What a great article! Very informative and easy to read.

The telescope sounds cool too! An 8.5 meter mirror?! And it’s designed to be able to recoat it over time!

I borrowed $40k for my education. Over 20 years I repaid $75k. Had the repayment plan Biden tried to do in 2021 not been shot down by the Supreme Court, I would have had $20k knocked off my balance, which means I would have still repaid a lot more than I had borrowed.

Why should the government be making money by charging interest on student loans? Plumbers wouldn’t have paid for the repayment, instead it would have been my interest payments paying for it. And the plumber would still be getting an extra $15k out of me in excessive payments that I’ve had to make.

Or just send a ship out to retrieve, repair, and release it.

I’d like to see some math on how long it would take a fully orbit refilled Starship to reach it and return.