That was number of online users, not total population. And 50% of internet companies are Chinese, only 6% are American. I’m sure you’ll twist that fact to suit you too :)

You’re third, after China and India. Now tell me how those don’t count ;)

Perhaps look into the DC-X program, fully 20 years before SpaceX Falcon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X

Eh, the printed TV guide was a thing, and around here just about every newspaper had daily and/or weekly listings of what was on the different channels. Most cable subscriptions came with their own monthly TV guide as well.

Fond memories of going through the TV listings with family, circling the things each one wanted to see on the single TV in the house 🙂

The Milky Way isn’t stationary 😉

The Sun isn’t stationary 😉

That’s the way. I’ve been programming for nigh on four decades, and it’s almost a daily occurrence with junior devs going to stack overflow or chatGPT to solve an issue instead of just searching the code where nine times out of ten the problem (or a very similar one) is already solved.

“Atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby”

An also a lot of middle-class western people. 1% of the world’s population is about 80 million people.

You’d have to go down to 0.001% to only target the ultra-wealthy.

Their money is already there so them moving wouldn’t make much of a difference.