Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Cool Worlds" channel.

BFR stood for Big Fu_king Rocket, the Falcon was tossed in later to appease the mentally frail...in any case it wasn't a permanent label from the beginning.
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Flatards are a more benign consequence of Christianity, let's be grateful when they focus on that instead of torturing ppl to death, blowing up doctor's offices, etc.
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Fascinating and entirely new to ME.
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@uncannyvalley2350 There is no such thing as "Elon's Hyperloop". Turns out that very good mass produced is better than perfection that doesn't actually exist, hence Tesla selling cars like hotcakes.
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@uncannyvalley2350 Good luck finding a purpose in life child, sooner the better.
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More impactful than Tesla even was/is the Chinese BEV mfgs.
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Panspermia guarantees universal MICROBIAL life even if it only happened once in the galaxy it migrated everywhere it could exist...and possibly between galaxies as well.
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@garethdean6382 I thought the concept was dubious when I first heard of it early '90's. Since having learned how common, over millions of yr.s, stuff get's blasted off planets and moons from impacts above escape velocity and land on Earth and every other body, with only surface cooking, many microbes could survive the interior of a small meteor frag., high G's means nothing to them. They are fairly cool by the time they hit the ground interior doesn't get hot necessarily, at least hitting Earth we know and we can simulate the rest. We can resurrect multi million yr. old 'dead' organisms dug deep out of Earth (so I'm told). Certainly 40k yr. frozen bacteria come back to live when thawed. We retrieved a camera left on our moon for several months, some insulation in the cam was infested with happy bacteria....from Earth but a surprise. Bacteria thriving in boiling hot springs, on the surface of the space station (reportedly from contact with near zero atmosphere!) Thriving in nuclear reactors, 2 miles below our feet in solid rock with extremely low metabolism....on and on and on.... It's easier for me to comprehend that then abiogenesis happening as fast as it needed to on Earth...NOT ruling that out but the stage could be astronomic instead of just Earth. I can connect the dots on inter stellar panspermia likelihood, previously I'd only said within the solar system. Now I realize star systems even get ejected from their galaxy, shotgunned across the local cosmos if they can take their planets with them they will deliver life to neighboring galaxies occasionally! (yes that could take billions of yr.s, wild idea but I believe in the persistece of MICROBIAL life to that degree, I'd bet big bucks we find microbes on half a dozen Sat./Jupiter moons and Mars and I'd bet a little that it's related to Earth life) Pardon my rant! :D
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@garethdean6382 The stage for microbe origins is 'nearly infinite' on Earth alone and there could be an inevitability of life forming in certain conditions. Earth is enough for abiogenesis, as far as we know, even in a few ten million yr.s, but it can live on bodies it wouldn't have originated on too. One of my pet fascinations. No claims of certainty just my tentative understanding.
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@garethdean6382 You obviously know what your talking about better than I but my understanding is that some of these things can quite easily take unbelievable radiation levels including living in a reactor core, on the moon, on the space station.
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Your neighbors report she's decent in bed too.
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By far the biggest help Washington can do is to streamline mine/mill permitting process that takes a decade today, mandates, incentives and other costly ways will not help for local production without getting out of the darn road to production. Canada takes only some 2 yrs for the same process.
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With a little luck SLS will blow up on 1st launch and be terminated, save the taxpayers billions more flushed down the toilet.
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@SeaJay_Oceans A bankrupt nation is the result of evil or reckless. Nothing evil about desiring government waste be trimmed. SLS is no longer needed, won't be used at $2B/launch if you believe that estimate. Obviously NASA is no damn good at building rockets they should focus on other things.
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