Exactly!  The adventurer is *you*, whoever you are, or rather, whoever you want to be today.  ;-)

I’m betting he’ll just end up with a fine, actually.

I think the point is that New York is his home state, even if he’s relocated to Florida and may be intending to vote there.

None, I believe.  They all allow a convicted felon to run.  They just don’t allow a convicted felon to *vote*.

I mean, the great thing about it being unclear in the original artwork, and it being fantasy, is that we can come up with whatever story we want.

I’m not sure I agree; your argument seems to carry the assumption that a war involves an equal balance of aggression between two sides. That’s rarely the case in reality. Take the war in Ukraine, for example. That’s a wildly unequal conflict. Russia invaded and would have utterly crushed Ukraine by now if not for…

The privacy benefit is the first thing I thought of.

FYI: NASA has completed their flight readiness review, and they have given their go for launch on June 1 at 12:25 PM EDT.

Easiest case to prosecute? Literally phoning it in. :-D  Except it was the *defendant* phoning in the prosecution’s best evidence!

Felony level stupidity seems accurate. :-) I mean, if he was smart enough to do any of those things, he wouldn’t have been calling into his court date for driving on a suspended license while driving on a suspended license.  :-D

True. :-) Yeah, everything in this industry is hand built. We all love to dream of the day when it’s all mass produced, but that’s a very, very, very long ways off.

Oh yes, if you just happen to have a sword lying around, and that sword just happens to be Anduril, of COURSE you’re going to bloody slip it into the movie by any means necessary!  :-)

Well, it’s actually kind of irrelevant to that, seeing as how this is for a booster that will never lift Dragon, and there are no plans to adapt Starship for ISS missions.  Technological advancement isn’t some linear thing where everything proceeds on a “worse” to “better” scale.

And some people just enjoy watching things go boom. (Guilty pleasure, I have to admit.....  I quite like SpaceX’s video of all the crashing Falcon boosters, set to the tune of “Liberty Bell”.)

He doesn’t understand government funding, which is fair — a lot of people don’t. The part that seems to surprise people is that it’s not actually fundamentally different from any other kind of funding. Buying services from a company doesn’t work all that differently when you’re the government versus when you’re a…

That’s a fair analogy. All companies that provide services to the government do so in exchange not merely for costs but also for a fee. That fee is theirs to do with as they please. It is typical to reinvest it in products that can later be sold to the government; it’s how companies remain competitive. SpaceX is not…

“If you make a rocket like SLS and stick hand-built RS-25s on the back end of it, well each engine is priced at roughly $100 million (some source I found says the engine in fact costs about $45million, while some claim NASA is actually paying $146 million for each of them - just because, I guess. lol)“

Service module, perhaps?

Nice if you can afford it. :-) I can’t, but my rich uncle does routinely!

Yeah, they’re pretty creepy.  That whole idea of “restore the Temple so Jesus will come and end the world” thing?  Yikes.