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Comment Re:Figures (Score 4, Informative) 149

The one decision I agreed with worm brain on ... There is no safety or cost reason to prefer this over normal analog protein vaccines

If you weren't a worm-brain you'd realize you're arguing for approval, because it's not the FDA's job to decide which drugs are preferable for obtuse reasons. It's their job to evaluate them for safety and effectiveness. If it's equally effective and equally safe, then it's up to doctors to choose which to prescribe.

Comment Idiocrat (Score 5, Insightful) 157

It wouldn't work for "securing the future of civilization," even if they were able to overcome the mountain of difficult and expensive engineering challenges.

Any sort of calamity that put human life on Earth in peril would mean the lunar colony would stop receiving support from Earth and would die off long before the last holdouts Earthside.

There's an incredibly long list of things they'd need shipped up to survive, none of which are needed on Earth. Because on Earth you can survive by primitive means if necessary.

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