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(the email notification for this post ended up in my spam box, BTW...)

Started reading anyway, it's a sad piece. Full of cheap shots and misrepresentations.

And sometimes just ... Making no sense whatsoever:

"Blue Origin and SpaceX are serious space-hauling companies. Apparently, it's also a profitable business. Said Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith: "We make money on every flight.""

wut? In what parallel dimension is BO doing flights to space????

I love McKay's eternal enthusiasm.

oh nonono! I'm not in dire straits!

I'm merely an European without a credit (but debit!) card! I can afford it financially, but not 'technically' because amazon wants payment with creditcard only...

and we don't really hire a car, it's a shared system.... you ave a monthly low subscription and reserve the car online and pay afterwards. It's a way to get cars off the roads. (which only works in dense cities with good public transport of course...)

A lot of people don't use credit cards here (though 'thank's to Amazon that is changing...)

Heehee. I stopped visiting when I saw you became Administrator! (kidding! Kidding!)

I actually still walk every day to work. We even were able to sell our car... When we need one, there is a parking spot with shared cars say 80 yards from our door. Not having to worry about a car is actually a glorious luxury...

I'm still following the Mars stuff. The screens at work have the blood red sunrise with SN8 as desktop

I still want to go. but Mars doesn't need a manuscript photographer over 50 I'm afraid....

Welcome from an old lurker

my head hurts just thinking about this. merging probably old phpBB to flux, old and new users, topics spanning years.....You're a brave man!

Thread necrophilia !  

lots of R&D needed before that stuff is launchable....

So, who wants to buy a ticket?

I'm afraid I'll be too old and had given up all my Mars dreams, but now I'm with my mind on Mars again. every day. sigh.
My wife knows me, she knew I started dreaming again, I'm having a hard time deciding against it all, this was a lifelong dream, I'd given up on, and now i have a wife and a son..... If I hadn't I would start making preparations straightaway.

reddit's subreddit spacex has the technical slides  and a bunch of other stuff

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/

Terraforming, I presume.

This will lead to increased weathering.

Wow. I cannot shake the feeling everybody is taking Musk very serious all of a sudden and are doing their dang best to cooperate or help out...  in order to get on the bandwagon. He's talking privately with a lot of very big guys, lately.

Also: scan the new articles in space.com, spaceflight.com etc... Again talk about new asteroid missions, moon missions, people start dreaming again... And are getting funded by venture capitalists again. Even pretty long term stuff. (asteroid mining)

Just read an article (In my own language) about ESA. One of the big guys being interviewed said: