Public Discussion Opened on Space Solar Power

eldavojohn writes "The National Security Space Office (NSSO), an office of the DoD, has taken a novel approach to a study they are doing on space based solar power. They've opened a public forum for it and are interested in anyone and everyone's expertise, experience and ideas on the best means to harvest energy in space. I suppose this is similar to the DoD's $1 million for an energy pack just without the award. Still, if you want to have an influence on the US's plans in space, this would be an easy armchair place to start. Space.com also has more on the details."

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This Is Beautiful!

[MOBE2001]

With the internet age of mass communication and cros-pollination of ideas, we are seeing the dawning of the democratization of science. Science, like religion before it, has enclosed itself within walls beyond public scrutiny. This age-old incestuous practice is in the process of changing before your very eyes. I hope we see more experiments like this in the future.

Re:I've got great ideas

[Pojut]

And, y'know, when you consider our budget is a couple trillion dollars, that still comes out to a shitload of money we could instead be spending on ourselves.

Re:I've got great ideas

[ShieldW0lf]

Guess which two countries were responsible for eliminating the overseas slave trade? The UK and the United States. Not a single other country in the world stepped up and decided to do anything about slavery. So, really, stuff it.

Yeah. Of course, you guys were the ones doing all the buying...

There is a vibrant mostly-black neighbourhood here in Halifax... five minute walk from here. Why are they here? Because during the decades leading up to the US' decision to stop buying slaves, we Canadians helped people escape from the US, and our Mounties forcibly stopped the American slave traders from coming across the border to re-enslave them.

In the end, after pretty much everyone else had stopped keeping slaves long ago, the US leadership finally abolished slavery because they found a more devious way to keep slaves, regardless. They called it Capitalism.

Of course, anyone raised in the thick of the propaganda machine that is the USA can be forgiven for not knowing any of this. You never lost a war either, right?