"Putting humans on the moon" is not the whole point. That's simply a means to an end, and it's only one option for a means to that end. Unmanned spacecraft is another option, one that doesn't suffer the many downsides of fitting out these craft for humans.

The fact is the human crew is there for political reasons. It spurs interest in the space program, regardless of whether it makes cost/benefit sense.

Like you say, there are pros and cons, but unless the long term goal is colonization, the cost/benefit analysis tends to argue against manned missions.

After reading about all the effort and expense that went into fitting the craft with a bathroom, you have to wonder if it's worthwhile to include a human crew on these planned moon missions.

It's a joke dude. If you look it up on the internet, you'll see that Wuhan was in the news for something that happened in 2020.

Most of those decisions will be appealed to the supreme court, where Trump will prevail. That's the advantage of serving as president, you have the resources to appeal things indefinitely.

Remind me again, who will stop Trump from doing what he wants to do? He's got congress and the supreme court in his pocket, so they won't lift a finger. He's working day and night to ensure we don't have free elections in this country, so those pesky voters won't be able to stop him either.

There is precious little information in our culture today that residents of earth centuries from now would be even remotely interested in.

Meta has infinite resources to take this to the supreme court where they have a 100.000% chance of victory. That will set a precedent, which will end these kinds of cases forever. This was an utterly pointless exercise by the plaintiffs.

Did you read the article? It contains several opposing points of view. However, the first question anyone would have is: What does Samsung have to say about this? The journalist got the answer to that question.

I would imagine there are already many encrypted password repositories, acquired through breaches, just waiting to be cracked when the quantum hardware is up to the task. There's not much that the new encryption algorithms can do about that particular issue.

Who said anything about this being a watershed moment? It's just one of many signs of cognitive decline exhibited by this administration in the past 12 months.

The PAEA mandate on the postal service was lifted 3 years ago.

Your larger point remains though. The GOP is determined to kill the postal service. The GOP's obsession with the postal service being profitable is stupid. It's right there in the name: it's a service provided by government. You don't see anybody insisting your local fire department show a profit at the end of the year.

The fact that somebody in the white house thought this was a good idea is a sign of severe cognitive decline on the part of the people in charge.

You can bet this US administration is taking careful notes. Where Putin goes, Trump follows.

Ok. Let us know when you've calculated 314 trillion digits with your hand calculator.