Most of the big increments were complete by 1970s. Then it was just tweaking - and most of that tweaking was done under the USSR. Bear in mind that we are still less than 1 working lifetime from the USSR collapsed. The Russian space program is still very much running on communist momentum.

Right, anybody who disagrees with Israeli expansionist aggression is anti-semitic. What a load of bullshit. If you found a state on the basis of stealing other people's land (you did), and then justify this based on some bronze aged book of fables telling you that this land was promised to you by an invisible sky daddy... well, you deserve everything you get in that case. Some people push back.

Your question is equivalent to "Is there a singularity at the beginning of the universe".

Going back through time in conventional cosmology leads you through increasing temperature and density, until conventionally you reach a point where both are infinite - the singularity. This, however, is merely a mathematical result that fits with observations later in the universe, and our theories about gravity. We have no way of directly knowing if the universe ever was a singularity.

Hows the view from mount stupid?

Others have explained the physics, but yes, talking about the temperature of an EM emission is perfectly acceptable, even common, in physics. You could nitpick and say that any particular X-ray photon does not tell you the temperature of what emitted it, but in order to discuss complex matters you need a shorthand, and one of those is to say that a collection of photons has a temperature (whilst really meaning "this collection of photons is consistent with black body emission at temperature T")

Here is some educational material for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien's_displacement_law

I don't mean as in crap, I mean as in literally a joke aimed at those who construct numerical simulations. Note that is hasn't been accepted by a journal yet. The consequences of the universe being a simulation are a source of humour for those who know what shortcuts you must take in order to get a simulation to work in acceptable time.

Its easy to piss on a future projection, but I'm going to try to be as positive as I can.

1. fMRI scanners at entrances. Even if this can be done accurately enough - these scanners require magnetic fields on the order of a Tesla or so. Standing in front of it would rip your keys out of your pocket, at best.

2. Europe in economic/environmental collapse whilst the US is business at usual. Your politics are showing. The idea that Europe is going to be begging China for aid 15 years from now is absurd as it is insulting.

3. Zero human contact. Your hero never speaks to another human face to face throughout his entire day. People don't want to live like this.

4. Commuting to the office. What is the point if you don't see anybody face to face?

5. The CID. Why bother with this? Dongles fell out of fashion years ago. Existing authentication is better than this.

6. Apparently completely unfree computing. Each system the person interacts with is a walled garden. Its possible, but I would hope that the tech savvy wouldn't voluntarily submit to this.

7. Water quota. Fine, this could easily happen - but only whilst there was a shortage of energy for desalination. If there were such a shortage, your guy certainly wouldn't wasted electricity driving to work.

There are a few more flaws, but don't want to do a TLDR post.

False. He is drawing on publicly funded works, even if they are in the public domain. This fatally undermines both his persona as a 'self made' space traveler, and your entire argument. Thanks for playing.

How are people supposed to lock down an open source platform, and stop this being a truly disruptive technology? Won't somebody PLEASE thing of the rent seekers!!!??

How is building nitrous oxide hybrids that can't even get into orbit advancing us as a species? Especially as, like all of these supposedly self-made "new space" types, he draws on publicly funded research? Fuck off to Galt's gulch already.

The idea that these entrepreneurs are opening space to the masses is sheer absurdity. The realistic costs involved will mean that ordinary plebs like us are confined to this rock for the rest of our lives. Having sucked this world dry of all the physical resources they can, exploited every idea from the public domain, the rich will declare they owe society nothing in return, then fuck off to another planet.

I know he mentioned it, retard, I was talking about the picture he posted. It isn't there

Maybe you should do some reading yourself before you snark at other people?

One would hope that the first sniff of a serious bidding war would cause them to reconsider and go for a plot of land that would be the subject of a nerd fundraising campaign.

That infographic seems to miss out the successful Soviet landing in 1971...

What the hell? I've visited America, and I was not struck by any great shortage of a) land or b) retail outlets. Why do they have to try and build one on this historic site?

Anger at social injustice is not jealously. I'm perfectly comfortable myself, but the rampant greed of the super-rich offends me. I don't want their cash. I want them to get an honest fucking job and pay their taxes.

But don't let the way people actually feel get in the way of your moronic libertarian rant, will you?