and has a lot of empty space...very lightweight.

That generation actually got to the moon 11 years after the first orbital launch.

The present generation...takes its sweet time getting things done because ooh shiny.

Officers in charge of these kinds of programs rotate on to a new assignment after 3 to 5 years. Contractors keep personnel on staff whose whimsical title is "project manager" but whose real job is to work the rotating cast of government program managers into keeping the program going.

In such an environment it is almost structurally impossible to contract smart for any program that takes more than a few years from start to finish.

They have a king and a quasi institutionalized class system. What do you expect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I have to click through a half dozen popups to get anything done.

No surprises there.

the wrong passenger and end up dead.

For what?

Would you pick a fight with a random person driving a car? No? Because of decency or fear for your own safety doesn't matter. This isn't civilized behavior and onesie twosies get ignored as outliers but on a regular basis and people will take their own safety into their own hands and retaliate.

Maybe the blue state blue city DAs will prosecute like they tried to prosecute Daniel Penney. Maybe Seattle will elect a Republican DA.

Quien sabe?

Bari Weiss is literally a San Francisco liberal.

She's just somewhat less batshit crazy than the MSM baseline and will occasionally question her own side out loud.

This is not right wing; this is as close an approximation to honest journalism as you will find in big media.

The mob doesn't ban people. They break one guy's legs once and then everyone else wises up.

Thumb...sideways

Now if they score a hit, their deity will reward them in the next life. If they do not, they will reap monetary rewards in this life.

Given that in all likelihood very few of the Iranians with their fingers on the button are actual true believers, it would stand to reason most of them have money riding on misses, malfuctions, and interceptions.

I'm going to let you huff pure nitrogen. I choose not to.

Touche

Environmentalism is one of those isms i talked about.

Just one guy realizing that batteries and solar panels are technically inferior in terms of cost and uptime, and it all crashes down.

Russian oil...Iranian oil...Venezuelan oil...

Imagine a Harry Turtledove-like alternate history where there was no treehugger movement in the United States and we were still dominating oil and gas like we were in the first half of the 20th century. Maybe then the sanctions and strait closures would matter a lot less.