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10 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 0 replies · +4 points

My general feeling was that this was in some sense a goodbye. As if the director was saying that even if no-one flies a thing it was all still worth it because of the lives they touched.

10 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: In s... · 5 replies · +1 points

I love the way contemporaries imagine a space settlement as a really big balloon that any occupant could inadvertently prick - as if the rules of good engineering have suddenly been suspended because we find ourselves in a new environment. For those of us who have an engineer's mind, these concerns seem not just petty but outright trivial. It doesn't matter how many sci-fi depictions there are of robust engineering in space, or even the real world stories of calm innovative repair, the audience only remembers the explosions and the woooshing of air out into the big suck. Similarly, no amount of holding hands and singing about peace and love is going to stop people from thinking about the concerns of people. If modern popular entertainment is killing space utopianism, let's have more of it faster please.

10 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Is &... · 0 replies · +3 points

So, you're calling Rick a liar. Classy.

10 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Is &... · 0 replies · -1 points

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey4jrkd9oTc

ULA and Boeing and ATK and Lockheed Martin aint trying to open the space frontier. The only thing they try to open is the coffers of the tax payer.

12 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Blue... · 1 reply · 0 points

tardius ad astra

12 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Blue... · 0 replies · +1 points

I thought it was more a statement of how little Blue Origin has done in the last 10 years.

"We haven't heard anything."

"That's cause we haven't done anything."

"Oh."

12 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Blue... · 3 replies · 0 points

Blue Origin is far from fully funded. They're scraping by on Bezos's beer money.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 1 reply · 0 points

Please take your crazy elsewhere, this is a serious website.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 0 replies · +4 points

More important: I hope I never see the day when NASA is responsible for the colonization of anything. Stop abstracting for a minute and think about what "colonization" actually means. Can you honestly envision NASA shipping families into space? I can more easily imagine them building a grade school.

15 years ago @ The Space Review: essa... - The Space Review: Revi... · 2 replies · 0 points

Did he predict what's going to happen, when, and how bad, with sufficient accuracy to justify the massive reaction currently gripping the world? Oh, that's right, no-one has done that.

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