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Musk is now claiming that Starship will launch in about six weeks

That is an impressive visual.
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“ Everybody’s cute, even me. But in purple I’m stunning”.-Londo Mollari Read more

Mars: “Do my sandstorms make me look fat?” Read more

I’d worry most of all about the Virgin Galactic one, since it has the least amount of full-up flight tests (since they can’t test it like that uncrewed) and the company has a history of screwing up on safety issues.  Read more

That’s yet another really terrible idea. Read more

Baaa! Regulations smegulations! Read more

Any type of adventure company, sea, space, mountains, etc... should be required to fund all rescues of their clients or have all clients sign an enforced “no rescue” waiver that clearly states that no action is to be taken by any public resource for their rescue. Read more

Quiet! Read more

explain Why, though...
If these people sign up for something they know the inherent risks of, and then something catastrophic happens why should we feel bad.
I mean any more so than the death of any human is sad
I am exponentially more sad for Breonna Taylor or Elijah McClain than rich tourists
These adventure tourists… Read more

Ron Howard: It didn’t.
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Yea, should be regulated, but by whom? Also, If anyone listens to Marcodosing podcast, they had a guy on that apparently had refused the use of this same submarine within the past year or so. Read more

*Submersible Starlink internet may not function as advertised. Read more

“BepiColombo” Read more

Any insight on how the submersible communicates with the support vessel? There has to be some form of communication between the two, right? Maybe not one that works all the way down to 13,000 feet, but surely some method of communicating? Read more

It is possible that it had a power failure or something along those lines and is actually at the surface, adrift, without radio contact. And — of course — the submersible can’t be opened from the inside, so unless they are found soon, they will run out of oxygen. Read more

It’s not so much a "rescue" as a recovery operation. Unless the sub is still cruising around, it very likely sank below crush depth and imploded. They did not feel any pain though; the collapse happens in milliseconds, to fast for nerve signals to reach the brain. Read more

“If a thing was different, it would be different” Read more