I get something like this occasionally but I have really bad eating habits and often it's in a morning after I've been drinking, so I always put it down to my body just craving easy nutrients and actual hydration. I find milk very addictive sometimes but I always have, it's just so easy to pound a carton of milkshake and feel satiated with a bit of fat, protein, water and sugar.

No visual issues yet but I will always keep advice like this in mind. I see it a lot on Reddit and occasionally I do wonder about the normality of my eating habits sometimes.

The Vega launch system is not "Europe". It's a single launch vehicle. When a system has problems, you don't immediately start slinging mud at the entire continent it's based in.

No, no. You misunderstand, the first American to hitch a ride was 1995. Not 2011, 1995.

No, I'm refuting the sentiment.

This is in response to someone attacking Europe. They started it.

I'm not attacking the US. I'm responding to an american saying that European space agencies aren't doing enough to compensate for the lack of viable launch vehicles. Russia and the US built their space programs as the backdrop for dominating the other in the Cold War, and invested unprecedented public funds into doing so. The rest of the world is doing their best without war funds, and shouldn't be held responsible for the lack of viable launch providers. Especially when the lauch provider here is very reliable in general.

The entire comment chain is in response to me saying americans have used soyuz for decades. You interjected about bartering and payments. Americans have used soyuz for decades. End of.

It has everything to do with your comment. You said soyuz was identified as a problem long ago. I said NASA didn't do anything about it until they were forced to.

The next ones were 2000, 2001 and 2002. Still decades ago.

NASA was still using it well beyond the point where it became unavailable, so whether they knew about it or not, the space agency funded by the leading Western economy wasn't prepared and had to fall back on a private company that it was lucky to be able to call upon.

SpaceX has done a lot for space exploration in general. Everyone relies on them, and neither Europe nor the US as geopolitical entities can claim credit for sustaining the ability to service the space industry. The entire industry needs to catch up.

The first American aboard a Soyuz was 1995. 27 years ago by my math.

Decades are 10 years where I'm from. What about you?

No offence but America has been hitchhiking to space on the Russian Soyuz for decades until a South African guy built Dragon. Only just now that Soyuz is suddenly off the table do you say Europe needs to get it's act together.

They're both something special. We are all aware of SX's achievements, the stats for both rockets are impressive and comparable.

What? When did I say there weren't? Yes there are many fusion projects. They may produce power in 20 years, maybe 50, either way it needs to be pursued.

And who said anything about waiting? You are aware that humanity as a species can tackle multiple problems at the same time, yes? Fusion scientists don't work on Co2, they studied fusion, not greenhouse gases. Other people who got degrees relevant to climate change are working on that seperately.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say...that fusion physicists should go back to college and get different degrees?

The plasma doesn't touch the walls in an inertial confinement device. It's held in place by superconducting magnets, so the walls are nowhere near that temperature.

This machine isn't in any way designed to produce usable energy. It's a brute force way to push the boundaries of our understanding of how fusion works. They never factored efficiency into the design. Obviously a prototype plant would use more expensive, more efficient designs.

The whole design of NIF could never be a power plant. It's a very expensive, one shot experiment that explores principles that can help guide the development of more sensible designs like tokamaks.

So do we give up and have it be infinite years away, then? 40 years is nothing. Half a life.

Oh yes. That's definitely what you should have read from this conversation.