Falcon launch cost= total $ / total mass=57M/13,000 Kg=4,384 $/Kg, approx 1700 $/lb. Koutonori=121M / 16,500 Kg=7,333 $/Kg, approx 3000 $/lb. If the Japanese team can cut costs in half they have a market, unless Falcon can cut costs by 15% to match.
Even if Falcon loses half the rockets sent up, they still are cheaper for total launch cost (assuming unmanned, and nothing insanely expensive is launched).
Most of the things you list would punish the stock holders, who are just as likely to be a pension plan for retired veterans. You want to punish those responsible, not the senior citizens who got blindsided by the crimes of someone else.
In the military there is no difference between giving an order and knowingly allowing something to happen. When you have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution, then all violations of the Constitution by those under your command are your fault.
The government thinks it's OK to have Terrorists running around loose, so long as they don't set foot on an airplane. How about you arrest them to keep us safe instead of making them drive?
You don't need polar conditions, you just need a cold place. The top of a mountain in the Rocky mountains would work just fine, and some mountains even have roads and power lines already.
The claimed goal of the H1B program is demonstrably false. If a company hires an H1B worker then they won't train an American for the job(job filled), and an American worker won't train for the job(no job), meaning that job is permanently captured by a H1B worker. The program is actually making the problem worse.
Under the Constitution of the US you have the right to a trial before you get punished. Sure this is only flying, but they could extend this to train travel with ease, and then car travel.
So we need to build our own "Phone", that does encryption end to end and doesn't ping towers (tracking). Oh and we can't use existing hardware because it's probably backdoored, and we must write our own assemblers and compilers, and write our own OS and apps, from scratch. And then we must courier everything to the end user by hand, with the equipment never out of our hands. That's doable, though a bit high a bar for a kickstarter. Pity the government would outlaw it the moment we started to take marketshare.
The stealth coating on the F35 only works against certain frequencies of radar, the rest of the Radio band reflects normally. Having a documented instance of a stealth aircraft getting shot down by a radar guided missile is proof.
A true Libertairian president could balance the budget in 5 years. Cut all tax breaks and corporate wealfare, Impose a national healthcare with cost controls, cut the military by 25%, impose a flat tax on America of 25%.
The US is currently being run into the ground, and it looks like some rich people will profit from it. Will he return America to greatness, or cash in for his piece of the crash?
Raid all the farms during harvest, and hit them with massive fines for illegal workers. When they can't pay the fines you take their water rights as payment. And deport the illegals, more jobs for Americans.
Farmers deliberately use as much water as they can, in order to protect their water rights. Use it or lose it is the law of the land. Maybe they should fix that.
Water from desalination isn't covered by existing water rights, so the farmers would have to pay full market value for it. The cities won't supply water to the farmers because the farmers are currently hogging 75% of the water.
More water falls from the sky than is required for all the current water uses in California. And most of that water is dumped into the ocean. Maybe they should capture it and use it for drinking water?
I have heard that a popular method of drug research is to do clinical studies of a large number of people, but only report on the people that had positive results. You had 500 people in the trial, 10 got better, you report your 10 person drug test. Doctors should be required by law to report negative drug effects to the FDA from all their patients, even for clinical trials.
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Falcon launch cost= total $ / total mass=57M/13,000 Kg=4,384 $/Kg, approx 1700 $/lb. Koutonori=121M / 16,500 Kg=7,333 $/Kg, approx 3000 $/lb. If the Japanese team can cut costs in half they have a market, unless Falcon can cut costs by 15% to match.
Even if Falcon loses half the rockets sent up, they still are cheaper for total launch cost (assuming unmanned, and nothing insanely expensive is launched).
Most of the things you list would punish the stock holders, who are just as likely to be a pension plan for retired veterans. You want to punish those responsible, not the senior citizens who got blindsided by the crimes of someone else.
In the military there is no difference between giving an order and knowingly allowing something to happen. When you have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution, then all violations of the Constitution by those under your command are your fault.
The government thinks it's OK to have Terrorists running around loose, so long as they don't set foot on an airplane. How about you arrest them to keep us safe instead of making them drive?
The reason America sat out half of WW2 is because those in power (then and now) LIKE everything the NAZI's stood for.
You don't need polar conditions, you just need a cold place. The top of a mountain in the Rocky mountains would work just fine, and some mountains even have roads and power lines already.
The claimed goal of the H1B program is demonstrably false. If a company hires an H1B worker then they won't train an American for the job(job filled), and an American worker won't train for the job(no job), meaning that job is permanently captured by a H1B worker. The program is actually making the problem worse.
Flat tax on all income, and the first $20,000 is tax exempt. And tax payroll/benefits to the worker not the company.
Under the Constitution of the US you have the right to a trial before you get punished. Sure this is only flying, but they could extend this to train travel with ease, and then car travel.
So we need to build our own "Phone", that does encryption end to end and doesn't ping towers (tracking). Oh and we can't use existing hardware because it's probably backdoored, and we must write our own assemblers and compilers, and write our own OS and apps, from scratch. And then we must courier everything to the end user by hand, with the equipment never out of our hands. That's doable, though a bit high a bar for a kickstarter. Pity the government would outlaw it the moment we started to take marketshare.
The stealth coating on the F35 only works against certain frequencies of radar, the rest of the Radio band reflects normally. Having a documented instance of a stealth aircraft getting shot down by a radar guided missile is proof.
A true Libertairian president could balance the budget in 5 years. Cut all tax breaks and corporate wealfare, Impose a national healthcare with cost controls, cut the military by 25%, impose a flat tax on America of 25%.
The US is currently being run into the ground, and it looks like some rich people will profit from it. Will he return America to greatness, or cash in for his piece of the crash?
People love living near volcanoes because of how rich the volcanic soil is. And flood deltas have nice flat ground, easily cleared for building.
Maybe the ecology nuts convince everyone to take up hunter-gather lifestyle when the science gets sufficiently advanced to allow inter-stellar travel.
Find a way to shift a few trillion tons of air from Venus to mars, and everyone is happy.
Why is America exporting high paying manufacturing jobs when they could export low paying agriculture jobs? Let Mexico grow the food.
Raid all the farms during harvest, and hit them with massive fines for illegal workers. When they can't pay the fines you take their water rights as payment. And deport the illegals, more jobs for Americans.
I believe that drinking water should be given priority over all other uses. And that this overrides legal water rights.
Farmers deliberately use as much water as they can, in order to protect their water rights. Use it or lose it is the law of the land. Maybe they should fix that.
Water from desalination isn't covered by existing water rights, so the farmers would have to pay full market value for it. The cities won't supply water to the farmers because the farmers are currently hogging 75% of the water.
More water falls from the sky than is required for all the current water uses in California. And most of that water is dumped into the ocean. Maybe they should capture it and use it for drinking water?
1-change water rights laws so you can take the water from the farmers. 2-tripple the water supply overnight by taking all the farmers water. 3-profit!
I have heard that a popular method of drug research is to do clinical studies of a large number of people, but only report on the people that had positive results. You had 500 people in the trial, 10 got better, you report your 10 person drug test. Doctors should be required by law to report negative drug effects to the FDA from all their patients, even for clinical trials.