There aren't singular people behind progress. If Newton had never been born we would still have Calculus, and in fact we don't teach Newton's calculus in schools. Einstein was part of a team, and his team was only slightly ahead of another team.
Statues and shit paint a picture of a lie: That great people drive the world.
Human progress happens because other areas progress, the new ideas are inevitable, the person who does them has no real bearing on whether they happen or not. History is not driven by "great men" but by society working together.
The entire "great man of history" thing is actually a giant pile of racist garbage, used to promote unjust systems and reinforce tribalisms, which is the very thing you're talking about it being good for.
Also, Churchill (who I believe you brought up earlier) was a piece of dog shit who starved millions of people in India out of spite. Very few people have done as much actual evil as Churchill did, and his statues and images should be shit on.
The fact that you aren't aware of those things is entirely down to "great man of history" nonsense being the place where you get your ideas. It's bad, it's backwards, and it's really not defensible.
But to be fair, the limiting factor on earth was that it got much hotter much faster than scientists had expected. We aren't likely to have that issue on Europa.
The price is low because they are generally selling things at cost as a service. This isn't a standard "make a device for $50 then sell it for $400 because we can" company because they don't want to be.
Orders are delayed because, and this may surprise you, there is a global pandemic right now which is affecting factory workers in China, causing production and Q&A issues because of restricted staff, visitors, and shipping.
If you prefer to spend more money then go do it and shut the hell up. "Personally, I'd like everyone to have to pay $50-75 more for this unfinished product because I'm an arrogant impatient idiot" is the worst take in the world
We literally have to talk about goals as they come up. It's not that complicated. It makes no sense to keep saying "flatten the curve" as a goal once we achieve that goal, and it makes no sense to say "wait for it to burn out" during a period of skyrocketing growth.
Once we get over the exponential growth, we then have to wait for it to drop. Otherwise we'd just go right back to exponential growth.
All you people acting like "oh, the curve flattened, now we can go back to normal" are the kind of people that caused three massive spikes in the 1918 flu.
We're very likely to have a second spike that is way worse than the first because of this attitude.
"Economists need to be part of the planning, so we can determine exactly how many deaths is best" is the worst take anyone has ever had and you should be ashamed.
You're literally saying that someone deserves to die so that rich people can continue to extract wealth.
Name them. Name the people who get to die for your economic prosperity.
OK, you know that whole big bang thing? That didn't start with a singularity the size of a golf ball, that was an infinitely large singularity that "exploded" and got bigger.
The singularity was infinite. Space is infinity, but bigger.
There are a lot of problems with the way you approach this.
19% of Americans cannot read well enough to fill out a job application correctly.
The organization for economic cooperation and development found that 50% of U.S. adults can't read a book written at an 8th grade level, which is a statistic which obviously requires the estimate of "average American reading at a 7th or 8th grade level" be questioned heavily.
I've seen many estimates that the average high school student reads at a 6th grade level, and only 15% of the country is at an undergraduate level despite 30% of people having a degree.
I don't know where you get the idea that "grade level" relates to grades completed, but the average American is likely at a 5th grade reading level.
There aren't singular people behind progress. If Newton had never been born we would still have Calculus, and in fact we don't teach Newton's calculus in schools. Einstein was part of a team, and his team was only slightly ahead of another team.
Statues and shit paint a picture of a lie: That great people drive the world.
Human progress happens because other areas progress, the new ideas are inevitable, the person who does them has no real bearing on whether they happen or not. History is not driven by "great men" but by society working together.
The entire "great man of history" thing is actually a giant pile of racist garbage, used to promote unjust systems and reinforce tribalisms, which is the very thing you're talking about it being good for.
Also, Churchill (who I believe you brought up earlier) was a piece of dog shit who starved millions of people in India out of spite. Very few people have done as much actual evil as Churchill did, and his statues and images should be shit on.
The fact that you aren't aware of those things is entirely down to "great man of history" nonsense being the place where you get your ideas. It's bad, it's backwards, and it's really not defensible.