If you believe that you paid less under your socialist rule, you probably worked for the bureaucracy. Check your taxes, if I make 100k per year I want to come home with 100k per year not 10k because the government needs my 90k to pay for my neighbor's heat and healthcare because he only makes 20k and can't afford it otherwise. Socialism breeds laziness, stifles innovations, and locks people into financial classes, try to prove otherwise, you can't.
And your friend Chavez, great country if you want to work, and live, but if you want control over your life, or if you have goals for yourself, or if you want to become wealthy or raise your standard of living from that of your parents, good luck, it's not happening.
All that aside, if your socialist health care is go great, why do Canadians come into the US for surgery? Maybe it's because waiting 6 months for a by-pass surgery after a heart attack isn't exactly fantastic.
You have been spit right out of the socialist propaganda mill.
The fact that you never paid over $25 a month for your phone bill doesn't mean you never paid more than that for your service. Just look at how much money went into maintaining the infrastructure, paying the bureaucrats who ran the system and the amount of waste that existed from having no real fiscal responsibility. Guess what, when those costs exceed that brought in by the (most likely) arbitrarily set rates, the difference is made up by massive taxes. They might as well offer "free" service, it doesn't matter you pay through the roof with taxes anyway. If anything hinders innovation through lack of consumer choice its socialism, and if it weren't for people ignorant enough to support it, we would be rid of those suggesting big government is good.
Microsoft used their technology for NASA, no taxpayer money was used. There was no government "choice" to use a proprietary software. That and oh wait, Microsoft created this, it's not like a jpeg viewer that every company produces. It might shock some people but companies sometimes come up with innovative software before its competitors are able to copy it.
While RTLS seems simple enough, there is one key aspect which should not be overlooked, "With as little of the fuel remaining in the ET as possible the shuttle executes a powered pitch around maneuver (PPA) where the orbiter and the ET rotate 180 degrees; so that the craft is headed back to KSC. The orbiter is now on top of the ET at this time and the remaining SSMEs are still operating." That is, the already large orbiter plus the even larger external tank will flip nose over to re-orient itself with the landing site, this all while the engines are going full bore, and while still in the atmosphere. This dramatic flip which must occur could put more stresses on the orbiter than experienced during a typical re-entry from the enormous friction caused by the atmosphere on the skin. In the case of skin damage issues, such an abort method could easily prove fatal, limiting the abort options even further.
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If you believe that you paid less under your socialist rule, you probably worked for the bureaucracy. Check your taxes, if I make 100k per year I want to come home with 100k per year not 10k because the government needs my 90k to pay for my neighbor's heat and healthcare because he only makes 20k and can't afford it otherwise. Socialism breeds laziness, stifles innovations, and locks people into financial classes, try to prove otherwise, you can't. And your friend Chavez, great country if you want to work, and live, but if you want control over your life, or if you have goals for yourself, or if you want to become wealthy or raise your standard of living from that of your parents, good luck, it's not happening. All that aside, if your socialist health care is go great, why do Canadians come into the US for surgery? Maybe it's because waiting 6 months for a by-pass surgery after a heart attack isn't exactly fantastic. You have been spit right out of the socialist propaganda mill.
The fact that you never paid over $25 a month for your phone bill doesn't mean you never paid more than that for your service. Just look at how much money went into maintaining the infrastructure, paying the bureaucrats who ran the system and the amount of waste that existed from having no real fiscal responsibility. Guess what, when those costs exceed that brought in by the (most likely) arbitrarily set rates, the difference is made up by massive taxes. They might as well offer "free" service, it doesn't matter you pay through the roof with taxes anyway. If anything hinders innovation through lack of consumer choice its socialism, and if it weren't for people ignorant enough to support it, we would be rid of those suggesting big government is good.
Microsoft used their technology for NASA, no taxpayer money was used. There was no government "choice" to use a proprietary software. That and oh wait, Microsoft created this, it's not like a jpeg viewer that every company produces. It might shock some people but companies sometimes come up with innovative software before its competitors are able to copy it.
While RTLS seems simple enough, there is one key aspect which should not be overlooked, "With as little of the fuel remaining in the ET as possible the shuttle executes a powered pitch around maneuver (PPA) where the orbiter and the ET rotate 180 degrees; so that the craft is headed back to KSC. The orbiter is now on top of the ET at this time and the remaining SSMEs are still operating." That is, the already large orbiter plus the even larger external tank will flip nose over to re-orient itself with the landing site, this all while the engines are going full bore, and while still in the atmosphere. This dramatic flip which must occur could put more stresses on the orbiter than experienced during a typical re-entry from the enormous friction caused by the atmosphere on the skin. In the case of skin damage issues, such an abort method could easily prove fatal, limiting the abort options even further.