Taco Johns for Great Plains fast food Tex Mex, Taco Time and Burgerville for Pac NW fast food, etc.
I'm in Anchorage and we have two bases here, Olive Garden is opening today and morale on the bases is up because freaking Olive Garden is opening.
Also, sit down dinning chains with a branch up here generally have the restaurants in Alaska end up as the highest grossing and highest profit ones.
But places like Applebees, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or even transregional places like Red Robin, Ruby Tuesdays all fit in with what Keegan was going on about.
I live in Anchorage Alaska, we have Thai, Chinese, Nepalese, Indian, Mexican, Tex-Mex, etc all over the city.
Portland Oregon, where I used to live, a number of Russian, Ukrainian, German and even Indonesian restaurants, so in my experience, I don't really see this collapse of choices happening.
Actually, Military Historian John Keegan said in Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, that the spread of chain establishments has done a lot to create a single unified American culture that strengthens the US and makes it less likely to splinter like it did in the 1860s or the Balkins did in the 1990s.
A person born in Mississippi who joins the Army and goes to Kansas and then Washington and finally to Alaska during their deployment have the familiar stores and restaurants so they don't feel as much like an outsider.
Keegan is a British historian and he observed how that ubiquity of chains in the US is so alien to a European that he saw it as a strength.
The Soviet Union was a federation of many different states, many of which had past histories as independent countries (Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, etc) but had all been conquered by a political movement or prior to that, the Russian Empire.
The current states that make up the United States only have two which had a history as independent countries, Texas, and Hawaii. The California Republic was in existence for around 25 days.
The Confederate States of America, which existed from spring 1861 to spring 1865 wasn't nearly as different to the United States of America as say Georgia is to Turkmenistan. So its very difficult to see a great schism splitting the United States as easy as one split the Soviet Union. And remember that the core of the Soviet Union, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, retained it's territorial boundaries in the successor state, the Russian Federation.
Americans are generally Americans first and loyal to their state or region second.
Well, hate to tell you this, but there are currently digital cameras on Mars being exposed to much more radiation than whats present in Fukushima and they've been working for years.
Russia doesn't have the silicon crystal production facilities, they'll be stuck using the same European, American and Japanese lithography tools everyone else does, no fabs, no economies of scales for production like Samsung, Intel, AMD, Toshiba, etc have.
Boeing is moving to non-union plant in South Carolina because the machinists union in Washington struck just to slow down the 787 program and show Boeing how powerful the union was.
Like American cars, whose quality has vastly increased since 1990?
Or a 1980s Zenith TV compared to Sony?
As for it being impossible to buy American-made goods, the CPUs in my desktops and laptops were all fabbed in the United States in Oregon and Arizona, my car was built in the United States and is 93% American made parts, my pickup was made in Canada, but the engine, transmission and frame were all built in the United States and it's still over 75% American parts.
The airplanes I fly out of Alaska on are all made in the United States with American made engines.
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Taco Johns for Great Plains fast food Tex Mex, Taco Time and Burgerville for Pac NW fast food, etc.
I'm in Anchorage and we have two bases here, Olive Garden is opening today and morale on the bases is up because freaking Olive Garden is opening.
Also, sit down dinning chains with a branch up here generally have the restaurants in Alaska end up as the highest grossing and highest profit ones.
But places like Applebees, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, or even transregional places like Red Robin, Ruby Tuesdays all fit in with what Keegan was going on about.
After the fallout of the American Civil War, 80 odd years after the American Revolution.
I live in Anchorage Alaska, we have Thai, Chinese, Nepalese, Indian, Mexican, Tex-Mex, etc all over the city.
Portland Oregon, where I used to live, a number of Russian, Ukrainian, German and even Indonesian restaurants, so in my experience, I don't really see this collapse of choices happening.
Actually, Military Historian John Keegan said in Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America, that the spread of chain establishments has done a lot to create a single unified American culture that strengthens the US and makes it less likely to splinter like it did in the 1860s or the Balkins did in the 1990s.
A person born in Mississippi who joins the Army and goes to Kansas and then Washington and finally to Alaska during their deployment have the familiar stores and restaurants so they don't feel as much like an outsider.
Keegan is a British historian and he observed how that ubiquity of chains in the US is so alien to a European that he saw it as a strength.
The bloody US Civil War ended without the reprisals and mass killings that punctuate other civil wars.
The English Civil War cost England suffered a 3.7% loss of population, Scotland a loss of 6%, while Ireland suffered a loss of 41% of its population.
The Russian Civil War through 1923 cost 4.4% to 5% of the Russian population
The current Afghan Civil War has cost roughly 9-10% of the Afghan population
The US Civil War cost 2.2% of of the population based on the 1860 Census including the civilian deaths.
The Soviet Union was a federation of many different states, many of which had past histories as independent countries (Moldova, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, etc) but had all been conquered by a political movement or prior to that, the Russian Empire.
The current states that make up the United States only have two which had a history as independent countries, Texas, and Hawaii. The California Republic was in existence for around 25 days.
The Confederate States of America, which existed from spring 1861 to spring 1865 wasn't nearly as different to the United States of America as say Georgia is to Turkmenistan. So its very difficult to see a great schism splitting the United States as easy as one split the Soviet Union. And remember that the core of the Soviet Union, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, retained it's territorial boundaries in the successor state, the Russian Federation.
Americans are generally Americans first and loyal to their state or region second.
Real time control is also available on Global Hawk through satellite link.
Global Hawk has a suite with synthetic aperture radar (SAR), electro-optical (EO), and infrared (IR) sensors.
The sensor data is transmitted at up to 50 Mbit/sec through satellite or to a ground station.
Yea, EOD work, stupid finger fail.
Well, hate to tell you this, but there are currently digital cameras on Mars being exposed to much more radiation than whats present in Fukushima and they've been working for years.
The US had developed them.
Not much when non-rad hardened robots for EoD type work start at $60,000 and can go up to $275,000.
While Japan was caught naping, the US had robots for the job and sent some over.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215346/U.S._to_send_radiation_hardened_robots_to_Japan
Russia doesn't have the silicon crystal production facilities, they'll be stuck using the same European, American and Japanese lithography tools everyone else does, no fabs, no economies of scales for production like Samsung, Intel, AMD, Toshiba, etc have.
But the Tu-4 weighed more than the B-29, they couldn't build the tires and had to buy them on the US Military Surplus market post-war.
The iPhone 4 is not an iPad
Can a human walk around on Mars for days without any extra supplies?
Advantage rovers.
Actually, drones like the Predator, Heron, Reaper and Global Hawk need to be manually landed by a local pilot, not sure about the Beast of Kandahar.
Does the US have robots driving around Iran? Nope, there you go.
But the US and global drywall market has collapsed, USG just shut the last drywall plant in the US and shuttered it until the economy comes back.
No one else has done deep space or outer solar system exploration.
The Soviets did Mars and Venus, the Americans are on target to have sent something out to every planet in the Solar System.
Boeing is moving to non-union plant in South Carolina because the machinists union in Washington struck just to slow down the 787 program and show Boeing how powerful the union was.
Like American cars, whose quality has vastly increased since 1990?
Or a 1980s Zenith TV compared to Sony?
As for it being impossible to buy American-made goods, the CPUs in my desktops and laptops were all fabbed in the United States in Oregon and Arizona, my car was built in the United States and is 93% American made parts, my pickup was made in Canada, but the engine, transmission and frame were all built in the United States and it's still over 75% American parts.
The airplanes I fly out of Alaska on are all made in the United States with American made engines.
If you get 6.2 kilograms of Plutonium-240 close enough it goes all Trinity.
So no, it's not stored in one solid cube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium#Trinity_and_Fat_Man_atomic_bombs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
When corporations go to space, it won't be to magically go 600 light years, it'll be to the asteroids and moons for resources.
FTL communications and travel have less connection to reality than people who throw rocks at cars on a Saturday.