It’s a real shame about the brain damage, lead really is an amazing metal

Humans make terrible batteries, you leave one in a box for 6 months, you come back to a soggy, very stinky box.

Humans are much better as low power space heaters. As long as they have fuel, they’ll maintain a known temperature.

Probably because the craft that were just in orbit could be considered “in flight” for their entire duration.

Aircraft in flight are considered under the jurisdiction of the country they took off from. So if the spacecraft started in Florida, landed in international waters, and was recovered by a US vehicle, then the astronauts never technically left the jurisdiction of the United States.

But because Apollo 11 did land somewhere, it could be argued they ended the first flight and began a second one when they took off. Due to this, they had left US jurisdiction as they landed and left the vehicle. This means they left the country, and need to go through immigration.

It’s also a piece of the official paper trail that helps to prove to other nations that the US did land on the moon, and that placing the flag in the moon was symbolic and not an attempt to annex the moon. If Apollo 11 had claimed the moon as US territory, then they wouldn’t have needed to fill out immigration papers.

If Amazon were a country, and you treated its gross revenue as GDP, it would sit right between Ireland and belgium in the rankings.

554 billion dollars of revenue every year.

It’s insane that one company has more money moving than some medium sized countries.

Personally I think it’s criminal that one company can control that much of a market, and it actually might be criminal considering Amazon offers everything from web hosting, video streaming, selling pretty much anything, manufacturing their own products, to sending you your prescription. AT&T was broken up for doing pretty much the same thing. I think it’s time we actually enforce some of these antitrust laws we have.