what about the boosters? they have an even bigger tank space and without the weight of the Starship on top maybe they can reach orbit by themselves?

I wonder if a pair or more of non-reusable Starship boosters bodies could be welded together to make a new ISS? Once removed the inside plumbing, the room inside the tanks is gigantic. Lots of work to do but a possibility.

in italian we spell it "VU DOPPIA" that is "DOUBLE V" making it the only letter that is spelt with two different words!

>Far better build quality than any recent Tesla

There are plenty of videos of around of recent Tesla cars that praise their build quality. Things have changed and Tesla is the fastest automaker in changing their products. Non for the better all the time, but as time passes the product is better than it was earlier. Each iteration can take less than a month, others take longer. The panel gaps or other problems that arose during 2018 production hell are no longer here. In facts, chinese Teslas never had quality issues. It has always been a Freemont problem

well, what does your body want? sugars? then it's chocolate. is your fear of losing health a bit high due to news you have heard? maybe that fear is stronger than your need for sugar. then it's carrots. meybe you can eve feel your inner fight, because the 2 desires are almost identical. but the stronger prevails in the end

the fact that those concepts are vague (because we are ignorant about ourselves) does not change the fact that we have values that drive our choices. whatever the way it's operated, it does not change the outcome

I do not mean entering information by hand. I mean: if a computer knew "by magic" how I value each and everything, it could replicate my choices 100% of the time

Each time you have to decide, you can leave it to A random (toss a coin) and you decided so. Or you can pick an option B or C, and you decided so. In both cases, the reasons you decided for A, B or C are dependant on the informations that you have about the choice you have to make. Those informations come from outside. Thus, there is no free will at all. If a computer knew exactly what value you give to each information you use to decide, it will be able to choose the exact same option you do.

I kept all of them for 30+years, then I decided they were just gross and tossed them away

Why is the white man stealing the black woman's flip flops?

Death is a bitch

This "chase your dream" thing works only if you have dreams

Not robots : AIs. Robot are just toasters

Turtles over 130 years old have been alive before every Man in the world

Us European have our GPS satellites (Galileo) and it's mainly private money

every satellites in the Stalink network self-destroys every 5 years by burning in the atmosphere. all of them will be replaced sooner or later and this means any kind of equipment could be added if needed

I think Starlink satellites could effectively replace GPS only satellites. There are orders of magnitude higher in quantity (and more satellites means higher precision). Also Space Force has priority above everyone else when it's about Starlink and SpaceX

I don't think their business makes sense on Earth. Maybe on the Moon or Mars...

this is true. an example is the omnipresent trope of "be yourself, follow your dreams and you will succeed". 99% of people won't make it and it's part of life. Every athlete knows it, but rarely they tell you that only 1 gets the golden medal. Also, there is a lot of people that dreams unrealistic things. And a lot of depressed people is in such condition because they did their best and failed.

True. And the thing you want most and beyond reason lies in the realm of nightmare. Once you get there, both the thing you wanted and the nightmare change into something else, in an unpredictable way.