Holy smoke! With people!??? My God, to the stars brother! TO THE STARS!!!!
PS: The Moon is 10 times further still. The Moon. Our Moon. Our local satellite. SpaceX has gloriously managed to go where we've gone before. Using a half century old government facility! Glorious.
but at a much cheaper costs. And within 2 years, they will put up the largest loads to GTO and at a fraction of the costs of what they charge today.
Space is NOT about abilities, but about fiscal ability.
Considering that the most expensive part of going to other places is lift, and SpaceX is apparently making that dirt cheap, it will be easy to go to the moon and mars. As to fiscal sense, once a service is started for transport to/from the moon AND a small base, bet on it that every nation with money will want to put at least one person at the base.
First off, SpaceX is not just a lift company. That is simply their current focus. They will be targeting other areas esp. transport earth to/from the moon and mars.
Secondly, SpaceX is NOT competing against ULA. ULA is not competing in any real arena.
SpaceX is competing against China's, Russia's, and Europe's launch vehicles. And they will be taking away most of the open competition business. However, most businesses outside of America are very nationalistic and will go to great lengths to support their local launch vehicles. Still, SpaceX will have a full docket for the next 5 years without a single change.
And IBM will continue to outsource to China and India while ignoring the fact that both nations are stealing their IP, and will no longer buy their trash.
Basically, companies like IBM, HP, and MS are going the same way as DEC, AOL, Novell, etc.
This is why we need a clean separation of church and state. And yeah, the evangelical in OK are going to go nuts once they realize that they MUST allow this garbage.
And China would be right to do it.
Do note that America sent humans to the moon 3 years after the stage that China is in today. And China does not have original work. They are simply copying others, which makes it MUCH faster and easier to get there.
note that next year, they will have the LM5, which will do 25 tonnes to LEO. SatV was 120 tonnes, so only 5x.
However, at the same time that LM5 comes, SpaceX will launch FH which will do 53 tonnes to LEO. Throw in a raptor engine as a tug, hooked to a BA-330, and we can send 5-7 ppl to the moon easily. And this is doable by 2020. All that is needed are crafts that can land on the moon and take off again. Thankfully, NASA and others (including SpaceX) are working on this.
and the republicans for the last 40+ years have spoken of balancing the budget, while running up massive deficits under ever republican president for just about every year (save the last year of Poppa Bush), while both dem presidents dropped the deficit each of their years.
This is why historians look at their actions and not their words. That is also why historians and MOST political scientists regard NAZI's as far right, and only in a few obscure American republican political scientists do they say otherwise.
W's policy was a direct extension of reagan's since he was a "neo-con" like him. There was NOTHING liberal about either of these two. You neo-cons hated W because he was not able to BS as well as reagan even though both were just about as destructive to America and the world. Both of these 2 had more in common with hoover, harding and coolidge. And BTW, when Harding finished office, he was considered a decent president, until great depression started and then ppl realized that their policies were total disasters. Coolidge is regarded as worse for having continued the hoover/harding policies. reagan and W are of the same ilk. W is considered bad, but in about another 20 years, reagan will be considered similar to W.
OTOH, POPPA Bush was a real republican in the same vein as Lincoln, Teddy, and somewhat eisenhower.
actually, it does NOT make a solid case. It does not make a case at all. That kind of BS has been refuted for over 60 years.
That is why nearly all academicians insist that NAZIs were far-right with a lot of similarity to today's neo-cons and tea*.
it depends on what it does. The truth is that MOST US's aid actually helps many many ppl. The problems come in when it is used to support corrupt politicians, OR when it was used to help prop up our businesses in other nations. Thankfully, we are pretty much down with the former and done with the later. Sadly, 100% of China's aid, as well as much of Europe's, foreign aid are involved in both approaches. Otherwise, they skip giving the aid.
Although the US currently the most hated of any in history, I don't think it will stay that way post mortem.
LOL.
You think that the US is the MOST HATED OF ANY NATION IN HISTORY????? Really?
More than the Mongols were. More than Stalin USSR? Hitler's Germany?
Or even any of the many colonizing nations of Europe who pushed slavery all over the world, forced Christianity on other cultures many many times, murdered and butchered natives all over the world?
Oh, by all means, citation please. Please show us some good facts about how USA is the most hated of all times.
Or, they could simply tell them about the terrorists that around their nations, such as for South Korea, it would be North Korea. In addition, Indonesia and mayalsa have had their fair share of terrorists holed up there. But, I guess that is besides the point.
I suspect that Gary did a lot more than simple snooping. And if we found somebody had spied on UK, and done more than simple snooping, then yeah, we would likely turn them over.
The simple fact is, that Finland is spied on by everybody AND they are also spying on other nations. And to be honest, I do not have an issue with my friends spying on me. I esp. do not mind it, if they point out a terrorists act from elsewhere, or they find somebody else spying on us and then tells us about it.
Seriously, it would be to their benefit to invest this into companies so that they can pull dividends over a long period of time. And it should ones that are OSS friendly.
Only nations like Canada, USA, Australia, etc. are continuing to lower their emissions.
BUT, Europe and Japan, in fact the west, are NOT the issue. It is the nations who continue to increase their emissions.
China, India, Brazil, South Africa etc. are building out massive new coal plants and running these without pollution controls. These plants will exists for 50-70 years. And these are growing faster than the west can shut down ours.
Not only do we need to get nuke power going quickly, BUT, we need to force all nations to partake in lowering their emissions, or at least keeping it low.
The funny thing is, that emissions are tied to GDP, not ppl. Businesses burn up far more energy than does anything else. As such, focusing on emissions PER CAPITA is about the worst idea going. Instead, it should be about emissions per GDP (real, not PPP). In addition, it should be measured for real, rather than estimated. For CO2, we can do that via satellite. OCO2 will lets the world know next year which nations are emitting what and how much it really is (china is going to be a real shock to the world).
We, esp. the USA who is the worlds largest importers, needs to put a tax on ALL goods (local and imported), based on where it, and the parts come from. If it comes from a place with high emissions/GDP, then the tax is high. If all parts are from nations like france/sweden/iceland, then the tax will be low to nothing.
OTOH, if coming from nations like China, Vietnam, India, South Africa, etc. the tax would be high. Why? Because these nations have massive amounts of emissions in terms of their real GDP and NOT the PPP GDP.
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Holy smoke! With people!??? My God, to the stars brother! TO THE STARS!!!!
PS: The Moon is 10 times further still. The Moon. Our Moon. Our local satellite. SpaceX has gloriously managed to go where we've gone before. Using a half century old government facility! Glorious.
but at a much cheaper costs. And within 2 years, they will put up the largest loads to GTO and at a fraction of the costs of what they charge today.
Space is NOT about abilities, but about fiscal ability.
Considering that the most expensive part of going to other places is lift, and SpaceX is apparently making that dirt cheap, it will be easy to go to the moon and mars. As to fiscal sense, once a service is started for transport to/from the moon AND a small base, bet on it that every nation with money will want to put at least one person at the base.
First off, SpaceX is not just a lift company. That is simply their current focus. They will be targeting other areas esp. transport earth to/from the moon and mars.
Secondly, SpaceX is NOT competing against ULA. ULA is not competing in any real arena.
SpaceX is competing against China's, Russia's, and Europe's launch vehicles. And they will be taking away most of the open competition business. However, most businesses outside of America are very nationalistic and will go to great lengths to support their local launch vehicles. Still, SpaceX will have a full docket for the next 5 years without a single change.
yup. However, that management is moving IP offshore and it is being stolen. Sad.
Back in the 90's, I worked for watson and watched the company come back from the grave. This time, it will die.
And IBM will continue to outsource to China and India while ignoring the fact that both nations are stealing their IP, and will no longer buy their trash.
Basically, companies like IBM, HP, and MS are going the same way as DEC, AOL, Novell, etc.
Hmmm. You have an interesting comment.
I like the part about state vs. fed gov.
This is why we need a clean separation of church and state. And yeah, the evangelical in OK are going to go nuts once they realize that they MUST allow this garbage.
this would be testing a lander and a number of other systems.
And China would be right to do it.
Do note that America sent humans to the moon 3 years after the stage that China is in today. And China does not have original work. They are simply copying others, which makes it MUCH faster and easier to get there.
wrong. They have LM5 (25 tonnes to LEO) coming in 2014, and they have already started work on a 100+ tonne to LEO LV.
note that next year, they will have the LM5, which will do 25 tonnes to LEO. SatV was 120 tonnes, so only 5x.
However, at the same time that LM5 comes, SpaceX will launch FH which will do 53 tonnes to LEO. Throw in a raptor engine as a tug, hooked to a BA-330, and we can send 5-7 ppl to the moon easily. And this is doable by 2020. All that is needed are crafts that can land on the moon and take off again. Thankfully, NASA and others (including SpaceX) are working on this.
and the republicans for the last 40+ years have spoken of balancing the budget, while running up massive deficits under ever republican president for just about every year (save the last year of Poppa Bush), while both dem presidents dropped the deficit each of their years.
This is why historians look at their actions and not their words. That is also why historians and MOST political scientists regard NAZI's as far right, and only in a few obscure American republican political scientists do they say otherwise.
W's policy was a direct extension of reagan's since he was a "neo-con" like him. There was NOTHING liberal about either of these two. You neo-cons hated W because he was not able to BS as well as reagan even though both were just about as destructive to America and the world. Both of these 2 had more in common with hoover, harding and coolidge. And BTW, when Harding finished office, he was considered a decent president, until great depression started and then ppl realized that their policies were total disasters. Coolidge is regarded as worse for having continued the hoover/harding policies. reagan and W are of the same ilk. W is considered bad, but in about another 20 years, reagan will be considered similar to W.
OTOH, POPPA Bush was a real republican in the same vein as Lincoln, Teddy, and somewhat eisenhower.
actually, it does NOT make a solid case. It does not make a case at all. That kind of BS has been refuted for over 60 years. That is why nearly all academicians insist that NAZIs were far-right with a lot of similarity to today's neo-cons and tea*.
it depends on what it does. The truth is that MOST US's aid actually helps many many ppl. The problems come in when it is used to support corrupt politicians, OR when it was used to help prop up our businesses in other nations. Thankfully, we are pretty much down with the former and done with the later. Sadly, 100% of China's aid, as well as much of Europe's, foreign aid are involved in both approaches. Otherwise, they skip giving the aid.
Although the US currently the most hated of any in history, I don't think it will stay that way post mortem.
LOL.
You think that the US is the MOST HATED OF ANY NATION IN HISTORY????? Really?
More than the Mongols were. More than Stalin USSR? Hitler's Germany?
Or even any of the many colonizing nations of Europe who pushed slavery all over the world, forced Christianity on other cultures many many times, murdered and butchered natives all over the world?
Oh, by all means, citation please. Please show us some good facts about how USA is the most hated of all times.
Or, they could simply tell them about the terrorists that around their nations, such as for South Korea, it would be North Korea. In addition, Indonesia and mayalsa have had their fair share of terrorists holed up there. But, I guess that is besides the point.
That is you. There is a real reason why tesla is outselling all of its competition. And that is against luxury sedans in the same price range.
I suspect that Gary did a lot more than simple snooping. And if we found somebody had spied on UK, and done more than simple snooping, then yeah, we would likely turn them over.
The military intelligence service (Pesikunnan Tiedusteluosasto General Staff Intelligence Division), which is accountable to the Defence Minister, has no separate legal basis. It is responsible for ensuring the territorial integrity of the country and to that end it monitors the national territory, in cooperation with other authorities, by land, sea and air. It also carries out signals intelligence via the Communications Experience Facility (VKL).
And there is good reason for it to do this:
Russia and China may have been responsible for large-scale hacking into the Finnish Foreign Ministry's computer networks, a Finnish television channel reported.
And
Finnish foreign minister Erkki Tuomioja has said at a press conference on October 31 that revelations of large-scale data Russian surveillance in foreign ministry systems are embarrassing to Finland and to the ministry of foreign affairs.
The simple fact is, that Finland is spied on by everybody AND they are also spying on other nations. And to be honest, I do not have an issue with my friends spying on me. I esp. do not mind it, if they point out a terrorists act from elsewhere, or they find somebody else spying on us and then tells us about it.
This is Elon's idea for mars. I think that the same set-up will be sent to both the moon and mars. It should prove to be interesting.
Seriously, it would be to their benefit to invest this into companies so that they can pull dividends over a long period of time. And it should ones that are OSS friendly.
Only nations like Canada, USA, Australia, etc. are continuing to lower their emissions.
BUT, Europe and Japan, in fact the west, are NOT the issue. It is the nations who continue to increase their emissions.
China, India, Brazil, South Africa etc. are building out massive new coal plants and running these without pollution controls. These plants will exists for 50-70 years. And these are growing faster than the west can shut down ours.
Not only do we need to get nuke power going quickly, BUT, we need to force all nations to partake in lowering their emissions, or at least keeping it low.
The funny thing is, that emissions are tied to GDP, not ppl. Businesses burn up far more energy than does anything else. As such, focusing on emissions PER CAPITA is about the worst idea going. Instead, it should be about emissions per GDP (real, not PPP). In addition, it should be measured for real, rather than estimated. For CO2, we can do that via satellite. OCO2 will lets the world know next year which nations are emitting what and how much it really is (china is going to be a real shock to the world).
We, esp. the USA who is the worlds largest importers, needs to put a tax on ALL goods (local and imported), based on where it, and the parts come from. If it comes from a place with high emissions/GDP, then the tax is high. If all parts are from nations like france/sweden/iceland, then the tax will be low to nothing. OTOH, if coming from nations like China, Vietnam, India, South Africa, etc. the tax would be high. Why? Because these nations have massive amounts of emissions in terms of their real GDP and NOT the PPP GDP.
Seriously, under W, national security was put aside. Now, we need to focus on this and make good with securing our systems.
do note that NOBODY has died in a fire in Tesla. At this time, it is impossible to compare dying by fire in a tesla vs. any other car.