Blue Origin’s new Glenn made it to orbit on its first launch, and recovered the booster on the second launch. Starship has not made it to orbit yet. New Glenn 7x2 can lift more to LEO than can Falcon Heavy for a partially reusable launch. (If you throw away the Falcon Heavy, it can carry more to orbit than New Glenn).
So SpaceX has competitors that are in some ways ahead.

There are minority investors in both companies, and what happens to them and their shares of the combined company matters to them at least until the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

The only place it can go. Out through large radiators. The Space Shuttle would have had to immediately re-enter the earth’s atmosphere if the cargo bay doors didn’t open up; its radiators are inside those doors. The radiators on the International Space Station are smaller than the solar panels, but still the second-largest external feature.

I laugh at you all!

A Nigerian prince has contacted me and advised me that I now own ONE BILLION BTC which is being kept in a chest in that nation's treasury. All I have to do is send him 4Kg of gold to cover the costs of the paperwork and all that BTC will be *mine!!

Those of you who speculate on crypto and precious metals are all fools -- only *I* am onto a sure thing.

I shall laugh at you and ridicule you when my container-load of BTC is delivered next week. Hang on, apparently another 1Kg of gold is required because of inflation. No problems... prepare to be humiliated you crypto and bullion fools!!! The wealth will soon be mine!

I'm a Finn and I do mind!

Finnish homes don't traditionally have cooling AC, because it hasn't been necessary. In the past, we might get a few days over 30 C (with high humidity) in the summer. In recent years, we've experienced much longer heat waves, such as a few weeks in a row. Consequently, a lot of people have fitted air heat pumps, and those can also be used for heating in the winter using reversed flow direction. But even now, cooling AC is rarely installed in new buildings, because apparently the design/construction companies are full of climate change deniers. Office buildings usually have proper AC, so those with traditional indoor jobs don't suffer that much from daytime heat.

Paradoxically, global heating has also caused colder winters in some sense. Right now we're in a middle of an extra long cold spell. This is apparently because global warming affects polar regions much more, and the polar vortex/jetstream/something has been disrupted. As a result, we get weeks and weeks of the same extreme weather, be it summer or winter. I won't even go into the possible disruption of the Gulf stream, which would cause further cooling up here.

I've always thought active cooling in large scale is kind of idiotic, because you're pumping the heat out into the atmosphere, thus resulting in need for more AC. While it might not contribute that much to actual global warming, the local effect is quite noticeable in cities such as NYC. Somehow, people in the Middle East and elsewhere have figured out better cooling solutions centuries ago, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . There are also basic building methods that reduce the need for AC, such as painting the outside walls white, sensible positions and sizes of windows, and using awnings on them. Growing trees to shade the buildings also helps a lot in a number of ways.

Where is all the money for this UBI going to come from?

Tax the rich?

Yeah, that's not working now so I don't see it working just because UBI is a thing.

The sad reality is that AI is likely to cause major financial stress, regardless of whether there's a bubble or not. Once AI improves worker productivity by a huge amount there will be job losses. That loss of jobs means less money in the economy to purchase goods and services. Reduced demand means reduced profits for the companies that employed AI in the first instance.

Net result: huge economic contraction and a situation where nobody wins.

The oft-described utopia where nobody ever needs to work again (are you listening Elon) is better described as 100 percent unemployment -- with all the heartache and financial difficulties that brings.

So the question is whether to spend the capital dollars on a plant to turn electricity into fuel, or spend those same capital dollars converting or replace the internal combustion engine with batteries and an electric motor. They have a long way to go to make the economics of this air+electricity to fuel machine a better choice than converting to batteries and electric.

It doesn't matter if you use water to cool in a closed loop system. The problem is only if you're using fresh water and just heating it up and dumping it and pulling in more fresh water.

So in this case, it's completely irrelevant.

You have to build the solar panels which don't come from thin air.

Also, it likely ISN'T being done from solar/wind/hydro. That's the problem with lots of these "green" things is they just hide the problem behind dirty power sources. Hydrogen is a great example.

a TON of electricity that doesn't come out of thin air.

Click bait BS.

William Shatner is a classically trained Shakespearean actor who appeared in festivals and on Broadway prior to switching from stage to television. His TOS enunciation and emphasis is due mostly to his experience with radio performances (which were over the top verbally) combined with directors on TOS constantly telling him to increase the astonishment. And in reality, wasn't anywhere near as pervasive or dramatic as the pop culture version that pokes fun at Kirk.

If there's a "theorum" about that, they'll find it eventually.

FFS, the summary has a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... named "Star of David theorum". Ever heard of copy-paste, or does that need an LLM these days?

What are the national security implications for the USA if Canadians regularly cross the border in to the US while driving their Sino-EV?

The US is paranoid enough to have banned DJI drones (in fact *all* foreign drones) on the grounds of "national security" because they could photograph sensitive locations -- but then again, couldn't a Sino-EV with its plethora of onboard cameras. Given that these Sino-EVs are going to be "chatting" back to their Chinese manufacturers, how are we to know that they won't be dumping screeds of sensitive image data right into the hands of the CCP?

Inquiring minds wish to know.

Anyone wanting to build a gun really only needs some basic metal-working handtools and
set of plans.

I know I'd much rather have a Sten gun than a 3d-printed "one time use/explode" one.

3 MPH is a quite brisk walk. 8 mph is a 7.5 minute mile. Most people can't run one mile that fast much less a bunch in a row.