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Comment Re:Or switch to Libre (Score 1) 185

Being that its a mac, Apples Pages and Numbers apps are surprisingly functional software and I havent found many Doc or XLS files it cant open and work with.

Pages can't open old Mac word processing documents from decades ago (anybody remember Clarisworks? MacWrite?)

LibreOffice can.

Comment Re:Why do we need a giant publicly funded moon bas (Score 1) 82

Hell of an assumption considering which company volunteered to retrieve astronauts from the ISS after "only" another rocket company failed to do so.

Not sure what you mean by "volunteered". SpaceX was paid to retrieve the astronauts, which they did as part of their contracted flights to the space station.

Comment Re:Space is still hard (Score 2) 73

True.

SpaceX's recent successes tend to make people forget that the company started out with three failures in their first three attempts to launch their first rocket, the Falcon-1. (And, for that matter, SpaceX also had it's share of explosions on the pad during a static fire.)

Yeah: space is hard.

Comment Re:We may have altered the plan. (Score 2) 82

I'm not an expert on rebuilding massively exploded launch infrastructure; but I have a suspicion that a 2026-2029 plan is now going to involve less Blue Origin than previously believed.

Ars Technica has an article discussing how this is a major setback in the NASA lunar plan: https://arstechnica.com/space/...

Comment Rocket-powered drones (Score 1) 82

Only thing I can think of is they will use tiny rockets or air jets in place of propellors...

Right, these are rocket-powered drones.

That means their total flight time will be limited by the amount of fuel they start with, but it should be enough to hop around to multiple sites, including (I'll hope) sites too uneven to land a large lunar lander.

Comment Why does SpaceX need AI? (Score 1) 120

>>But the company lost more than $4.9 billion last year, compared with a $791 million profit in 2024, as capital expenditures nearly doubled to $20.7 billion from heavy spending on artificial intelligence development.

At first I assumed that this was because Musk merged xAI with SpaceX, but that didn't actually happen until 2026. Why was SpaceX spending so much on AI during 2025? Is this research for the bonkers data-centers-in-space nonsense?

Comment This is how science is done [Re:Good] (Score 2) 65

Dark energy and matter are not explanations. They're the names given to the problems of discrepancies between model and measurements.

More explicitly, they are names given to a proposed solution to the problem of discrepancies between models and measurements. Measurements show that objects in the universe move in a way that isn't fully accounted for by the gravity of all the things that we can see (that is, the stuff emitting or reflecting light), so the proposed explanation is that the discrepancy in motion is due to the gravity of things that isn't emitting or reflecting light.

This is a hypothesis. It fits the facts we have so far. We still have to find evidence that the hypothesis is correct, or that the hypothesis is wrong. That's how science is done. You come up with a hypothesis that fits the measurements you have, then you look for ways to see if the hypothesis is correct.

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