1080p video isn’t even the standard in every circle, I’m sure you’ve nothing to fear in that department!

We honestly probably lose more in sheer mass just to atmospheric burnoff into space than we could ever hope to launch per year into space using rockets, don’t we?

That definitely helps to clarify things. Worth noting that the numbers there don’t account for anything other than a straight shot, and it gets notably easier apparently if one does a burn way out and *away* from the sun just to fall back into it.

While still a truckload of money, that’s certainly an appreciable decline in cost over the years, particularly when you factor in inflation! Long-term, those numbers make me happy, honestly.

One can hope that once that becomes the ultimate limiting factor, then RnD will be primarily funneled into fuel production/research as well.

This is true. SpaceX does not release its numbers on documents that they aren’t obliged to tell the truth on, but then again, it’d be objectively unwise to lie to their investors blatantly about a project that needs investment for many, many years to come. My inclination is to take them at their word on it, at any…

There is definitely no comparison to the ‘reusable’ launch vehicles that NASA used with the space shuttle to SpaceX’s reusable rockets now.

Though I have to wonder about that, if that price point will stay true for long.

Out of curiosity, why is this? If we can successfully point a spacecraft almost directly at Pluto, on its insanely distant, massive eliptical arc orbit, what makes the sun so hard to land a bullseye on?

‘I understand that people find it morally corrupt to let people die/suffer for conditions that are, theoretically, treatable. Especially children. Adults, however, should, in my opinion, bear responsibility for their own decisions. If you’re a 50 year smoker who wants to buy health insurance to treat your (insert…

They sound good, yes, but REALLY REALLY suck for everybody else when you scale it up to millions of people doing the exact same thing. If 40 million young, healthy folks all choose to do the same, then there’s less money in the overall pools to pay for the care for people who do in fact need it. This makes the higher…

I will not give her the benefit of the doubt because she is as much of a swindler as her father. She just packages it prettier and doesn’t have to give speeches in mangled English like he does.

Watching that trailer again makes me want to do the whole thing over again, right fucking now. It’s so good.

Oh no, be outraged, absolutely. It’s positively fucking obscene.

Again, they couldn’t even pass a bill with complete dominance over Congress.

To be fair, this would require a constitutional amendment. Even with a fully controlled Congress, the GOP couldn’t pass a bill they’d been promising to do for six god damn years.

Many airlines are indeed better than United, speaking from experience. Have you *been* on many different airlines? And not just US-based carriers.

I am perfectly cool with engaging and talking with people who hold absolutely batshit insane positions that deny science, say that trans people aren’t human, or that women should be subservient to men.

Are you trying to say that Witcher 3 and Breath of the Wild don’t have some pretty seriously wacky bugs?
Because they do. They definitely do. Witcher 3 in particular has some absolutely brutal quest bugs that can really fuck you over.

I mean... yes?