A new report from the Commercial Space Federation warns that China could soon overtake the U.S. in the "new space race." The country's rapid progression starkly contrasts the limitations imposed on NASA by record-breaking budget cuts.
The Vulcan Bridge is my all time favourite Cold War story. Capitalist government turning your town infrastructure need into an internal border conflict, making you call multiple government offices, watch them fight, and you still don’t have a new bridge? Ask the communists, very publicly, if they will build you a bridge as Foreign Aid, and shame your federal government into building the bridge, just to keep “US can’t afford basic infrastructure” out of a Soviet newspaper!
Quick! More billions for Elon! That will fix it!
when he said “mars by 2030” he didn’t say who would be going to mars
This whole time Elon was making the 5D chess Vulcan bridge play to shame China into going to mars
The Vulcan Bridge is my all time favourite Cold War story. Capitalist government turning your town infrastructure need into an internal border conflict, making you call multiple government offices, watch them fight, and you still don’t have a new bridge? Ask the communists, very publicly, if they will build you a bridge as Foreign Aid, and shame your federal government into building the bridge, just to keep “US can’t afford basic infrastructure” out of a Soviet newspaper!