This will be the truck driver's Longest Day, for he has moved A Bridge Too Far.

The Aral Sea is arguably a bigger environmental disaster than the Salton Sea, and there are a lot of similarities...caused by the Soviet Union diverting rivers for irrigation.

Why single out capitalism?  The Soviet Union and China are some of the top polluters to this day.  Seems more like a humanity problem.

Doing an orbit has absolutely NOTHING to do with the demarcation between going to space or not going to space. It is hands down the stupidest, most ass-backwards definition or attempt at one that I’ve ever seen anyone apply to the term. Did he go to space? Eh. Maybe. NASA would credit him with a spaceflight mission if…

Says the one cheering a two-bit writer who wants to be an expert on space travel, all while declaring actual astronauts clueless hacks.

It’s funny to watch us broke fuckers gatekeeping space. As though it matters to you in any way.

Says the guy with a bootlicking GMG-union avatar

For sure. More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean. That is one hell of a brag for anyone.

By Erik’s definition, the Voyager probes have never been to space. Erik’s definition is awful.

“The Wright Brothers didn’t fly.”

In 1964, it was estimated that each X-15 flight cost about $270,000, or $2.3 million in 2021 money to fly one highly skilled test pilot to the edge of space. Also it took about 30 days to refurbish an X-15 for its next flight. That was actually a really good deal compared with the almost concurrent Gemini program which…

I’m not normally one to knock the writers of this site, I have stupid opinions too, but Eric consistently writes questionable content. It’s getting to the point where I’m going to stop clicking on his articles.

Let me just say that if I did what he did, I am telling every fucker I know and everyone I meet that I have been to motherfucking space. 

How ever much shade Erik wants to throw on this accomplishment, Virgin Galactic’s ship performed exactly as they planned and expected. In no way did it not achieve what they set out to do yesterday.

The government isn’t forking out the big bucks for Space Tourism, they’re forking out the big bucks for satellite delivery and trips to the ISS. If anything moving the space transport business to the private sector has dramatically reduced cargo delivery costs for the government.

But come on, man, Branson’s stunt only barely cleared that.

This is the correct take. It’s pretty hard to prove harm given Tesla’s stock rise. 

Lmao, you can always count on Jalopnik to present an unbiased article on anything related to Musk. Nice work guys, as always

oh look, the daily Elon hit piece. your unrelenting obsession is really getting Trumpian.

completely unrelated to cars of course.

did Elon touch you in a bad place Bradley?

Lots of people who actually live in areas where there’s no good broadband, or areas with crappy broadband monopolies, are pretty damn excited about Starlink. I have little doubt they could have 5+ million users in the US alone since there are more homes than that that have dial up, slower more expensive satellite…