Comments on: SpaceX confirms 9th test flight of Starship/Superheavy now scheduled for May 27, 2025

By: Mark Sizer

Mark Sizer — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:42:39 +0000

Proper nouns are the least of our problems. If we’re going to try to fix English, let’s start with getting rid of the letter “c” (although what happens to “ch” is a bit problematic). Then we kan move on to William The Bastard’s (who niknames someone that; it’s just asking for problems) influense. merang, patay, eatery, and bujwah come to mind. And why on Earth does “shoes” rhyme with “snooze”?

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:25:01 +0000

I had really hoped the early Starhopper Skill Level One welding approach had panned out—Salvage One style.

It looks slicker and slicker…like how all the soapbox derby cars are all teardrops and aren’t even soapboxes anymore..like these :)
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/fat-albert-1970s-animation-cels-lot-413525395

By: Dave F.

Dave F. — Sat, 24 May 2025 03:51:32 +0000

To be fair to the Aztecs in the area, let’s try the original name…
“Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”.
Okay, maybe not.
“Gulf of Florida” was an original Spanish name in the early 1500’s. But, I like Gulf of America more and more these days.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:17:04 +0000

I guess I don’t understand the big deal about the Gulf of America name. If Mexico wants to keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico, they can and the US can call it the Gulf of America. There is a narrow body of water between England and France. England calls it “the English Channel” and France calls it “La Manche” which translates to “the sleeve” in English, not “the English Channel”. Why can’t Mexico and the US have different names for this body of water?

By: Mike Borgelt

Mike Borgelt — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:30:34 +0000

There is actually more coastline on the US part than on the Mexican part. Besides who wants to name it after a failed State?
Gulf of the Americas is wrong because it has nothing to do with South America at all. Gulf of the United States would be OK.
Interesting that of all the countries in the Americas the United States of America is the only one mentioning the word “America”.

By: BillB

BillB — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:11:54 +0000

The Gulf as we Texans call it has been called the Gulf of Mexico off and on for nearly 500 years. The name was recorded multiple different ways for about half that period of time. If Trump had only named it Gulf of the Americas it would have been more fitting.