Mostly they are saying this is disproportionate, because it has gone on so long. They somehow miss that it’s gone on so long because of him. Also, he’s accused of rape which is a serious crime in Sweden and the UK.

Landing on a barge saves fuel. Basically, you place the barge where-ever the rocket was going to come down anyway, so it minimises the fuel cost.

I’m not sure where you get 20% more fuel from. SpaceX is talking 7% for a barge landing. You need less than you might think, because by the time you are landing you’ve lost the second stage and payload, plus all the fuel you already used, so the rocket is quite light.

Part of the problem is that when called on it by the other scientists, she doesn’t say, “Well look at all this all this evidence we’ve collected over decades of research.” She doesn’t even say, “We’ve loads of evidence that we unfortunately can’t show you.” She says it is an article of faith. She does show some…

That wouldn’t be enough. That would imply aliens, but not that they made humanity or that they could cure Wayland. The company might have sent an expedition, but not with the old guy on board.

But at the same time, it canalises those feelings. It channels them. It makes it harder to express other feelings which are close to the one the word denotes.

For me “jaunt” will always mean teleport.

No offence, but maybe he wanted to sleep with Cobie Smulder?

The link to the press statement was in the original article.

Did you not read the linked statement? Or even the bit I quoted? Here it is again: “We’re already more than three years into development of our first orbital vehicle.” So yes, they have already started the design. And they are not going for different markets. In the press statement he says their vision is “millions of…

I’m happy to say that Musk is winning, but I do think Bezos is in the race, even if he’s 5 years behind.

If it was made to resemble a bomb, where were the explosives? Shouldn’t there be a tube labelled “dynamite”, or some marzipan moulded like it was plastic explosive?

Is it the one that has no explosives?

I use 3 years. It can take 3 years for a product to go from unknown to mainstream. Prediction beyond 10 years seems virtually impossible. After I’d decided this for myself, I came across the quote that people overestimate what can be achieved in a year, and underestimate what can be achieved in 10 years. I feel that’s…

I think that’s a bit unfair. Bezos is aiming for space; he is in the race. Musk is ahead in some ways and Bezos is ahead in others. Did you read the linked statement?

They had a bunch of things to do. Fixing the power regulator was the most important, and took half an hour or so. That’s what forced the walk. Once out there, they did other odd jobs. Laying cables looked like being the most time-consuming.

It’s because what you see doesn’t match what you feel. With this roller coaster, they should be able to sync the physical motion with what the VR is showing you, so people shouldn’t feel any more ill than with a normal roller coaster, and less ill than video games or VR.

Isn’t “actress” sexist now?

For me the backlash started about an hour after I first saw it on the big screen, in 3D, and grew over the next 24 hours. The story wasn’t just shallow, it was offensive. The lack of originality was highlighted by District 9 telling essentially the same White Saviour story but with more interesting twists, to the…

I’ve not seen that show (no UK broadcaster). The centrifuges look pretty small from the clip, so I wouldn’t want to spend 9 months in one.