At the moment I'd say it's even odds if it is a US or Chinese lander that touches down first.

There aren't many good open source fonts for Japanese. There weren't even that many good ones for Latin languages, until Google started releasing some under free licences.

By "good" I mean good coverage of all characters, proper keming, good hinting so that they render well and consistently on screen and in print, etc. It's a lot of work, and Japanese has a lot of characters.

We shall see I guess. I wouldn't put money on SpaceX being the first to land crew on the moon though. They are scheduled to do it second anyway, but I think Blue Origin has a better chance of having a lander ready for whenever NASA is good to go.

Depends how you count it. They did multiple practice attempts before managing to land New Glenn.

Blue Origin is impressive though, they seem to have a much better system than SpaceX. Their rocket can take larger diameter payloads than Falcon Heavy too.

Nope, they're in the room with Nigel Farage. Same as they've always been (except for the times they were meeting with Aaron Banks).

It's the same flawed thinking that a company can "just pull out" of somewhere. Somewhere where they'll have money invested, property, obligations to meet not to mention staff (as we all know staff are replaceable parasites in the Libertardinan world).

Also it's been conclusively demonstrated that "pulling out" doesn't work... As a method of contraception or means to effect a political change.

Don't forget that women also aren't allowed to teach anything.

I believe it is.

Although the cost of meat is getting up there these days in the UK.

The bigger issue is that most people don't have the first clue what to do with fresh food besides putting it in a pot and boiling it until its mush (then servicing it with sausages and gravy). This is a problem on both sides of the pond although I suspect it's worse over there. I grew up a poor lad in Oz, the notion that some Americans eat out for every meal was preposterous to me as there's no way it seemed remotely affordable but apparently it happened.

Another issue is that cooking takes time some people don't have. Especially as work is trying to take up more and more time these days. So they end up getting pies, chicken, et al. that they can just put in the oven (or ready meals).

As much as I see and agree with what the city of SF is trying to do, it's rather pointless if we can't also address the two points above.

Perhaps you should just grow up.

It took every other company that has managed it a few attempts too. It's just hard. They did get their dummy payload to orbit this time, which is significant for this new rocket.

Note that they will be the first to land an orbital rocket. Other Chinese companies have landed sub-orbital boosters before.

They have a few firsts under their belt already. First methalox and first methane rockets to orbit, in the world. Fart powered rockets are pretty cool.

There was that period in the 2000s when faux Celtic symbols were popular. They looked cool for about 5 minutes, then they were too common.

Most people with Chinese characters don't seem to have bothered to figure out what the actual word they want is, they just pick some that sound kinda like the English version, or what some website claimed it was. Often they end up being kinda funny to people who can read Chinese. I met a guy who thought he had is name in Japanese on his arm, but it actually said "Paula".

Same goes for clothes. Super Dry print complete nonsense on their clothes, for some reason. Not even a mistake, it looks like they just randomly selected some text that looks cool from multiple sources, fragments of words here and there, and mashed them all together. At least my Japanese shirt that says "assumption is the mother of screw-up" is attempting to make sense.

Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. Some phrases for you to look up to start to dig yourself out of the hole of your ignorance.

"timing advance"
"round trip time"
"propagation delay"
"triangulation"

You might study how Malaysia Airlines Flight 370's flight path has been investigated to get some popular and simplified explanations that will help you with imagining how this could be done.

In the meantime in this house we follow the laws of science and the experiment is in. 8m location accuracy has been demonstrated with Starlink so you are just fundamentally wrong. Once the experimental evidence contradicts your theories, that's the point at which you start trying to learn.

Just wrong. The spacex satellites themselves provide location independent of GPS and 8 m accuracy has been demonstrated even without SpaceX cooperation. SpaceX themselves could probably achieve 1m accuracy if they wanted to, but in any case 50m accuracy would be enough for target location.

It's supplementary information that the buyer should be aware of. If an area is liable to flood, they can look to see what measures the owner has put in place to prevent that, or if the elevation of that particular house is higher than the water is likely to rise.

Of course, even if that particular house doesn't flood, having a flood in that area is still a problem. It might limit the owner's ability to travel, it might cause utilities to be cut off for days on end.

It might also affect insurance. In the UK, if your house is within so many metres of a river or lake, you tend to pay more even if it has never flooded. Same with large trees near the property, which may fall on it in extreme weather, or cause its foundations to shift due to roots undermining them.

It gets even better. Apparenly this god can't see through dough so you can violate no meat on Fridays.