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• Commented on MSL Is On Its Way To Mars

  @rockofritters : Yeah, because there were no 2-year slip at all. Nope. And do not even get me started about other NASa projects......

• Commented on How Much of Webb is Actually "Complete"? (Update)

  I will not be charitable or nice. It is menaningless and it is lying. Yes, it is possible to lie by telling truth. So, 75% of spacecraft by mass is complete. This statement is true... and very, very misleading....

• Commented on Does SMD Have a Bias Against Venus?

  If by "bias" one thinks "I like more bang for my buck", then yes, there is bias against Venus. While I agree another mission to Venus would be cool, it will have to wait for better budget times, sadly. BTW...

• Commented on James Hansen Arrested For Yelling

  @Bernardo de la Paz: I see that grasping on straws is all you have now. @Carson Of Venus: "Wasnt it "consensus science" that said the world was flat not too long ago?" Let me guess, you are one of those...

• Commented on SpaceX Plans To Berth Dragon With ISS on Next Flight

  "This "privately-developed space transportation system" is nothing more than another type of contracting." No one clams otherwise. Claim is different: that this type of contracting will fare better than alternatives. "Who pays if the test results in damage to ISS?"...

• Commented on SLS: A Rarely Flown Rocket to Nowhere?

  Maybe NASA for change are more truthful about cost, time and results than usual? After Shuttle fiasco (never ever achieving goals that was used as argument when selling this idea to goverment and taxpayers) & Constellation idiocy (politicians designing rockets,...

• Commented on Juno Leaves Earth On A Trip To Jupiter

  "Another mission to send back nearly worthless information." So you consider answering questions about planet forming in this ale other solar systems worthless. Interesting. I will omit nonsequitors - WTH HSF have to Juno? Or you are one of these...

• Commented on SpaceX and Valador Settle Out of Court

  @areowerks "why all this secrecy?" Yeah, because SpaceX did not release video from launch. Totally not. And this non-existant video, in fact actually shows for everyone to see (or not see) that first stage blows up seconds after separation. I...

• Commented on Musk Talks About Getting to Mars

  There is nothing wrong with being ambitious, but I do not think humans will go to MArs any time soon, SpaceX or not. Moon, on other hand... this can be actually achievable in 20 years, of course not by SpaceX...

• Commented on More Climate Change Arm Waving

  Funny that you link directly to some graphs without context or definitions, instead of articles on this web site. I wonder why?...

• Commented on Rejoice Comrades! Glorious Era of Soyuz Begins (Update)

  "YOO ESS AYY chanting, and all the other attendant trappings of jingoism" "cheering for one's home team isn't pee cee. It's practically hate speech to cheer for one's own people" In immortal words of Obelix: you Americans are so crazy....

• Commented on Save Webb Campaign Begins (Update)

  Yes, it is. What is officially reported counts, not unofficial estimations. And I really, really do not think these unofficial estimations was on spot either. @dogstar2 So you suggest "little steps" or evolutionary approach? Nope, it is too sensible and...

• Commented on Save Webb Campaign Begins (Update)

  Just kill it. Begone, sunk cost fallacy. "But what if someone asks you something that has never been done by anyone?" Do you really think this is good defense? Sure, bleeding edge and all of that, but if cost baloons,...

• Commented on SpaceX Vs Valador in Court

  I consider it very funny that some people swallow it hook, line and sinker, like whyisthat1 and sroman. Can these people explain this fragment where "entire stage blew up JUST AFTER the first stage separated" in live video feed that...

• Commented on SpaceX Responds To Forbes

  I have one problem with SpaceX - too low rate of flight. But his business model assumes very, very high rate of launch! I am SpaceX fanboy, I understand yopu can pick only two from "safe, cheap, fast", but it...

• Commented on Scolese: Webb Launch Could Slip to 2022-2024 (Updated)

  Cancel it. Cancel, pelase. Begone, sunk cost fallacy. JUST KILL IT....

• Commented on Google Is Space Themed Today

  Yeah, bottom of this gogole rocket reminds me of one certain launch vehicle too... I do not know of any other LV that have bottom looking like this....

• Commented on NASA's Rocket To Nowhere

  Ralphy, you ran out of arguments? This is why you start to rely on rumours? Way to go. Wayyy to go....

• Commented on SpaceX Nabs Top CFO

  I hope SpaceX will get IPO as late as possible. Reasons should be obvious....

• Commented on China's Space Station

  I do not even feel like answering this kool-aid, except one thing... "ever hear of the Hubble?" Yeah. I heard also that for money used in one Shuttle repairing mission we could build another telescope like Hubble. Yup, good use...

• Commented on Rep. Posey Wants Return to the Moon by 2020

  Why? Simple. If you want HSF at all for any reason, you start with Moon, later asteroids, later Mars. Not the other way around. You learn to crawl before walk, walk before run. Flying to Mars now is suicide. It...

• Commented on Jay Barbree is Stuck In The Past

  @biggio: So you assume that if Shuttle would not be done, then we would do absolutely nothing? Your argument is fallacious. We would have different history (probably better), not nothing at all. @JonathanN: "It should [dissent voices and criticism of...

• Commented on Shuttle Missions: $1.5 Billion Each?

  Why my lie detector smokes and smells ungodly? Oh yes. "and the richest 5% pay most of the taxes" [source needed]...

• Commented on Jay Barbree is Stuck In The Past

  It is sad to see some people that see capsules as step back. In fact, shuttle was step back, very costly failure that drag USA spaceflight for 30 years, never delivering what was promised so long ago. Two-week turnaround? Cost...

• Commented on Elektron Failure on ISS

  This kind of things prove that we are not nearly as ready to manned spaceflight to Mars. Just focus on Moon, develop space technologies - it is easier to develop gradually from days to weeks to months to years than...

• Commented on China Has Limits After All

  @SpaceDude: "there is no market for the launch capacity of the falcon 9 heavy." Every current payload that is launched currently for higher price is potential market. And there is a lot of them. Currently there is no payloads that...

• Commented on Shuttle Missions: $1.5 Billion Each?

  Comparing FH to Shuttle makes absolutely no sense in so many ways. And answering this question in article - no. We could better spent these 200bln$ in space. Ah well, it is past now. Just learn from past mistakes. Yes,...

• Commented on China Has Limits After All

  @Marconi's Steampunk UFO: "SpaceX will gladly operate at a severe loss until they can eliminate the competition, then they can jack up their prices to recover their losses." Lol, do you really think he have money for something like that?...

• Commented on Waiting Forever For Webb

  It is just sad. Maybe just scrap it? Resist sunk costs fallacy and SCRAP it. This program is already a failure only due to such large difference between cost/time estimations and "reality". Predicted "reality", so it can be even larger....

• Commented on SpaceX Announces Falcon 9 Heavy Launch Date

  @JonathaN: "it has a diameter of 3.9 meters. With a larger payload shroud, it increases to 5.1 meters. This compares to Ares V (and most likely, also the SLS) having a starting diameter of 10 meters." How many existing rockets...