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  • Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.

    NASA spent about 50 Billion today-dollars developing (not launching) the shuttle program and that went to private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, United Space, etc.) Starship has a long way to go to hit those numbers.

    I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary

    Really? Nothing? Many people said what Falcon 9 now does on a regular basis could not be done. No one was even trying. The closest plans were still going to land horizontally and went nowhere. Now, you have to explain why you’re not landing your booster, and what your plans are to fix that going forward: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2024/09/11/china-wants-to-replace-jeff-bezos-as-musks-greatest-space-threat/

    They quite literally revolutionized the space industry in terms of the cost to launch to orbit.

    Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.

    Yet another way they’ve revolutionized the industry. Almost everyone is doing expendable tests now so that they can move forward quickly. Columbia started construction in 1975, launched for the first time in 1981. When they launched it, it was a fully decked out space shuttle and they put the whole thing on the line - including two astronauts. Imagine NASA trying to do that now. They’d be grounded so hard they’d be jealous of Mankind having a table to land on.





  • I can keep you busy for a while in Canada…

    Dildo, Newfoundland
    Blow me Down (park), Newfoundland
    Come by Chance, Newfoundland
    Spread Eagle Bay, Newfoundland
    Conception Bay, Newfoundland
    Balls Creek, Nova Scotia
    Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
    Ecum Secum, Nova Scotia
    Meat Cove, Nova Scotia
    Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia
    Balls Falls, Ontario
    Crotch Lake, Ontario
    Old Cummer (train station in Ontario)
    Opeepeesway Lake, Ontario
    Bummer’s Roost, Ontario
    Hooker Lake, Ontario
    Redditt, Ontario
    Big Woody, Manitoba
    Climax, Saskatchewan
    Big Beaver, Saskatchewan
    Balzac, Alberta
    Smuts Creek, Alberta
    Stoner, British Columbia
    Spuzzum, British Columbia
    Skookumchuck, British Columbia
    Nipple Mountain, British Columbia
    Knipple Lake, British Columbia
    Yoho (park), British Columbia
    Snafu Lake, Yukon

    There are many additional funny ones, but I mostly tried to keep with a theme above.

    So, along the way back you can check out Salmon Arm, Vulcan, Eyebrow, Moose Jaw, Flin Flon, Punkydoodles Corners, Swastika, Emo, Utopia, Saint-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, Asbestos, Peakaboo Corner, Sober Island, Crapaud, Jerrys Nose, Witless Bay, Goobies, and many, many more.