the soviets were also not communist.
They were a pure command economy tied to a totalitarian leadership.
NONE of those things are communists. In POF, I doubt that we will ever see a communist nation ever on this planet. Probably the closest things are the farms in Israel.
Pichai has been killing off all of the advanced stuff at Google that made them into giants and is now moving various groups to India, in hopes of helping his nation. Basically, he is doing to Google, what most Indian CEOs/CIOs do which is move all work back to their nation regardless of the long term consequences to the company.
first, plenty of iron there.
Secondly, I would guess plenty of caves have smaller and sideways doors, not just drops into the ground.
Third, the ability to stop meteorites and have a moderate temp inside, would be huge.
considering meteorites are a constant issue (atmosphere is too thin to burn them up), I would not want to live in that.
HOWEVER, that really would make a great topside garage for a lava tube. In fact, I wonder if this could be used to seal the lava tube to the point that it could take some decent pressure inside?
Seriously, a lava tube while being darker, would be relatively even-keel on temps. In addition, it would do a better job of protecting from meteorites. Finally, with a lava tube, simple seals can let in light, but increase the pressure just a little bit to the point where plants can survive ( with artificial lighting obviously ). With a bit of genetics, we can figure out what plants can actually exists on Mars surface.
One thing that would be nice to see Musk do is send a couple of large wing flyers that can stay about 500-1000' above ground and get close-up pix of areas that he will be looking at for colonization. I would guess that more than a few tunnels can be found that would be ideal for this.
Seriously, one of these 2 should step forward and buy FF, and get production moving. As it is, any money that LeEco gets will be to stop the American work and move ALL OF THE IP that they developed to China.
OTOH, if Apple or Google buy this, they can start car production within a year, and have their sofware on it.
Should not be the least bit surprising. What is needed is for America to crack back at CHina.
I think that O has overall done a decent job, but gads, he assume the best from ppl.
flamebait? They have a treaty with Japan which requires pollution controls on their coal plants. See that polluted air? That is nearly 100% from their coal plants.
Likewise, per WTO/IMF, they were supposed to free their money, as well as remove many of their tariffs, no dumping, etc. China is now the exact opposite.
In addition, when we were allowing them to launch for American businesses, when an American company spotted an issue and told them, they fixed up their ICBMs FIRST, before fixing up the rocket.
As long as their space program continues to be under their military, it will remain that way as well.
Except that you have many things wrong. For example, your calculations are way off. First off, light is 50% of the time. IOW, the sun is seen for 50%. Secondly, the sun is blocked due to weather for about 1 day / week, or 14%. IOW, daylight the loses 7%, so the (panels will produce for 43%. There is about 10,000 hours / year or 4,300 hours or about 4000 hours .
It is not all about congress critters. We already saw that when we helped Chinese space program, it was turned into weapon PRIOR to doing 'civilian' work.
well, when deregs went in, Crandall came on strong and AA blew the doors off weak competitors such as United (they had it easy due to many on CAB being ex-boeing).
And yeah, Crandall did have it correct on that. In fact, he had SOOO much right such as the no executives owning publicly-traded stock (though he was a fan of ESOPs). I have to laugh. My dad is a retrd AA capt and now lives down the street from Crandall. They have had some interesting discussions. Apparently, he is still mad that his proteges got SOOO greedy and destroyed AA. OTOH, he is pretty pleased with Parker.
nope. It was not uncommon for AA to have routes in which up to 1/3 of the seats were missed. Back then, we did not put reservations on cards. Simply a call in. Nothing more. You could actually pay at the gates. Keep in mind that calling in CCs back then was useless. It was all paper WRT CC.
things did not work in the same way back in the 80s. We could book without ANY MONEY on the line. You did not actually buy a ticket. You just made a reservation. BUT, ppl would call in with fake names and do say a family of 4. Then another family of 3. then another family of 6.
Back when crandall changed the market place, it was not uncommon to have 40 missed seats out of 120 on the heavily traveled routes. That way somebody could fly standby. Yes, back in the 80s, ANYBODY could fly standby. Now, it is just those of use and our families that work for the airlines, and some airlines still allow military standby (only a few).
Everything that you talk about is TODAY, and it was nothing like this 30-40 years ago.
not quite forever. Just since the 80s, when AA developed this.
And there was a vastly different reason for it back then. Basically, the airlines had ppl pranking them by booking 20-30 more seats so that they could be guaranteed getting on with standby.
Bob Crandall of American Airlines started this because so many ppl would actually call in with false reservations so that they could fly standby. That kills the load factor. So, was AA's CIO that really created the hub/spoke system, along with dynamic pricing and slightly overbooked seats. Note that when overbooked, somebody gets nice things.
Sadly, the western based airlines are now a disaster due to de-regulations combined with MBAs that do not have an original thought. Worse, because the CEOs now have stock in the airlines, it is in their best interest to look at short-term stock value and not at long-term profits. Crandall REFUSED to have publicly traded stock to any executive when there. AA became the best. Once he left, the execs that took over ran AA into the ground.
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the soviets were also not communist.
They were a pure command economy tied to a totalitarian leadership.
NONE of those things are communists. In POF, I doubt that we will ever see a communist nation ever on this planet. Probably the closest things are the farms in Israel.
In what way is man that is providing 10s of 1000 of decent to high paying jobs, a parasite?
There is no communist nation. There is a totalitarian nation with a mixed command/capitalist economy. But nothing that Marx would call communist.
Pichai has been killing off all of the advanced stuff at Google that made them into giants and is now moving various groups to India, in hopes of helping his nation. Basically, he is doing to Google, what most Indian CEOs/CIOs do which is move all work back to their nation regardless of the long term consequences to the company.
Nope, dad did not change that. GOP love to raise taxes. Just not on their own.
The far right speaks against NASA doing work with moving asteroids , or creating another Earth 2 on Mars.
first, plenty of iron there.
Secondly, I would guess plenty of caves have smaller and sideways doors, not just drops into the ground.
Third, the ability to stop meteorites and have a moderate temp inside, would be huge.
the issue with that, is that mars is LOADED with iron in the regolith. As such, you will have loads of secondary radiation. Not a good thing.
considering meteorites are a constant issue (atmosphere is too thin to burn them up), I would not want to live in that.
HOWEVER, that really would make a great topside garage for a lava tube. In fact, I wonder if this could be used to seal the lava tube to the point that it could take some decent pressure inside?
Seriously, a lava tube while being darker, would be relatively even-keel on temps. In addition, it would do a better job of protecting from meteorites. Finally, with a lava tube, simple seals can let in light, but increase the pressure just a little bit to the point where plants can survive ( with artificial lighting obviously ). With a bit of genetics, we can figure out what plants can actually exists on Mars surface.
One thing that would be nice to see Musk do is send a couple of large wing flyers that can stay about 500-1000' above ground and get close-up pix of areas that he will be looking at for colonization. I would guess that more than a few tunnels can be found that would be ideal for this.
Seriously, one of these 2 should step forward and buy FF, and get production moving. As it is, any money that LeEco gets will be to stop the American work and move ALL OF THE IP that they developed to China.
OTOH, if Apple or Google buy this, they can start car production within a year, and have their sofware on it.
insolation is mostly done by clouds and on average, any one part of America is covered by enough clouds to fully block the sun 1 day / week or 1/7.
and yet, it was America that had rockets PRIOR to Germany. In fact, Goddard made the first liquid rockets prior to WWI.
Should not be the least bit surprising. What is needed is for America to crack back at CHina.
I think that O has overall done a decent job, but gads, he assume the best from ppl.
flamebait? They have a treaty with Japan which requires pollution controls on their coal plants. See that polluted air? That is nearly 100% from their coal plants.
Likewise, per WTO/IMF, they were supposed to free their money, as well as remove many of their tariffs, no dumping, etc. China is now the exact opposite.
In addition, when we were allowing them to launch for American businesses, when an American company spotted an issue and told them, they fixed up their ICBMs FIRST, before fixing up the rocket.
As long as their space program continues to be under their military, it will remain that way as well.
Except that you have many things wrong. For example, your calculations are way off. First off, light is 50% of the time. IOW, the sun is seen for 50%. Secondly, the sun is blocked due to weather for about 1 day / week, or 14%. IOW, daylight the loses 7%, so the (panels will produce for 43%. There is about 10,000 hours / year or 4,300 hours or about 4000 hours .
Lol.china does not cooperate. They promise then lie.
It is not all about congress critters. We already saw that when we helped Chinese space program, it was turned into weapon PRIOR to doing 'civilian' work.
well, when deregs went in, Crandall came on strong and AA blew the doors off weak competitors such as United (they had it easy due to many on CAB being ex-boeing).
And yeah, Crandall did have it correct on that. In fact, he had SOOO much right such as the no executives owning publicly-traded stock (though he was a fan of ESOPs). I have to laugh. My dad is a retrd AA capt and now lives down the street from Crandall. They have had some interesting discussions. Apparently, he is still mad that his proteges got SOOO greedy and destroyed AA. OTOH, he is pretty pleased with Parker.
nope. It was not uncommon for AA to have routes in which up to 1/3 of the seats were missed. Back then, we did not put reservations on cards. Simply a call in. Nothing more. You could actually pay at the gates. Keep in mind that calling in CCs back then was useless. It was all paper WRT CC.
things did not work in the same way back in the 80s. We could book without ANY MONEY on the line. You did not actually buy a ticket. You just made a reservation. BUT, ppl would call in with fake names and do say a family of 4. Then another family of 3. then another family of 6.
Back when crandall changed the market place, it was not uncommon to have 40 missed seats out of 120 on the heavily traveled routes. That way somebody could fly standby. Yes, back in the 80s, ANYBODY could fly standby. Now, it is just those of use and our families that work for the airlines, and some airlines still allow military standby (only a few).
Everything that you talk about is TODAY, and it was nothing like this 30-40 years ago.
I miss that show. It was excellent. And yes, not a good idea to lock yourself in a hole with a computer in charge. Btw, are the pizza guy?
not quite forever. Just since the 80s, when AA developed this.
And there was a vastly different reason for it back then. Basically, the airlines had ppl pranking them by booking 20-30 more seats so that they could be guaranteed getting on with standby.
Bob Crandall of American Airlines started this because so many ppl would actually call in with false reservations so that they could fly standby. That kills the load factor. So, was AA's CIO that really created the hub/spoke system, along with dynamic pricing and slightly overbooked seats. Note that when overbooked, somebody gets nice things.
Sadly, the western based airlines are now a disaster due to de-regulations combined with MBAs that do not have an original thought. Worse, because the CEOs now have stock in the airlines, it is in their best interest to look at short-term stock value and not at long-term profits. Crandall REFUSED to have publicly traded stock to any executive when there. AA became the best. Once he left, the execs that took over ran AA into the ground.
and yet, tesla is the top rated car going according to CR.