Maybe the CIA could give some tanks to Afghan goat-herders, so there'd be a need for a plane that can shred them.

"China's particle emissions from their coal plants are reaching the arctic and causing faster melting"

That can't be right. In the 70s, the West's particle emissions were causing cooling that would lead to a New Ice Age if we DON'T BAN FOSSIL FUELS NOW!

Bingo. Anyone who uses the world 'Denier!' to refer to people who dispute a scientific point is no scientist.

Meanwhile, not one of the computer models matches reality.

This is a simple fact.

"The problem here is "because something is complex, we cant model it" is a new and improved kind of terminally stupid. "

There are numerous 'climate' models. They all vaguely agree with each other.

But not one of them agrees with, you know, actually observed reality.

So clearly we can't model climate. But Climate Changers are demanding that politicians destroy the lives of billions and burn trillions of dollars because 'Muh Science!'

The odd part is that their demand to reduce fossil fuel usage is exactly the same thing they demanded back when they were telling politicians they had to save us from the new Ice Age that was about to happen.

Odd, that, isn't it? It's almost as though eliminating fossil fuels is the goal, and 'Muh Science!' is just the means to justify it. But surely that can't be true?

None of the 'Global Warming!' computer models have come close to predicting the temperature changes (or lack thereof) of the last twenty years or so. In what sense is so-called 'science' whose predictions don't match reality not blatantly, utterly wrong?

Which adblocker blocks Youtube ads?

Mostly I just try to avoid the site these days because the ads are so annoying.

"Where the hell are the social liberals running these companies when they blindly obey orders from the Chinese government?"

'Social liberals' love the Chinese government, because they all dream of being dictators. Look at Turdeau, for example, talking about how he admires Chinese dictatorship.

Indeed. Gotta love watching SJWs eat each other.

"The whole industry considered reusability impossible."

To be fair, they didn't consider it impossible, they considered it to not make economic sense. Boeing, for example, proposed a reusable Saturn V first stage in the 60s, but it would have required at least sixty launches to repay the development costs.

Ah, the old 'Falcon Heavy hasn't flown so Musk sucks' argument.

The biggest reason Falcon Heavy hasn't flown is that there's no been no need for it. It was meant to launch the big payloads while Falcon 9 launched the smaller ones, but Falcon 9 has been upgraded so much that it can now launch all but the very largest payloads.

The second biggest reason is that starting 27 engines and separating two booster stages in mid-flight turned out to be harder than they expected. BFR, or whatever it ends up being called, will use a very different design.

"What are you defining as "science"? "

You know. Science.

'Spinoff' arguments are almost entirely bogus, because if you wanted those technologies, you could have just spent the money on developing them and forgotten the whole man-in-spam-can thing.

"Let him. He won't do it because he's all hot air. "

Yeah, I mean just look at his rocket company. Whatever happened to that?

I'm no Musk fanboy, and I think Tesla is a massively-overvalued dead end (except to the extent that self-driving electric vehicles will be very useful on Mars), but there's no denying that he's revolutionized the rocket business. His Mars plans are optimistic, but there's nothing impossible about them.

"America pissed away its future on wars and entitlements."

Bingo. When I was a kid, we were going to have people living on the Moon and Mars by the time I graduated from university. Instead, we got a bloated welfare state, and entire industries which do nothing but cater to insane SJWs who self-identify as unicorns.

Manned spaceflight produces very little science, and most of it is science about how humans live in space.

But it's not really true. Congress need to stop telling NASA to waste billions of dollars a year building rockets that will cost billions of dollars per launch and have no funded payloads. Then NASA could afford to do something useful.