You just admitted that vitamin C is a real treatment with zero side effects and then somehow manage to claim that there are no others like it because “real treatments always have side effects”. There are certainly a lot of useless “treatments” out there with false claims, but that doesn’t make this article’s blanket…

Finally, an article on LaCroix that’s not stupid. It’s sad how ridiculous some of those articles were getting and how everyone was freaking out thinking they had been drinking poison all along. Thanks for debunking.

They’ve already made all the calculations and designed the engines that are needed to support the payloads that have been proposed. Why make it smaller? I think that could be explained by the fact that technology has improved quite a bit since the spaceships you speak of were designed and implemented.