George, you buried the lede.

Maybe that’s why we should focus on that (or not specifically that, see my next paragraph). After all, from JFK’s speech on this subject:

Or both. Getting hit by an asteroid is highly improbable in any given human life span. Exploring space and our solar system will only help us develop more technology to better safe guard our world.
This is why you don’t poll people over this. They’re dumb. 

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Oof, solid motor failures are a lot more energetic than liquid rocket failures. They’re basically just bombs that explode slowly in one direction. When they go wrong, they don’t tend to go wrong neatly and quietly.

They were only supposed to blow the doors off

What happened to George Dvorsky? He was much more knowledgeable and fair than this guy, who is just a troll who hides his lack of understanding space flight with bad takes and snark.

It means it is not currently consuming anything, that it is sitting in relatively empty space.

So now there are strings perpendicular to the ones previoulsy known?

To the best of our knowledge, electrons are truly point particles. Protons and neutrons are composite, and have sizes of about 10^-15 m. But your larger point stands, in that when looking at the overall relative sizes of these structures, a one-dimensional description works best because of the extreme difference…

And a towel. Always remember to bring a towel.

He wrote about cooking a lot. “The Motel in God’s Eye” is about painful sautéing incident and "Protector" is a sequel about wearing safety glasses.

Weird, I would have never guessed that Niven dabbled in barbecue cookbookery!

Yeah, this is the company that programmed their autopilot to fly the plane into the ground to save a few bucks on pilot retraining. I’d fly on a SpaceX rocket all day, but this thing, you couldn’t get me on until at least 20 or so successful flights first.

Either way they have to be included in the article and discussion. Every space writer knows this. 

You simply cannot publish a spaceX article without first checking Elon’s twitter. You are completely out of date. It will not likely take 16 launches and may even be done in as few as 4 tankers.