It's really simple actually. Some key assets in some countries are either nationalized or kept under local control by other means. Some foreign players see an opportunity at this and invest in destabilizing the place to grab the assets or make better contracts with in the future. This has nothing to do with USG national security, it's just business.
It shouldn't scare them personally because apparently everyone on the hill is compromised one way or another. However his statements in regards to Russia should indeed scare private interests that are heavily invested in confrontation with Russia. Because you know, it seems that Peter Thiel has a different portfolio.
Kompromat isn't done on the this scale. The notion that an intelligence service would first steal and then leak such a treasure trove of intelligence for vague political reasons is simply put ridiculous.
Not to mention that the intel provided insight into Clinton corruption which means that the logical step would be to transfer funds to Clinton Foundation in case she wins, not to leak it.
"claiming territory that you cannot even get to"
Robotics are quite clever at getting to places you can't.
"laws... are unenforceable"
They are actually quite well enforceable unless you exclusively colonize with full sustainability. They just put you in jail here on Earth and cut the supply chains to whatever infrastructure there is.
This story is brilliant. Corrupt USG passing laws that enable privatization of space and thus triggering a commercial space race.. this just made my day.
"Once we have it colonized, it will be much easier to spread into the solar system from there."
No it won't. Unless you start producing rockets on the moon from scratch, you just add the complexity of first delivering stuff there first and then launching it from there. More fuel, more logistics.
I would strongly recommend watching this Zubrin presentation before discarding a Mars mission on any basis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Most of the usual arguments have been covered like 20 years ago.
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It's really simple actually. Some key assets in some countries are either nationalized or kept under local control by other means. Some foreign players see an opportunity at this and invest in destabilizing the place to grab the assets or make better contracts with in the future. This has nothing to do with USG national security, it's just business.
Tell that to Soros :)
It shouldn't scare them personally because apparently everyone on the hill is compromised one way or another. However his statements in regards to Russia should indeed scare private interests that are heavily invested in confrontation with Russia. Because you know, it seems that Peter Thiel has a different portfolio.
The problem with that theory is that attack stories do not work against Trump, he just uses those to get free publicity, air time.
Kompromat isn't done on the this scale. The notion that an intelligence service would first steal and then leak such a treasure trove of intelligence for vague political reasons is simply put ridiculous. Not to mention that the intel provided insight into Clinton corruption which means that the logical step would be to transfer funds to Clinton Foundation in case she wins, not to leak it.
"claiming territory that you cannot even get to" ... are unenforceable"
.. this just made my day.
Robotics are quite clever at getting to places you can't.
"laws
They are actually quite well enforceable unless you exclusively colonize with full sustainability. They just put you in jail here on Earth and cut the supply chains to whatever infrastructure there is.
This story is brilliant. Corrupt USG passing laws that enable privatization of space and thus triggering a commercial space race
"Once we have it colonized, it will be much easier to spread into the solar system from there."
No it won't. Unless you start producing rockets on the moon from scratch, you just add the complexity of first delivering stuff there first and then launching it from there. More fuel, more logistics.
I would strongly recommend watching this Zubrin presentation before discarding a Mars mission on any basis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Most of the usual arguments have been covered like 20 years ago.
Turning phones off doesn't help much when according to Snowden they can bug it even then. Good luck removing the battery on recent ones.
Law suits coming up.