To be fair, they said that private market can do everything cheaper and better

Doesn't mean that it always will. Especially if it's allowed to run free like the US health industry has been

16/21 for me

Would be a lot easier if the images weren't miniscule

They never were and they won't be anytime soon

Like, even if BO manages to get their New Glenn rocket flying within the next few years and SpaceX fails at making Starship, it would take years and years before BO builds up the experience and capability to launch rockets at the kind of cadence that SpaceX is able to do it right now

And if SpaceX's Starship actually becomes operational and can be launched for less than a 100 million (which is far more than any reasonable estimate for a fully reusable rocket system), then no one is touching SpaceX for decades

Honestly, if we had the capability to build a space elevator on Mars, then we'd also have the capability to move a relatively tiny moon such as Phobos into a different orbit

On the topic - I'm not trying to say that I'm 100% sure that what PCRM are claiming haven't happened. Neuralink have already admitted that some animals have died for instance

However activist groups are rarely the most objective or trustworthy sources of information. And when you have a scenario where PCRM are the only ones claiming to have seen the documents that they're basing their claims on, and the big news publication are actually holding off running their own articles titled "Elon Musk's Neuralink implants killed 15 of 23 animals and caused them to vomit themselves to death" despite the crazy amount of clicks that would get them, then I'm gonna remain skeptical

The problem with articles like the one you linked to is that all it really does is repeat what the activist group have claimed. They're not independently verifying it or breaking any kind of new news.

The article is basically just "here's what an activist group is claiming"

It's a major issue with modern news most of the time. Normally you'll have one source claiming something, and then every news site on the internet will make their own slightly reworded version about what that one source is claiming, without actually do any kind of investigation into the validity of the claims.

Though in the case of these claims made by PCRM, most of the big news sites seem to have opted to not report on the claims. Which to me is a pretty big warning sign about the validity of the people making the claims, especially when it's from some random activist group

Neither have you about your claims

Oh no, you got stuck in a loop

Damn, that either went way over your head or you're just being purposefully obtuse

You know, somehow I doubt you'll accept any evidence that counters your opinion

That's what I said, yes.

My "hard-held beliefs" in this case being "have a reputable source verify it and I'll believe it"

Well, you're wrong on that

edit - Actually, you're right. Because my opinion is literally just "I don't really trust some small activist group lead by a guy accused of cherry picking data, so I'd want to see the claim verified by a reputable source before believing it"

The source of those numbers are from an activist group. That's kinda like trusting green peace to tell the truth

If there are other, actually trustworthy, sources who have independently verified those claims, then I'll believe it

Is that 15 of 23 test subjects dying actually something that's been verified by anyone other than a single small activist group, who's lead by a guy that's been accused of cherry picking data?

Honestly feel like that'll mostly depend on how quickly they transition away from only doing missions when they have an SLS ready

If they only do a mission when an SLS is ready, then they'll be limited to having very few people on the Moon, which then makes it impossible to do anything at scale. Stagnation would quickly set in and people would lose interest

I'd love to hear the logic that you use to reach that conclusion that billionaires would find Mars a more attractive place to live than Earth

Must've been awesome for any interstellar aliens in those galaxies to have had an intergalactic highway to another galaxy

That argument just makes no sense at all.

Public sector spaceflight have historically been far more inefficient and costly than modern commercial space flight, and public sector spaceflight also didn't have any plans to provide innovative new alternatives to the ground based monopolistic ISP's

We don't really need a steady state any time soon though. Our solar system alone has enough resources to cover the needs of hundreds of billions of people

It's mostly down to a matter of utilizing resources more efficiently that we do currently

"Can’t wait for this company to go bankrupt"

Lol good luck with that

Anyone can create semiconductors, however, creating the most cutting edge high end semiconductors is extremely difficult. So much so that there's only 1 company (ASML) that can actually make those EUV Lithography machines. And unfortunately for China, that's a Dutch company that's banned from exporting those machines to China

Of course it's not. There will always be territorial claims that lead to tension

While we're a 1 planet species, that tension will occur between nations. Once we become a multi planet species, the tension will shift to being between planets. Once we become an interstellar species, the tension will shift to being between interstellar nations/organizations

I'll be pretty proud of my country if The Culture civilizations starts here in Denmark

There's not really any viable business model for space mining currently.

You need two things for it to become viable.

1. The technology to mine asteroids in an efficient and safe manner

2. A demand for the materials you mine

Right now neither exists