I wonder if that will be a bigger hit than Deadpool 2. It really is an “event” movie this time around, because there’s no other Marvel Super Hero Movies coming out. 

I’d watch a prequel movie (or mini-series) about the lead up to the park, with a more book-faithful Hammond and centered on the staff trying to make it work in the face of Hammond’s impatience, cost-cutting, and the sheer technical challenges. Show Nedry trying to make the impossible automation work and then getting…

It’s a lot of fun. You just get to chill* in a big floating hotel where you don’t have to constantly pull out your wallet for food and drink, and it takes you to cool places where you can do stuff.

Draft is about 31 feet. I guess that’s shallow compared to a supertanker, but still seems like a lot to me - anything above a draft of 10 feet doesn’t seem shallow to me (steamboats of the 19th century had drafts in the 3-4 feet range, meaning they could move in some very shallow water - sometimes even jumping over…

Is the existing system popular with folks traveling in it, with decent traffic? It sounds like it might be, even if the system sounds kind of dumb with high operating costs (all those drivers). 

The issue is that it’s a lot cheaper to make a robot version of a tool than a robot that can use a human tool.

You could do a quadruped (or something else), but something vaguely humanoid makes a lot of sense because you can use it more easily in spaces designed for humans. Instead of needing a bunch of specialized robots designed for each task, you could instead just have the humanoid robot operate a vacuum cleaner, use the…

If you can actually make them competent at tasks, then humanoid robots are often a good idea because

Second movie (which is great) already did the whole “bring him back for one last ride” schtick.  What’s the third one going to do? Especially since I can’t imagine Cruise being a minor character in one of these. 

Big emphasis on the “beverages”. I left a sparkling cider in my trunk once with my car outside in the cold, and it literally exploded. 

Where did they say? An actual source, not CSS, who has been blatantly wrong plenty of times on SpaceX and clearly is nursing a grudge.

Falcon 9 launches are absolutely cheaper than what came before, which is why SpaceX has devoured much of the commercial launch market (to Arianespace’s dismay). Starship - eventually - will be cheaper still, especially on a cost-per kilogram basis.

The Saturn V set-up was pretty costly per mission, and it heavily limited how much you could send down to the lunar surface or how long you could stay there - or even where you could land (all of the Apollo lunar landings happened within the equatorial region of the Moon, whereas we really want to be able to land all…

He made the point that if NASA had as many failures as Space-X, congress would have cancelled their budget in a heartbeat.

It’s more than just the lander that has issues. The space suits aren’t ready, stuff has come up with the Orion capsule preventing the 2024 Lunar Orbital flight - I doubt they’ll really be ready to land on the Moon before 2028. 

I know what you’re saying, but for other people’s benefit: Mars cannot be terraformed as it has no molten core. Any attempt will be blown away by solar winds extremely quickly.

Each meal is on average 1 pound, and at $10,000/lbs (super generous, Space X is nowhere near that), you are talking 10,000 x 1,080,000,000 = 10,800,000,000,000.

It doesn’t take 10,000 ships to fly that many people up, if you’re just ferrying them to waiting Starships in orbit. Starship has more internal volume to ferry up passengers than a Boeing 747 - you might be able to send up as many as 1000 on a single flight, and that’s assuming they don’t create expanded fairing…

But what is more of a problem, is the food. The first ship will stay up there for almost a year before leaving, the second one 1 year - a day, and so forth.

We have astronaut stays in microgravity long enough to be comparable to a trip to Mars, and some idea of what the radiation impact might be from ISS (an astronaut that stays on ISS for a year gets about 150 milliSieverts of radiation dose - less than interplanetary space, but comparable to some of the lowland areas of…