Was just going to comment about cheese in Mexican and Filipino ice cream flavors! I wasn’t super into it as a kid, but I’ve grown to appreciate it more as a grown up. Cheese ice cream with blackberries is a current favorite.

You guys need to try this. Found it at an asian market and it was pretty good. Has cheese chunks and everything

What’s also ridiculous, they gave the passengers titles/roles. The 4 passengers were “Mission Specialists” uh what? All the 4 people did was sit in a chair, unbuckle, float around and buckle back in. Unlike the two actual pilots flying the damn thing.

Branson did surpass 50 miles above sea level, above which NASA gives out astronaut wings. But come on, man, Branson’s stunt only barely cleared that.

Largest source of revenue for SpaceX is private satellite launches. The government does pay for launches, but a lot of those are launches the government would have done anyways- SpaceX is just cheaper. There’s also the Starlink system, which is likely to be a pretty big revenue source as it gets out of its beta stages.

Sounds like something someone who hasn’t gone to space would say.

Its both very cool that he did this, and also seems so pointless. Most experiments you’re doing in 2 minutes of weightlessness can be done on the vomit comet, the notion that this is for research is such a laughable concept.

Why the hate? Someone’s gotta fork over the big bucks if our governments won’t. Let the Bazillionare Space Race commence, and godspeed, I say. We’ll get some actual technological advancements that will further mankind’s journey into the cosmos, while also having a chance to witness some one-percenter explode on…

Did he go twice as high as a butterfly in the sky?

“I guess he could always use some of that totally real, liquid $170 billion he is said to have!”

It’s not even clear to me why the “$170 billion” is relevant to the story anyway. Musk was just estimating the cost of the system that would require for it to break-even and that the cost has to be funded.

The main issue with this business strategy is 5G is fast enough to meet most people’s needs and costs way less in infrastructure. Granted “nailing an antenna to anything that doesn’t move” is not great design, but it’s a lot cheaper than launching cubesats into space.

Because Starlink is primarily targeting remote area users where high speed internet service is difficult and expensive, there simply may not be enough target users to recoup the massive initial investment.

But it needs the same disclaimer that Fox lawyers used for Tucker Carlson: “No intelligent person would ever believe anything this man says.”

“Aren’t these rich people the worst?”

Musk doesn’t have $170 billion. Yes, he’s filthy rich, but come on here, he doesn’t have $170 billion. When you guys say shit like this, it undercuts your argument. It comes off as you being disingenuous, so what other things are you being disingenuous about that I might not realize?

Walking is to Trump as reading was to GWB.

I have a very hard time telling someone of high school age that they’re not allowed to heavy-handedly transgress against the some of the normative structures and traditions most relevant to their present stage in life. For a person in high school, that’s gonna be stuff like school sports, cheer, prom, weird dating…

She looks like Ivanka.

i came across this and tavi gevinson had a side by side of one of her songs and a hole song sounding alike. i think there may be more rips but idk.