Only if they have zero assets in the US or a country with an extradition treaty. Our government confiscates criminals’ property all the time.

Well, in the scenario above, he’d be breaking a law the US signed, and fleeing to an area beyond US extradition treaty. And this *is* how the us justice department handles individuals who commit crimes and run. Again, it would probably be better for Musk just to use his enormous influence to have the law changed. It…

In the Cayman scenario he could still be subject to US censure. Dealing with his business would be a crime, his immobile assets frozen (which would piss off his investors for Tesla and SolarCity, and likely dry up additional SpaceX funding he needs to build this enterprise) and as the world’s largest free market…

He would be a criminal in the United States, his gigafactories would be impounded, his earthly assets confiscated. Or he could work to change the laws.

#GreenLivesMatter ?

The ratings aren’t the only thing keeping it on air. It can’t lose money or break even, but as a profit generating marketing device for ABC/Disney/Marvel, it provides a unique synergy tool for the multi billion dollar profit parade of Marvel movies. I won’t be shocked if it gets canceled this year (it’s hard for new…

Depends on what you want to do. The electrical needs are going down as computer equipment gets more efficient, and solar panels are getting more efficient and BIGGER. Juno isn’t all the way to Saturn, but it breaks the barrier for furthest solar probe. And records are made to be broken.

I have a fish like this in my tank (pic not mine, my tank needs a rehab badly)

Thank god I wasn’t the only one who thought that!!! So, if the cryoprotectant fails, a Japanese company can preserve tissue like this: https://mariakonovalenko.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/freezing-without-cryoprotectants/

I saw this movie before. It was trash.

You know why this is happening? Because they already have too many female leads then the company knows what to do with.

Why? I consume about 80-95% of my media on my mobile device. And most of that I read in portrait/vertical orientation. It fits in my hand, and the thumb in that hand can stretch across the entire keyboard so I can type well enough to get by. Getting to video means either I need to rotate my phone, tilt my neck like a…

Blathering blatherskite, you’re right! I bet he’s the NEGAVERSE Tad Stones!

“It wouldn’t be hard to time a rendezvous landing for when it would be in plane.”

Then let’s talk numbers. No handwaving. And I’m going to cherry pick CONSERVATIVE numbers (high cost/low yield), readily available from google.

You and I might characterize “crash” with very different momentum transfers. Every lunar landing and return splash down was a controlled crash. We’ve dropped 1 ton science instruments on Mars using rocket powered flying cranes. Every module, capsule, and station docking on the ISS has had to absorb some differential…

Controlled crashes are pretty much what we do best. But the cost of an expensive asteroid rendezvous might be easily offset by insitu resource development, IF we start with that as the goal. If the goal is to show “yes, we can” and bring back a few grams of dust, that’s a billion dollars for a few grams, and likely…

“I don’t think “supposed to happen” factors into evolution”