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Really? I thought it was the best movie soundtrack. There is nothing wrong with that. If you make two designs, and the one selected has some problems, and the alternative fixes said problems, yes, there is chance that design will be worse, but the probability of it fixing the existing problems might be higher. Two birds in a bush are sometimes worth more than 1 in a hand.

What about the AI box theory? A sufficiently advanced AI should be able to convince anyone to do anything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box

No, the X-37b

Lower gees during descent than capsule. They're actually considering using the military X37 shuttle as an ambulance for that reason.

Going through every thread one by one

Moderating: Just reminding everybody this powerpoint slide is an official nasa paper.

Yes it is. If you can't compare something with something that doesn't exist, you cant improve it. Just because Avatar 2 hasn't been released yet, we can speculate that it will be better than the emoji movie. ?

Not for long, with starlink and all, and cell phone use in poorer countries is increasing. Also, its not the topic of the documentary...

Elon founded Neuralink and OpenAI, and Kurtzweil literally wrote the book on AI. http://stargate.inf.elte.hu/~seci/fun/Kurzweil, Ray - Singularity Is Near, The (hardback ed) [v1.3].pdf

Elon Musk and Ray Kurtweil do.

We've reached a point in history where literally anything could occur within the next decade. Drone wars destroy civilization? Sure. No skynet, but there are androids? Sure. Countries use AI for 100% effective propaganda? Sure. Everyone lives longer and is richer? Sure. Rich people use robots to take over small nations? Sure. AI causes economic collapse? Sure. AI that is superintelligent but not sentient? Sure. AI that is sentient? Maybe.

PANIC http://doyoutrustthiscomputer.org/watch

They bought a factory land for it and are diverting employees to it.

The first launch in 2020, the second in 2023. While the BFR will have several build, and multiple launches a year. SpaceX is on track to launch BFR in same year as EM-1.

Space Engine

http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/201237 3 gigapixels

That's all?!?!??? Wow, how disappointing /s

They're not getting funding for that, unless sunk cost fallacy. Except, if they do decide to spend the next 15 years launching useless rockets, they wont have to send a habitat. Because Musk will be happy to let them into the hotel. BFR does more payload that SLS, for 1/200th the price. 1/200th. Even if its 100 times more expensive, it would still be better than the SLS. The ISS is two decades old. Do you really think we couldn't build a far superior one, especially now we have 3-d printers? Huh. I wonder what rocket could possibly have plenty of spare mass...

The sabatier reaction is old. Just send one on the next launch window. They should have put one on the 2020 rover. Thats not the point. I'm saying they should- or more likely some private company. Of course, the BFR doesn't need the MD architecture. Send the backup ISRU a year in advance, stretching the total mission out to 6 years. Does the ISS have enough spares currently aboard to last two years at the average failure rate? Now that we have 3-d printers, it could be possible to make a modular, simple LSS designed to be repaired easily with printed parts. Launch a second SLS for a TMI stage. Still less than 400 billion. Or use several FH or NG launches. Can you give any example of a mars mission costing 400 billion. That's 200 SLS launches. Or 4,000 FH launches.

It does for spaceships though.

All those exoplanets we've found- remember half of them were just in a tiny patch of the sky that kepler looked at. So there probably many more nearby exoplanets than we've seen in the kepler data so far. HYPE Also, first landing in a while HYPE Can anyone explain what Jonbar hinges are though?

You could do a manned mars mission with three sls launches. https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/376589main_04 - Mars Direct Power Point-7-30-09.pdf Also, building several BFRs will not cost 400 billion. We know this because SpaceX does not have 400 billion dollars. Zubrin FTW Nope. 10 billion. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a20102/we-could-have-a-moon-base-for-10-billion/