Folks, It's not the outside that is expensive to engineer - it's the flight control software. Let me just hazard a guess. I'm sure Chinese espionage has worked overtime to get the technical drawings of ship internals, but also the software the runs Starship. Once their government got that, well, it just makes sense to have some competition among their companies. You guys build a similar rocket and we can get you started with a copy of the software.

A little more detail from the story. Not just a tourist taking pics..... "The investigative outlet The Insider reported that Oleg Artemyev, a veteran cosmonaut, allegedly photographed and removed restricted documents at SpaceX’s training facility in Hawthorne, California. ..... “It’s hard to imagine an experienced cosmonaut making such a serious mistake unintentionally,” Trishkin told The Insider.

Yes, SpaceX has every motivation to do this. It allows them to test some of the tech that will take them to Mars and back.

This is the problem with a lot of studies. Who funded it and what's their motivation. I just have to guess about the "Centre for Net Zero." I'm sure their hearts in the right place, not so sure about their wallets. This is perhaps why the free market works a little better than study ideas or government funded projects. Trust the people that are spending their money to build and power a data center to find the cheapest power source. Their wallets are usually at risk.

Scanned the comments - fascinating! It's just a matter of standards. Europe is winning in immigration, mRNA, Trump bashing, socialized medicine and gun control. We're in trouble if those are the standards and not economic production.

I think a lot of folks here want to protect Ukraine against a seriously evil Putin (hope we all see him the same). Hard to believe the UK, France, Germany, and Italy don't have the weapons, and perhaps the will? Perhaps, GDP and Industrial production are good measures....

Wow, people who aren't real smart make poor decisions. What a surprise! Just wondering if the authors of this study made tenure by publishing these results? Of course, we also must wonder about the editors at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, did LOW IQ influence their decision to print this?

When were they ever a space power? Hard to understand what is going on in Europe. A lot of talk and plans, but not actions? The curse of planning by committee with a lot of vested interests.

Perhaps the folks that wrote the summary of the study could have chosen simpler words? But it does sound pretty impressive!

We like our FREE email, messaging, posting, etc... How's that get paid for? I'll admit, I don't like it. Somewhat creepy when you click on something on one website, then an ad for it pops up somewhere else... But, do I want the FREE stuff. Yes. Does it really bother me enough to opt-out, No. If it really bothers you - opt out.

Here is what I encountered on my windows systems. 1) Started a command prompt as administrator.
2) Ran the first command given in the article:
wsl --install FedoraLinux-42

3) That seemed to work, but at the end got a message reboot required.
4) Did the reboot
5) Gave the next command (got an error)
wsl -d FedoraLinux-42
There is no distribution with the supplied name.
Error code: Wsl/Service/WSL_E_DISTRO_NOT_FOUND

6) So I repeated step #2, the install, ran more quickly, didn't get a reboot message.
7) Then ran step #5 just fine.
Interesting.

Ignore context of what is said, ignore why those words were chosen, ignore motivation ... I can 'police' your writing by just grepping for phrases. How about toleration of other viewpoints?

"we are the thin blue line" -- This isn't okay. This isn't creating an inclusive environment. This isn't okay with the current political situation especially in the US. A maintainer speaking those words can't be kept. No matter how important or critical or relevant they are. They need to be removed until they learn. Learn what those words mean for a lot of marginalized people. Learn about what horrors it evokes in their minds.

Men are getting taller and stronger -- and you blame it on women!!! Clearly, another conspiracy! You may believe women usually steal food from men's plates, but some fact checking is needed here!

You have to admire innovation. I'm in my 60s, remember the old sci-fi tv shows with rockets that would land on Earth by firing their engines. People used to laugh at that in the 70s and 80s when shuttle service was vogue. Hard to believe all the PhDs at NASA couldn't do the math on that, not to mention cost+ contracts would have made it amazing expensive.

You've go hand it to Space X and Musk for exploring and implementing new ideas.