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Devac  ·  2479 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: China teleports first "object" from ground to space. Yes, really.

    Yup. But you aren't really going to use the "ooh scary big numbers" and "but it's haaaard!" argument, are you?

No. All I wanted is to point to the scale and the numbers are a good way to get the gist of the difficulty. Note that I never said that it's impossible or not worth doing.

It is very exciting, I feel the same way and largely agree with your predictions, even though I see them as rather optimistic. If my pointing out the scale made you think that I'm a wet blanket and a naysayer: I'm sorry.

    … if you read the article…

Kinda uncalled for, but I guess that it was a turn of phrase rather than an assumption that I rushed here to basically say "FIRST!". ;)

    I like these kinds of brain-breaking technologies!

Who doesn't? Actually, don't answer that. I already had a quite depressing evening.