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There are 15 such 30-day periods in the next 30 years. Assuming the hardware were ready today, that would mean launching of more than 2,200 people every day. This is about 10 times more than all the astronauts/cosmonauts/X-nauts launched in the last 60 years.
Elon Musk has big dreams, but I don't think that he can do elementary math.!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's why he's building starship so huge. The intent is to put 100 people on each, so 100k people is 1000 crewed starship launches. They'll need somewhere between 5 and 10 tanker launches each to refuel in orbit prior to departure (this number's heavily dependent on exactly what Starship ends up weighing).
His dreams may very well exceed his grasp; but the numbers check out for the model he's designing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Assuming that the hardware is ready within 10 years, that means 100,000 people each 30-day period, and 1000 starship launches. These require 5,000-10,000 tanker launches over a period of 25 months (7-13 launches/day). All this to be built within the next 10 years?!
Even if his figures are accurate, no organization has come within orders of magnitude of that many launches per day.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Don't forget we multiply.
If he puts a quarter million couples on Mars (so 2 x 250,000) by 2049, he can have his million nine months later 
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Why bother with couples?
Assuming:
- Women use artificial insemination (no need for men
 ) - Women arrive every 26 months (after Earth-Mars closest approach)
- Each woman starts having children as soon as she arrives, and has one child every 26 months
Those that arrive in 2031 would have 10 children by 2050
Those that arrive in 2033 would have 9 children by 2050
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Those that arrive in 2049 would have 1 child by 2050
For each 10 women arriving (one per cohort), we have 55 children, i.e. 550% growth. We therefore need to send only 160,000 fertile women (and 1 sperm bank) to Mars.
Mars needs Moms!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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He expects that much enemy in 30 years?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Why did I have to think on Wall-E and the Auto-Pilot when I read this?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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He should lead by example.
... And the rest of us'll go to one of the moons of Saturn.
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Why do it at all?
Even the least hospitable place on earth is magnitudes more hospitable than Mars.
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Recognizing the inherent risks in trusting open source software, we created a source code analyzer called Microsoft Application Inspector to identify “interesting” features and metadata, like the use of cryptography, connecting to a remote entity, and the platforms it runs on. "Don't turn around, Der Kommissar's in town"
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It needs a scripting language to allow customization. That way whenever anyone asks if it looks for Foo, you can just tell them: "The check is in the MAIL."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's designed for use on open-source apps because there aren't any apps in the microsoft store worth using it on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The list was shared by the operator of a DDoS booter service. That makes it easier for me to look up my passwords
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Sounds like a very nice chap.
His grandmother must be so proud of him.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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At 7.44% Internet Explorer still has more market share than Edge and only slightly less than Firefox. It is therefore good news that Microsoft is set to fix a flaw in the browser which could result in Remote Code Execution if some-one visits a specially crafted website using the software. It's just like the old days
I'd hope that people weren't still using IE, but I have some apps that require it still. 
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People come up with different ways to beat boredom when waiting at an airport. He should have been playing a flight simulator instead
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what? Not playing doom?  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft is developing a new programming language but it's not giving up its work on Rust. For the two gentlemen out there
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The Gruniad[^]
Options they have so far:
• “Global”: as today, anyone can reply to a global tweet.
• “Group”: only people who you follow can reply, as well as anyone mentioned in the tweet.
• “Panel”: only people mentioned in the tweet can reply.
• “Statement”: no one can reply.
• "Certain-colored": anyone who grossly misuses tanning lotions or sprays.Of course, this will be of great help to people who want to lie or spread false information, because rebuttal will not be so practical.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It'll just re-solidify the platform as an echo-chamber. Twitter is a dumpster fire of the worst garbage anyway, this will probably help reduce a lot of the "hate" but will probably push people away from the platform too as they are not able to join in to tackle bad takes.
Another potential issue is with the recent court rulings in America that says Trump can't block people as it is against their 1A rights. Not just Trump, but any politician however high-level Democrats like AOC simply ignore this ruling and block anyway with no consequence. If they roll this system out no doubt courts will decree that Trump must leave his tweets open to all, but Democrats will set theirs so that only their cronies can respond. Again, breaking the law with zero consequence as it's laws for thee but not for me.
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Well, yahoo! groups is closing, so twitter is probably hoping to take over that market, with hundreds of thousands of little private tweet groups.
It certainly demonstrates that twitter was a bad idea, when its lords and masters decide to roll back the clock and make it into just another "old-time" message-group/newsgroup/bulletin-board site -- but limited to 140 chars per posting (or whatever the limit is now).
It was a cute experiment, maybe, but even its owners seem to realise that it's time for the experiment to end.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, peeps can post their own twit referencing the one they're replying to no?
But, yeah, Twitter is garbage along with Farcebook
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Well, peeps can post their own twit referencing the one they're replying to no?
TBH, I've no idea how the bloody thing works. I lost interest within half an hour.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm surprised you lasted that long. I was immediately turned-off. Why in the world would I want my phone buzzing at me constantly? Especially with drivel from any number of random idiots.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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