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Given how vehemently the Senators were in forcing NASA to create a second award for HLS, I wonder why there is no backup for SLS+Orion.

as long as we ignore the CO2 dumped by Camry/Prius and its cohorts across the industry causing existential crisis hey they will beat others on cost/mile.

He may promise the stars but does deliver the moon. i am just waiting to see who else is even delivering the moon.

Problem with NUCs is the thermal limitation.

only if names affect the performance of the rocket

>> Can't travel cross country, Unless you want to travel non-stop for 7 to 8 hour plus without taking a break, then you can.

I have an eithical dilemma for you. As of now on an average 33000 ppl are killed in road accidents in USA. Lets say Tesla's or other ICE makers' autopilot reduces this to 20000 dea…

>>the reality is that they are gone continue to increase as Tesla delivers more vehicles they actually get more credits, People completely miss this point (some deliberately so). A…

Thanks for this. I don't know why people make easily disprovable statements. Do they think their ability to mislead is greater than peoples ability to read financial statements? Fu…

Misleading title. 350-mile versions starts at $112000 and available in Fall-21. $80k version is 250mile and is available from Spring-24.

I am stuck too in my work. I can't quit because of my commitments (also i am too scared to quit and be on my own). Any way. One thing I know is that I do well when I am learning ne…

whatever the value, I hope it stays buried.

You should Google for what Elon thinks about space-based solar energy.

Your comment reminds me of the Star Trek TNG episode Peak Performance. Data wins the rematch by playing to stalemate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Performance_(Star_Trek:_T..…

So what you are saying is a person looks at $4 a gallon and thinks hey lets buy a Tesla which costs $100K. And suddenly the same person will say no reason to buy a Tesla because no…

Actually context matters here. If some one from USA/UK/France, for example, learns a new language it definitely is a surprise. May be blows the mind is not the right word. On the o…

There is an enormous difference between writing in English and writing like Shakespeare, Hitchens, Rushdie, or Stephen King. When it comes to coding most people confuse learning sy…

Hmm. $90,000 per year. Looks like people in developing world like India are out of luck.

I agree with you. But please do read the article.

How liberating it must feel to him to not give a damn about what anyone thinks about what he says. Good for him.

My take is that there is no meaning of life. We impose our own meaning to get by.

Ok. I will give you that. I said ~18000 which is the suicide/accident number. I should have said ~12000 for homicide. But it doesn't change my argument at all.

So what you are saying is you are ok with 10000+ deaths year over year for many many decades to counteract an extremely remote chance of US federal government behaving like Saddam …

Yes. People kill people. But people don't kill other people with bare hands. May be they do but it would be such a minute fraction that it is not worth talking about. So given that…

Hmm. I am from India, and most resumes I have seen here, even for people with lot of experience, education section is at the top. I just stuck with that format.