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Bezos was signaling the moon a decade ago though. Musk didn't pivot until something else changed.

IRS data says their rate is slightly better than the 1% (23.45% vs 26%), but the top 5% and lower pay at an even lower rate than that (<23% ). https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-statistical-tables-by-tax-rate-and-income-percentile

Depends on their albedo and the orientation of their panels.

Last I heard the Russian-side ECLSS doesn't work, how are they going to fix that? Or is cosmonauts coming back alive optional?

Concur, the numbers I found on NASA state Opportunity traveled 28 miles. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mer-opportunity/#:~:text=What%20was%20Opportunity?,its%20location%20in%20June%202018. Perseverance has surprisingly traveled further than Curiosity (22 miles), but it doesn't hold the...

It's not really SpaceX's fault if its competitors didn't keep pace. But Ill take their innovations all the same. Keeps us ahead of our Geopolitical rivals, and makes space more accessible.

"Steel" is a tad overwrought, what China produces at scale is too low grade for us to use in Ships or aircraft. Which is part to why our largest import source of steel is Canada.

The company pitches that they're still working it side by side with the unmanned version they have a contract for. It tied in nicely with the "standalone" station idea for the cargo Module DARPA was looking at... but whether they really have the money for it any longer? No idea.

Homo erectus deserves more credit here: https://archaeology.org/issues/july-august-2012/digs-discoveries/we-didnt-start-the-fire-homo-erectus-did/

It's both, it's historical roots go back to Alex de Toqueville who noticed, Empirically, America solved more social problems with fraternal societies than with Governmental (public) means. We were an "exception" compared to European societies that did the latter. When he coined this, we were...

Can confirm Starliner was pitched as an early vehicle to transport people to Orbital Reef if that gets off the ground, as it was assumed Dream Chaser wouldn't be ready in time. Boeing is also still a partner on that project. I'm not sure if DC now will be ready, but commercial Space Stations...

Excited to see this -- it's not quite a promise yet, they're just being asked to "design the payload-specific accommodations and to demonstrate how Blue Origin’s flight design will off-load the rover to the lunar surface" for their task order, but it would be a great practice run for Blue if it...

Because those options require battery storage. If you built up all of our proven reserve of materials into baterries, tomorrow, it'd be enough net storage for 3 -4 minutes of power for the entire nation. That doesn't get you through a cloudy, windless day, much less night.

So, how did France Solve this issue? Or South Korea? Was it just subsidies & better PM training? Im not trying to be flippant, I'm really just asking, didn't they solve this? Isn't this inherently solvable?

With respect, I think we have to discern space differently. Especially now, when it's still a mode of exploration. I don't know what Duffy has planned, and maybe all his changes are in fact ungodly stupid or poltically motivated. In which case f*** him. That said, it should be kept in mind--...

TBF, if that ended up taking shape the same way the Danes deleted their National IT and Telecom Agency (NITA), there could be benefits. The Danes themselves have done pretty well under their post-NITA framework of emphasizing competition-lead regulation...

He wasn't silent, he denied it. Both by the next day, and definitively a month later on Rogan's podcast. And he trolled people for making the accusation, which he saw as absurd. ...Cory Booker.

Absolutely sure, Hitler is messing with something in his pocket or other hand, the entire angle is misleading. Here he is doing it again: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8iujof6IL8 No motion to his left breast. Nor can you find anyone else in the era do that in any consistent way...

In the Nazi salute you don't grab your chest, or start from the opposite side. Your hand is a straight wedge all the way through, and the motion is the same as raising your hand. View: https://youtu.be/q6kPOEE-R-c?si=vVOrZy-1_h3ykhym Musk grabbed his chest, because he was "throwing his heart...

Can't they? I think the continuation of this CONOPs would be similar to what SpaceX was thinking of for transporting Starships to Florida --- Hopping / hovering. You could land these things near a coast, then have them refueled on site enough to a hop to a waiting drone ship off the coast. With...