Recent content by m4n8tpr8

The article says, "the exoplanet exists a mere 1.4 miles (2.3 kilometers) from its sun-like star"? Would be funny, but I guess "million" is missing.

You have strange concerns. Through NASA, the US government has bet on Starship's success by giving it the Moon lander contract (although now Blue Origin also got one, but even with SpaceX's delays, they are years behind), and FAA has proved itself as more than lenient in rubber-stamping SpaceX's...

Huh!? I'm not aware of any info proving that Western governments want what you claim, much less for utopian reasons. The only utopians here are people who think we are anywhere close to space colonisation, or that space colonies could not end up as Orwellian or other dystopias much faster than...

I have great doubts about the US effort, chiefly because of the Moon lander. Elon Musk just let it slip that the current model of Starship is underperforming, both in terms of its thrust rating and especially in its lifting capacity, and announced that a "Starship 2" and a "Raptor 3" have to be...