GreyEyedGhost

I think you'd have to discuss that with France first.

I was surprised to find oracle's offerings so economical for personal use. I set up a foundry server (TTRPG) and so far it hasn't cost me a cent. Still not a fan of them or their CEO, but this is working for me.

Then I'll go to the basics. This which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. You made your assertion, I provided evidence. You dismissed it with "Well, everybody knows." And yet, new discoveries are made all the time, research continues apace, and technology advances. Believe what you will. Your faith, or mine, makes no difference.

Edit: I'm so sorry, I forgot to read a little further for you in my search the first time. Nissan is building a factory and plans on having their first batteries produced in 2025. That's just one article I saw about it, there were others. My apologies if you find this triggering, as well.

Yeah, I'm really sick of the hype train, so that was the only info I looked for. Honestly, I was a little surprised it was that easy to find, and that is still no guarantee it's accurate.

Me, too, man. Saying the same thing so many times.

Well, that dollar value seems to be a big deal to you, but you brush aside the costs of SLS, and completely ignore the many billions spent to make the SLS components even possible. This has sunk cost fallacy vibes to me.

Sorry, I forgot that some people say quaint little phrases like "never heard about them again" to mean "still haven't seen a product released to market." I also don't live in a world where companies start multi-billion dollar partnerships with no belief that the corporations will get a return on that investment.

That was sarcasm.

There is some evidence, but there is also a lot of evidence to dogs having a lot of selection pressure put on them by humans, even before all the relatively modern breeds. Dogs have more expressive faces than cats (or wild dogs), use expressions that are easily read by humans, and can read human expressions. Cats still often look like their wild cousins.

There is also good evidence that cats were domesticated during the Neolithic revolution, while dogs were domesticated much earlier, while hunter-gatherers were the norm. So it could be that their domestication just hasn't progressed as much as dogs' and other animals' have.

SLS is a disposable product based on existing technology. Starship intends to be reusable and is an evolution based on tech developed in the last 20 years.

Neither private companies nor the DoD is interested in using the SLS once it has been proven in the Artemis project, and given the project is based on the time-honored tradition of government pork, it's doubtful it will ever be economical. Every indication I can see is that the Blue Origin and SLS contract are to hedge bets in case Starship fails. After all, we know SLS will work, but it will always be cost-ineffective just based on the nature of the beast. Blue Origin might work out, but they've been around as long as SpaceX and have achieved suborbital flights so far. Meanwhile, SpaceX has had 332 successful launches in 14 years, with 2 failures. Their team seems to know what they're doing.

That said, allowing code into your spreadsheet takes away a lot of barriers to programming.

SLS is also ridiculously expensive. They hope, with time, to bring the cost down to $1 billion per launch. And the first one took 6 years longer than expected. If we're going to get to the moon more than one more time before I die, this isn't the vehicle I'm going to pin my hopes on.