en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1293441 Comments by Trent Waddington http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2945/1#IDComment1017191905 My general feeling was that this was in some sense a goodbye. As if the director was saying that even if no-one flies a thing it was all still worth it because of the lives they touched. Tue, 22 Mar 2016 06:51:11 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2945/1#IDComment1017191905 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2925/1#IDComment1013109671 I love the way contemporaries imagine a space settlement as a really big balloon that any occupant could inadvertently prick - as if the rules of good engineering have suddenly been suspended because we find ourselves in a new environment. For those of us who have an engineer&#039;s mind, these concerns seem not just petty but outright trivial. It doesn&#039;t matter how many sci-fi depictions there are of robust engineering in space, or even the real world stories of calm innovative repair, the audience only remembers the explosions and the woooshing of air out into the big suck. Similarly, no amount of holding hands and singing about peace and love is going to stop people from thinking about the concerns of people. If modern popular entertainment is killing space utopianism, let&#039;s have more of it faster please. Mon, 15 Feb 2016 21:54:17 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2925/1#IDComment1013109671 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2790/1#IDComment986550275 So, you&#039;re calling Rick a liar. Classy. Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:33:07 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2790/1#IDComment986550275 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2790/1#IDComment986377387 <a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=ey4jrkd9oTc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey4jrkd9oTc</a> ULA and Boeing and ATK and Lockheed Martin aint trying to open the space frontier. The only thing they try to open is the coffers of the tax payer. Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:18:40 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2790/1#IDComment986377387 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2417/1#IDComment765165014 tardius ad astra Tue, 10 Dec 2013 03:42:39 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2417/1#IDComment765165014 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2417/1#IDComment765146301 I thought it was more a statement of how little Blue Origin has done in the last 10 years. &quot;We haven&#039;t heard anything.&quot; &quot;That&#039;s cause we haven&#039;t done anything.&quot; &quot;Oh.&quot; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:55:30 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2417/1#IDComment765146301 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2417/1#IDComment765145935 Blue Origin is far from fully funded. They&#039;re scraping by on Bezos&#039;s beer money. Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:54:29 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2417/1#IDComment765145935 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1707/1#IDComment103617550 Please take your crazy elsewhere, this is a serious website. Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:33:58 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1707/1#IDComment103617550 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1707/1#IDComment103615065 More important: I hope I never see the day when NASA is responsible for the colonization of anything. Stop abstracting for a minute and think about what &quot;colonization&quot; actually means. Can you honestly envision NASA shipping families into space? I can more easily imagine them building a grade school. Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:01:43 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1707/1#IDComment103615065 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1707/1#IDComment103614672 Did he predict what&#039;s going to happen, when, and how bad, with sufficient accuracy to justify the massive reaction currently gripping the world? Oh, that&#039;s right, no-one has done that. Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:57:06 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1707/1#IDComment103614672 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1701/1#IDComment101934430 wow. Do you sit up at night and come up with these paranoid delusions? The rest of us just watched the Augustine committee and saw that the only recommendations they made were: * NASA needs a strong technology development program * Crew and cargo to LEO should be done by COTS-like procurement And everything else was an &quot;option&quot; which required at least $3B/year more. Seeing as there was no way NASA was getting that much of a budget increase, those of us who are *sane* were not surprised when the administration enacted the recommendations and ignored the options. But hey, if you prefer coming up with paranoid theories, go for it. Sat, 2 Oct 2010 07:20:55 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1701/1#IDComment101934430 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1701/1#IDComment101776789 k, for a start, learn metric. Second, who *cares* how much per kg it is to launch a human rated vehicle (note the terminology &quot;human&quot;, not &quot;man&quot;, it&#039;s sexist). Humans are measured in seats, not mass. Falcon 9 is $5359/kg to LEO. $22166/kg to ISS (and only half of that can be pressurized). And may some day be $20M/seat if you buy 7 seats per flight. And that&#039;s likely to be the best you can hope for in the next 10 years. Sad, but true. Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:49:03 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1701/1#IDComment101776789 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1698/1#IDComment100513829 Yes, niche markets typically have highly fluctuating prices. Back when the first seats were offered on Soyuz there was very little demand.. people didn&#039;t even believe it was possible. Now there&#039;s a long list of potential customers, many who have been through the training and haven&#039;t gotten a seat yet. Meanwhile, NASA has pressured the Russian space agency not to make any seats available. Increased demand, less supply, of course the price is going to increase. Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:25:50 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1698/1#IDComment100513829 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1692/1#IDComment98160879 You can kindly fuck off too. Folks, if you have nothing on-topic to say, feel free not to say anything at all. Sat, 11 Sep 2010 06:03:03 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1692/1#IDComment98160879 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1687/1#IDComment96724619 <i>an increasingly common trait of the publishing industry, poor copy editing. Publishers, desperate to cut costs, have done away with copy editors</i> Yeah, you&#039;re not just whistling Dixie. This is one of the reasons why self-publishing is becoming more prevalent - it&#039;s kinda pointless securing a publisher without any of the benefits. Then there&#039;s the e-book distribution medium which permits the software-style &quot;patch&quot; or &quot;update&quot; model of correcting errors after the first sale. Fri, 3 Sep 2010 08:41:27 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1687/1#IDComment96724619 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1688/1#IDComment96557910 ironically, the biggest problem with large solid rocket boosters is the handling issues.. just the same as LH2. Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:04:52 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1688/1#IDComment96557910 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1685/1#IDComment94935666 I can&#039;t understand if you just have a reading comprehension problem or if you&#039;re trying to equate a lunar rover with human lunar exploration. Dwayne specifically said &quot;and no mention about China landing a man on the Moon in the next decade, an occasionally-repeated claim made by some media sites and bloggers, for which there is no evidence&quot;. Please indicate how ANY of those links dispute Dwayne&#039;s statement. This is why people get annoyed.. China is dreaming about what they can do with a 25-ton-to-LEO launcher and amateurs like you are declaring their military conquer of the Moon any-day-now. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:03:41 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1685/1#IDComment94935666 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1671/1#IDComment91087585 neither of your urls work. Thu, 5 Aug 2010 23:33:23 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1671/1#IDComment91087585 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1674/1#IDComment90530764 I think Friedman has mellowed a bit in recent years. Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:57:25 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1674/1#IDComment90530764 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1674/1#IDComment90522893 You couldn&#039;t make that argument without calling GaryC stupid? Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:07:23 +0000 http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1674/1#IDComment90522893