There are quite a few people who want to inflict suffering so people are more receptive to their ideas about how to fix it. They also like to push anti-science ideas because they tend to be religious or at least using religion to further their ends.

Not many people are receptive to revolutionaries when their stomachs are full and their children aren't dying.

Sure. It's not like a misconfigured router has ever taken down a network before.

Why would it? It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with ATC, it's a recommendation system for scheduling.

The FAA uses a fair number of remote controllers. The airspace around Newark airport is controlled from Philadelphia, for example. Radio communication both ways, along with radar information, is carried over a fibre optic link. This incident seems to have been a problem with several route air traffic control centres, which would be connected to their actual radios and radars over a wide area in much the same way. It's (hopefully) not the Internet, but it is an internet.

There are lots of receivers. Many of them are publicly accessible on the Internet. Also, the plane receiving the commands is required to acknowledge them.

So at a conservative estimate it saved them about $200,000,000 in Falcon 9 launches.. if throwing away a booster and Starship costs less than that then they're already making a per-launch operating profit.

The contract price for a launch of a fully recovered Starship+booster is $90 million. We don't know how much it costs to build one, but its going to be more than that. Unrecovered, Starship should be very uncompetitive, particularly with something like Falcon.

SpaceX is at the point where they can start taking the edge off the cost of their testing program by launching useful payloads though.

I wasn't worried until that moron opened his mouth and stuttered some BS. Now I am questioning everything. That bozo could claim the sun was hot and I would have to check myself.

"History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man"

Yeah, he only owned a few percent of Nvidia. Much easier to get voted out when you're not voting half the shares yourself.

I always found the "fuck an A" vs "fuckin' A" divide fascinating, myself.

Isn't that pretty much what kicked off the Butlerian Jihad?

Full moon areas are pretty standard units in astronomy journalism. The summary also says it's 14% of the mission goal, which is "more than a third."

Their IPO paperwork was, to put it lightly, very confident in that future.

It wasn't really. It talked about it a lot but on the will-it-work front it said "we've got no idea."

I'm sure this is just a test. I'm looking forward to seeing the prototypes that sit in the Arizona desert and don't use any water at all, generate their own electricity, have no fans, and require zero staff or maintenance.

Anyhow, there's nothing wrong with settling on the side.

They wanted it sitting upright so the upper deck would be shallow enough that recreational divers could reach it easily and have a decent amount of time on site. It would also be safer sitting upright because the superstructure creates a minimum of overhangs that way. Diving in an overhead environment is much more dangerous. Finally, ships are designed to sit upright. They deteriorate and collapse faster when they're on their sides, which would put the shallowest part of the ship even deeper.