No because your pool of astronauts are all qualified for the job, otherwise they wouldnt be astronauts. Their mission assignments might be based on a particular specialty they have, or previous performance on a mission.

It is also an inherently political decision. Seeing as they are all very close in abilities, picking one over the other isnt going to make or break your mission, so you have the flexibility to make whatever picks that satisfy all of your mission objectives including political objectives.

I dont really have a problem with that. I do have a problem with only putting 2 astronauts on the surface for the first mission instead of 4, and continuing to use a compact sedan to get the astronauts to the moon only for them to land in an apartment building.

I mean, there are plenty of examples of astronauts doing crazy shit. Like the one that drove from Texas to Florida in adult diapers for a love triangle thing.

You are going to have to pick at least 1 woman, 1 PoC, probably a Canadian.

This has the makings of a trap game.

I don’t think so. Most people will charge daily at their homes and place of work using level 1 and 2 chargers. The only people using fast dc charging will be on long distance trips. I also think it likely that many new cars by 2035 will incorporate solar charging into the body or windows allowing a nearly completely disconnected daily commute.

Yep and recycling is a scam. It was setup to push the blame of plastic waste onto consumers and to allow plastic producers to keep making ridiculous amounts of the stuff because they promoted recycling. We should be aiming to reduce or eliminate the use of plastics as much as possible.

How is this helping? Ok so you are taking plastic out of the oceans- great- but then putting it back into the plastic economy where it can end up back in the oceans again? The same amount of plastic is still in the environment. You arent really removing plastic from the environment. It eventually will break down into microplastics.

They don’t have the launch cadence to build a system like Starlink right now. Falcon 9 is launching almost once a week with a Starlink payload.

Composting the drones will ensure the survival of the elite.

He’s never going to testify. This is more delay tactics. He’s going to run out the clock on congress and the next one is going to get rid of the committee.

Nationalizing spacex would kill it. The way spacex was even able to built this satellite network with their own reusable rockets would have never happened with a government program. It would’ve costed 10x the proposed amount and taken 3x as long. This is just how nasa and space development has worked for decades. Do you think Starship would ever have been proposed? They are building 7 raptor engines a week now. Each raptor engine has the equivalent thrust to an RS-25 flying on SLS. The government is paying AJR $100 million each for each new RS-25.

So they made the whole thing now they are just giving it away to a joint venture that has a guaranteed profit. There is no cost savings in a structure like this. You’d save more bringing it entirely in house.

I do. It lets me know my luggage is in my general vicinity. I can usually see them while I’m sitting in the plane and they are in the cargo bay. Also if they are waiting at baggage claim or not.

"The first time" should never end with "since" unless it has been a very long time.

Its missing its airfield...

This is a fallacy. As fusion experiments have scaled, we learned more about plasma physics and needed more advanced computing to model it and more advanced hardware such as high temperature superconductors to go the last stretch. It’s not going to be always 10 years away. We are probably 5 years or less from Q10 fusion.