How about looking at what the username of the person you replied to spells out. Then click on it, look through their comment history and do some homework.

That doesn’t give them cart Blanche to post incorrect assertions. That would be called a “appeal to authority” argument.

I think you're mistaking "giving them carte blanche" for "highlighting one mistake they make in a long post containing a lot more information, context and nuance without acknowledging any of that in the slightest, and use that as if you caught them red-handed in a gotcha! that breaks down their entire argument".

I guess that's a specific version of the "cherry-picking data" fallacy.

how come you are so condescending?

> astronomers are pretty darn aware of everything going on

Then they claim SpaceX is only trying paint.