"A private Chinese space firm..." There is no such thing as a private company in China. At the end of the day, they are all owened by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). With that said, rockets are hard. Reusable ones more so. They will eventually get there.

Well, the good thing about Hyperloops is that when there's an accident, we won't have to worry about survivors. Just but bring mops, spounges, and wet-vac's to clean up the mess.

Funny thing the US Constitution, intrastate commerce is the SOLE responcibility of a state. i.e. A rail line from San Fran to LA is exactly that. Now, if it was LA to Phoenix, then it's Interstate commerce and FEDERAL territory. Whomever wrote this should do a better job of knowing the law.

A bug using the new wonder language! Say it aint't so! Call me an old, unimpressed, code jockey. To say that I could care less about the latest fad would be an understatement. NO language is of any use without a MIND behind it.

The problem is, that this is EASY for a Unix/Linux Sysop. It is IMPOSSIBLE for the standard Windows user. They are NOT ignorent, nor is this comment a slam at Windows useres, it's a "We don't get it!" issue. So unless you want to go door to door and do the work, for free, then come up with a viable solution instead of being dismissive and calling it "easy".

Asking Microsoft, like Oliver Twist saying "More sir? ", will fall on the same deaf ears. So the, now what? One can go the Virus Scanner route and hope. One can finally pitch Moneysoft and go Linux, but then everyone has to become a Sysop... yeah, right.

the Borg. You will be assimilated.

Bite me. Who the heck are you to tell me to buy anything just because you don't like my computer system.

There is a very good reason to go to the moon: Experimentation. The moon is three days away, Mars, over 18 months, minimum. In an emergency, a 3 day trip beats 18 months plus any day. It is better to test ones hardware and habitats on the Moon, then head to Mars. i.e. If it works on the moon, which is more hostile than Mars, it will work on Mars.

That assembly language, and an experienced assembly language programing staff, would be more efficient than... anything else. Time and budget get hammered, but absolutely nothing beats the efficiency. Nothing.

Oh please! Boeing said it was going to beat SpaceX by a mile and trolled them for years. As to Starship blowing up, it's in development and Misk's method is VASTLY different to the rest of the Aerospace industry; They expect things to go wrong: Test-fix-test again. As to critisizing SpaceX, what planet do you live on? They get hammered all the time. Back under your bridge troll.

Then you are going to get CONGRESS to get rid of burocratic oversight. Good luck with that. Having spent 30 plus years dealing with DoD procurement, the large elephants are accounting, contracts, expenditure reports and SOW generation. YEARS can go by trying to get a Statement Of Work through the system! YEARS! None of that is going away, so good luck with "speeding" things up.