This kind of R&D will lead to new ultra-caps, but also a much better understanding of how to make things go fast CHEAPLY. For the moment, this is about throwing 25 lbs 200 miles. Once this is done, then we will likely see a new one that will be capable of throwing 1000 or more lbs STRAIGHT UP say 200-300 miles. Once that occurs, it would be possible to send up very cheaply water and nano sats designed to withstand that kind of Gs.
And China, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela have all developed new weapons designed to take out aircraft carriers. OTH, if we develop an EM gun, then we not only reduce costs significantly, but decrease the chance of a war turning hotter than the sun.
First off, was there something in the releases that said that we were preparing for a war with France or Germany? We were looking for information on diplomats, but my understanding is that ALL nations do that. Germany and France do loads of spying on America (and businesses). ANd they do loads of spying on each other as well as UK, Canada, etc. With that approach, it allows them to know exactly what is going on. Keep in mind that we were surprised in the 60's when France was selling/giving secrets to USSR.
As to your concern about one loon getting into office, well, keep in mind that it was not the case. It was 4 of them: W, Cheney, Rove, and Rumsfeld. 12 years ago, I would have told you that you were nuts and paranoid. Sadly, I no agree with your concern on this.
Do you understand what a cold war is? It is when a nation is actively working to destroy another typically by not doing a direct war between the 2 nations. With the USSR/west cold war, it was to use other nations as proxy.
China is helping North Korea, Iran, Burma, and now Venezuela build nuclear bombs. They are supporting Al Qaeda in Pakistan. They are running around buying up resources everywhere, insisting that it not be shipped to the west.
China is working hard to NOT buy western goods, but instead lend money to nations that are being destroyed by China's actions. And it is not just USA.
THey have a number of treaties and belong to the WTO, but ignore their end of it. They are required to not fix their money, but they do. They are required to not dump on the market, but they are doing more now, then back in the 90's. They are printing Yuan's like it is going out of style to finance buying dollars.
China is already in a cold war with the USA. W ignored it and allowed China to make a LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE WEST ESP. USA. In fact that ass helped them. Obama tried hard to get along with China, but that is starting to change. That is exactly why we are doing QE2 and likely will do QE3. It is designed to say enough is enough of nations that manipulate their money against the dollar (and china is not the only one, just the worst). While Obama is pushing the personal tax breaks, I think (hope?) that he is about to roll back W's/neo-cons corporate tax break that encouraged jobs to flow to China.
Acutally, China is producing 2-4 new nuke subs YEARLY (1-2 attacks and 1-2 boomer). But it is the boomers that are of concern. Since we caught one of their spy walking out with tech secrets on how to quiet their propulsion, I think that it is safe to assume that China is busy modifying their fleet and coming up with a new design.
Can we wipe their navy? I would say yes. The problem is, that China is hiding a lot so we need to be ready. Otherwise, when they finally do attack esp. on Taiwan or North Korea, we may be in a much hotter war than anybody on this planet wants.
Of course, just yesterday, Musk has offered to build a craft that will take 150,000 KG to LEO for 2.5 B in under 5 years. And it would only cost less than 300 million to light that candle.
You got that right.
But, we also need a tug. I would love to see NASA do X-Prizes or COTs for both fuel depot and tugs . Of course, it would require CONgress to agree to that. I suspect that would be the real issue. Sad.
For.5 to 1 billion, I think that we could get 2 or more fuel depot AND tug designed by different companies. Imagine if SPaceX decided to enter it and created a fuel depot/tug using RP1/LOX. Much easier to design since RPI does not have the temp extreme required for H2. Space could come up with 2 different tugs, one using Kestrel and the other Merlins.
Likewise, perhaps ULA or another company would win a contract/prize. Having the tugs/fuel depot would enable us to deal with all of the sat issues that we have. In addition, garbage is becoming an issue. So plenty of needs for a variety of tugs/fuel depot.
There are plenty of systems to take satellites down. Heck, CHina has several of these. It is just that the shuttle is the only one to take them down in one piece.
The Shuttle, at 25,000 KG is #2 payload behind Atlas's 28,000 KG, so that is a non-issue. In addition, Delta IV's 24,000 KG is #3 payload size, just behind the shuttle.
And yes, F9H's 32,000 KG will have the largest, at some 10% more than Atlas and almost 33% more than the shuttle. Of course, somebody has to pay for this.
Odd; Did a nation attack Austria-Hungary or was there a nation that backed those serbs? Because then, yes, that WOULD make them culpable.
Oh wait. No. That did NOT happen.
It was Austria-Hungary looking for an excuse.
However, I do not think that USA was looking to be attacked by AQ AND to have Afghanistan provide them a base from which to attack from.
And my guess is that if AQ EVER attacks USA again (or any other NATO nation) FROM pakistan AND pakistan does not turn over these ppl, then I suspect that NATO WILL go into pakistan as well.
As to your last comment, well, there are few nations that America does not get along with. Oddly, I think that if somebody attacked Cuba UNPROVOKED, then we might come to their aid.
As it is, we are helping vietnam, and yet, just 35 years ago, we lost a war there.
Finally, what occupation of Haiti have we done in the last 50 years? After all, we ARE TALKING RECENT HISTORY, not ANCIENT HISTORY.
Or are you trying to say our being in haiti today to help them with the earthquake (along with a number of other nations including China and Cuba) is an occupation?
While we HAVE participate in multiple wars, please tell us what wars in recent history that US started?
Perhaps we started WWI? Nope. Germany invaded others
Or WWII? Nope. Germany invaded others
Or Korean war? Nope. Communist Korea invaded south.
Or Vietnam? Nope. Communist nam invaded french held nam
Or Desert Storm I? Nope. Iraq invaded Kuwait
Or We started the nightmare in eastern Europe? Nope.
Or Afghanistan? Nope. Afghanistan launched it against the USA when they backed terrorists.
Or Desert Storm II? Well, since technically, there was a on-going war, no. However, I think that is a false. I would have to say that we DID in fact start that.
Of course, on nearly all of the other cases, it was larger nations invading smaller nations and our standing up for them. But, you do not like that. Perhaps you think that Iran should have the right to nuke say the middle east? Perhaps NK has the right to invade or nuke South Korea? Perhaps you feel that Venezuela has the right to tell Columbia and other nations what to do via terrorists so they should be allowed to build nukes?
By the market place. For example, America imports most of our power plant level uranium, even though we have the supplies and ability to make it here.
Likewise, most of all of EU nations import it since they do not have any.
So, the facts destroy your arguments.
If we had a brain amongst those that bailed out GM and Chrysler, they would have broken these 2 companies into about 5-6 companies. It is one thing to bail out a company and leave it in a position to compete, but it is another to prop them up, which is what we did with them and the GD banks. Had we broken these companies up and then allowed them to compete, we would have seen some real innovation, more jobs and more importantly, competition.
With the Volt, GM is staking its future on the clean, energy efficient, non-polluting car of the future.
Great to hear that GM is doing clean, energy efficient, non-polluting. However, the volt sure as shit is not that car. It is a parallel POS hybrid no different prius and other hybrids. Once Volt switches to pure electric like leaf, then I will consider buying one. Until then, I do not want to inherit all of the maintenance hassles of BOTH types of drives (electric batteries combined with ICE continual maintenance such as oil, plugs, tune-up, belts, etc).
Oh, and the volt is as much electric as my accord is. It has an electrical system, but it still has an ICE in it. Until you have 100% electric all the time, then it is not electric. It is hybrid.
with wiki, russia leaks you?
Because, in spite of what others believe here, USA DOES have a few scruples (though I do wonder about the 2 women). OTH, Putin has zero scruples and has no issue putting down a pest. Or pests if there are more than one.
Regardless of who the winner is, they will simply be offered 2 to 10 x what they paid to sell it to another bidder. And the ship will end up in China. This is the last thing that the brits need to do. And for the last time that an aircraft carrier was sold this way, it was the Russians and it went to the Chinese for a casino. Never turned up as a casino, but CHina now has several backbones done for an aircraft carrier.
Not really. They can make a decent argument that they wanted to clean things up, and that they were concerned about how much oil there really is. Right now, all of USA's, France's, and even Japan's OLD NUKE REACTORS have cheaper energy than is coal. As such, any middle eastern nation that wants to think ahead for 5-7 generations would be smart to do nukes (as well as AE such as solar, wind, and geo-thermal).
So what it comes down to, is that until Iran got upset about these fuges, then their program COULD have been either civilian or military. Sadly, with this virus and their reaction, it is obvious that they are building bombs. I would have preferred that it not be the case, but, it seems like China and NK want to spread this tech to totalitarian nations. NK, Iran, Burma, and now Venezuela are all in development nuke programs that have their nuke knowledge and supplies traceable ultimately to China.
Reactors require less purity in the isotopes than do bombs. The virus only affected the German made-and-sold centrifuges, not the reactor. And ALL main stream reactors do just fine with the fuel mix that comes from the fugues.
So, no. This virus only stops bomb-making. Had Iran been making fuel for reactors, then they would not have cared, and quite likely would not have noticed.
Hope that MS loses to a multi-billion dollar lose (say even 100 billion), and that afterwards, either SCOTUS or CONgress will kill forever the evil method patents.
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This kind of R&D will lead to new ultra-caps, but also a much better understanding of how to make things go fast CHEAPLY. For the moment, this is about throwing 25 lbs 200 miles. Once this is done, then we will likely see a new one that will be capable of throwing 1000 or more lbs STRAIGHT UP say 200-300 miles. Once that occurs, it would be possible to send up very cheaply water and nano sats designed to withstand that kind of Gs.
And China, Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela have all developed new weapons designed to take out aircraft carriers. OTH, if we develop an EM gun, then we not only reduce costs significantly, but decrease the chance of a war turning hotter than the sun.
How did warlock get modded up 5 while you are not modded at all?
First off, was there something in the releases that said that we were preparing for a war with France or Germany? We were looking for information on diplomats, but my understanding is that ALL nations do that. Germany and France do loads of spying on America (and businesses). ANd they do loads of spying on each other as well as UK, Canada, etc. With that approach, it allows them to know exactly what is going on. Keep in mind that we were surprised in the 60's when France was selling/giving secrets to USSR.
As to your concern about one loon getting into office, well, keep in mind that it was not the case. It was 4 of them: W, Cheney, Rove, and Rumsfeld. 12 years ago, I would have told you that you were nuts and paranoid. Sadly, I no agree with your concern on this.
Actually, America remains the worlds largest producer. However, we need to quit importing from China and bring back a large number of those jobs.
Do you understand what a cold war is? It is when a nation is actively working to destroy another typically by not doing a direct war between the 2 nations. With the USSR/west cold war, it was to use other nations as proxy.
China is helping North Korea, Iran, Burma, and now Venezuela build nuclear bombs. They are supporting Al Qaeda in Pakistan. They are running around buying up resources everywhere, insisting that it not be shipped to the west.
China is working hard to NOT buy western goods, but instead lend money to nations that are being destroyed by China's actions. And it is not just USA.
THey have a number of treaties and belong to the WTO, but ignore their end of it. They are required to not fix their money, but they do. They are required to not dump on the market, but they are doing more now, then back in the 90's. They are printing Yuan's like it is going out of style to finance buying dollars.
China is already in a cold war with the USA. W ignored it and allowed China to make a LOT OF DAMAGE TO THE WEST ESP. USA. In fact that ass helped them. Obama tried hard to get along with China, but that is starting to change. That is exactly why we are doing QE2 and likely will do QE3. It is designed to say enough is enough of nations that manipulate their money against the dollar (and china is not the only one, just the worst). While Obama is pushing the personal tax breaks, I think (hope?) that he is about to roll back W's/neo-cons corporate tax break that encouraged jobs to flow to China.
Acutally, China is producing 2-4 new nuke subs YEARLY (1-2 attacks and 1-2 boomer). But it is the boomers that are of concern. Since we caught one of their spy walking out with tech secrets on how to quiet their propulsion, I think that it is safe to assume that China is busy modifying their fleet and coming up with a new design.
As to count, America has 14 boomers, 4 missile boats, and a number of attack subs.
CHina acknowledges that they have 5 boomers, but at least 7 different ones were spotted, with more on the way. China does not talk about how many attack subs they have or on the way. As it is, they have secretly created a sub base on an island at which they do all of their production.
Can we wipe their navy? I would say yes. The problem is, that China is hiding a lot so we need to be ready. Otherwise, when they finally do attack esp. on Taiwan or North Korea, we may be in a much hotter war than anybody on this planet wants.
Of course, just yesterday, Musk has offered to build a craft that will take 150,000 KG to LEO for 2.5 B in under 5 years. And it would only cost less than 300 million to light that candle.
Yet, others will be fighting it.
And they can do it multiple times with the same heat shield.
You got that right. .5 to 1 billion, I think that we could get 2 or more fuel depot AND tug designed by different companies. Imagine if SPaceX decided to enter it and created a fuel depot/tug using RP1/LOX. Much easier to design since RPI does not have the temp extreme required for H2.
But, we also need a tug. I would love to see NASA do X-Prizes or COTs for both fuel depot and tugs . Of course, it would require CONgress to agree to that. I suspect that would be the real issue. Sad. For
Space could come up with 2 different tugs, one using Kestrel and the other Merlins.
Likewise, perhaps ULA or another company would win a contract/prize. Having the tugs/fuel depot would enable us to deal with all of the sat issues that we have. In addition, garbage is becoming an issue. So plenty of needs for a variety of tugs/fuel depot.
There are plenty of systems to take satellites down. Heck, CHina has several of these. It is just that the shuttle is the only one to take them down in one piece.
The Shuttle, at 25,000 KG is #2 payload behind Atlas's 28,000 KG, so that is a non-issue. In addition, Delta IV's 24,000 KG is #3 payload size, just behind the shuttle.
And yes, F9H's 32,000 KG will have the largest, at some 10% more than Atlas and almost 33% more than the shuttle. Of course, somebody has to pay for this.
Odd; Did a nation attack Austria-Hungary or was there a nation that backed those serbs? Because then, yes, that WOULD make them culpable. Oh wait. No. That did NOT happen. It was Austria-Hungary looking for an excuse. However, I do not think that USA was looking to be attacked by AQ AND to have Afghanistan provide them a base from which to attack from. And my guess is that if AQ EVER attacks USA again (or any other NATO nation) FROM pakistan AND pakistan does not turn over these ppl, then I suspect that NATO WILL go into pakistan as well. As to your last comment, well, there are few nations that America does not get along with. Oddly, I think that if somebody attacked Cuba UNPROVOKED, then we might come to their aid. As it is, we are helping vietnam, and yet, just 35 years ago, we lost a war there. Finally, what occupation of Haiti have we done in the last 50 years? After all, we ARE TALKING RECENT HISTORY, not ANCIENT HISTORY. Or are you trying to say our being in haiti today to help them with the earthquake (along with a number of other nations including China and Cuba) is an occupation?
Nah; That OP is not ignorant. Just a total racists asshole.
While we HAVE participate in multiple wars, please tell us what wars in recent history that US started?
Perhaps we started WWI? Nope. Germany invaded others
Or WWII? Nope. Germany invaded others
Or Korean war? Nope. Communist Korea invaded south.
Or Vietnam? Nope. Communist nam invaded french held nam
Or Desert Storm I? Nope. Iraq invaded Kuwait
Or We started the nightmare in eastern Europe? Nope.
Or Afghanistan? Nope. Afghanistan launched it against the USA when they backed terrorists.
Or Desert Storm II? Well, since technically, there was a on-going war, no. However, I think that is a false. I would have to say that we DID in fact start that.
Of course, on nearly all of the other cases, it was larger nations invading smaller nations and our standing up for them. But, you do not like that. Perhaps you think that Iran should have the right to nuke say the middle east? Perhaps NK has the right to invade or nuke South Korea? Perhaps you feel that Venezuela has the right to tell Columbia and other nations what to do via terrorists so they should be allowed to build nukes?
By the market place. For example, America imports most of our power plant level uranium, even though we have the supplies and ability to make it here.
Likewise, most of all of EU nations import it since they do not have any.
So, the facts destroy your arguments.
If we had a brain amongst those that bailed out GM and Chrysler, they would have broken these 2 companies into about 5-6 companies. It is one thing to bail out a company and leave it in a position to compete, but it is another to prop them up, which is what we did with them and the GD banks. Had we broken these companies up and then allowed them to compete, we would have seen some real innovation, more jobs and more importantly, competition.
With the Volt, GM is staking its future on the clean, energy efficient, non-polluting car of the future.
Great to hear that GM is doing clean, energy efficient, non-polluting.
However, the volt sure as shit is not that car. It is a parallel POS hybrid no different prius and other hybrids. Once Volt switches to pure electric like leaf, then I will consider buying one. Until then, I do not want to inherit all of the maintenance hassles of BOTH types of drives (electric batteries combined with ICE continual maintenance such as oil, plugs, tune-up, belts, etc).
Oh, and the volt is as much electric as my accord is. It has an electrical system, but it still has an ICE in it. Until you have 100% electric all the time, then it is not electric. It is hybrid.
with wiki, russia leaks you? Because, in spite of what others believe here, USA DOES have a few scruples (though I do wonder about the 2 women). OTH, Putin has zero scruples and has no issue putting down a pest. Or pests if there are more than one.
Regardless of who the winner is, they will simply be offered 2 to 10 x what they paid to sell it to another bidder. And the ship will end up in China. This is the last thing that the brits need to do. And for the last time that an aircraft carrier was sold this way, it was the Russians and it went to the Chinese for a casino. Never turned up as a casino, but CHina now has several backbones done for an aircraft carrier.
Not really. They can make a decent argument that they wanted to clean things up, and that they were concerned about how much oil there really is. Right now, all of USA's, France's, and even Japan's OLD NUKE REACTORS have cheaper energy than is coal. As such, any middle eastern nation that wants to think ahead for 5-7 generations would be smart to do nukes (as well as AE such as solar, wind, and geo-thermal).
So what it comes down to, is that until Iran got upset about these fuges, then their program COULD have been either civilian or military. Sadly, with this virus and their reaction, it is obvious that they are building bombs. I would have preferred that it not be the case, but, it seems like China and NK want to spread this tech to totalitarian nations. NK, Iran, Burma, and now Venezuela are all in development nuke programs that have their nuke knowledge and supplies traceable ultimately to China.
Reactors require less purity in the isotopes than do bombs. The virus only affected the German made-and-sold centrifuges, not the reactor. And ALL main stream reactors do just fine with the fuel mix that comes from the fugues.
So, no. This virus only stops bomb-making. Had Iran been making fuel for reactors, then they would not have cared, and quite likely would not have noticed.
Iran is astroturfing EVERYWHERE. This is no different than what China or MS did.
Yes, Iran DOES care. They want politicians in democracy to drop our guards and forget about them. In fact, the leaders in Iran NEED that.
As long as this one takes out those with the AK-47s nearly every time?
Hope that MS loses to a multi-billion dollar lose (say even 100 billion), and that afterwards, either SCOTUS or CONgress will kill forever the evil method patents.