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What breakthrough would that be? Are you just worried about travel times?

Nope, that's a fringe benefit at best. It's because it's cheap and it burns cleanly and it is easier to work with. Hydrogen burns cleanly and gives good thrust per kg, but it's around 25-30x more expensive and it's a pain to store or use. Kerosene is even cheaper amd gives reasonable thrust per...

We already send robots and there is no theoretical blocker to sending people. It's only a matter of time.

It's mostly good for Satellites. Starlink is a technical masterpiece and has significant commercial and societal benefits. Also for small sats, the Falcon 9 ride share program has dropped the price to get cubesats into orbit by a factor of ten or more and more or less eliminated schedule...

Green has nothing to do with it. Methane is less efficient as a rocket fuel, but it's easier to work with and cheaper to use. It is moving away from trying to make rockets as perfect as possible and moving more towards brute force engineering and ongoing costs assuming a higher flight rate. And...

It really isn't. But Artemis II did not use those advances. The new generation of rocket engines are reusable and use Methane as a fuel rather than hydrogen. They are hugely cheaper to build than the old school hydrogen powered ones used by Saturn V, the Shuttle and SLS/Artemis. Plus they are...

Im not sure what you meant by this: Ant colonies are pretty much peak communism.

It's simple economics, if the supply goes down then the price goes up. Thanks to the US/Israeli war the supply of vital products has decreased. Now the prices are rising. Blaming the Illuminati is just silly.

The US and Israel have burnt through a large chunk of their advanced missiles available. Not all of them but the reserve is lower than it has been for a long time. Interceptor sticks are also very low as they have been burning through them to deal with Iranian drones. They still have loads of...

Most people see Dickens' stories as depicting some of the worst elements of Victorian England. Others apparently are it as a blueprint. It's amazing how historically ignorant these people banging on about the past are.

How about food? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q98w57k25o Agricultural diesel price doubled, fertilizer costs up 40% and it is only going to get worse as fertiliser production is cratering due to a combination of shortages of feed stock and higher natural gas costs. We're going to see...

They're all global commodities. Unless you plan on nationalising all the oil then we buy at global prices. By the way make sure you have travel insurance if you're going abroad as with the Hormuz straight shut our jet fuel supply has been cut and we're burning through our storage. You might not...

To think, If only you hadn't been stupid enough to lose those two fingers petting the lamas you'd still be able to add up to 10.

This is of course, unsurprisingly, *******s. But I'm sure Spline can provide some numbers to back this up.

If only we had an educated workforce with fewer medieval peasants who think the world is flat, vaccines don't work and that traveling gangs of alien brickies built all pre industrial structures over three stories high or that the moon landings were faked.

I gave a list earlier. That's your ten.

Magayr is also anti immigration, he's not who I'd choose for a leader but he's a lot better than the alternative.

When it goes to **** they'll just blame the deep state or some ethnic minority for their failures. Look at Brexit.

No, they aren't. Those are a dishonourable mention in addition to the other strikes. The summary isn't great. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen

Blockading the straights is a little bit 'You can't fire me, I quit!'