Well, you still have your skull when you're done... And to be fair, you already have 7 holes in your skull already.

Yeah, but computers are a bit faster than a room full of slide rules too... Really is cool that things like the U2 and SR71 were made back then, and the SR71 is still amazing by today's standards.

Dwarf planet seems kinda bad language for 2020 anyway...

I believe an orbital starship can make it into orbit on it's own. Doubt they'll use a booster for any early orbital tests. Until you load down starship with cargo it's all good. The ultimate point to point starship for people, if it ever happens, won't require the booster for launch, or maybe some much smaller booster.

Yeah, but there are plenty of reactor designs that fail safe now. It's possible that they would want a system that would make more power vs weight and less safe, but most failures can be mitigated with proper design. The most dangerous phase for atmospheric contamination is probably landing the thing. A potentially better choice could be nuclear reactor in synchronous orbit beaming power to the surface...

doing that what are payed to do? They have a good sized investigation force in addition to the troops on the streets. This is an fruitful avenue of investigation, so why wouldn't they follow it? The only way anyone would stop this is to use if for misinformation on a massive scale, but there's no way you'll get enough of the social media narcissists to go with that.

I was fine til the Bieber part...Thanks for the nightmares!

"The iPhone that Moroccan journalist Omar Radi used..."

I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in
Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

Enterprise even better, can defer feature updates 365 days, Though it is harder to get a lic for...

News mostly stopped being news when it went to the 24 hour news cycle years ago... Now it's just clickbait headlines to sell ads, really more entertainment than news since news is boring.

This. Sure, it used to be clubs printing pamphlets, just more efficient now... And people probably are probably more gullible now too, that helps.

I was born alone, I will die alone - and I'm perfectly fine with that. Most aren't, but I am. I seem to be an outlier but that's fine with me too, were I wealthy enough to move away from civilization while still using the parts of it I want to on any given day - I would.

This.

I was never bullied or hazed or etc, I just decided I don't like human interaction much. I do talk to assholes online some, but during this covid BS i've gone weeks without leaving my bedroom and love it. I have no real problem dealing with folks and do it readily when I'm getting paid to do it, but if I'm not getting paid - screw that. People in general are just assholes, I don't even like folks yet I'm perfectly nice to anyone until they aren't to me, then fuck em. But most folks just seem to be pricks, and I'm not really willing to deal with pricks unless there's something to gain - ie part of work, or buying groceries, etc... So I'm happy just sitting at home and keeping people at a far distance by interacting on the internet where I can just ignore if I want. As soon as I win the lottery and can afford to live completely away from civilization while still using the parts of civilization I like, I'm gone.