Semantics, I know it's a ponzi scheme. Pointing that out doesn't help your case.
If you put money in and get money out, there is a ROI that can be calculated (it's not 3x, it's below inflation). Tough shit that you don't like that fact.
You discuss the baby boom as if they started life at 35. You did, in fact, provide evidence that they became more conservative with age.
Now that we're down to analysing 'overwhelming', post the % of the elections you claimed were 'overwhelming'. I bet they voted more R with each passing election.
You're just a fucking genius aren't you? Facts aren't going to get in the way of what you BELIEVE to be true.
Hint: One sign of a property bubble is when rents don't cover mortgages in general. Individual landlords almost always go through a few years of negative cash flow after buying a new property.
If you ever get to the point where you have money to invest, you will understand. For now, don't you have a letter to santa to write or something?
That depends on what generation you're talking about. SS is a ponzi scheme. Early players got insane rates of return (and voted for FDR until he died). If you're reading this and not already on the tit, the odds are very good your not going to get anywhere close to market ROI from SS. If you get anything at all.
A trucker is hauling a load of 6 terabyte hard drives though the SF bay area. He stops at a bar and gets a beer, starts to talk to the bartender about how much he hates geeks. Just then a computer geek walks into the bar and starts to order some girly drink. The bartender just pulls a shotgun and shoots him.
WTF he says to the bartender? I hate geeks as much as the next guy, but isn't that going to be a problem. No says the bartender, they're an invasive pest species, no season, no limit.
Wouldn't you know it, the trucker gets into a wreck. The box is broken open and hard drives are scattered all over El Camino. Nerds are everywhere, getting into slap fights over a drive when 100 are at their feet etc. The trucker pulls out his shotgun and just starts mowing them down. The cops show up and arrest him. He says: 'They're invasive species...', the cop cuts him off: 'You're not allowed to bait them...'
Having actually ground a custom Carbide tool, I have read the MSDS on Tungsten Carbide (much of which is held together with a Cobalt matrix).
About 5% of the population is, for some reason, particularly sensitive to Cobalt. Nobody should get Carbide dust into their lungs, it's bad for you, but for the 5% just a tiny bit will kill you dead, in a slow and agonizing way akin to silicosis.
We're looking backwards at putting up the station. No fair assuming future technology...
You have to make a bunch of assumptions to get maximum Saturn V 'weight to LEO'. Why the maximum weight is an estimate today. It's more than Skylab's all up weight.
You'd be building the station out of repurposed 3rd stage tanks, specially prepared. The 'wet lab' version of skylab that never flew. Which brings up it's own issues. Sure you get a giant mostly empty tank on orbit, with a hardware package on the top. Then you have to vent the tanks, cut out hatch openings, put the contents that couldn't handle being immersed in fuel/LOX into it, plus you've still got an engine at one end. Would have been good experience to gain, it will come up again. Just bring up a sawzall, a blank powered nail gun and 10 rolls of top grade duct tape...
The mass is the point though, not the mass of the container, but the mass of everything else. Skylab was relatively empty. Think about all the trusswork etc on ISS that has no internal volume.
When you let a salt cooled reactor shut down, the salt solidifies and you're fucked. Now it's time to take it apart and cleanup.
That's how these experiments usually end. How they ended for the USA, France and Japan. Good luck to China, seriously, good luck to them, not snark.
The commercial shipping world isn't known for it's record of scrupulous preventive maintenance and professionalism below decks. Much of it is known for the opposite.
Bunker oil is dirtier, more sulpher, more soot. Same CO2, more or less. The particulates are, if anything, countering the warming. The seas are huge and not densely filled with shipping. Pollution from ocean going shipping is low on sensible priority lists. 'All costs are opportunity costs!'
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Semantics, I know it's a ponzi scheme. Pointing that out doesn't help your case.
If you put money in and get money out, there is a ROI that can be calculated (it's not 3x, it's below inflation). Tough shit that you don't like that fact.
You discuss the baby boom as if they started life at 35. You did, in fact, provide evidence that they became more conservative with age.
Now that we're down to analysing 'overwhelming', post the % of the elections you claimed were 'overwhelming'. I bet they voted more R with each passing election.
Pretend my ass. You're putting money in, you're getting money out. ROI can be calculated and is not good.
The federal government isn't 'fixed' until DC real estate crashes. Seriously.
You're just a fucking genius aren't you? Facts aren't going to get in the way of what you BELIEVE to be true.
Hint: One sign of a property bubble is when rents don't cover mortgages in general. Individual landlords almost always go through a few years of negative cash flow after buying a new property.
If you ever get to the point where you have money to invest, you will understand. For now, don't you have a letter to santa to write or something?
If they double the standard deduction, they've effectively eliminated my mortgage tax deduction.
After first overwhelmingly voting for McGovern. You prove the point you're arguing against.
Cocaine affected their minds as much as LSD had.
That depends on what generation you're talking about. SS is a ponzi scheme. Early players got insane rates of return (and voted for FDR until he died). If you're reading this and not already on the tit, the odds are very good your not going to get anywhere close to market ROI from SS. If you get anything at all.
Always salute 'General Failure' when he shows up on your screen.
Just a knockoff of AS/400's DB2 based file system.
A trucker is hauling a load of 6 terabyte hard drives though the SF bay area. He stops at a bar and gets a beer, starts to talk to the bartender about how much he hates geeks. Just then a computer geek walks into the bar and starts to order some girly drink. The bartender just pulls a shotgun and shoots him.
WTF he says to the bartender? I hate geeks as much as the next guy, but isn't that going to be a problem. No says the bartender, they're an invasive pest species, no season, no limit.
Wouldn't you know it, the trucker gets into a wreck. The box is broken open and hard drives are scattered all over El Camino. Nerds are everywhere, getting into slap fights over a drive when 100 are at their feet etc. The trucker pulls out his shotgun and just starts mowing them down. The cops show up and arrest him. He says: 'They're invasive species...', the cop cuts him off: 'You're not allowed to bait them...'
At 2k they should have been off their breakin oil. So not that bad.
3k is what the oil/quick lube companies recommend, car companies recommend from 5 to 10k. The 10k are using synthetic oil.
Don't ruin it for me, I'm four or five movies behind by now. Might want to watch them, some shitty day.
Funny, most of what I've heard is people who hate to drive in love with vapor and self driving car promoters lying with statistics.
It doesn't apply on distances of the same order as the size of the antenna. Exactly the scale the OP was talking about.
Having actually ground a custom Carbide tool, I have read the MSDS on Tungsten Carbide (much of which is held together with a Cobalt matrix).
About 5% of the population is, for some reason, particularly sensitive to Cobalt. Nobody should get Carbide dust into their lungs, it's bad for you, but for the 5% just a tiny bit will kill you dead, in a slow and agonizing way akin to silicosis.
There is oxidation involved in the case of reds with high tannin levels, which I note is uncommon on today's wine market.
But even there you are also degassing, gaseous products of fermentation and aging are in solution and need to escape.
Some people likely called you a fool when you installed a metal annealing oven in your kitchen. But you just laughed...
If I only had a million dollars, I could have sex with two chicks at one time...
Everything is easy, if you just assume the solution.
I know what it means. Darren Bane doesn't.
We're looking backwards at putting up the station. No fair assuming future technology...
You have to make a bunch of assumptions to get maximum Saturn V 'weight to LEO'. Why the maximum weight is an estimate today. It's more than Skylab's all up weight.
You'd be building the station out of repurposed 3rd stage tanks, specially prepared. The 'wet lab' version of skylab that never flew. Which brings up it's own issues. Sure you get a giant mostly empty tank on orbit, with a hardware package on the top. Then you have to vent the tanks, cut out hatch openings, put the contents that couldn't handle being immersed in fuel/LOX into it, plus you've still got an engine at one end. Would have been good experience to gain, it will come up again. Just bring up a sawzall, a blank powered nail gun and 10 rolls of top grade duct tape...
The mass is the point though, not the mass of the container, but the mass of everything else. Skylab was relatively empty. Think about all the trusswork etc on ISS that has no internal volume.
I'm old, I watched it on initial release.
When you let a salt cooled reactor shut down, the salt solidifies and you're fucked. Now it's time to take it apart and cleanup.
That's how these experiments usually end. How they ended for the USA, France and Japan. Good luck to China, seriously, good luck to them, not snark.
The commercial shipping world isn't known for it's record of scrupulous preventive maintenance and professionalism below decks. Much of it is known for the opposite.
Bunker oil is dirtier, more sulpher, more soot. Same CO2, more or less. The particulates are, if anything, countering the warming. The seas are huge and not densely filled with shipping. Pollution from ocean going shipping is low on sensible priority lists. 'All costs are opportunity costs!'
Who wouldn't? Be right of a Rush song, two lanes wide...road destroying.
Everything looks cheap next to the shuttle.
Proton is cheaper per pound to LEO unless you can get the new Saturn V to under 0.5 billion/launch.
Sure you save a bunch on docking adaptors, and save a bunch of EVA time hooking things up. But that isn't going to cut your weight enough.