The Germans developed the lauch technology, used it to drop balistic missiles on England, lost WW2 and had their scientists and engineers taken by the allies.
We need to eliminate corporate income tax, they are too good at hiding their money. We need to shift the tax load to other things that are harder to hide. Polution comes to mind. Also we should make payroll and benefits a tax deduction for the corporation instead of business expenses, as this will encourage them to keep the jobs at home.
How about letting corporate citizens vote? It would save so much time and money, not having to send lobyists with bags of money to get things done, just vote for your own (bought and paid for politician) directly.
If you don't like the options then form your own party. You only need about 65 million votes to win. Yes that's a lot, but given the low bar the Democrats and Republicans have set you'd not have to be very good at it. Just ensure you have a candidate in every single riding, and keep them from doing stupid stuff in public.
Voting for a third party maximizes your influence on government, because the major parties see those "lost" votes as "available, if you offer me something". Politicians don't campaign for decided voters, they campaign for the voters they could influence. If you vote for a major party you have NO influence on government.
If you remove manned space flight from NASA then you've got lots of money for space science. It's not lack of money holding them back, it's throwing it away on stuff that isn't useful.
The major powers are not interested in bettering the common African man, they are interested in resource extraction and exploitation. The reason Africa is so poor is: 1-Agriculteral subsidies have wiped out the local farmers. 2-Import duties have wiped out any manufacturing they might try to get going. 3-Any time they manage to do something right, the West comes in and takes it from them. 4-The West deliberately undermines (and kills) any local government that doesn't support them over the interests of their own people.
China has a 1 child per family rule, you might want to research this as it's morally less damaging than your suggestion. Also note that the first world countries are all in population decline, it's the third world that has the surplus. So either wipe out the third world or convert them into first world countries and the population problem is gone.
You are suggesting the car makers build custom cars for the rental company. It's more likely a theft deterant system, combined with a way to prove who stole/vandalized their car.
Down pillows would probably fail, as they depend on the air between the feathers. Air bags however should be sufficient, provided you pile them a few hundred meters high (and don't miss).
If you can reach orbit from a planet then you can reverse the process and land on a planet. It would require a lot of fuel in mars orbit, and some rocket engines, but that's just money not future tech at work.
Turning the Dragon launcher into a satellite launcher is easy. It's mostly just taking stuff out from the manned launcher and covering what's left with a launch shroud. As for the space shuttle, we'd have been better off just keeping the Saturn 5 launcher. It had a heavier payload, more reliable, and the design was paid for. Even if we had to launch 2 to get the men in orbit it would still have been cheaper and safer.
Prices have risen steadily the last year, also known as inflation. The government has a good reason not to admit to that though so don't expect to hear about it in the news.
Getting the public riled up doesn't appear to solve the problem of the government sneaking around doing illegal stuff. If you want this to stop, you must solve the problem of how to force the government to follow the rules first.
You don't want to make gears by casting, you want machined metal, probably with heat treating. You could definately prove the design this way though, before building a real one.
Make the reactor is pieces small enough to launch. Refuel it a bit at a time just like civilian reactors do on earth. build a smaller reactor, as you only need a few megawatts of power. The cooling of the reactor will be an issue, no oceans/lakes or viable air cooling.
Set up a sun shade to make dry ice, have a solar concentrator to make it gas. Use the heat engine to capture the energy. No long power wires to the poles required.
When a government staffer sends an email to the secretary of state (both using a government account) the email travels from his/her computer to the server (in the same building) to the secretary's computer. It doesn't touch the internet at any point (no intercept risk). When Clinton sends an email using her private account it goes from her computer to the open internet to her private server to the open internet to the government server to the destination computer. That's TWICE it's wide open for intercept.
The soil in California is terrible (desert), but they fix that with fertilizer. The farmers love California because it's got lots of sun and cheap land.
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The Germans developed the lauch technology, used it to drop balistic missiles on England, lost WW2 and had their scientists and engineers taken by the allies.
We need to eliminate corporate income tax, they are too good at hiding their money. We need to shift the tax load to other things that are harder to hide. Polution comes to mind. Also we should make payroll and benefits a tax deduction for the corporation instead of business expenses, as this will encourage them to keep the jobs at home.
Given that Obama doesn't care about our privacy (he tells the NSA what to do), we can resonably conclude that https is broken.
How about letting corporate citizens vote? It would save so much time and money, not having to send lobyists with bags of money to get things done, just vote for your own (bought and paid for politician) directly.
If our drug laws made sense you'd need a prescription to get Jack Daniels. And all Tobacco products too, except it's a drug with no medical value.
If you don't like the options then form your own party. You only need about 65 million votes to win. Yes that's a lot, but given the low bar the Democrats and Republicans have set you'd not have to be very good at it. Just ensure you have a candidate in every single riding, and keep them from doing stupid stuff in public.
And Obama voted for all of those bills. He most certainly DID make things worse.
Voting for a third party maximizes your influence on government, because the major parties see those "lost" votes as "available, if you offer me something". Politicians don't campaign for decided voters, they campaign for the voters they could influence. If you vote for a major party you have NO influence on government.
If you remove manned space flight from NASA then you've got lots of money for space science. It's not lack of money holding them back, it's throwing it away on stuff that isn't useful.
The major powers are not interested in bettering the common African man, they are interested in resource extraction and exploitation. The reason Africa is so poor is: 1-Agriculteral subsidies have wiped out the local farmers. 2-Import duties have wiped out any manufacturing they might try to get going. 3-Any time they manage to do something right, the West comes in and takes it from them. 4-The West deliberately undermines (and kills) any local government that doesn't support them over the interests of their own people.
China has a 1 child per family rule, you might want to research this as it's morally less damaging than your suggestion. Also note that the first world countries are all in population decline, it's the third world that has the surplus. So either wipe out the third world or convert them into first world countries and the population problem is gone.
You are suggesting the car makers build custom cars for the rental company. It's more likely a theft deterant system, combined with a way to prove who stole/vandalized their car.
Down pillows would probably fail, as they depend on the air between the feathers. Air bags however should be sufficient, provided you pile them a few hundred meters high (and don't miss).
If you can reach orbit from a planet then you can reverse the process and land on a planet. It would require a lot of fuel in mars orbit, and some rocket engines, but that's just money not future tech at work.
Turning the Dragon launcher into a satellite launcher is easy. It's mostly just taking stuff out from the manned launcher and covering what's left with a launch shroud. As for the space shuttle, we'd have been better off just keeping the Saturn 5 launcher. It had a heavier payload, more reliable, and the design was paid for. Even if we had to launch 2 to get the men in orbit it would still have been cheaper and safer.
Prices have risen steadily the last year, also known as inflation. The government has a good reason not to admit to that though so don't expect to hear about it in the news.
Getting the public riled up doesn't appear to solve the problem of the government sneaking around doing illegal stuff. If you want this to stop, you must solve the problem of how to force the government to follow the rules first.
You don't want to make gears by casting, you want machined metal, probably with heat treating. You could definately prove the design this way though, before building a real one.
Mars gravity is close enough that it shouldn't have any health or safety risks, and most of our technology should still work correctly.
Make the reactor is pieces small enough to launch. Refuel it a bit at a time just like civilian reactors do on earth. build a smaller reactor, as you only need a few megawatts of power. The cooling of the reactor will be an issue, no oceans/lakes or viable air cooling.
Set up a sun shade to make dry ice, have a solar concentrator to make it gas. Use the heat engine to capture the energy. No long power wires to the poles required.
I think ALL government communications should be recorded. Email, letters, phone calls, memo's. Record it all, and keep it for at least 10 years.
When a government staffer sends an email to the secretary of state (both using a government account) the email travels from his/her computer to the server (in the same building) to the secretary's computer. It doesn't touch the internet at any point (no intercept risk). When Clinton sends an email using her private account it goes from her computer to the open internet to her private server to the open internet to the government server to the destination computer. That's TWICE it's wide open for intercept.
Flash memory (SD cards and USB sticks) are capacitors, they slowly drain and die.
The soil in California is terrible (desert), but they fix that with fertilizer. The farmers love California because it's got lots of sun and cheap land.