Not a single one of those companies/groups are ahead of spacex. All of them require massive crews to launch their systems. Spacex requires a fraction. Why? Heavy automation. About the only thing that they 'behind' in, is the engine, and that was on purpose for low costs.
LOL.
They already comply with NASA and DOD standards and still their prices remain a fraction of ULA, Airbus, etc.
And as to extracting money from the feds, ULA is nearly 100% dependent on the feds, while less than 1/3 of SpaceX are from govs.
And when it comes to getting 'subsidies' from the feds, they take in a FRACTION of what ULA, Boeing, L-Mart, Airbus, BAE, etc take in. Hell, in all of these other companies, they require the feds to pay costs+, which is ALWAYS outrageous profits, while with SpaceX, the feds have paid only a fraction of the price. SpaceX continues to pour their profits into R&D.
Finally, if they are so far behind that they are only 50's tech, then what companies are ahead of them and how much lower costs are they?
However, to be fair, SpaceX is a LONG LONG ways ahead of everybody. They already have an orbital craft. They are able to land their first stage. They will likely re-use it in production sometime next year.
FH will launch in April.
Dragon v2 for human launches, will be end of year.
Raptor is supposed to be finished and fully tested around early 2017.
And that is on-top of MCT being developed.
OTOH, ULA, Airbus, O-ATK, Russia, etc will feel the heat shortly.
First, there is NO such thing as 100% death proof. There have been 5 serious injuries/deaths in around 75,000 Model S.
1) a car thief that hit an old 1920's street light at over 100 MPH and split the car in half. He actually died a day later.
2) a car that went over a cliff and dropped over 300 feet.
3) another car that went over a cliff and bounced some 250 feet off the sides.
4) another one that had a head-on with a semi-truck that ran OVER the Tesla, crushing it.
5) the most recent in which an old man drove through a garage and put the car in a pool, but was unable to escape and drowned.
Beyond that, tesla is by far the safest car ever made and yet, it is NOT 100% safe. It is STILL possible to die in it.
Seriously, the west should be going back to having decent security. That means not just govs, but businesses, esp. when they are critical. 20 years ago, we are decent on that. Not anymore. Yet, Russia, China, North Korea, etc are hard core on their security because they still in a cold war mentality.
Citation, please. Do not get me wrong, but you constantly lie. So back up your stuff with polls from outside of America and not ran by Murdock, that proves it.
Hey, back in 79, we (those of use working at CDC) did not know what was causing Kuru/CJD. At the time, we thought that heating that better cooking would kill whatever it was (back then, it was assumed to be an unknown virus or possibly a protein ). When Dr. Prusiner gave a talk and suggested that decent heating of the meat SHOULD kill the entity, even though he said the ionizing radiation had mixed effects (which said that it was small. very small). So, I got into the habit of doing this. Simple as that. Besides, there is more than just prions out there. So, I make sure that I go with decent meat companies before eating it rare.
Bull shit. Nsf, NOAA, etc all fund deniers. You just have to be somebody that had decent credentials in closely related areas.
However, they do not fund any far wing nut idiot who has no credentials, and does have a decent thought in their head. That is why so many 'deniers' are shot down. Nobody with decent intelligent is going to claim that AGW is not occurring.
Oh god, no. Gray keeps chasing all sorts of stuff on climate and comes up empty. He is funded because of his regular weather work that had decent papers. However, he still gets funded for both weather and climate.
Actually, the federal government DOES fund deniers. Always has. However, you have to put forward for grants on parts to study and have the reputation to decent science. And St this time, few deniers are consider to have decent papers in any field that they operate in. For example, Dr gray of Colorado state, gets funding to study climate change since he has a great weather research background. Otoh, ppl like you, would be considered an idiot and any grant that you submitted would be discarded. But, you might try getting you money from the kock bros.
And therein lies the difference of scientific method vs the GOP approach of 'common sense'. GOP, and other conservatives, will tell you that common sense proves there are plenty of stocks in the oceans and that climate is not changing.
I agree. Back in 70s, I used to eat mine very rare. However, since reagan gutted USDA and W/GOP blocked cattle producers from testing every head for mad cow, I have moved to medium except when I know the producer and know that they did in fact test.
Not entirely. The argument goes that cattle produce a lot more methane than does average human. However, when humans become vegans, they also see a massive increase in passing gas and a much higher percentage is methane.
Kind of like ACs climate change deniers that bring it up in articles that have nothing to do with it, so that they appear to be a good GOPer? Or do you just get paid by kock bros per article that you troll?
Actually, Tesla IS the biggest maker of EVs. It is only when you add hybrids that they are not the largest. And yes, they produce more EVs than Nissan, Renault, and byd.
Seriously, all of our destroyers should be nuke powered. Smaller ships and boats that get in close to shore should remain non-nuke. But, Destroyers are going to head towards electric weapons, so all of them should be able to have excess electricity.
Yeah, but burning is nothing more than combining hydrogen and oxygen and getting heat and light rather than electrons. Fuel cells work on similar principle, but channel the energy into electrons, if you will.
Methanol is simply methane with an o added between the c and 1 h. And some fuel cells do use methanol. Expensive and runs even shorter than H2 fuel cells.
And the rest of your rant is way off again. First off, Tesla and LG are thought to have much higher cycles. It is already known that first gen Tesla batteries in roadster went to about 150k before hitting 85% capacity. Now MS has several cars with 125k and are still around 95% capacity.
However, where will the fuel cell on fcv be by 100k miles? They will be in the trash because they have to be replaced every 50k miles or so. Then lets add the fact that 96% of all hydrogen in the world comes not from electrolysis, but by burning a rich nat gas mixture which produces far worse emissions.
SO No, the real expensive vehicle are lh2.
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Not a single one of those companies/groups are ahead of spacex. All of them require massive crews to launch their systems. Spacex requires a fraction. Why? Heavy automation. About the only thing that they 'behind' in, is the engine, and that was on purpose for low costs.
LOL.
They already comply with NASA and DOD standards and still their prices remain a fraction of ULA, Airbus, etc.
And as to extracting money from the feds, ULA is nearly 100% dependent on the feds, while less than 1/3 of SpaceX are from govs.
And when it comes to getting 'subsidies' from the feds, they take in a FRACTION of what ULA, Boeing, L-Mart, Airbus, BAE, etc take in. Hell, in all of these other companies, they require the feds to pay costs+, which is ALWAYS outrageous profits, while with SpaceX, the feds have paid only a fraction of the price. SpaceX continues to pour their profits into R&D.
Finally, if they are so far behind that they are only 50's tech, then what companies are ahead of them and how much lower costs are they?
Hopefully, this leads to a bit of a space race.
However, to be fair, SpaceX is a LONG LONG ways ahead of everybody. They already have an orbital craft. They are able to land their first stage. They will likely re-use it in production sometime next year.
FH will launch in April.
Dragon v2 for human launches, will be end of year.
Raptor is supposed to be finished and fully tested around early 2017.
And that is on-top of MCT being developed.
OTOH, ULA, Airbus, O-ATK, Russia, etc will feel the heat shortly.
First, there is NO such thing as 100% death proof. There have been 5 serious injuries/deaths in around 75,000 Model S.
1) a car thief that hit an old 1920's street light at over 100 MPH and split the car in half. He actually died a day later.
2) a car that went over a cliff and dropped over 300 feet.
3) another car that went over a cliff and bounced some 250 feet off the sides.
4) another one that had a head-on with a semi-truck that ran OVER the Tesla, crushing it.
5) the most recent in which an old man drove through a garage and put the car in a pool, but was unable to escape and drowned.
Beyond that, tesla is by far the safest car ever made and yet, it is NOT 100% safe. It is STILL possible to die in it.
Seriously, the west should be going back to having decent security. That means not just govs, but businesses, esp. when they are critical. 20 years ago, we are decent on that. Not anymore. Yet, Russia, China, North Korea, etc are hard core on their security because they still in a cold war mentality.
Citation, please. Do not get me wrong, but you constantly lie. So back up your stuff with polls from outside of America and not ran by Murdock, that proves it.
Citation, please. Personally, I doubt that you have anything real.
Hey, back in 79, we (those of use working at CDC) did not know what was causing Kuru/CJD. At the time, we thought that heating that better cooking would kill whatever it was (back then, it was assumed to be an unknown virus or possibly a protein ). When Dr. Prusiner gave a talk and suggested that decent heating of the meat SHOULD kill the entity, even though he said the ionizing radiation had mixed effects (which said that it was small. very small). So, I got into the habit of doing this. Simple as that. Besides, there is more than just prions out there. So, I make sure that I go with decent meat companies before eating it rare.
Seriously, it might be a bit sinister, but it really says what nro does. They do get everywhere and sees what is happening.
Bull shit. Nsf, NOAA, etc all fund deniers. You just have to be somebody that had decent credentials in closely related areas. However, they do not fund any far wing nut idiot who has no credentials, and does have a decent thought in their head. That is why so many 'deniers' are shot down. Nobody with decent intelligent is going to claim that AGW is not occurring.
Oh god, no. Gray keeps chasing all sorts of stuff on climate and comes up empty. He is funded because of his regular weather work that had decent papers. However, he still gets funded for both weather and climate.
Actually, the federal government DOES fund deniers. Always has. However, you have to put forward for grants on parts to study and have the reputation to decent science. And St this time, few deniers are consider to have decent papers in any field that they operate in. For example, Dr gray of Colorado state, gets funding to study climate change since he has a great weather research background. Otoh, ppl like you, would be considered an idiot and any grant that you submitted would be discarded. But, you might try getting you money from the kock bros.
And therein lies the difference of scientific method vs the GOP approach of 'common sense'. GOP, and other conservatives, will tell you that common sense proves there are plenty of stocks in the oceans and that climate is not changing.
I agree. Back in 70s, I used to eat mine very rare. However, since reagan gutted USDA and W/GOP blocked cattle producers from testing every head for mad cow, I have moved to medium except when I know the producer and know that they did in fact test.
Not entirely. The argument goes that cattle produce a lot more methane than does average human. However, when humans become vegans, they also see a massive increase in passing gas and a much higher percentage is methane.
Soylent green?
Kind of like ACs climate change deniers that bring it up in articles that have nothing to do with it, so that they appear to be a good GOPer? Or do you just get paid by kock bros per article that you troll?
What do you disagree with that they are saying on this subject?
Actually, Tesla IS the biggest maker of EVs. It is only when you add hybrids that they are not the largest. And yes, they produce more EVs than Nissan, Renault, and byd.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...">this is the difference between companies like IBM, apple, Samsung, etc vs tesla, spacex, slar city, etc.
Seriously, all of our destroyers should be nuke powered. Smaller ships and boats that get in close to shore should remain non-nuke. But, Destroyers are going to head towards electric weapons, so all of them should be able to have excess electricity.
Yeah, but burning is nothing more than combining hydrogen and oxygen and getting heat and light rather than electrons. Fuel cells work on similar principle, but channel the energy into electrons, if you will.
Methanol is simply methane with an o added between the c and 1 h. And some fuel cells do use methanol. Expensive and runs even shorter than H2 fuel cells.
And the rest of your rant is way off again. First off, Tesla and LG are thought to have much higher cycles. It is already known that first gen Tesla batteries in roadster went to about 150k before hitting 85% capacity. Now MS has several cars with 125k and are still around 95% capacity. However, where will the fuel cell on fcv be by 100k miles? They will be in the trash because they have to be replaced every 50k miles or so. Then lets add the fact that 96% of all hydrogen in the world comes not from electrolysis, but by burning a rich nat gas mixture which produces far worse emissions. SO No, the real expensive vehicle are lh2.