GreyEyedGhost

I believe you're referring to the impromptu, unannounced, Tiananmen Square Tank Parade...

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This is legal in America, but not in Canada. As a father of 3 sons, I considered sex selection for a daughter.

Looks like we found someone who believed it was financially necessary for the manufacture of the shuttle to be spread across the country.

I largely agree with what you're saying, but he's been in the right place at the right time 3 times, and made good on the potential. Maybe he was just really lucky, maybe he had dozens of things going and those 3 are the ones that panned out, maybe he was a genius that destroyed his talents with hubris and drugs. Certainly, having the financial security to take those chances was a big factor in his success, as much as apparently believing that success was all due to his inborn talent was a big factor on his continuing fall from grace.

You can do better. Get a script to fill it out hundreds of times, and then distribute it to your friends. Imagine if all 15 million Albertans had their voice heard...

There were a lot of skeptics that the Falcon would fly, and be reusable, and it has dramatically reduced cost per kg to orbit.

Also, I'm not sure where you got your Econ degree, and I'm not sure I care. Competitive contracts aren't the same as subsidies. If the government says they're going to do something, say build a tunnel, is it a subsidy to the construction company who wins the contract, or is it payment for services rendered? And actual subsidies, such as growing food that can't be sold on the open market at the price the government is paying, can have benefits to the country, such as national security or funding soft power with other nations. So, is your big problem that the government shouldn't be supporting space development, or should instead be doing it internally for more tax payer money? Are you against EVs being promoted by the government making the technology more feasible for car companies? If so, why are you pissed at Musk for taking advantage of these subsidies that one could argue help the country and the world, and not at least as pissed at the other car companies for not getting on board and doing what they could to also access those subsidies?

Depends how British you are? 🤔

You keep proving that you have passion, but no facts to back it up. I'd be perfectly fine with SpaceX being nationalized, but Americans believe that's communism. SLS is not only old tech, it's old tech that isn't being produced any more. Using existing supplies, they have at best 5 launches, at slightly less than has been spent by SpaceX on the entrie Starship program, for each one. If you want six, well, you have to reopen plants in over half of the states, as well as train staff, etc. Even if the next 5 cost as much as the 5 they can build now, and you'd be a fool to make that bet, it would still cost 10 times what SpaceX has spent so far.

And no, I don't consider competitive contracts to be subsidizing companies. And the reason SpaceX is doing as well as it is is likely because of people actively working to keep his hands off of it. This may be the only good thing Twitter has accomplished. As for the Dragon capsule ending, I'm pretty sure that technological cat was let out of the bag.

FYI, in Canada and the UK, to table something means to give it attention or handle it, unlike in America where it means to set it aside.

I had a teacher mark my answer incorrect because I said women can have hemophilia. They said you can't because it's a sex-linked disease. I said sure, but what happens if you have two X chromosomes with that gene on it? Still didn't get the point. This was in the 80s, and I couldn't just look it up on the internet and prove how wrong they were.

Their navy does need to be enlarged...

You can see the fire right through her eyes.