The government intervention in the mortgage industry (implicit backing on Fannie and Freddie, among other things) resulted in a skewing of the risk model for those banks. In a truly free market, bank boards of directors can choose whatever compensation plans they wish, but the banks will not be bailed out when they over-extend their portfolios with too much risk.
I think this will be a welcome relief from the seconds-long matches of CounterStrike!
It seems like I've always wanted a game where players work together for multiple goals before achieving victory. I guess someone else thought the same.
And players will be able to make more friends in the games when they have to work with their teammates for long periods of time. Think of it as a very long golf tournament with teams: you can get to know your teammates while you're waiting to tee off, or in the case of the game, waiting for your Juggernauts crush a bit of opposition before you go in scout style to take the control room. (Sorry about the Tribes reference, but it's one of the games I've played with a good level of teamwork.)
We've gained a huge number of advances in science and technology from NASA. If you consider materials science alone, the cost is worth it. They conduct research on a monumentous scale. Everything from structural design to hydroponics to supercomputing is subject to NASA's research effort. Yes, Velcro too.
The Space Shuttle is the most complicated machine ever built. It's thirty years old. It's time to move on with exploration, and the best way to do that is with existing strategies (a.k.a. Apollo-esque rockets). And they're going to be way better in terms of efficiency and strength, given advanced composites and new engines.
As for private space companies, they simply do not have the money to launch space station components or interplanetary vehicles. Their niche is transporting people. Lifting 4-20 people into a parabolic transport route or into low earth orbit costs way less in terms of fuel, complexity, and R&D than lifting half a million pounds into orbit or to the moon!
And society would benefit WAY more from 'throwing' that money to elementary schools. We should make the best minds compete for jobs teaching the next generation. Education majors shouldn't be the people who can't make it in any other major.
NASA even funds research and projects in universities, so there you are.
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The government intervention in the mortgage industry (implicit backing on Fannie and Freddie, among other things) resulted in a skewing of the risk model for those banks. In a truly free market, bank boards of directors can choose whatever compensation plans they wish, but the banks will not be bailed out when they over-extend their portfolios with too much risk.
I think this will be a welcome relief from the seconds-long matches of CounterStrike!
It seems like I've always wanted a game where players work together for multiple goals before achieving victory. I guess someone else thought the same.
And players will be able to make more friends in the games when they have to work with their teammates for long periods of time. Think of it as a very long golf tournament with teams: you can get to know your teammates while you're waiting to tee off, or in the case of the game, waiting for your Juggernauts crush a bit of opposition before you go in scout style to take the control room. (Sorry about the Tribes reference, but it's one of the games I've played with a good level of teamwork.)
We've gained a huge number of advances in science and technology from NASA. If you consider materials science alone, the cost is worth it. They conduct research on a monumentous scale. Everything from structural design to hydroponics to supercomputing is subject to NASA's research effort. Yes, Velcro too.
The Space Shuttle is the most complicated machine ever built. It's thirty years old. It's time to move on with exploration, and the best way to do that is with existing strategies (a.k.a. Apollo-esque rockets). And they're going to be way better in terms of efficiency and strength, given advanced composites and new engines.
As for private space companies, they simply do not have the money to launch space station components or interplanetary vehicles. Their niche is transporting people. Lifting 4-20 people into a parabolic transport route or into low earth orbit costs way less in terms of fuel, complexity, and R&D than lifting half a million pounds into orbit or to the moon!
And society would benefit WAY more from 'throwing' that money to elementary schools. We should make the best minds compete for jobs teaching the next generation. Education majors shouldn't be the people who can't make it in any other major.
NASA even funds research and projects in universities, so there you are.