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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: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: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: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.

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