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Aero,
I wish I shared your confidence in the modern USN. With the exception of paying for Dr. Bussard's and Dr. Nebel's work, I find few recent examples of good decisions.

More important, I hope Dr. Nebel and crew are watched over. I also hope never to find out if they are...

Sorry about the off-topic, but we are speculating about other PW locations... Since the stakes for the Polywell are high, I hope the EMC2 facilities are well secured, I mean physically, from all varieties of intrusion. During the great FOIA debate, I mused about other methods of obtaining PW 7 data....

The X-32 was just too hot! I mean the ground heating and exhaust gas recirculation problems. Also, Boeing wasn't able build a light wing. And there was the need to add elevators... It is a shame people judge funny-looking designs on looks first and ignore technical merit. I heard a similar argument ...

Until this particular decision, I thought Robert Gates was a pretty smart guy. I suppose it comes down to the fact the F/A-22 will never survive a carrier landing nor be suitable for the USMC. I think Secretary Gates was painted into a corner by the money available and the US DOD says it needs a new...

Anything we oppose. Why must the politicians of the United States declare a war against anything other than another nation state which threatens a vital national interest? A short list I can think of: War on Poverty, War on Drugs, War on Terrorism, War on Terror. Any I have missed? I think the highe...

Yellow Dirt: Uranium's Legacy in Navajo Country

http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/y ... y/19631805

Isaiah 1: 16 & 17 - Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.

Emphasis mine.

A basic problem with the involuntary sterilization proposals is "you can't get there from here." Maybe that's not a problem. Involuntary sterilization is part of U.S. history, a part of which we are or should be rightfully ashamed. Further, once those who choose who gets sterilized start to broaden ...

Yeah, thats the Tomahawk clone, or near clone. Another good example (along with the F-15/Mig-25) of how similar mission parameters result in nearly identical design solutions. I've read every word you've written on this thread about fighter aircraft. I even understand all of it. Okay, your turn. Ho...

This is going to be serious slippery-slope territory, if you also consider the dumb-a$$es who get to raise children (or don't) and get away with it. As an alternative solution, I can propose this: Anticonception is mandatory for people who have yet to prove they have the skills and knowledge to rai...

There will always be a large island off the coast of France.

The other information you and others present is interesting, but beside the point. The F-15 and the MiG-25 look alike, to the uninitiated, which you, surely, are not. Why was the F-15 designed with features (canopy design, gun, thrust to weight ratio, wing loading, etc.) which are not needed when sp...

Consider: who will select the subjects for involuntary sterilization? They will select themselves. Just as prison inmates (in most cases) select themselves by their actions. I know a little bit about this. I've spoken with a lot of women who let the state pay for their labor and delivery costs. Sev...

IntLibber wrote:What I find amusing about rayjay's lack of logic is that he assumes that libertarians do not PERSONALLY want to pay for the irresponsibility of others, but are fine with everybody else paying for it.

Well, I was quoting someone else and then attempted to paraphrase to invite discussion.

For all-rocket SSTO, yeah, it does need to be pretty light. Not necessarily quite that light, but if the engine performance I assumed can't be achieved due to ionization effects, that ~250-tonne structure+payload mass drops substantially. And you can forget about a powered descent... I'm thinking a...