Welllll, I am guessing this is an early development cost. Someday there will be a micro space armada of cubesats that bring down the cost of this significantly. Heck, look at the delivery system of the SpaceX internet satellites ... light bulb going on ...

The Legion of Doom never had a plan as good as “American exceptionalism/MURICA!” is at destroying america. If, like, Scarecrow said he was gonna release a highly contagious pathogen and just tell people it was a hoax, even while it killed 250,000 people, Lex would’ve kicked him out of the LOD.

I mean...think about how offensive it would be if Music was played by an autistic actor and every time she actually danced they had it be Maddie Ziegler, like she’s not herself in her fantasies...that’s way worse.  I’m sure there is somebody waiting to say that even wishing you could dance is ableist, as much as I…

I wonder what people would say about the casting of Russel Crowe if A Beautiful Mind were being cast today. I must admit that I cannot stand Russel Crowe or anything he’s done. But the film won Best Picture 2002 and I can’t argue with that. Should the studio have hired a schizophrenic actor? I can’t imagine the…

I know quite a few people who are either autistic or on the spectrum. My point was basically that autism in many ways can be an invisible illness. It is not quite as visible as me and my wheelchair.

Yeah, that’s kinda my point about lightsabers: a lot of Star Wars fans have some sort of science-adjacent theory about how this stuff works, and it’s certainly something that gets debated a lot in the fandom. And even if we’re not talking about how the lightsaber works, we’re talking about what “should” happen to a…

SW is heavily run on ‘rule of cool’. Everything was designed to look good on screen, including the ships and technology. So yes, rocket nozzles. However, it’s not hard sci fi just because it looks like 1970s NASA.

You need more than looks to be hard sci-fi, what is shown needs to be able to actually, almost…

This video has some interesting points, but the premise is really flawed to me.

I apologize if this is an ignorant question, but genuinely curious and not sure that this is even applicable to this situation. What if the autistic actors that audition just don’t fit what the director/casting person is looking for? I know having them play a disabled person adds another layer to the equation, but it…

Unemployment among actors in Hollywood is typically 90%, or some similar number. If you want to start a career in an industry with a 90% unemployment rate expect to be unemployed.

On what basis do you say that autistic actors are struggling to get acting roles? There are plenty of autistic actors, in some cases very, very famous ones. It’s just that, unlike minority or trans actors, people don’t immediately realize it. Which, by extension, is why those groups are marginalized to an extent that…

Okay, so this is massively stupid. An actor’s job is, quite by definition, to portray someone/thing they’re not. Should Dustin Hoffman not have been cast in Rain Man? Was Daniel Day-Lewis the wrong choice for My Left Foot because he doesn’t actually have CP? I don’t think these films are any less effective or…

FAST is a fine instrument, but it can’t replace Arecibo. For one thing, its design constrains it to a much smaller portion of the sky. I’m also not sure it’s capable of the radar studies that Arecibo has become so famous for, though if it’s not, with the loss of Arecibo I imagine the international scientific community…

Cut the bullshit, just say what we all know you mean - keep the politics out of it, unless it’s something I’m comfortable with.

This isnt a review of a game, it’s an editorial. Maybe the fact you can’t even discern that is proof enough you weren’t paying attention in the 80s. 

Radio astronomy does not significantly benefit from being space-based, because the atmosphere does not block or distort radio waves like it does visible-light, x-ray, and gamma, and there’s still plenty of earth-based radio noise in orbit.

There are two things that makes me hopeful a new dish will be built:

Healthcare and other benefits extended to family members.

Passport info. What the fuck.