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Comment · 5 years ago
Can’t read it. Opened on my phone and there are at lost 7 letters per line - communications is split over 3 lines for example.

Rather ironic that a letter to a group that is about communication can’t use an appropriate technology to communicate.

Comment · 5 years ago
Why do LTO manufacturers always quote compressed sizes, like we’re in the days of stacker?
Comment · 5 years ago
It’s no wonder there’s so much call to “defund the police” in the US with te number of anecdotes that come out

It feels to me that the only solution is to completely shut it down

Comment · 5 years ago
People do not need educating not to spy on teenage girls with drones, they do not need training to not do it.
Comment · 5 years ago
“dragon cum house”

Are you sure it’s a kids book?!

Comment · 5 years ago
Compared with coal and oil, and ignoring waste. Nuclear costs more than wind and solar though.
Comment · 5 years ago
To land the volume of one starship on the moon takes 3 or 4 launches of a fully reusable craft - so just the fuel.

To land that with Apollo would take 100 launches of a single use craft.

Comment · 5 years ago
In the billion or so years life has existed on earth, there’s no evidence any species built a nuclear bomb or had large plastic manufacturing or left anything in GEO, all of which we’ve achieved in the last 100 years.

Progressing to that stage this seems unlikely for a planet with life on.

Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, two simultaneous shuttle launches from neighbouring pads

Watching the two heavy boosters landing on neighbouring pads was similar - except real. It was that shot that made me think “the future is here”

Comment · 5 years ago
Statistics say you shouldn’t call your reusable ship a word beginning with ‘C’

In 1963 a LES killed someone, in 1983 it saved lives.

Comment · 5 years ago
Humans aren’t landing propulsively on f9 either - if the landing fails it just costs money. The capsule lands with parachutes.
Comment · 5 years ago
About that yes, but remember that a fully loaded starship in orbit can land on any solid surface in the solar system and return to earth (except for Venus)

Starship’s usable volume is over 100 times that of an Apollo lunar lander.

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Comment · 5 years ago
Even then it still relies on knowledge that the certificate has been compromised.
Comment · 5 years ago
First colour monitor I had was orange, light orange, dark orange and very dark orange - a CGA laptop from my dads work. I remember Railroad Tycoon Ran with option 5,1,2 but Civilisation would have to wait a few years for the full blown desktop 286 (12Mhz, 1M ram and a full 40MB hard drive!)

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