Isn’t the citation the fact that the guy is “a historian of modern Britain at Louisiana Tech”?

Seriously. Use that knowledge to alleviate all suffering in sentient beings and that’s a big step in the right direction. I jumped ship back when they chopped Morrison’s run off at the knees to do Nu52. He was taking it in a great new direction with Batman Inc. and moving the character into the future. The story…

Which is why I consider the aesthetics of most games to be total failures.

Not enough treads for the ground pressure. (Which is why a super-heavy quad “walker” probably will not work) Though the “3-barrel main gun” looks cool (but not very practical, recoil and ammo capacity problems)

so question when do you give up and say there is no one else.

You sir get all the stars. That was possibly one of the most eloquent and well backed up rebuttals I have read in a long time.

“And a reusable shuttle that’s Dreamchaser size .”

The RS-25 is NOT a new engine. In fact they are the same engines used on the Space Shuttle orbiters. And when I mean the same engines, I mean exactly that: the same engines. They were taken off the orbiters when they were decommissioned and those are the exact same engines.

Remember, this is a newer version of the same RS-25 that we flew for decades on the Shuttle. It doesn't make it less cool to see the steam, and a long-duration firing, but unfortunately, this isn't a huge advance of the state of the art. Which is unfortunate, because we desperately need one.

Cool! Sorry about the other guy being an ass-hat. We are on the Internet, and while I think io9 is much better than most comment forums, well, we need look no further than Douglas for examples of pointless rudeness. Emphasis on pointless— he wanted to assert his understanding without actually demonstrating it? Ugh.

You should speak up more often! I feel humbled trying to follow all that.