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It’s more likely than you think!

Oh it wasn’t a criticism, I just thought it was a funny image, someone holding a live mouse and being really serious about it.

When an ordinary person holds a mouse long enough, and takes it seriously enough?

I was expecting this sentence to be a “bird in the hand” type metaphor.

Not fiction, alternative facts

I love/hate that we even have to ask.

That’s to Ceres, Mars is only 9 months, so how do we get from 9 months to 23k hours?

Interesting read, this part caught my eye:

Launching a crewed spacecraft to Mars might require 2 to 4 megawatts of power, meaning multiple MPD thrusters operating for more than 23,000 hours. This presents a challenge as the hardware operates at high temperatures, and the team needs to prove that the thruster’s components can withstand the heat for multiple hours during upcoming tests.

Would the thrusters really run the full 23k hours? That’s just shy of 960 days, surely once you reach a certain speed you wouldn’t need to run them continuously at full power.

Wasn’t there the case of that “AI startup” that was literally just outsourcing to a call centre in India? Literally Actually Indians

The personnel growth plan foresees expanding from 185,420 active-duty soldiers today to 260,000 by the mid-2030s

Ah, so that’s where my tax euros are going.