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You should care about "theoretical" future death because, via the inexorable passage of time, the future becomes the present. At which time you have "actual" death happening all ar…

I wrote a much less complete/polished program like this using WebGL this year: https://wioux.github.io/tracking-station/ I was playing a lot of Kerbal Space Program and wanted to u…

New Horizons was launched directly into a solar escape trajectory. It's going slower than Earth but that is no indication of how advanced the technology is. The whole goal was to g…

Why not take the financing for this basic income and build things like housing instead?

If you have better schools the district's property values go up which increases the tax base. Families can and do move across districts to access better schools, so there is compet…

Can you elaborate? I do say that we should develop the asteroid defense capability, to eliminate those smaller more frequent impacts and others. My terminology was not standard or …

The odds of a medium sized impact in the next few thousand years are very small. Still, an advanced asteroid defense capability should be prepared, since even the small-ish bolides…

It's a strange idea that progress was arrested by anti-war, civil rights, feminist, and environmental activist movements, while epitomized by men walking on the moon. The counter-c…

What is it?

A flat rate could cover software fees and advertising. Dispute resolution should maybe be insured for each and every ride, but at nothing close to the ~20% cut currently taken.

It's not about whether the achievement is groundbreaking in a technological sense, but whether this is a reasonable, defensible, sane, or even merely legal, program.

"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…

Theft is when I take property which I have no right to take possession of. It doesn't matter if guns or force are involved, or fraud, or sneakiness, etc. If taxation is theft, then…

ULA has an engine reuse plan. If they can get it working it'll be much more efficient than the hoverslam approach.

I'm just saying we shouldn't abandon or postpone progress on Earth to start an impossible colonization project on Mars. Any opinion you or I have about how long Earth will remain v…

I don't think we should put any resources into colonization activities right now. In case it's unclear, I'm agreeing with you and responding to blacksmith_tb's suggestion that "it …

You have to work on building out the colony once you're there too, that's part of the deal. Hard, impossible work.

Humans killing ourselves / extinction events are incredibly unlikely over the time frame that SpaceX will exist for. They're also easier to survive or avoid than it would be to col…

Conservationists (or anyone else who objects) will have it easy. Interplanetary missions are sensitive to timing. All you have to do is disrupt the launch schedule for a few weeks,…

If all this is true then why even go to the trouble of supporting opt out? The support for opt out acknowledges (implicitly) that the choice to upload data is rightfully the user's…

The ESA has a really interesting segment on the space debris problem and possible solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_CvGJKMOs

Everyone understands that in the vast majority of times we use man/woman, he/she, or him/her, the intention is not to specifically draw attention to a person's reproductive organs.…

Yup. For one they aren't delinquent on rent. But also the rules literally are different, there are city and state ordinances governing this trailer park. Residents are entitled to …

Residents are being offered between $12,000 and $30,000 for the appraised value of their homes and they don't want to move. I don't think $20,000 in cash would change their minds s…