I'm going to preface this by saying I don't think she deserved to be cancelled over her comments. There is a huge difference between an organization and other entities pushing to cancel a journalist, and the president is the United States directly banning certain journalists. Both are bad, but one is significantly worse than the other.

I just read her wiki page. I don't understand how you can say "Obama did this" too. It seemed like everyone was cancelling her. Also, Obama didn't kick her out, she retired.

Personally, I'd say it's more so the cheating that makes him an asshole rather than how he texts.

So we can make up anything we want about Tiger Woods, and no one can disagree because then they would be defending a cheater?

I'm not too familiar with the politics behind all of this, especially around that time. My understanding is that it's mainly a difference in approach to development. NASA has to worry about appealing to politicians and the public. So they spend more time and money to make sure to get it right the first time.

SpaceX doesn't have that same kind of worry, so they can develop quickly and fly test vehicles often to learn quickly.

There's pros and cons to both sides imo, but that's why I think it makes more sense for NASA to use private launch providers while they focus more on the missions themselves.

That's for the entire Artemis program. SLS is just one part of that. I guess since I was comparing it to Starship it'd be fair to include Orion which would bump it up to $44 billion.

NASA just realistically isn't a launch provider. SLS began development in 2011 and has only flown twice since 2022. It's has cost them almost $32 billion to develop. It even uses quite a bit of older hardware despite all the development costs.

Compare that to SpaceX's Starship. It started full development in 2019, has cost $15 billion to date, brand new everything, fully reusable, developed arguably the best engine ever made, has flown multiple times now (to varying degrees of success).

It looks like about 1/3 of Blue Origin's total funds comes from government contacts. Now keep in mind, that means Blue Origin is providing a service in exchange for that money, it's not just handed to them.

He's definitely a bot. Could be artificial or organic though.

My favorite is "tell your cow I said moo"

There's not even 60,000,000 pixels in that image.

Not sure if I misunderstood what you said, but it's not that they only use a few digits because it doesn't need to be that specific, they only use a few digits because that's all that is needed to be that specific.