Comment Re:interesting re-framing of their failures as "su (Score 1) 121
Progressives may have invented wokeness but conservatives turned it into an artform.
Woke = The Good Samaritan.
Comment Re:This is good (Score 3, Insightful) 121
It's woke garbage. It will not be getting my dollars.
Superman originated as the ultimate Good Samaritan. He stayed that way for a long time. Too bad MAGA don't like good people.
Comment Re:How many times? (Score 0) 121
Although such a big box office implies a lot of other viewers too.
During bad times people want uplifting movies. Immigrants are being persecuted? Your hero IS an immigrant. The American Way is being perverted? The hero LIVES the American way.
Comment Re:Maybe add some more lawyers and lobbyists (Score 1) 12
When BO has development issues they traditionally hire more executives.
Comment Re:A billion dollars? (Score 1) 183
PLUS, we've spent $93 Billion on Artemis and still no cigar. Is Mars gonna be that much cheaper?
It takes talent to repackage 1970s shuttle technology and take so long and blow through so much money making the Senate Launch System. Too bad it was wasted turning the SLS into a pork barrel boondoggle.
Comment Re:Translation... (Score 1) 183
SpaceX would be much smaller (if it still existed at all) without government contracts.
Government contracts are not themselves subsidies. Just like Canada not buying as much from the U.S. as the U.S. buys from Canada is not a subsidy no matter how loudly Trump and MAGA claim otherwise.
Comment Re:Truly, small small people (Score 1) 183
They want to continually ask for funding to make the trains run on time, provided via taxpayer dollars, while never quite making the trains run on time, so that they can be justified in constantly asking for more funding to make the trains run on time.
Do you understand that making the trains run takes money constantly? So does making them continue to run on time take money constantly. Sort of how just buying you a meal doesn't feed you for life (unless you immediately die of course) but you constantly need to buy food or things to use to grow food.
Comment Re:Past Associations? (Score 1) 42
Maybe he will nominate Eric to keep him away from Trumpskyy?
Comment Re:Competition is Good, even when late (Score 1) 46
Amazon just paid rack rate for an Atlas V (and, worse, there aren't any more Atlas Vs to launch on!)
It doesn't look like ULA has any more Kuiper launches likely to happen this year. The same for Blue Origin. Not able to find out when Ariane 6 will carry any. Falcon 9 is scheduled to take a load in June then nothing till next year. Looks like the claims that Amazon is building them at a snails pace may be accurate. If they don't accelerate they will have 7 months to launch 1500 satellites (~60 launches unless Starship is usable and available to Amazon).
Comment Re:well I'm bummed (Score 1) 46
It would be a much more interesting story if these sats were being set up IN the Kuiper Belt
The lag would be FIERCE.
Comment Re:Limited Lifespan and Space Junk (Score 1) 46
Why do you think SpaceX does so many StarLink launches?
Also why they want Starship to be fully reusable and launch many more Starlink satellites at once with shorter turn around times between launches.
Comment Re:Only thing they have actually launched into spa (Score 1) 46
Was T and A.
I dunno, that all woman launch was sorta T&A.
And in a dildo shaped rocket that REALLY vibrates.
Comment Re:Oops.... (Score 1) 521
The whole point is to pressure everyone involved to source items from the US or other, friendlier countries not run by assholes.
Looks like the only "friendly" nations according to Trump are Russia and North Korea. Excellent friends Trumpie has.
Comment Re:Wait ... (Score 2) 23
I thought this administration was bent on deporting foreign criminals w/o due process, not importing them for due process.
Why do you assume he won't be sent straight to el Salvadore on arrival in the U.S.? Just having Scottish citizenship doesn't make him white. Also the Scottish people and Parliament have made it clear they don't want Trump to visit. So Trumpie has a "reason" to have a grudge.
Comment Re:45 Years (Score 1) 43
36 satellites in a year? At that rate, ol' Jeff will have his 1,600 in a mere 45 years. He can either make satellites faster, or get really good at asking for extensions.
At that rate he would never get them all up and active as they don't have 45 year life spans.
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