But no months of total darkness, surely.

What do printed emails from Outlook have to do with this? Why Outlook and why printed?

Sounds like a great way of getting someone you want in prison into said prison if mens rea is not required here.

I've heard of cases in China where parents do this with dead babies in hospitals, so this wouldn't surprise me.

Sounds like missile homing! That should be fun.

VACUUM ISP. I really don't know at this point if you're trolling on purpose or if you've been simply cognitively challenged since birth. 334 s is a sea-level figure that has nothing to do with my claim about VACUUM ISP.

Well, don't colonize the Martian poles, then. Point taken.

Blah blah blah blah blah...perfectly average, actually. 5.66% of failures worldwide in the last six years.

Space radiation isn't what it used to be. Unless you're Jarrah White or one of the other insane people.

Wait, you want a your transportation ticket to be paid by someone else? Where do you live, if I may ask? :-p

You're drunk, Gary Church, go home.

Cherry-picking your data won't help your cause. The global space launch industry average launch success rate hovers around 95%. SpaceX is average.

BTW SpaceX so far has had only one launch failure, on CRS-7.

Yeah, it's true...the things that bite you are the things you don't anticipate. On the N-1, they only found in a test flight that shutting down six engines at once to limit the g-forces creates a hydraulic shock that ruptures the fuel lines. Well, that's too late to find out about something like that!

Cherry-picking your data won't help your cause.