I can't see them spending too much time improving the capabilities of Dragon if their plan is to eventually make it redundant with Starship. Dragon is adequate as it is for ISS resupply etc, so there's not a lot of incentive to upgrade it. In the end, Dragon is just a step towards the real goal - heavy-lift launches and interplanetary spacecraft.

In the years I was responsible for staff I found a fairly clear correlation between union organisers and poor work performance. I never had a problem with unions but the union leaders tended to have a few traits:
- They knew they weren't as valuable to the company as the average worker.
- Their attitude to work was all about how the company could benefit them with virtually no consideration of how they could benefit the company.
- Mild paranoia that other people wanted to get rid of them and the only way to protect their job is with union threats.
- Actively promoting an us-vs-them culture between workers and the company, often creating conflict for no good reason.
- They were often bullies, threatening other workers over union issues and causing grief for anyone who didn't share their view of "evil employers".

In short, union leaders are by far the most likely workers to create problems.

It takes as long as your mission design has planned for. To send people, you want to get them there fast, so you design a fast and expensive rocket to get them there in a few days. For a robotic mission, speed isn't a concern so you design a slower mission that is much cheaper.

At least in my experience... Most claims against my videos are automated and would probably have not been made by a real person who watched the video. The problem is that, while I can and do successfully dispute automated claims, the process takes weeks. By that time the video is old news.

BTW the worst offender I've had the is BBC. Recently, during an hour-long livestream, I played a couple of shots from a BBC trailer in order to promote their program. They thanked me by blocking my entire video. As a result I'll never even mention the BBC again on my show.

I assume it means that the amount of available power will diminish, so they will need to budget the amount they use to stay within the reducing limit.

Love him or hate him, it's fair to acknowledge that Elon has been a major force in moving the rocket industry towards a more sustainable future.

Isn't that what the summary says, or at least strongly implies? That's certainly how I read it. I don't think the average person would read this and expect the car to be generating more energy than it's using. I think it's fairly obvious that the point is to help top up the normal charging process, not to replace it.

Although NASA has traditionally used the old system in some cases, the agency has almost always leaned towards metric wherever possible. Way back in 2007 they announced that all future Moon missions will use metric exclusively. https://science.nasa.gov/scien...

Me too. I just checked my YouTube home page and of the first 50 suggested videos, 4 of them were from traditional broadcasters or "big players" such as NASA. All the rest were from independent creators such as Scott Manley.

Also, it's pretty hard to take anyone seriously when they say YouTube is dead. Wikipedia lists it as the 2nd most popular website in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites). You may not like where it's going but to say it's dead is simply denying reality.

Absolutely untrue. We already have the technology to divert an asteroid if we get enough early warning. The whole point is that the earlier the warning, the easier it is to divert the asteroid.

That would be challenging to say the least, but at least we know it's possible with existing technology. The space elevator cable effectively requires new technology, which you could argue is the bigger challenge.

People keep saying that. It keeps not being true.

The classification of "planet" is mainly for the benefit of the general public. This is a pragmatic decision that helps keep knowledge of the Universe accessible and manageable for the masses. Sorry planetary scientists but your needs are secondary. Relax, you'll survive this.

Yes, this is exactly how SkyTV in my country went from no ads, to ads for similar content, to occasional external ads, and now to basically being an ad-supported platform that you pay for.

I was addressing the question of the launch, not the mission. I don't know who designed the probe's trajectory but it seems likely that it was the probe's engineering team rather than ULA. Perhaps someone can clarify but my understanding is that the probe simply needed a high-energy launch (nothing unique about that) and then the probe itself, with various gravity assists, will determine its final flight path.