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How We Might Have Scramjets Sooner than Expected
loralai writes "Recent breakthroughs in scramjet engines could mean two-hour flights from New York to Tokyo. This technology, decades in the making, could redefine our understanding of air travel and military encounters. 'To put things in context, the world's fastest jet, the Air Force's SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, set a speed record of Mach 3.3 in 1990 when it flew from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., in just over an hour. That's about the limit for jet engines; the fastest fighter planes barely crack Mach 1.6. Scramjets, on the other hand, can theoretically fly as fast as Mach 15--nearly 10,000 mph.'"
As we trip over the peak of oil production...
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And the chinese will be given the technology too!
Two words: Corporate Welfare.
A little bit more on that:
--They will either give out research grants until a workable prototype proves viable.
--They will give out military contracts, bid or no bid.
The amusing thing is, and what no "average citizen of the world", American, British or otherwise, seems to get through their thick skulls, is that generally, the only low key and sure fire public approved way for the government to keep inflating the currency at astronomical rates, without talking about it, is to go adventuring abroad, or spend massively on military and social programs at home.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
Very insightful post. And despite the fact that it is Offtopic, it should still be modded Insightful.
We often times forget that it's the people under the leaders that give them their power. If people were more willing to stand up to injustices when confronted with them there would have been a lot less evil in this world. We likely wouldn't have had Concentration Camps in Germany or Gulags in the USSR or torture by the CIA.
While it can often be commendable for people to follow their leaders to the ends of the Earth, it often times leads to many injustices as they will not ask themselves "Is this right? Can I live with myself if I do this?"
Thank you again for your great post DaedalusHKX.
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
In a country where more than half the populace is armed, legally or illegally, and where military and even sanctioned paramilitary (cops, tsa, etc) forces are FAR into the minority, one does not want to lose the golden goose (which is America). So to keep fleecing it until the last possible moment, without waking up the Giant, Jack will have to continue baby stepping things, until he's stolen every possible golden egg. Then he can lead the giant to his doom when he wakes up angry and upset that his gold is being stolen.
It takes baby steps to get to a goal when the sleeping Giant is just starting to grumble in his sleep. If Jack stays downwind and remains stealthy, by the time the Giant wakes up, the only thing LEFT for him to do is fall off the beanstalk.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
Flamebait?? Good lord, are the mods on crack today? I was neither flaming him, nor demeaning him, nor inviting a flame war.
Do moderators even know what the moderation of flamebait even means any more?
Anyway, apologies to the OP if it was construed as flamage. It wasn't.
Cheers
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
No, when you tell me to shut up, what you're doing is saying that you'd rather wait until you get strafed.
You're also a victim worshipper... I'm watching to see if anyone who ISN'T a victim worshipper will be around. I've got RELATIVES, not "friends" who were murdered through government aggression. And the patterns are cyclical. They're occurring in the West now, because they've gotten to their logical conclusion in the East.
Some of my great grandparents were killed by invading Russians and the following collectivization... in America, the "allies" call them "heroes" or "allied Russian forces fighting for freedom", even though where my grandparents grew up, the Nazi soldiers were remembered for being gentlemen and even paying rent to stay in their town and be fed by the locals, while the Russian "saviors" were the ones who indulged in rapes and butchery and burned whatever they couldn't steal.
History... has always been written by the victor... in America, as in everywhere else. If you ever get to be a "refugee" it means you didn't see it coming. And you won't, you're too busy telling those who do, to shut up.
" What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler