Actually, no. What it did was CONFIRM that it was water. Clementine and Lunar Prospector actually found the water. It was Chandrayaan-1 that confirmed.
put together a space shuttle. Put up multiple space stations. Have numerous probes all over the solar system. Landed on 3 different surfaces with multiple probes on 2 of them. Flown a probe OUT of the solar system. Massive telescope in orbit. Have found numerous planets around our galaxy. etc. etc. Have funded multiple private launch systems which will carry cargo and shortly ppl. Got the ISS going with multiple other space organizations. Helped most of these other space organizations to make them a success with the ISS. Likewise, developed the VASIMR, Transhab which were taken private. Did the original nuke engines that are capable of sending us all over the solar system.
"China always adheres to the use of outer space for peaceful purposes, and opposes weaponization or any arms race in outer space," Thursday's white paper states.
And yet, ppl will ignore the fact that this SAME PEACEFUL SPACE PROGRAM shot a sat out of the sky.
Yes. A man that R&D lasers for the DOD, worked for national security and GAO, does not have a grasp of the US military system.
Ghoshroy is a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Before this, he was for many years a senior engineer in the field of high-energy lasers. He was also a professional staff member of the House National Security Committee and later a senior analyst with the Government Accountability Office.
America is spending the bulk of our money fighting W's wars. While we belong in Afghanistan, we should have finished that up and been out of there by 2006. More importantly, we should NEVER have gone into Iraq and likewise the same with Libya. However, we had lying neo-cons that put us into Iraq, while EU put us into Libya.
And I was NEVER speaking about 'China taking away all jobs'. You obviously do not get it. EU has a number of barriers against China and other trade. As such, you maintain a more balanced trade deficit. China is BEGGING you to drop your barriers and it was apparently made as a pre-condition for their willingness to bail our your mess. Thankfully, you folks did not do that. OTH, we have obeyed pretty much the FTA that we signed with them. They, OTH, have reneged on just about everything. In particular, they manipulate their money directly, rather than allowing the market to decide. But it extends well beyond that. In particular, they have numerous trade barriers up. At the time of the FTA, they had 90. Now, they are well over 400 and rising them quickly. Perhaps you missed the recent one in which they blocked mercedes SUVs made in America, but not the exact same car from Germany? Likewise, with their bubbles bursting, they have already started to dump on the global market. China is going to get worse. That is why I want to see tariffs rise here in America.
As to wages, the companies that are MINORITY owned by western companies are required to pay much then double what Chinese owned companies pay. And it will remain that way until China feels that they can destroy the dollar and the Euro. As it is, they are pushing for these companies to raise their pay so that chinese owned have a great advantage. IOW, it is not free market principles.
Well, I just love it when you cowards do not even show your face.
You will find that the imports/exports from America to Germany and South Korea are about equal. Why? Because if they export too much, then they will be holding too many dollars. Their money will then rise against the dollar. So, the businesses and gov. buy cheaper products from America. In fact, if you exclude China and Oil, America has no trade deficit. And if you exclude just China, the trade deficit is not that large. It is China that is the issue. Why? Because they have not honored their FTA and WTO and IMF agreeements. At this time, they have up barriers all over against western goods EXCEPT from Asian partners (such as Japan). That is illegal and should be stopped.
I agree that America has screwed up our gov. finances. I have been opposed to our debts starting with reagan. And yes, some of our industry has been all too willing to screw over America, though to be honest, it is less industry and more distributors and retailers. Target/K-Mart started jumping to China to compete against Walmart. Even to this day, it is a bitch for American companies to get into retailers.
However, that does not excuse China's manipulation which is purposely causing the west a lot of issues. The one good news is that your housing bubble has started to pop. That means that China is about to plumit in economic output and we will see other bubbles popping in China. And it is DROPPING. All of China's trade partners are about to find out what happens when you depend on a nation that cheats. You steel sales are plummiting. You just started raising more tariffs again including against SUVs manufactured in North America (but not from Japan).
And I agree that China has not been running around the world, but that is about to change. Not only have the invaded India, but are now daming rivers that feed India, Bangladash, southwest Asia. Hell, they denied it even when heavy equipment was being moved in. They have tried to claim numerous lands and islands that not only do they not have claims on, but never have. Some that were given to other nations. But the real issue is their military build-up. You have your first blue water aircraft carrier, wtih at least 2 known keels laid. Your space station is a miltiary base, and not a civilian outpost. You are doing 2-4 new nuke subs each year. No, China is about to get REAL aggressive around the world. Esp. now. Heck, China is now basing in Venezuela and has asked Pakistan to be allowed to put an ARMY and AF base there (that is going to make India VERY nervous).
With this year being an election in America, I would think that China would re-think through their latest set of screws to everybody. As it is, with your multiple tariffs going up, I suspect that we will finally pass a broad set of tariffs against Chinese goods. That will be to prevent your dumping them on America. Thankfully, EU, except for Germany, already blocks much of your garbage.
oops. I must still be tired from yesterday. I thought that I had read 300M Americans. Mea Culpa
Automation is NOT killing us. It IS the cure. That is how America was made strong over the centuries. What is killing us is the (out/in)sourcing of jobs, but with a redirection of skills and money to other nations that control them. We need to automate most of our low end work as well as work towards cheaper automated manufacturing LOCAL.
Well, that was supposed to be the case with Clinton's FTA with China as well as WTO.
At this time, I think it is important for America to slowly raise trade barriers to China, just like they are doing it to us. It is actually better to get China to do the RIGHT thing then to see this cold war escalate. Sadly, I think that the cold war will escalate no matter..
exactly. China's approach to this is to own the cheap manufacturing, while stealing the rest slowly. Sadly, the west, and more correctly, the USA, are letting CHina do it via illegal means. If China actually honored their words, all economies would be better off for it, including their own.
Do not blame them. Blame the retailers esp. the big box and distributors. The deserve the vast majority of the blame. They are the ones ignoring western goods and bringing in chinese goods.
First off, we do not have 300M Americans. We are actually about 260-280M Americans. However, the outsourcing (as well as in-sourcing via illegals) is destroying America.
But we are missing real opportunities. We should be automating all that we can. That is what is really destroying us. Sadly, the companies in the west chose to bring in illegals rather than do automation. It is cheaper up front.
It is about getting control of all of the rest of that. Look carefully at how many cheap knock-offs of iphone there are. In fact, look at all of the totally ripped-off clones of western goods are coming from China. The issue is that China is building up loads of engineering, design, etc companies because they have access to the cheap manufacturing. And the time is coming, soon, that China gov. owned companies will destroy Apple, HP, Dell, IBM, GE, Westinghouse, Sony, Samsung, etc. Combine that with the fact that China is massively building up their military AND showing that they are ALL TOO HAPPY to use them, well, China's cold war with the west is in full swing while the fools around the west buy the BS.
moved much of their knowledge to China, the US gov. should divorce from US tech vendors as well. It is time to realize that the international companies like IBM, GE, Ford, Exon, GM, etc have no interest in US or even Western nations. Instead, they chase the almight dollar, or these days, the yuan.
American gov. needs to start funding local companies that develops and KEEPS tech here.
want to kill private space in AMerica while sending our launches to Russia. Just amazing. Neo-cons are doing more to destroy not just space, but America.
I want to see GE-PRISM and GA's EM2, as well as B&W's designs approved. Probably the most important one are the first two. They reason is that they use 'waste' fuel, rather than simply requiring all new fuel.
Alaska comes quickly to mind.
But even better would be the ski resorts. Plenty of bandwidth close to these, esp in Colorado. Likewise, plenty of cold and energy.
1) it should blow itself AND THE CARGO up if it goes down anyplace EXCEPT where it is supposed to land.
That would rather depend on what the cargo is, don't you think? Certainly any passengers on board wouldn't be happy with your arrangement.
Do you really think that they will use this to transport humans? I doubt it. I seriously doubt it. It does not have the means to evade. About the only way that I would want to be in one, is for an air ambulance (willing to go into any situation for an evac). But yes, if shot down, I would rather it not blow me up (unless it is right in AQ territory).
2) we should be working on beaming energy. With that approach, we could provide energy into a FOB without sending loads of fuel.
Beamed energy requires a line of sight, which means it won't work over the horizon or through a mountain.
On the other hand, the military already does use "beamed energy" from the sun to cut down on its fuel usage. When fuel costs $400 per gallon, the cost-benefit decision for running your camp off solar panels gets really easy to make.
Hence the reason why you get it up to say 10 mile beaming so that you can beam it at a slow flying 30K' plane and then have it relay.
Now, as to solar, you have no power at night, other than via storage. In addition, there will NOT be enough solar cells at a site to keep weapons going. In fact, with solar, an enemy can attack by simply running smoke over the area. OTH, a beam of energy can provide loads of power quickly when needed.
And the whole reason why I push the beaming of energy is because of the 400/gal fuel costs. If this was done right, the beaming of energy could then be used on tractors, earth movers, tanks, ships, etc. That would enable a number of uses that would allow us to talk away from hydrocarbons/hydrogen.
1) it should blow itself AND THE CARGO up if it goes down anyplace EXCEPT where it is supposed to land.
2) we should be working on beaming energy. With that approach, we could provide energy into a FOB without sending loads of fuel.
3) by beaming energy, we can also focus on electric weapons. Laser and rail guns make more sense than a round.
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Actually, no. What it did was CONFIRM that it was water. Clementine and Lunar Prospector actually found the water. It was Chandrayaan-1 that confirmed.
put together a space shuttle. Put up multiple space stations. Have numerous probes all over the solar system. Landed on 3 different surfaces with multiple probes on 2 of them. Flown a probe OUT of the solar system. Massive telescope in orbit. Have found numerous planets around our galaxy. etc. etc. Have funded multiple private launch systems which will carry cargo and shortly ppl. Got the ISS going with multiple other space organizations. Helped most of these other space organizations to make them a success with the ISS. Likewise, developed the VASIMR, Transhab which were taken private. Did the original nuke engines that are capable of sending us all over the solar system.
But otherwise, nothing much.
"China always adheres to the use of outer space for peaceful purposes, and opposes weaponization or any arms race in outer space," Thursday's white paper states.
And yet, ppl will ignore the fact that this SAME PEACEFUL SPACE PROGRAM shot a sat out of the sky.
But even this article missed some interesting points by China. The Chinese government on Thursday (Dec. 29) issued a broad statement on its five-year space program, saying top priorities include developing three new launch vehicles — including a rapid-response launch system —
Basically, they want their civilian launch system to be able to launch on short notice. The west's DOD units want that as well. But none of the civilians systems make that a priority.
Ghoshroy is a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Before this, he was for many years a senior engineer in the field of high-energy lasers. He was also a professional staff member of the House National Security Committee and later a senior analyst with the Government Accountability Office.
Actually, China is one of the largest military spending nations and most of it went into new weapon systems. This is due to their command economy, which outside of companies that export, their economy remains a command economy.
America is spending the bulk of our money fighting W's wars. While we belong in Afghanistan, we should have finished that up and been out of there by 2006. More importantly, we should NEVER have gone into Iraq and likewise the same with Libya. However, we had lying neo-cons that put us into Iraq, while EU put us into Libya.
And I was NEVER speaking about 'China taking away all jobs'. You obviously do not get it. EU has a number of barriers against China and other trade. As such, you maintain a more balanced trade deficit. China is BEGGING you to drop your barriers and it was apparently made as a pre-condition for their willingness to bail our your mess. Thankfully, you folks did not do that.
OTH, we have obeyed pretty much the FTA that we signed with them. They, OTH, have reneged on just about everything. In particular, they manipulate their money directly, rather than allowing the market to decide. But it extends well beyond that. In particular, they have numerous trade barriers up. At the time of the FTA, they had 90. Now, they are well over 400 and rising them quickly. Perhaps you missed the recent one in which they blocked mercedes SUVs made in America, but not the exact same car from Germany? Likewise, with their bubbles bursting, they have already started to dump on the global market. China is going to get worse. That is why I want to see tariffs rise here in America.
As to wages, the companies that are MINORITY owned by western companies are required to pay much then double what Chinese owned companies pay. And it will remain that way until China feels that they can destroy the dollar and the Euro. As it is, they are pushing for these companies to raise their pay so that chinese owned have a great advantage. IOW, it is not free market principles.
Well, I just love it when you cowards do not even show your face.
You will find that the imports/exports from America to Germany and South Korea are about equal. Why? Because if they export too much, then they will be holding too many dollars. Their money will then rise against the dollar. So, the businesses and gov. buy cheaper products from America. In fact, if you exclude China and Oil, America has no trade deficit. And if you exclude just China, the trade deficit is not that large. It is China that is the issue. Why? Because they have not honored their FTA and WTO and IMF agreeements. At this time, they have up barriers all over against western goods EXCEPT from Asian partners (such as Japan). That is illegal and should be stopped.
I agree that America has screwed up our gov. finances. I have been opposed to our debts starting with reagan. And yes, some of our industry has been all too willing to screw over America, though to be honest, it is less industry and more distributors and retailers. Target/K-Mart started jumping to China to compete against Walmart. Even to this day, it is a bitch for American companies to get into retailers.
However, that does not excuse China's manipulation which is purposely causing the west a lot of issues. The one good news is that your housing bubble has started to pop. That means that China is about to plumit in economic output and we will see other bubbles popping in China. And it is DROPPING. All of China's trade partners are about to find out what happens when you depend on a nation that cheats. You steel sales are plummiting. You just started raising more tariffs again including against SUVs manufactured in North America (but not from Japan).
And I agree that China has not been running around the world, but that is about to change. Not only have the invaded India, but are now daming rivers that feed India, Bangladash, southwest Asia. Hell, they denied it even when heavy equipment was being moved in. They have tried to claim numerous lands and islands that not only do they not have claims on, but never have. Some that were given to other nations. But the real issue is their military build-up. You have your first blue water aircraft carrier, wtih at least 2 known keels laid. Your space station is a miltiary base, and not a civilian outpost. You are doing 2-4 new nuke subs each year. No, China is about to get REAL aggressive around the world. Esp. now. Heck, China is now basing in Venezuela and has asked Pakistan to be allowed to put an ARMY and AF base there (that is going to make India VERY nervous).
With this year being an election in America, I would think that China would re-think through their latest set of screws to everybody. As it is, with your multiple tariffs going up, I suspect that we will finally pass a broad set of tariffs against Chinese goods. That will be to prevent your dumping them on America. Thankfully, EU, except for Germany, already blocks much of your garbage.
oops. I must still be tired from yesterday. I thought that I had read 300M Americans. Mea Culpa
Automation is NOT killing us. It IS the cure. That is how America was made strong over the centuries. What is killing us is the (out/in)sourcing of jobs, but with a redirection of skills and money to other nations that control them. We need to automate most of our low end work as well as work towards cheaper automated manufacturing LOCAL.
Well, that was supposed to be the case with Clinton's FTA with China as well as WTO.
At this time, I think it is important for America to slowly raise trade barriers to China, just like they are doing it to us. It is actually better to get China to do the RIGHT thing then to see this cold war escalate. Sadly, I think that the cold war will escalate no matter..
exactly. China's approach to this is to own the cheap manufacturing, while stealing the rest slowly. Sadly, the west, and more correctly, the USA, are letting CHina do it via illegal means. If China actually honored their words, all economies would be better off for it, including their own.
Do not blame them. Blame the retailers esp. the big box and distributors. The deserve the vast majority of the blame. They are the ones ignoring western goods and bringing in chinese goods.
First off, we do not have 300M Americans. We are actually about 260-280M Americans. However, the outsourcing (as well as in-sourcing via illegals) is destroying America.
But we are missing real opportunities. We should be automating all that we can. That is what is really destroying us. Sadly, the companies in the west chose to bring in illegals rather than do automation. It is cheaper up front.
It is about getting control of all of the rest of that. Look carefully at how many cheap knock-offs of iphone there are. In fact, look at all of the totally ripped-off clones of western goods are coming from China. The issue is that China is building up loads of engineering, design, etc companies because they have access to the cheap manufacturing. And the time is coming, soon, that China gov. owned companies will destroy Apple, HP, Dell, IBM, GE, Westinghouse, Sony, Samsung, etc.
Combine that with the fact that China is massively building up their military AND showing that they are ALL TOO HAPPY to use them, well, China's cold war with the west is in full swing while the fools around the west buy the BS.
And both are produced in China. Only now, dell will shop their android data through China's gov. search engine.
Now China can scan all of the DOD's data without having to put spies into America. Go Dell.
moved much of their knowledge to China, the US gov. should divorce from US tech vendors as well. It is time to realize that the international companies like IBM, GE, Ford, Exon, GM, etc have no interest in US or even Western nations. Instead, they chase the almight dollar, or these days, the yuan.
American gov. needs to start funding local companies that develops and KEEPS tech here.
That really is amazing how many foreign banks AND CORPS got LOADS of money.
I can understand why they did not want this information getting out.
Royal Bank of Scotland
UBS
Deutsche Bank
Barclays
BNP
etc. etc. etc.
That is just amazing.
anybody that is running my data through a net that is owned by the chinese gov (and it is), is insane.
give me a break. U really think that America is going to interfere in Russian launches?
want to kill private space in AMerica while sending our launches to Russia. Just amazing. Neo-cons are doing more to destroy not just space, but America.
I want to see GE-PRISM and GA's EM2, as well as B&W's designs approved. Probably the most important one are the first two. They reason is that they use 'waste' fuel, rather than simply requiring all new fuel.
That is the nice thing about the thorium reactors. It depends on physical laws, not man to keep it safe.
Alaska comes quickly to mind.
But even better would be the ski resorts. Plenty of bandwidth close to these, esp in Colorado. Likewise, plenty of cold and energy.
good points. Hence the reason why I am working on something in denver. Do you still have my email? If so, can you flip me one. I will show you.
1) it should blow itself AND THE CARGO up if it goes down anyplace EXCEPT where it is supposed to land.
That would rather depend on what the cargo is, don't you think? Certainly any passengers on board wouldn't be happy with your arrangement.
Do you really think that they will use this to transport humans? I doubt it. I seriously doubt it. It does not have the means to evade. About the only way that I would want to be in one, is for an air ambulance (willing to go into any situation for an evac). But yes, if shot down, I would rather it not blow me up (unless it is right in AQ territory).
2) we should be working on beaming energy. With that approach, we could provide energy into a FOB without sending loads of fuel.
Beamed energy requires a line of sight, which means it won't work over the horizon or through a mountain.
On the other hand, the military already does use "beamed energy" from the sun to cut down on its fuel usage. When fuel costs $400 per gallon, the cost-benefit decision for running your camp off solar panels gets really easy to make.
Hence the reason why you get it up to say 10 mile beaming so that you can beam it at a slow flying 30K' plane and then have it relay.
Now, as to solar, you have no power at night, other than via storage. In addition, there will NOT be enough solar cells at a site to keep weapons going. In fact, with solar, an enemy can attack by simply running smoke over the area. OTH, a beam of energy can provide loads of power quickly when needed.
And the whole reason why I push the beaming of energy is because of the 400/gal fuel costs. If this was done right, the beaming of energy could then be used on tractors, earth movers, tanks, ships, etc. That would enable a number of uses that would allow us to talk away from hydrocarbons/hydrogen.
1) it should blow itself AND THE CARGO up if it goes down anyplace EXCEPT where it is supposed to land.
2) we should be working on beaming energy. With that approach, we could provide energy into a FOB without sending loads of fuel.
3) by beaming energy, we can also focus on electric weapons. Laser and rail guns make more sense than a round.