Who worked for AT&T back in the 80s. They spent 6 months testing a single line of code and when inserted, it killed service in three states. His quote on the matter was "Anytime you pick up the phone and get a dial tone, you should fall to your knees and thank the Lord - because the Phone Company has very little to do with it."

Thats all

Bezos has learned everything he knows about space travel from Star Trek - Kobayashi Maru

Every time that thing comes in for it's insanely wasteful hover landing and has to bobble around and miss the center of it's pad, the above is what I'm thinking. It looks like it's under manual control by someone who's not that good at flying RC craft.

The article seems to miss mentioning neutron poisoning of the reactor lining. The estimates I've seen say a complete replacement of the reactor vessel lining will be needed every ?5-10? years. The materiel removed will be Very highly radioactive as well as physically difficult to remove (it gets crumbly)

I thought it was just me.

Agreed

A Model T cost about $500 now a basic car costs $20,000 try driving your Model T coast to coast

Crappy to junky isn't really worth any increase in price

Really? How much does a 25" TV cost today? What did you pay for the super computer in your pocket?

Mine is going up 12.5% next month. They think.

Saw it at (I think) the NAB show the year it was introduced $1500. Is the price I remember. I do have to say it was SPECTACULAR. Not just different numbers and letters but full color and the Rainbow attract mode was dazzling.

Anybody know what the preproduction, prelaunch, test bench numbers were for Starlink?

The number one advantage that SpaceX has over NASA is a director who believes in the mission

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