Although with your "tips mandatory" culture, nobody seems to have a problem paying more than what's printed on the price-tag.

Sobbing man?

The Apollo program cost $152 billion in today's money. I'm pretty sure a consideral amount of that disappeared in loose ends and backpockets first of all, I'm also pretty sure that for that amount, Space-X and other privateers can perform feats NASA can't even dream of.

“A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”

Make America Gross Again

Domestically, maybe, but what about all those thousands of containers that are shipped from and to S-Korea and all over the world?
Are they going for wind-powered ships or nuclear?

Instead of selecting future astronauts from people with a "normal" length, the space organizations should imo select from the group of people with a (much) shorter than average length. The smaller the astronaut, the more effective the use of resources and available space in a habitat of spacecraft. And shorter humans have a smaller surface so the collected radiation is less too. Maybe someday being small is an advantage for high-demand jobs like space business, hell, maybe humans start to breed for smaller future generations just for this work someday.

Seeing it's not the airfield but it's the airplanes that have a problem with the drones, I would suggest giving the planes ways to defend themselfs. Get a couple of passengers in gun-turrets and let them combat the skies of England once more! Sort of like this passenger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Extra sour that they have thousands of moderators and all kinds of algorithms to detect and remove female nipples and other human body parts the poor Facebook citizens can't bear to see according to to "community-rules", but of course threatening, bullying and dehumanizing other people is much preferred over seeing what a human being actually looks like.

There are three reasons for humans to seek new horizons:
philosophical; e.g. curiosity.
economical; e.g. to look for a new source of materials.
survival; because there is a threat in the existing environment.

The first, curiosity, is not enough anymore, mainly because the cost of this curiosity is seen as a burden instead of an investment.
The second, economical, is directed to short term profits. Investing in research that might return a profit a century away is something very few organizations do.
The third, survival, is an individual drive. Mankind has no "race-survival" drive, so even if we "know" there's a inevitable Mass Extinction Event on our path, there's no drive to deal with that threat.

So why should we try to colonize another planet anyway?
- Many people think this curiosity costs too much, especially when the cost will include death and mayhem.
- There is no reason to think it's going to be economical to go out there to mine for materials in our lifetime or the next 5 generations.
- Sending a (very small) group of people to another planet where they would have the same (or even more) chance of being wiped out by a disaster is not a race-survival policy, that would be just silly.

As much as I would like to see heros and heroins out there, I don't think there are enough logical reasons for "us" to pay and for explorers to do it.

They should do a Kobayashi_Maru simulation, see who is up to the task of making an ultimate "command decision".

All that internet and telephone snooping really payed off, didn't it..

Getting used to cool temperature works even better when you're not wearing clothes at all in house. It's 64F in my living room, I'm nude and perfectly comfortable (even sweating a little). Thursday afternoon it's time for the annual new-year's dip in the 45F Northsea, going back to the beach-club in the 38F (predicted) air temperature should be an "interesting" experience.

Free speech yeah, but not free expression.
Nudity e.g., even in a totally non-sexual context, is a great reason to be "offended" and might cause a disaster to the "offender's" life, even though it doesn't hurt anyone and it can easily be avoided to be offended by looking away. How can a country allow hate speech (including nazi propaganda) and life wrecking "revelations" during election time but put someone in jail and on a life-long sex-offenders list for just being simply naked?
I think I prefer it "our" way: maybe we can't say everything we like everywhere, but at least other means of expression or ways of life aren't met with jail time or worse.