Imagine that you could have 150,000 tons of cargo (or people) delivered to equatorial LEO annually, at $60/lbm. What would you do with it? What are the markets? We’re talking on the order of $5B/year.
[Update late afternoon]
Note that that’s less than a quarter of the NASA budget…
For that money, we could have 150,000 tons of material/people in orbit, or pay for another year of SLS/Orion.
[Friday-morning update]
Thanks to a comment, I went and rechecked, and found an error in the spreadsheet. The cost is more like $20/lbm.
…is a bad ally. Which is why Biden and Blinken (why do I want to add “and Nod” to the end of that?) want to make nice with a former East German chancellor.
This looks to me like the modern version of my 1986 Accord hatchback, that I put a quarter of a million miles on. I’ll be interested in looking for a used one when they’re available.
So I reinstalled Windows 10 as a virtual machine, and I did it without a product key. It seems to be working for why I have it, to run a trading platform. But I see a message saying “Activate Windows: Go to setting to activate Windows.” Since it seems to be working without being “activated,” what does this even mean?