Doesn’t matter. Insurance is for the payload not the event. Launch vehicles blow up on the stand as much if not more than they do in the air (Because they spend a lot more time fueled on the launchpad than in the air). Nobody would buy insurance on a satellite and not cover time spent on the pad.

That’s very true. However, as someone pointed out, there is almost certainly another satellite for backup purposes and troubleshooting on the ground, that could be pressed into service in short oreder and replaced later. The question is whether they can guilt-trip SpaceX into moving them up in the launch schedule.

The Payload is insured, not the launch. Launch vehicles blow up on the stand as often as they blow up in the air. Unless SpaceX and Facebook were playing unusually fast and loose on this one (Which they may well be), this satellite was insured.

I’m sure the premiums are absolute murder.

About 20, actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite…

What If we said Dad was driving?

The problem with the concept of alien visitation is that it makes no sense. You have the ability to traverse light-years, by either breaking physics as we know it, or living for millennia. Why the HELL would you bother with a bunch of apes like us? It’d be like crossing the ocean to go to a Denny’s.

Satellite launches are heavily insured for this exact reason.

It makes me want to find him and pepper him with Freaks and Geeks questions just for a change of pace.

“Good” and “A lot of fun” are not necessarily the same thing.

So don’t watch it. I don’t get whats so complicated about this. HBO didn’t sign a contract with you. It’s not your story to dictate. If you don’t like a story, don’t continue paying to consume it. that’s your power as a consumer. You don’t get to call up Stephan King demanding he change Christine because you didn’t…

Yeah but that’s a net gain in total space.

Do we judge the prequels unusually harshly? Yes. Does that mean the prequels are good? No.

I mean lets be honest, The dialogue is terrible, Hayden Christiansen is...well..you’ve seen it. The plot works but it’s janky and not optimally delivered. Basically everything Anakin does in Menace is cringe-worthy. But worst of…

In terms of policy Libertarian and Green couldn’t be much more different. How can someone justify eyeing them both up equally. I mean, one wants universal health care, and one wants a completely privatized system. One wants vastly fewer gun restrictions, one wants vastly more. One wants strict government control of…

I must confess...I do not get the joke.

You just demanded I prove a negative. I’m sorry you don’t know how basic argumentation works, but that’s not an option you have. You make a claim, you provide the source. You don’t get to make a claim and demand that I disprove it.

It’s just sad. I’m just asking you to source an outlandish sounding claim you made (and…

Are you going to back up your claims with a source, or not? Source your claims or stop referring to your Bernie-Sanders-Fan-Fiction as factual, because, in that case...Nobody Cares.

That’s what I thought. Too bad. I hoped you might actually have a poorly-informed source on that absurd claim instead of just making shit up...like candidate like fanboy I suppose.

Nobody cares whether you’re voting and if so, who for. Nobody cares why you think you’re voting that way. Nobody cares about your self-righteous speeches.

I do, however, care to see a source on that delightfully fictitious-sounding claim that Sanders fanboys are somehow demonstrably more intelligent than those they…

Typing two words doesn’t take very long. Again: nobody cares.