Think about how many rockets we would need to get a relevant amount of stuff into L1...

Practically zero... most galaxies already contain a central black hole with millions or sometimes billions of solar masses...

Don't forget that black holes don't "suck" more than a star with the same mass... you can just get closer to the black hole without touching it. At the same distance you get the same gravity.

Alpha-particles are Helium-4 cores... not Helium-3.

and you need a hell lot more pressure and/or temperature to acchive Helium-3 fusion compared to the sustained Deuterium-Tritium fusion we still haven't resolved yet.

Depending on the amount of youtube you watch daily, Youtube premium can be quite cheap...

And to be fair, its a good thing to move (partially) away from this "everything is for free but with insane amounts of ads" to an alternative business model.

The interesting thing will be if a generation of users accustomed to "get the service for free" are willing to pay for it...

In theory yes... in practice the ESA moves much slower than SpaceX... so most likely the lead of SpaceX will increase with time.

When they decided that the Ariane 5 was too expensive because of SpaceX they should have set aside a billion Euro or two for building something similar to SpaceX Falcon 9... instead they spent billions for the Ariane 6, which will fly in a few years and will be more expensive than SpaceX is today.

Zero, One, Two, Three, Four...

makes perfect sense for people doing C programming... ;)

It is anonymous for people using the app who do NOT report their numbers because they have been infected.

It is a random number per day (I think the paper says one random number per 15 minutes)... unless someone grabs your phone to get the numbers you app rolled up and stored locally, they don't have much chance to know that these numbers were from you if they have the list of numbers from a different phone.

Just do not step on it when the lights are out.

Unfortunately we don't have the technology to do this with the large quantities of nuclear waste(you need at least 2-3 times the energy to put something into the sun than put it on the surface of the moon). And even for small quantities it would be costly beyond measure. And if one in a hundred rockets go wrong (BANG!) it would be BAD.

The fun thing is that the last years, France had to import quite a bit of electricity from Germany, both in the Winter (their nuclear power plants did not produce enough power) and in the summer (it got so warm they had to shut down nuclear power plants because of insufficient cooling).

Just the same as satellite phones and other "internet over satellite" (with uplink) providers... Time-division multiple access.

Ground stations have to allocate some time/frequency space over a "management slot" before they are allowed to transmit their normal data.

Only if you have at least 10% of the resources of your enemy available... otherwise you will run out of steam before the enemy, which is not a successful result.

if you don't have a "front line" with well defined "battle zones" an attacker with an easy to transport weapon system has always an advantage. Defending against swarms as in the video would require the defender to have "defense swarms" everywhere... while the attacker can drive his swarm close to the destination to launch a concentrated attack.

Hey, the Ross 128 spaceport is only two hyperspace jumps away from Earth when you lift off for the first time.

Yeah, good old time... has it already been 24 years?