You have noticed that the dems are the ones pushing the upped funding of NASA. yes?
The general dems are NOT going to allow funding to be cut to NASA. Overall, this is about where we want to see ourselves in another 20 years. And I think that most dems have decent enough vision to build the ARES V.
The moon almost certainly has water at the poles. In addition, it has plenty of hydrogen/oxygen. So that is a none issue.
The radiation is a none issue. We will almost certainly bury outselves in the ground, wether at the moon or mars (really no choice for long-term living).
The moon has uranium. That provides us CHEAP power. In particular, it provides us power to go places, send big sats, go fast to mars, live on mars, etc.
On the moon, we can build a rail launcher. Since the moon is 1/6 our gravity, it should be relatively cheap and doable (of course that ignores our not having manufacturing there).
If we settle the moon first, then when we go to mars, we send a PERM team i.e. it is a one-way flight.
Where have you seen any media (ignore fox news) reporting that Chinese ROCKETS is threatening its' neighbor? China is building up a massive military, but I do not think that I have seen their rockets being associated with a threat (other than theft of Russian and America goods).
And exactly, which nation has the most sats that are 5-10x the size need to perform their stated job? Careful where you point the finger. Now, with that said, yeah, China and Russia has similar sats in space. That is also why China and Russia have land-based lasers that are capable of hitting our sats. Also, why we are developing the ABL? You did note that the ABL has a nose mounted turrit that is capable of pointing straight up, yes? What is interesting about those 747's is that they are being modified to fly at 60K feet.The atmosphere is pretty darn thin there. In contrast, the ground based lasers have a LOT of atmosphere to get through. Of course, you can easily argue that it allows us the ability to shoot out a launch in the middle of any nation as long as we are on the periphery.
Yeah, I grew up racing melges c-scows. They have side boards. I have sailed a couple of cats as well, but they were 20-25' and all had dagger boards.
As to the hobies, take a look at the smaller older ones. They had no dagger boards. Their outer edge was straight down and the inner edge curve to meet it. Think of the bottom of the "d". It worked well for them.
Go to the moon. I have never been that big of a fan of going to the moon until japan showed that there is a lot of uranium up there. That makes it very different. That gives us power to build and launch nuke ships. Combine these with sails that can use a laser from the moon. Not a bad way to get high speeds.
Yeah, I have brought up that same point in previous articles. What amazed me is that ppl would point out hoby cats but ignore the fact that the pontoon is designed to act as a sideboard. All in all, I think that you can broad reach if the sail force is smaller than the gravity pull, but I do not think that a beat is possible. Obviously, this is very useful for a run, or for slowing down.
You are saying that the same BLM that is trying hard to open up ALL gov land to drilling and strip mining, suddenly cares about the land and requires new studies about the impact even though, numerous studies have been done on these? And it will require 2 ore more years to sort this out? uh, huh.
these will all be chinese/tibetan cities. Sadly, China has no real pollution controls on anything. They have a trillion US$, but do not want to purchase any of our's or EU's controls for their coal plants. Likewise, from the pix, their mining techniques are far worse than has been deployed. Their tailings are leaving a lot of waste to run into their streams. The sad thing is that they can see what other nations did, and have the ability to buy better equipment and processes, but insist instead that they be given the tech.
Lets get real. EVERY candidate that runs is simply out for the president's job. That is the nature of these beast. The question is, who is likely to make an improvement. At this time, it almost does not matter. Both of these will improve on the disaster that W has left.
and speak about the deal with MS to fund SCO. When you pay 10 million for software that is worth at most 200K, and you obtain a big chunck of stock, well, that is not about a set of drivers. And let not just the OSS world know about that, but some of the regulatory groups.
All the states around the great lakes could use these as well. What surprises me, is that if you have the pole there, then why not add in tidal or even wave power as well? I believe that the expensive part about all this, is getting anchored securely to the floor.
I think that you are way too pessismistic on SS2/3. You KNOW that they are not going to use the same engine for SS3. More importantly, the idea is to get as much of the low end dollars as possible, and then move up the ladder.
As to Spacex, yeah, they SHOULD end up in a pretty good position. I am hopeful that the next launch is a real winner. It would be nice to see. But I will point out that they ran the 5 engine test for only 15 seconds. Seems to me that they need to have a full launch time or more to really know if it is going to be good. In fact, I would love to see them do several LONG static firings once they get the 9 engine working.
First, there are asteroids that are pure (or near pure) ammonia. Second, the CFCs are nice, but the ammonia is cheaper and useful afterwards. In particular, the Ammonia starts off as greenhouse gas and then breaks down into pure N2, which then becomes a buffer gas. With CFCs, we would have to import or mine it. As to the water, well, you break up the asteroid just as you hit the atmosphere. Never impacts.
I would rather use the nukes to bring a few asteroids to impact mars. Some of those contain a load of ammonia. Ammonia is a great great house gas. Of course, that would disassociate over time, leaving N2 in the atmosphere.
Most of the cattle/sheep are ranged around here during the summer. We have our pens, and eastern Co uses loads of feedlots. But western CO still does a lot of free ranging on gov. property as well as private. BTW, A lot of cowboys/ranchers/workers will work the field with a rifle, but more for 2 legged varmints, and only occasionally 4.
Actually, out here in the west, only the small to medium size ranches are several thousand acres. Most of the middle to large ranches are several thousand sectors.
Wolves and mountain lions are responsible for very few deaths. We have far more to fear from rustlers, than from a lion or a wolf pack. But 100 years that was the problem. Now, they are far and few in between. During calving, yeah, have to pay attention esp. for coyotes.
And as to the re-introduction, yeah, the folks outside of Yellowstone report issues, but few losses. They problem is that they HAVE come up to the houses AND have gone after a couple of pets.
Thanx. I actually, thought it did start with Eisenhower. It would be interesting to see if they were tech advisors as claimed by truman or troop advisors as is implied in wiki.
reagan beat Poppa Bush because of his promising everything to the religious right wingnuts. Prior to that, pubs NEVER gave into all the items that they now claim, but never back. Before reagan, pubs wanted us to stay out of other nations (except covertly; nam was started covertly by Eisenhower), balanced budget, pushed small gov, and wanted gov out of ppls lives. Now, they say all the above while waging war every couple of years, run up monster deficits, double the size of gov, push all sorts of legislation to control ppl, spy on us illegally, still ignore the promises that they made to religious right wingnuts except at election time, and are horribly corrupt.
have lasers being used against American sats, have hit a weather sat, are building 1-2 nuclear power attack subs/year, 1-3 nuclear powered SBSN, and they do not have the sophistication to attack computers?
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You have noticed that the dems are the ones pushing the upped funding of NASA. yes?
The general dems are NOT going to allow funding to be cut to NASA. Overall, this is about where we want to see ourselves in another 20 years. And I think that most dems have decent enough vision to build the ARES V.
Going to the moon is not that bad of an idea.
Where have you seen any media (ignore fox news) reporting that Chinese ROCKETS is threatening its' neighbor? China is building up a massive military, but I do not think that I have seen their rockets being associated with a threat (other than theft of Russian and America goods).
And exactly, which nation has the most sats that are 5-10x the size need to perform their stated job? Careful where you point the finger.
Now, with that said, yeah, China and Russia has similar sats in space. That is also why China and Russia have land-based lasers that are capable of hitting our sats. Also, why we are developing the ABL? You did note that the ABL has a nose mounted turrit that is capable of pointing straight up, yes? What is interesting about those 747's is that they are being modified to fly at 60K feet.The atmosphere is pretty darn thin there. In contrast, the ground based lasers have a LOT of atmosphere to get through. Of course, you can easily argue that it allows us the ability to shoot out a launch in the middle of any nation as long as we are on the periphery.
Yeah, I grew up racing melges c-scows. They have side boards. I have sailed a couple of cats as well, but they were 20-25' and all had dagger boards.
As to the hobies, take a look at the smaller older ones. They had no dagger boards. Their outer edge was straight down and the inner edge curve to meet it. Think of the bottom of the "d". It worked well for them.
Go to the moon. I have never been that big of a fan of going to the moon until japan showed that there is a lot of uranium up there. That makes it very different. That gives us power to build and launch nuke ships. Combine these with sails that can use a laser from the moon. Not a bad way to get high speeds.
Yeah, I have brought up that same point in previous articles. What amazed me is that ppl would point out hoby cats but ignore the fact that the pontoon is designed to act as a sideboard. All in all, I think that you can broad reach if the sail force is smaller than the gravity pull, but I do not think that a beat is possible. Obviously, this is very useful for a run, or for slowing down.
You are saying that the same BLM that is trying hard to open up ALL gov land to drilling and strip mining, suddenly cares about the land and requires new studies about the impact even though, numerous studies have been done on these? And it will require 2 ore more years to sort this out? uh, huh.
these will all be chinese/tibetan cities. Sadly, China has no real pollution controls on anything. They have a trillion US$, but do not want to purchase any of our's or EU's controls for their coal plants. Likewise, from the pix, their mining techniques are far worse than has been deployed. Their tailings are leaving a lot of waste to run into their streams. The sad thing is that they can see what other nations did, and have the ability to buy better equipment and processes, but insist instead that they be given the tech.
Lets get real. EVERY candidate that runs is simply out for the president's job. That is the nature of these beast. The question is, who is likely to make an improvement. At this time, it almost does not matter. Both of these will improve on the disaster that W has left.
and speak about the deal with MS to fund SCO. When you pay 10 million for software that is worth at most 200K, and you obtain a big chunck of stock, well, that is not about a set of drivers. And let not just the OSS world know about that, but some of the regulatory groups.
really? Where does EU have these combined together? I was aware of their wave AND wind, but I understood it all to be separate.
All the states around the great lakes could use these as well. What surprises me, is that if you have the pole there, then why not add in tidal or even wave power as well? I believe that the expensive part about all this, is getting anchored securely to the floor.
I think that you are way too pessismistic on SS2/3. You KNOW that they are not going to use the same engine for SS3. More importantly, the idea is to get as much of the low end dollars as possible, and then move up the ladder.
As to Spacex, yeah, they SHOULD end up in a pretty good position. I am hopeful that the next launch is a real winner. It would be nice to see. But I will point out that they ran the 5 engine test for only 15 seconds. Seems to me that they need to have a full launch time or more to really know if it is going to be good. In fact, I would love to see them do several LONG static firings once they get the 9 engine working.
claim this? I think that I hear SCO lawyers already knocking on the door.
First, there are asteroids that are pure (or near pure) ammonia. Second, the CFCs are nice, but the ammonia is cheaper and useful afterwards. In particular, the Ammonia starts off as greenhouse gas and then breaks down into pure N2, which then becomes a buffer gas. With CFCs, we would have to import or mine it. As to the water, well, you break up the asteroid just as you hit the atmosphere. Never impacts.
I would rather use the nukes to bring a few asteroids to impact mars. Some of those contain a load of ammonia. Ammonia is a great great house gas. Of course, that would disassociate over time, leaving N2 in the atmosphere.
Most of the cattle/sheep are ranged around here during the summer. We have our pens, and eastern Co uses loads of feedlots. But western CO still does a lot of free ranging on gov. property as well as private. BTW, A lot of cowboys/ranchers/workers will work the field with a rifle, but more for 2 legged varmints, and only occasionally 4.
eastern plains colorado and now Highlands ranch, CO. In Highlands ranch, they are killing dogs. Out on the plain they go with anything easy.
Actually, out here in the west, only the small to medium size ranches are several thousand acres. Most of the middle to large ranches are several thousand sectors.
Wolves and mountain lions are responsible for very few deaths. We have far more to fear from rustlers, than from a lion or a wolf pack. But 100 years that was the problem. Now, they are far and few in between. During calving, yeah, have to pay attention esp. for coyotes.
And as to the re-introduction, yeah, the folks outside of Yellowstone report issues, but few losses. They problem is that they HAVE come up to the houses AND have gone after a couple of pets.
Google cut the deal such that if somebody else buys Yahoo, then Google get 250M (poison pill). What happens with that?
Thanx. I actually, thought it did start with Eisenhower. It would be interesting to see if they were tech advisors as claimed by truman or troop advisors as is implied in wiki.
reagan beat Poppa Bush because of his promising everything to the religious right wingnuts. Prior to that, pubs NEVER gave into all the items that they now claim, but never back. Before reagan, pubs wanted us to stay out of other nations (except covertly; nam was started covertly by Eisenhower), balanced budget, pushed small gov, and wanted gov out of ppls lives. Now, they say all the above while waging war every couple of years, run up monster deficits, double the size of gov, push all sorts of legislation to control ppl, spy on us illegally, still ignore the promises that they made to religious right wingnuts except at election time, and are horribly corrupt.
have lasers being used against American sats, have hit a weather sat, are building 1-2 nuclear power attack subs/year, 1-3 nuclear powered SBSN, and they do not have the sophistication to attack computers?