Also kind of weird to see 5.6 million viewers referred to as bad.

Why is Zack Snyder even a thing?

Spacex receives fixed price contracts to deliver a service. Complaining about this is like complaining about a public school teacher crashing their car because it was taxpayer funded

SpaceX has failed spectacularly pretty regularly.

That’s why we test ‘em.

It seems the author and the commenters are unfamiliar with SpaceX. Unlike NASA, SpaceX tests early and often, and the failures, which are expected, are fixed early and often. Every one of their spectacularly reliable technologies was preceded be spectacular fireballs and crashes.

To be honest, Good. Discovery has been wildly uneven, with shoddy plotting, inconsistent characterization and an all too casual relationship with wider Star Trek canon. It’s been a series of squandered opportunities and wasted ideas. I won’t miss Michael Burnham much, especially now as we have Pike’s Enterprise, the…

So I really enjoyed the film, but you are not wrong with your points at all. To be honest, if they had made it a stand alone Pixar SciFi film, not connected to Buzz in any way, it might have done better at the box office.

I am very inclined to believe that they exist and that the government has concealed that fact.  But the NY Time ceased being credible a long time ago.

This is me all disappointed because its not a live action adaptation of the fabulous animated Disney Atlantis.

Not sure how you think liquid hydrogen is a problem here. We already use it as fuel for rockets, so production already exists, and since it’s not being combusted here it’s effectively inert, which means it’s far safer than hypergolics while being a lot less dense than monopropellants (which it could actually be used as…

I think they do provide some lift, at least near the fuselage where they’re thicker, so it’s a kind of one-and-a-half wing.

Well you tried! But didnt even take an hour before you got “my guess is it all gets down to Zaslav as a reality TV guy.” as a response. Ooh and “He doesnt understand scripted content”

The problem is you don’t actually know what the data is that he is seeing. This is going to be simplistic and probably misses a lot of nuance but for the sake of argument lets say each view of an episode of a series directly translate into $1 for HBOMax but only 3 episodes a month are viewed. So it is making $36 a…

Apollo 13 almost resulted in another 3 deaths.

Of the 12 manned Apollo missions, 2 were failures, and 1 in 12 Apollo astronauts died.

So to recap: the Shuttle program had a 1.5% failure rate and a 3.9% fatality rate*.

The Apollo program had a 16.6% failure rate and an 8.3% fatality rate.

*The only reason that the…

It’s amazing how the role of politics in and out of NASA is completely left out of this article. You can trace almost every bad design decision on the Shuttle back to a politically motivated decision.

I would disagree with the Space Shuttle program being bad, it was building a fleet of identical space shuttles that was the huge mistake. Each new shuttle should have been developed with design improvements hard learned from the previous version with a willingness to acknowledge failures in previous designs in regards…

Not evolving the space shuttles was the singular failure of the NASA Space Shuttle program. Building 4 nearly identical shuttles (5, if you include the test bed Enterprise) was fully wasting the opportunity to really achieve something meaningful with the reusable orbiter program and definitely slowed our progress into…

For the cost of the Shuttle missions that serviced it, we could have built several copies of the Hubble Space Telescope and launched them with improved instruments as well. 

We also likely will never know the value of the DOD missions.