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.
She seems like a dumpster fire of a human being, but my question is: Was there some point at which she was physically attractive? I’ve never seen it. How did she become a model?
There is a lot more involved in human reproduction on Mars than the survival of the sperm. We continue to have no idea if we can safely gestate in partial gravity.
This is very good news, if true. Both of my parents died of heart attacks fairly young (I’ve now outlived my father by more than a decade, and will beat my mother in a couple years), but they were both obese and smokers. I have a clean bill of health as of a year or so ago, in terms of plaque, even though I ignore the criminally terrible nutrition advice from the federal government.
This is as bad as the 1619 Project. Racism has been inextricable from gun-control advocacy at least up to the 1970s. The people who opposed the Second Amendment are the same ones who opposed blacks being armed, and to a large degree, they remain so.