There's no reason why a proven rocket can't become more reliable than a new one, so that people would pay a premium to ride the reused one. It remains to be seen, of course.
Leaf blowers are more annoying for those of us in low income apartments where they come right up to our windows once a week. Just outlaw the useless things, there's no sense in moving leaves back and forth, get a leaf vacuum if you want to remove leaves.
The Chinese have tested anti-satellite weapons, which is what the USA has raised objections to, and the USA has not done though presumably could. Their moon program obviously has no practical military dimension.
100,000 Iranians were attacked by chemical weapons, and they showed notable restraint in responding. The only reason they wanted nuclear weapons is that the country that sold those chemical weapons to be used against them has nukes of its own and continues to threaten them with regime change. They would be extremely unlikely to use nukes, except in response to being nuked.
You're essentially talking about forcibly taking people away from their families and friends and putting them in a strange city where they don't feel safe. Not direct force, but they starve if they don't agree. That's not going to be popular.
Iran wants to sell oil to the world and compete with Saudi Arabia for regional influence, and has an electorate pushing for economic growth over confrontation. North Korea has no electorate wants to stay isolated, it's the whole juche philosophy. Very different scenarios.
It's most likely that China's reaction in the event of NK nuking another country would be to invade NK before anybody else can so they can maintain influence there.
Communism didn't make Cuba an island. The lack of Internet infrastructure is mainly because it's an island which has been under strict embargo by its only nearby mainland neighbor for half a century. Remove the embargo and they'd happily put in a cable to Florida and solve the problems.
If you try to nearly double the population of a county, the real estate prices are going through the roof and there won't be enough houses or jobs. Since these people aren't compelled by any force to move to the same county, they'll spread out just to get a decent deal on property.
Eventually it ends up being as screwed up as anywhere else, just a different flavour.
That's okay. It's good to have a variety of flavors of screwup so we can pick and choose good ideas from each other. Some things they try will fail but other things they try will work, so I'm glad they're doing it.
Warp drives aren't simply an engineering challenge. It's unlikely that they're physically possible, let alone realistic. Unlike in sci-fi, we can't change the laws of physics.
Of course there's no water shortage in an absolute sense -- not even a fresh water shortage if you wanted to transport all the rain from the northern part of the state to where it's wanted. There's a water-cheap-enough-for-growing-current-levels-of-affordable-food-without-damaging-natural-habitats shortage.
Efficient storage isn't generally an option due to environmental concerns. New dams are almost never allowed by the courts, and there are minimum required releases from reservoirs to keep certain river fish populations happy. Of course if there were a serious water shortage people would start collecting on their rooftops like in Australia, but California has plenty of water for its population, just not for the large scale farming... so nobody is considering drastic measures.
We're talking about a tax on profits. Taxing profits logically cannot drive a business to bankruptcy (especially Apple -- the notion of Apple going bankrupt from having to share a percentage of its huge profits is absurd). It simply means the stockholders get a smaller dividend for their lack of work. If the company wishes to reinvest the profits in development or acquisitions then it doesn't end up being profit anyway and they needn't be taxed.
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Probably most of that is "hold my beer for a sec while I drive around this curve at 90."
There's no reason why a proven rocket can't become more reliable than a new one, so that people would pay a premium to ride the reused one. It remains to be seen, of course.
You could establish that an omniscient god cannot be part of the universe, but believers may argue that it exists outside our universe.
Get yourself an MP3 of leaf blower noise, put on your headphones and crank up the volume. Have fun.
Leaf blowers are more annoying for those of us in low income apartments where they come right up to our windows once a week. Just outlaw the useless things, there's no sense in moving leaves back and forth, get a leaf vacuum if you want to remove leaves.
It might reorganize the planet's matter on a molecular level, destroying all life on Earth in favor of its' new matrix.
I think neither of you has ever looked up at the moon in the sky, or you'd have noticed you always see the same side.
The Chinese have tested anti-satellite weapons, which is what the USA has raised objections to, and the USA has not done though presumably could. Their moon program obviously has no practical military dimension.
100,000 Iranians were attacked by chemical weapons, and they showed notable restraint in responding. The only reason they wanted nuclear weapons is that the country that sold those chemical weapons to be used against them has nukes of its own and continues to threaten them with regime change. They would be extremely unlikely to use nukes, except in response to being nuked.
Syria and Libya may not have turned into true wars without US/Saudi involvement (they could have been simple government massacres).
I see kids walking by themselves every day here in California. The enforcement of the idea that kids shouldn't walk alone must be very sporadic.
Forget the 40K car, we won't need it. Once SpaceX reusable rockets achieve their 100x cost reduction we'll all just rocket everywhere.
You're essentially talking about forcibly taking people away from their families and friends and putting them in a strange city where they don't feel safe. Not direct force, but they starve if they don't agree. That's not going to be popular.
Iran wants to sell oil to the world and compete with Saudi Arabia for regional influence, and has an electorate pushing for economic growth over confrontation. North Korea has no electorate wants to stay isolated, it's the whole juche philosophy. Very different scenarios.
It's most likely that China's reaction in the event of NK nuking another country would be to invade NK before anybody else can so they can maintain influence there.
Communism didn't make Cuba an island. The lack of Internet infrastructure is mainly because it's an island which has been under strict embargo by its only nearby mainland neighbor for half a century. Remove the embargo and they'd happily put in a cable to Florida and solve the problems.
If you try to nearly double the population of a county, the real estate prices are going through the roof and there won't be enough houses or jobs. Since these people aren't compelled by any force to move to the same county, they'll spread out just to get a decent deal on property.
That's okay. It's good to have a variety of flavors of screwup so we can pick and choose good ideas from each other. Some things they try will fail but other things they try will work, so I'm glad they're doing it.
Warp drives aren't simply an engineering challenge. It's unlikely that they're physically possible, let alone realistic. Unlike in sci-fi, we can't change the laws of physics.
Of course there's no water shortage in an absolute sense -- not even a fresh water shortage if you wanted to transport all the rain from the northern part of the state to where it's wanted. There's a water-cheap-enough-for-growing-current-levels-of-affordable-food-without-damaging-natural-habitats shortage.
Those must've been some really unimportant thousands of businesses, since our economy has been booming.
Efficient storage isn't generally an option due to environmental concerns. New dams are almost never allowed by the courts, and there are minimum required releases from reservoirs to keep certain river fish populations happy. Of course if there were a serious water shortage people would start collecting on their rooftops like in Australia, but California has plenty of water for its population, just not for the large scale farming... so nobody is considering drastic measures.
They made this decision before they'd even looked at the returned rocket.
We're talking about a tax on profits. Taxing profits logically cannot drive a business to bankruptcy (especially Apple -- the notion of Apple going bankrupt from having to share a percentage of its huge profits is absurd). It simply means the stockholders get a smaller dividend for their lack of work. If the company wishes to reinvest the profits in development or acquisitions then it doesn't end up being profit anyway and they needn't be taxed.
Perhaps Oracle will offer free America's Cup tickets to the low income former residents.