That's true, but that's partially because we have faced a competent air adversary since at least the early '60s. Fifty years of owning the skies breeds a bit of complacency - there's enough danger to make it fun, but not enough to make it truly dangerous.
Beyond that, being a drone pilot is bad for your career, and when you get out airlines don't want to hear about your hours as a drone controller.
I see. You can dish it out, but your sacred cow is inviolate.
Utah is 60% LDS. I'd be shocked if even half of them are what you could describe as "religious conservatives". Now, granted the label "feminist" has become toxic enough that only 18% of women cop to it, but still there are a lot of women who've been suckered into accepting its precepts.
The "far right" doesn't have anywhere near the votes to pass something like this. They wouldn't, that is, without feminists. I'm okay with calling religion a public health crisis if we do the same for feminism.
When the Chinese used their ASAT weapon to destroy their own satellite, sending a huge cloud of debris in orbit, they were sending a message. Did anyone get it? What do you think the message was? I didn't see any discussion of this but it came through loud and clear.
The message was, don't fuck with us or we'll destroy your satellites and we don't give a shit how much space debris it creates.
I don't know who you hang out with, but the first part was pretty obvious to everyone. The second part... meh. I doubt they even considered it.
It's impressive to see how quick the Netflix subscriber base has grown just in the past five years from around 20 million subscribers to nearly 45 million subscribers.
What's even more impressive is they managed to get that many subs while steadily losing content from the major producers.
btw if this was really private and market driven, and contracts determined by price and efficiency, spaceports will be situated in some other more suitable and cheaper country(central/south america?), most manufacturing will be done in asia, and most of the companies will be subsidiaries of asian industrial giants. perhaps some designing will be left in usa.
They're as private and market driven as they can be within the context of the law. You can't move manufacturing or launch to another country - it's illegal.
Libertarians aren't against funding basic research. They're against government funding for basic research, preferring the Bell Labs or Edison model instead.
This is further confirmation that the labor market is strong.
Not in and of itself. People who've exhausted their benefits or haven't yet entered the workforce can't file. The labor force participation rate is still very low, and it's not because baby boomers are retiring (they aren't). This is really more an indication that people who are out of the work force have been out of the work force for a long time, i.e. entire industries have moved offshore leaving large numbers of people with skills no longer in demand.
Yep. It's not hard to recognize a snow job when you see one. Perhaps these guys can all fly private planes to Bali and bemoan the fact that people don't take them seriously.
So what? For what it cost to keep the shuttle running we could have launched a new HST whenever the old one wore out and had plenty of money left over.
You don't need a permanent space station for something like that. It's far cheaper to send up a one-shot experiment.
Beyond that, it's not clear to me why you would send people to space. It's cheaper to used unmanned equipment. And as technology advances the balance will tip even more in favor of machines.
Depends at least partially on what happens. He might get a mention even if he doesn't win the Republican nomination. He'll definitely get one if he does. And if he wins the presidency...
Given that the space station doesn't have much of a practical purpose, in a libertarian world there wouldn't be a COTS contract because there wouldn't be anywhere to go. I like Elon Musk, and I think SpaceX is a fine company, but I don't think all the money we threw at the shuttle and the space station provided us with much in the way of tangible benefit. Not so far, at least.
Big if there. In true libertarian fashion the company would have to have the numbers in a spread sheet, attract investors, get loans, float bonds or some combination thereof while saying, "hey are rockets explode but we'll be successful real soon now!"
This causes incentives to inflate costs through hiring too many managers and by choosing expensive complicated designs.
I doubt it's that nefarious. Cost inflation happens in any large organization that isn't actively trying to prevent it. And they do have some incentive to keep costs under control - there's only so much money to go around, and projects that look to be more expensive than they're worth tend to get cancelled.
I'm not sure how to explain this without sounding like a misogynist, but careers are often more important to men because men are more often judged by income.
I've always thought a good measure of the health of a society is the extent to which obvious truths can be articulated and obvious falsehoods challenged. The fact that you (quite justifiably) feel you have to preemptively shield yourself from allegations of misogyny for stating something this obvious is a sad commentary on our times.
The lie will never be exposed. They just have to keep repeating it. As long as they keep repeating it people accept it. Half the population is innumerate, so this strategy will always work.
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You know, if signing non-binding treaties had any effect on the climate, we could have set the global thermostat to anything we wanted by now.
Honestly, your comment makes no sense whatsoever. None of it addresses the point.
The logistics problems are very much like the DreamLiner, actually.
This is not really true, except the part about the dogfight. Even that is very much overblown, since the planes they used weren't comparably equipped.
That's true, but that's partially because we have faced a competent air adversary since at least the early '60s. Fifty years of owning the skies breeds a bit of complacency - there's enough danger to make it fun, but not enough to make it truly dangerous.
Beyond that, being a drone pilot is bad for your career, and when you get out airlines don't want to hear about your hours as a drone controller.
So this may be one of those game engine edge cases where you fall inside a rock because the collision mesh isn't perfect?
I see. You can dish it out, but your sacred cow is inviolate.
Utah is 60% LDS. I'd be shocked if even half of them are what you could describe as "religious conservatives". Now, granted the label "feminist" has become toxic enough that only 18% of women cop to it, but still there are a lot of women who've been suckered into accepting its precepts.
Nobody's listening to him here, either.
The "far right" doesn't have anywhere near the votes to pass something like this. They wouldn't, that is, without feminists. I'm okay with calling religion a public health crisis if we do the same for feminism.
I don't know who you hang out with, but the first part was pretty obvious to everyone. The second part... meh. I doubt they even considered it.
What's even more impressive is they managed to get that many subs while steadily losing content from the major producers.
They're as private and market driven as they can be within the context of the law. You can't move manufacturing or launch to another country - it's illegal.
"Slim" is really not the right word for people who are periodically cut to 700 calories a day.
Libertarians aren't against funding basic research. They're against government funding for basic research, preferring the Bell Labs or Edison model instead.
Not in and of itself. People who've exhausted their benefits or haven't yet entered the workforce can't file. The labor force participation rate is still very low, and it's not because baby boomers are retiring (they aren't). This is really more an indication that people who are out of the work force have been out of the work force for a long time, i.e. entire industries have moved offshore leaving large numbers of people with skills no longer in demand.
Yep. It's not hard to recognize a snow job when you see one. Perhaps these guys can all fly private planes to Bali and bemoan the fact that people don't take them seriously.
... which makes you a libertarian with some non-libertarian views.
So what? For what it cost to keep the shuttle running we could have launched a new HST whenever the old one wore out and had plenty of money left over.
You don't need a permanent space station for something like that. It's far cheaper to send up a one-shot experiment.
Beyond that, it's not clear to me why you would send people to space. It's cheaper to used unmanned equipment. And as technology advances the balance will tip even more in favor of machines.
Depends at least partially on what happens. He might get a mention even if he doesn't win the Republican nomination. He'll definitely get one if he does. And if he wins the presidency...
Given that the space station doesn't have much of a practical purpose, in a libertarian world there wouldn't be a COTS contract because there wouldn't be anywhere to go. I like Elon Musk, and I think SpaceX is a fine company, but I don't think all the money we threw at the shuttle and the space station provided us with much in the way of tangible benefit. Not so far, at least.
That's exactly what happened, isn't it?
I doubt it's that nefarious. Cost inflation happens in any large organization that isn't actively trying to prevent it. And they do have some incentive to keep costs under control - there's only so much money to go around, and projects that look to be more expensive than they're worth tend to get cancelled.
I've always thought a good measure of the health of a society is the extent to which obvious truths can be articulated and obvious falsehoods challenged. The fact that you (quite justifiably) feel you have to preemptively shield yourself from allegations of misogyny for stating something this obvious is a sad commentary on our times.
The lie will never be exposed. They just have to keep repeating it. As long as they keep repeating it people accept it. Half the population is innumerate, so this strategy will always work.