Please share as it will be interesting to know “why” success of Starlink will “NOT” impact Starship development.

Yeah, and thats not likely to happen. The tolerances and such are going to make that virtually impossible.  Pluss redundancies because of the lack of ability to service them...

Seconded. Even now, the cost of launch isn’t the majority of the cost of most space missions or space telescopes. Hubble cost $4.7 billion to build, but the cost of launching it into orbit aboard a Space Shuttle was only about $450 million - less than 10%.

o say nothing of the fact that Starlink profits go directly into Starship which will directly result in astronomers reaching space much much MUCH faster

Starship which will directly result in astronomers reaching space much much MUCH faster

Swell, but the goal of AA is to completely abstain from alcohol, and it is only 42% successful at that (for a year)? The goal of SMART Recovery, CBT, and other interventions are harm reduction, controlled drinking and may not have total abstinence/sobriety as the goal. It stands to reason AA, whose goal it is to have…

From a fun website called dinosaur pictures dot org. The red pin marks location of Isle of Skye, Scotland. Middle Jurassic Scotland appears to be at the same latitude that it is today - just squished more closely to Greenland.

You’re harshing everyone’s mellow here.

I blame capitalism. The Man will do anything to squeeze another erg of work out of you.

They all escaped.

I work in the birding world and I can tell you that wealthy people who are just getting into birding will drop this kind of money on optics on a whim. I’ve seen people drop $6k on two pairs of Swaro binoculars or a spotting scope like it’s nothing and it never gets less shocking.

This is part of the hobby tech paradox...the more money you spend, the easier it is (thing id’s birds for you), the more boring it becomes.

I dunno about the staining techniques, but I have seen sequencing experts excited about the collagen sequence material and - as you note - its testing. Which later was the surviving protein from, and sufficient to identify, the Tibet Denisovan jaw. However, some of the results have had identified confounds, and in…

So AMNH wasn’t just taking money from the Mercers, and donations by the Mercers aren’t the subject of the article. Rebekah Mercer was sitting on the board of the museum, potentially in a potion to influence over their expositions, events and research initiatives.

As the Mercers are heavily involved in funding…

Fortunately, the flat Earthers are generally too poor to donate their way onto many boards...

I remain open to all ideas. That’s where you and I differ.

i forget why, but i once researched why creationists didn’t believe in radio carbon dating, but that’s what it comes down to. a disbelief in accurate measurements. 

Oh I totally get it. Ineffability is a wonderful reasoning point in that way.

“It was planted by God to test our faith!” can be used to dismiss a lot of evidence.

“The Devil put that bird there to mislead you!”