You’ll have to go much, MUCH higher up than a really tall building or a hot air balloon to actually see the curvature of the Earth. Even Richard Branson’s toy rocket for millionaires/various celebs doesn’t really go high enough to truly see it according to knowledgeable people - because the Earth is REALLY big, and…

Anyone having 12 or more kids is irresponsible, regardless of if they can provide for them or not. There are already way more people alive on this planet than there has ever been in human history - we’re not suffering from any population collapse by any measure.

Yeah, and also: wow, AI manages to fuck up even our past! No wonder it’ll be the doom of us all. ;)

I stand by my opinion. :)

Looks like a giant clutch of alien eggs, tbh...

You said cool name... ;P

You’re arguing against a point I wasn’t making; yes, the craft has enough helium NOW. But it sprang several more leaks out of nowhere, spontaneously (and who can say how those leaks will develop), just like five of the thrusters dropped out spontaneously and only four came back into service.

You didn’t actually have a point. For chrissakes, you’re the guy who thinks the whole “Homelander is the good guy” thing is fake, because YOU personally haven’t noticed any of that.

No, I’m sure these guys and gals are unflappable and have ice water running through their veins, but when there’s potentially life-threatening issues that could be easily avoided just by not getting in the capsule, why would they expose themselves to the unnecessary, pointless risk? The capsule can be automated, what…

It’ll be The Emperor’s New Clothes all over again.

The amount of people supporting an obviously demented sociopathic madcap is pretty much the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in my life up until now I think. It sounds exaggerated when you just say it, but after reading a transcript of one of Dump’s unscripted rants it’s not so funny anymore...

Holy fucking shit, that doddering orange goober’s blown all his fuses already, and there’s still about 4 1/2 months to the election...

I don’t see you responding with anything relevant, or factual. Just a boring and incorrect kneejerk ad hominem. Not that I mind ad hominems, but at least don’t be lazy and wrong when you use them.

Losing 8k sats/year would require Starship being operational and successfully lowering the cost per kilogram to orbit by orders of magnitude from where it is today. It would also require far more Starlink subscribers than today.

Everything is politics, mate. Not talking politics and just doing entertainment in a show is taking a political stance, just like say, Elon Musk shutting Ukraine out of Starlink to prevent getting involved in the conflict is him taking a stance in the conflict.

Lactation fetishes isn’t weird? News to me... lol

Wa, wa, wa, wa.

If you think the show is about “Kripke hates conservatives”, then you’re just as stupid as all these other whiny dumbshits who don’t get the show.

Fascism, originally in Italy, before it also became an authoritarian strongman-worshipping ideology, was to a large degree about the merging of the state and private enterprise. IE, not just running the government as a corporation, but rather the corporation becoming the government. (Think Weyland-Yutani here...)

I would hope and think that NASA is beyond that kind of face-saving nonsense by now, after the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia disasters.