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Comment Re:Let's not forget (Score 1) 132

I agree that the issue is far to complex to say something like "Israel is... blah... muslims."
Israel is full of great human beings.
Unfortunately, it's also run by some of the worst on the planet.

Likud's 1977 manifesto calls for direct Israeli sovereignty from the River To The Sea.
Since there are more Muslims than Jews in that geographical area, what do you think Likud was really calling for?

Now, if we don't grant them the benefit of the doubt that Likud was... lol... calling for a multiethnic state where Jews were a minority, and paint their actions in that period in that lens, only a few things are possible. They were calling for genocide, ethnic cleansing, or apartheid- or some mix of the 3.

Frankly, it checks out.

Comment Re:The alarm bells have been ringing for awhile (Score 1) 56

None, actually.

Though getting all the goodies you need on a veggie diet is indeed quite the task- fortified foods and supplements are generally easier.
This even applies for meat-eating diets, which is why many foods in the US are fortified.

Vegans are kind of in a class all their own since they refuse to touch anything that's an animal product, up to, and including fucking honey.

Comment Re:Give it to Russia (Score 1) 60

Whipping up an LM to be mated to a CSM isn't exactly something we haven't done before.
Apollo's LM cost ~$300M (in today's dollars) from blueprint to stacking.

It's not a comparable mission in the slightest, as the LM is tiny and has highly limited capacity and longevity- but that was the point. This isn't about "getting back to the moon".

Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 60

The SRBs and RS25 are great thrust providers.
An RS25 is far better than any Raptor built at any job except for being easily refuelable on Mars.

There were logical reasons for that.

SuperHeavy is indeed a pretty rad booster.
As for lower cost to orbit, if we're using the metric by which you would measure NASA's via SLS, SpaceX is currently sitting at around $2 billion per kg.

Will it get lower? Sure- once they start putting StarLinks up there and subsidizing the launches with them.

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