Not all of Africa is a giant desert, or even that close to the equator.

I’m beginning to see why the last one checked out after meeting Vance.

Guillotines are so last revolution. We should just strap one of those concrete highway barriers to an excavator arm and have a heavy equipment operator drop it whenever they feel like. That seems more American.

Battery low energy density. Need big battery. Big battery very heavy. Very heavy make boat no float and need more power to move. More power to move mean need bigger battery. Big battery very heavy…

Inconceivably, those also use fossil fuels.

Man, we’ve been doomed for a long time, haven’t we.

How about the fact that being a qaudruped is basically the body plan for mammals. Humans are the weird ones for standing upright and having our mouths be directly above our stomachs. Every other mammal has their stomach mostly parallel with the mouth while standing. In order for food to get to the stomach, you’d need some force moving the food sideways towards the stomach.

There couldn’t have possibly been a detailed plan released by a conservative think tank that was actively involved in his election campaign.

It’ll take months to get something to the sun. Better to bring the sun to it and vaporize it with Oxy Acetylene

At least you won’t have to eat for the rest of your life.

Everything is edible once.

Oh sweet child, truth social is the official White House communications channel now.

But like half of airline fires have been caused by things in the cargo hold.

The cargo hold is typically under the passenger compartment.

So in reality, there’s a 50ish percent chance that the pilots are just saving their own life.

It can’t make it worse

First corporate war when?

Okay, how about the fact that the Soviets congratulated the US on the first moon landing.

You know, the two opposite sides of the Cold War, and the other side admitted they were beaten?

That seems like pretty good proof

It’s irrational to believe people get into metal tubes everyday and just go to the other side of the world.

The average man cannot verify a plane is capable of flight.

That’s what you sound like.

That rocket is going to the moon tho

Getting anything to the moon takes a lot of thrust.

Also because of having less stages than Apollo, the core stage needed to be quite powerful to get the stack all the way from the surface to the outer edges of the atmosphere.

If starship works, it’ll be great.

Right now starship has delivered precisely 0 grams of anything to any orbital level.

The commercial moon trip that was planned for that Chinese billionaire was canceled due to a lack of confidence and nasa has reopened the lunar lander contract because of how far behind starship is.

The entire design paradigm of starship as a lunar vehicle is also highly dubious. Requiring double digit launches of refueling tankers, that have never been tested or demonstrated as possible, just to get to the moon is not exactly cheap or low risk. If we’re generous and say that launching anything to LEO on starship costs the same as a falcon 9 launch(74 million), and it will take the 16 refueling launches to get to the moon that NASA conservatively estimates, and there’s no boil off of fuel between refueling launches or scheduling delays requiring extra launches due to boil off, then the total cost of a moon mission with starship is now 1.18 billion dollars. The SLS, Frankenstein creation that it is, costs roughly 2.4 billion for a launch. SLS is double the cost on paper, yes. However there is a few massive points in its favor: it has flown twice without blowing up unexpectedly, it does not require over a dozen launches of other rockets to do its only job, and it has actually delivered a payload to the moon. Starship right now can claim none of these things.

Even if starship just becomes a heavy launch to LEO vehicles, it currently has no way to deploy any meaningful cargo to Leo besides fucking starlink satellites. So it can’t even be used to construct the lunar gateway or an orbital tug.

Please stop huffing Elon’s vaporware.