Huh? USPS isn't terribly fast (but you can wait an extra day or two for that toilet paper, yes?) but it is reliable. More reliable than a drone trying to land in 30 mph crosswinds with rain. The entire world does not consist of Southern California.
Or they could just drop them in the mail, like everything else. The additional manpower and energy used is trivial. I'd even wager that Amazon gets a nice bulk rate on it's packages.
Much of how one looks at this depends on your time frame. Certainly in the near (20-50 year) future, asteroid mining won't be economically practical. And for longer time periods it may never be practical. But, our ability to cast the future is very poor. If you have money to burn in the interim, you can make an argument that staking out the high ground (so to speak) is indeed economically sensible way to spend part of your (or better yet, some other poor suckers) money.
The big question is who gets to decide about this? A couple of bored, space nutter billionaires or some law professor somewhere?
TFA explicitly points out that the civilians will not be pulling the trigger. They will be used only for Combat Air Patrols (a term that seems just a bit inappropriate) that are for data gathering and surveillance only. The trigger pullers will be active duty military.
The problem, in TFA's eyes is that this represents a slippery slope - how many degrees of separation do you need in a military setting?
Now, where in the world can we get a bunch of people who are used to playing video games while sitting in an air conditioned trailer for 12 hours straight?
Alabama? Georgia?
Pretty much anywhere FEMA has been in the past decade?
Renewables are winning against everything on economic grounds... as long as they're *massively* subsidized, yes. And as long as they're backed up with non-renewables that can pick up the slack when renewables can't supply the energy needed from them, which is constantly. But otherwise they're great, yeah.
I agree, let's have a little equality. Legalise and/or medicalise all drugs, disband the DEA permanently, and stop feeding the prison industry's insatiable appetite for nonviolent human beings.
That's right. And in your happy fantasy world, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is the name of store....
"According to the three people we asked at our local Starbucks, this is the first time that a vehicle has made it into space and had all components fully recovered for reuse since the NASA flights of the X-15 in the 1960s."
There. Fixed it to represent a much more likely journalistic scenario.
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Together?
No, don't tell us.
With that attitude I'd suggest you immediately go into administration.
You still have the space between your couch and the roof.....
Huh? USPS isn't terribly fast (but you can wait an extra day or two for that toilet paper, yes?) but it is reliable. More reliable than a drone trying to land in 30 mph crosswinds with rain. The entire world does not consist of Southern California.
Or they could just drop them in the mail, like everything else. The additional manpower and energy used is trivial. I'd even wager that Amazon gets a nice bulk rate on it's packages.
Why do Americans want to shoot anything/everything ?
Practice. Today it's an Amazon drone, tomorrow Donald Trump. Gotta be ready.
I get around this problem completely. I never go to meetings.
Just how did Weyland-Yutani get started, anyhow?
Much of how one looks at this depends on your time frame. Certainly in the near (20-50 year) future, asteroid mining won't be economically practical. And for longer time periods it may never be practical. But, our ability to cast the future is very poor. If you have money to burn in the interim, you can make an argument that staking out the high ground (so to speak) is indeed economically sensible way to spend part of your (or better yet, some other poor suckers) money.
The big question is who gets to decide about this? A couple of bored, space nutter billionaires or some law professor somewhere?
TFA explicitly points out that the civilians will not be pulling the trigger. They will be used only for Combat Air Patrols (a term that seems just a bit inappropriate) that are for data gathering and surveillance only. The trigger pullers will be active duty military.
The problem, in TFA's eyes is that this represents a slippery slope - how many degrees of separation do you need in a military setting?
This would be so much more fun than piloting my little Phantom 3 around town.
Pew! Pew!
Now, where in the world can we get a bunch of people who are used to playing video games while sitting in an air conditioned trailer for 12 hours straight?
Alabama? Georgia?
Pretty much anywhere FEMA has been in the past decade?
Renewables are winning against everything on economic grounds... as long as they're *massively* subsidized, yes. And as long as they're backed up with non-renewables that can pick up the slack when renewables can't supply the energy needed from them, which is constantly. But otherwise they're great, yeah.
Right. And nuclear isn't subsidized?
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long
I agree, let's have a little equality. Legalise and/or medicalise all drugs, disband the DEA permanently, and stop feeding the prison industry's insatiable appetite for nonviolent human beings.
That's right. And in your happy fantasy world, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is the name of store....
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If you can wait a few years, your eyes might just downgrade in synch so you won't notice the difference.
There are advantages of getting older.
Too many engineers here.
And in the meantime it is sending bog-knows-what to who-knows-what. I think I'll pass....
I am in Ireland and all the shops have started this Black Friday shit. We don't even have a thanksgiving here. I want off this ride.
Move to sub-Saharan Africa. I rather doubt conspicuous consumption is an issue there.
It's not a horse race. It's a pig run. Those tend to be messy.
Hanlon's Razor strikes again....
Do you mind going back to posting in the Federal Register where your comment makes some sense?
Sure, but they both hurt like hell when you shoot yourself in the foot with them.
"According to the three people we asked at our local Starbucks, this is the first time that a vehicle has made it into space and had all components fully recovered for reuse since the NASA flights of the X-15 in the 1960s."
There. Fixed it to represent a much more likely journalistic scenario.