BastingChemina

No, NASA has the budget. They already spent $50 billion on the development of SLS and Orion, Starship development cost is estimated to be around $10 billion.

So in theory with the money they spent on SLS they could have built 5 starship program.

The problem is that NASA has to follow political interests, sometimes the political interests align with technical interest and we get great things like the Apollo program.

Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.

Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60's but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)

You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can't get more than once a year.

Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.

Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !

Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.

Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation

and if this needs to be the same as the USB-C connector the EU adopted.

The consideration should be quick, "Should we use a different charging standard that the EU ? No"

If not they are seriously delusional

In the meantime Arianespace divided by 3 their number of rocket launches

It reached the altitude of 96km, not space but not far either.

I find the video from afar really incredible too. You can see this giant, skyscraper sized rocket just falling down the sky at incredible speed.

https://x.com/i/status/1845444890764644694

PS: how can I link a twitter video without redirecting to the website ?

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/deux-sevres/niort/l-embrasement-d-une-voiture-electrique-tesla-apres-une-sortie-de-route-fait-quatre-morts-dans-les-deux-sevres-3044836.html

Here is the information from the local news and pictures of the actual accident location, taken on site rather than stock photos.

Edit: this one too https://archive.is/xNDIN

It was Saturday evening around 10pm, three restaurant employees went into one of the client car to "try it out", the client (65 years old) was clearly speeding, lost control of the vehicle, left the road and hit a traffic sign.

My bet is that all of that has nothing to do with the fact that this was a Tesla, the only difference is the fire but this is the same for every electric vehicle.

Like this father who got his account closed because he took a picture of his toddler penis to send to their pediatrician.

The picture was automatically backed up in Google photo and flagged as child pornography.

And this does not include all the subcontractors, for example the engine is manufactured by other companies like Safran which has around 90,000 employees.

When you said "regular" piece of paper, are you talking about A4 or letter size ?

If you are using A4 the answer is quite easy, get a pack of A5 paper and print on it using the book mode of it printer. It will automatically organize the sheets in the right order. Then with a stapler you can attach them all together.

If you are using the American standard ... Good luck.

Including 14 inn the US.