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Return to buttons. This “infotainment” fad is seriously dangerous.

Fuck Google, I’m not paying them shit.

However, when Google and Amazon are nationalized then I’ll agree. Everyone should pay taxes which go into the government owned server farms.

It’s not an SOE and like half of its stocks are owned by Americans. But the parent company got some government funding according to the US Congress, so the whole conglomerate is considered an SOE by America now. Sounds like trade war stuff to me lol

Okay I guess they could build ground stations outside the country if more coverage was desired.

What?

A good question is “with what rocket?”

Probably Yenisei which unfortunately had its development paused.

A factor in this crash is that they lack a round-the-world comm system.

They’ve had this with GLONASS for over a decade. For far-side communications, you need a single relay satellite like what China used for Chang’e-4. However, you don’t actually need either of those for many lunar missions. When the Americans sent humans to the moon, they just used radio waves that were picked up from various ground stations across the world.

It’s not really losing to the car. The article says the train will now also be less than five hours, so the time difference is honestly not that much. There are also four trips daily which is sadly quite good nowadays in America. You can leave from St. Louis at 4:30 AM, 6:35 AM, 2:55 PM, and 5:40 PM. You can leave Chicago at 7:15 AM, 9:50 AM, 5:20 PM, and 7:10 PM. Coach costs like $25-$31, while the car trip would cost you around $68. Instead of focusing on driving for 4.5 hours, you can relax or do work for five hours. Compared to less frequent routes (Pennsylvanian 😒) you also have several options for departure and don’t need to arrive at the station before the sun even rises. Someone who knows more about planes can tell me a flight would make any sense.

As someone who goes between Philly and Pittsburgh a couple times a year, if the shitty Pennsylvanian service was upgraded to be like the new Lincoln Service, I’d be really happy!

Oh, and for price that ends up $7 million per mile. Not sure how that compares.