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Comment Re:Go away from slashdot ur too dum. (Score 1) 117

I've been to Houston several times. Every time I get off the plane, I'm hit with stifling humidity and the air reeks of hydrocarbons from all of the nearby refineries. Why anyone would consider Houston a tourist destination is beyond me, so I question your 54 million figure--please provide citations to back this up.

Comment Re:There's always divine intervention (Score 1) 99

Looking back over the past few thousand years, how many times has religion been right compared to science? I don't think there are many cases at all.

Just taking the example of the christian bible: the earth is at the center of the universe, the universe was "created" in six literal days, there was a world-wide flood that covered all land masses and killed all life except that on a wooden shop, people who live for hundreds of years, men have one fewer ribs than women, bats are birds and whales are fish, and many others. All of these errors were later corrected by science.

Comment Re:Compare Starship to the Saturn V (Score 1) 167

SpaceX has a success rate of 25:1 vs 18:1 for NASA - if you include test flights for NASA. Which is a more accurate way to represent things.

How about we compare it to the Saturn V?

The Saturn V flew 13 times, and achieved orbit every single time and fulfilled its mission objectives. It's very first flight was nearly flawless. Its second flight had issues with pogo, but it still successfully reached orbit intact, and the issues were quickly fixed. NASA was confident enough with the pogo fixes that the very next flight took Borman, Anders, and Lovell to the moon on Apollo 8. Heck, the Apollo 12 Saturn 5 was struck by lightning twice during flight and it not only reached orbit successfully, it also propelled the Apollo stack to the moon and the second successful landing.

If you extend this to the entire Saturn program, you'll find that all three boosters, Saturn I, Saturn IB, and Saturn V, had a perfect record of successful launches. How many successful missions has Starship had? ZERO.

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