as if he couldn't get any lower in my estimation, he goes and unironically calls something by the bloviators' bloviator, Mr Ganesh, "magnificent"

We really do need to find a way for noisy Sensible Moderates to finally admit they’ve horrifically fucked it, in a way that they’ll find acceptable. It’s going to be hard, because so many of them relentlessly clowned themselves by advocating for horrible cranks who have total contempt for them.

is that Destroyer

I had, for a second there, forgotten that he was an MP now

dunno what uni you're at but it's Siege of Stalingrad from where I'm sitting

ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l... anyway here's the piece, at the very least I hope the architect grifters who did 'design' work for this silliness got their invoices paid

reminded of that economic cliche (from Keynes?) about paying people to dig holes and fill them in again

there's a bit in his book or somewhere where he ballparks the overall cost at something ludicrously low, just a few billion, especially when considering the actual costs of the shuttle, which were the 'cheaper' alternative

like, he tried to work out a whole bunch of quantities and the future savings that might be involved, but none of that contradicts what you said

although to be fair, Gerald O'Neill's 70s proposals were to a large extent about "how can we minimise having to lift stuff into orbit", i.e. manufacture stuff whilst already in space

were they a hobby dentist? yikes

like… it's real 'pinch me I must be asleep' stuff – he literally gave the fucking nazi salute at a political rally in the last year