2) Much of New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas

Oh, it’s fine to say Musk is an asshole. He is. My point is, SpaceX is operating the same as it always has. And before people disliked Musk, every write-up was in praise of SpaceX. And now, with SpaceX taking the same risks, doing the same “test early, test often, try new things” approach it always did, because people…

Uhh, this is in Texas?

Oh, if Musk hadn’t bought Twitter, this article would have never been written. People are completely unable to separate their feelings about the owner of the company and things that company does. Before Musk was hated, everything SpaceX did was amazing. Now, the same engineers are still working there, making…

thousands of gallons

I’m NOT a Musk defender, but I hate this line: “Should’ve Built in the First Place”

They tried something new. It failed, and didn’t cost them anything. This was a useful experiment.

Similarly, with Lin Manuel Miranda doing all the music and every movie needing its own “Let It Go,” they’ve started to all sound the same, too. Makes me miss the days of Brother Bear where they’d take risks even if they didn’t pay off.

Gray type on a black field is very difficult to read.

One thing about engineers... We never need to hear, “You were right.”

I mean, people are interested. You’re here, reading and commenting on it. You and others like you are the reason this is a revenue generating story.

At least if the sub imploded they’d be killed so quickly they’d be dead before even their brains had time to register what was happening. They’d be instant chunky marinara sauce

The video you shared was the guy (who’s name is Clive) joking around and making a “Scottish MRE” and making a fake ration heater. I only know this because I watched this video ages ago.

To be fair, the bottom several 1000 feet (perhaps even bottom 10000 feet) of that deep borehole have closed up due to forces deep underground.

I would have preferred a headline like “China drilling hole that’s still thousands of meters more shallow than existing hole”.

Oh certainly and then some... I give Russia about a 50-50 chance at breaking up in the next few years. This war Putin started in Ukraine is exposing and expanding internal divisions.

There’s no solar plant on Earth that can operate 24/7/365 like a space-based one could.

I love in the company’s own video with the guy bringing out his little gadget on the plane shows him surrounded by people already resting quietly and looking comfortable without needing the product. Shorty McShorterson here, I don’t think I have the personal infrastructure to use this, and really don’t need one more…

Professor Challenger assures us that when the Earth screams, you’ll know it.

Wow. An article about drilling very deep into the Earth’s crust and no mention of the Kola Superdeep Borehole?

WTF?  This does not look comfortable at all.