Glen is an animal. Just a fucking legend.

With an infinite amount of time, almost anything can happen under the right conditions.

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They should call the full stack Jefferson’s Starship.

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Looking to find a habitable planet makes sense since we could ourselves visit and interact. Humans don’t want to look for life forms in the sun or in a nuclear waste.

A lot of people and scientists are people look outside the habitual zones. Good points in your post.

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You’re correct, it could. We just haven’t found proof of it yet, and people are hesitant to make unfounded claims that would be such a paradigm shift to our understanding of the universe.

Scientists search for planets with conditions similar to earth because they know those conditions will support life. This doesn't rule out the possibility that other life forms could exist under other conditions, we just haven't discovered other types of life forms so we don't know where else to look or what else to look for.

That's one of the big questions, isn't it? Is life rare or common? Be cooler if it turned outto be common.

For all you know, there might be life on Jupiter, Saturn, etc. Those life may thrive on those planets atmosphere and gasses

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I presume most of this knowledge won't just be in public domain considering how strategic space is and how several unfriendly countries can use it for other purposes

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I’m not sure, but I don’t think I’m mesmerized. A bit of the opposite actually.

There was a time when SpaceX was the laughingstock as well. Gwen Shotwell is primarily the reason things didn’t end with Falcon 1. Even when NASA gave SpaceX a shot with commercial cargo and later commercial crew, people were skeptical. And if it weren’t for those contracts, SpaceX doesn’t make it.

Blue Origin had one “failure” so far for suborbital and the vehicle performed exactly the way it should in an emergency.

Keep in mind that this isn't yet a playground for billionaires. None of these companies would exist without NASA, they are glorified apparatuses of NASA. This is actually in NASA's best interest. Without these companies, they would have to do the space launch themselves and bureaucracy would balloon the costs to most of their budget. By delegating this to outside organizations, they can keep the cost of space flight down, while allocating their budget more wisely.

If these companies do anything NASA doesn't like, they would be dropped and disappear over time. If they further get too uppity, the federal government can regulate them out of existence. These companies should be used for what their worth, then when we get what we need, we crush them.

They have the benefit of all the knowledge gained from 8 decades of public funding of the space program. Easy to get off the ground when someone else has done most of the work.

~2.5 minutes is the total burn time of the Saturn V first stage engines after liftoff.

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>Apparently not.

Based on what?

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

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