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The shuttle had reusable boosters, but if you are talking about something reusable that takes off and lands vertically you are correct that it isn't 1980s technology. It's 1990s te…

"Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group" "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" is part of the defini…

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>reusable rockets would never work I am so fucking tired of people acting like we haven't had reusable rockets since the 1980s. Do you think I was hallucinating when my parents dro…

Look at this picture: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5kYm!,f_auto,q_auto:... Which side is modern and which is traditional? The examples on the right are clearly more mode…

This is kind of a fool's errand given that sample sizes are small and there are large exogenous causes. But the pattern is consistent and agrees with theory, so I think the compari…

What is the point in having a colony of maybe dozens of people completely dependent on shipments from Earth? Building a self-sustaining colony is so far outside the realm of possib…

Even if you think a space industry is useful in general, there is no reason for humans to be involved. Robots are superior to humans for this application today and will only become…