon to find someone who worked on them. There's a lot of stuff to do.