Look, I'm not a fan of King Charles, but I prefer the monarchy to the likes of President Malcolm Turnball or, God help us, President Simon Holmes a Doucheface, but what Lidia done today was ngurragar, it was so shameful, screaming out give us our babies back 🙄
Who's us? Who's babies?
No one has been taking babies off aboriginal women and shipping them to england!
Just what frigging decade does she think we're living in?
When she took her job as a senator she swore allegiance to the crown.
What she done today disqualifies her from holding her position.
@senatorbabet Didn't she swear an oath??
If she remains with a job of any description within government after this performance there's something seriously wrong!
Since your handle is “Whole Mars”, perhaps this lengthy reply is apropos:
Getting the cost per ton to the surface of Mars low enough that humanity has the resources to make life multiplanetary requires a roughly 1000X improvement in rocket & spacecraft technology.
Recent US Mars missions have had a cost per ton of useful load to the surface of Mars of about $1B. Moreover, it has become more, not less, expensive over time!
To build a city on Mars that can grow by itself likely requires at least a million tons of equipment, which would therefore require >$1000 trillion, an obviously impossible number, given that US GDP is only $29T.
However, if rocket technology can be improved by 1000X, then the cost of becoming sustainably multiplanetary would drop to ~$1T, which could be spread out over 40 or more years, so <$25B/year.
At that cost, it becomes possible to make life multiplanetary, ensuring the long-term survival of life as we know it, without materially affecting people’s standard of living on Earth.
Starship is designed to achieve a >1000X improvement over existing systems and, especially after yesterday’s booster catch and precise ocean landing of the ship, I am now convinced that it can work.
@kmarsh89@jonno_lance@F1 Max on softs for the start. Surely going to outpace Mercedes’ to turn 1. Lewis to stay in max’s review where he belongs. Better bloke, better driver and not a douche. #anyonebutlewis