Recent content by avenuePad

Oh yes, because the US came up with rockets all by their lonesome.

Yes, rocket "related" patents. Like specific storage apparatuses, antennas, etc ... SpaceX does not hold patents on any direct rocket technology.

"Yes, good."? Huh? Anyway, I wasn't implying that you specifically were talking about wheels, and I think that was obvious, but whatever. My point, which I also made in my post, was that rockets aren't patented and you can't patent things that are obvious to people in that particular field...

Patent law does not "force you to reinvent the wheel every time you try and build a new product". That's ridiculous. From Google: "The invention must be novel, have utility and it cannot be obvious to a person of ordinary skill in that particular art." Let's take the wheel as an example. One...

Kipping is biased. He claims he agnostic on the issue of intelligence species in the galaxy or universe, but he seems to always brush aside the legitimate criticisms of the Rare Earth Hypothesis and the Fermi Paradox. To make any kind of conclusion about the possibility of intelligent life on...

Relying on Elon Musk to take us to Mars is utterly ridiculous. He's totally incompetent. As for Starship, let's see if it can actually reach orbit. I think NASA is starting to realize it's a poor design for a lunar lander, let alone a Mars lander. It's far too tall. NASA scrapped a similar...