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@JFrazer4303 The high cost was a result of decisions made on launch system architecture, based on decisions over what to do in space. Since there were decisions made to not do anything big in space, the launch system evolved into something as complex and expensive as possible, as the government g...

Note also that a monster booster like the Sea Dragon by Truax as designed at about the same time as Orion, could do it.

"not as fast as we think it is"... A stripped down crew-only ship, in Earth orbit after a slow cargo ship was safely in Mars orbit, could ignore synodic periods and blast strai...

In that quote, was Dyson talking about per launch, or the entire multi-launch series they wanted?

In any case, it's moot.

Far more useful to look at is the ten meter HLV boosted sectional ship, orbit assembled for use above the Van Allen belts.

Plenty of reasons to not like Palin, but a lying ad isn't one of them. Because she lies and distorts, isn't a good reason to lie and distort facts against her.

It is not legal at all to hunt from an airplane. If you user a plane to get into the country, you cannot hunt for many hours after landin...

And people are still listening to this lying sack of horse manure?

In any case. he's wrong. Plenty of people who aren't rabid idiot so-called conservatives own guns. Plenty of polls and studies from the gun rights community show that gun ownership crosses all bounds.

Likewise about so-called con...

Mr Evans (2:25) are you speaking for yourself and everybody YOU know? Then get help & get new friends.

If these things shouldn't be taken for our laws, but other ideas from that filthy book (Thomas Paine's words) should, then you're wilfully picking & choosing which parts of the Lord's laws to follow.

The first two are bogus. They shouldn't even have wasted time on them. Flying is easy -especially if all you need to do is what the hijackers did.

The second -airport security- is a joke. They're still regularly getting real knives & weapons past security in their tests. Pre-911, it was as nothin...

I'll agree that if that's his "baby", he needs help. Help finding more better rifles which are out there! I had to carry the M-16 in uniform, and that was enough to let me know that I'll never carry one voluntarily. An AK or Mini-30 maybe. Anything, just about, over the AR system! Gimme an old M-...

@ssssroryssss While the pilot uses his pistol to cover the door to the flight deck, the co-pilot flies it. Not that hard.

At best, we have maybe a few percent of flights covered by the federal air marshalls. it's impossible to cover them all, or to keep weapons off the planes.

Why can we not trus...

The word "God" as used for the deity of Abrahamic monotheism is a made-up word, for convenmience, since nobody does or can know the name or attributes of he/she/it. YWHW (the tetragrammaton) or "Jehova" as it's sometimes pronounced, is the older Greek form of the same thing.

None of these huma...

"thought he was bit by a mosquito..."!

very funny.

I want a Henry AR-7, and one of the timeless Ruger .22 pistols.

Not that you're wrong about the old classic .22 rifles.

@marathon1974: "They bitch about "WARS FOR OIL"...yet they won't allow us to drill for our own oil"

Never mind that the DOE reports that if we completely open the continental shelf for drilling, it won't make a measurable impact on availability until 2030, and if you factor in our increase in de...

@jjrglobal

That factoid is based on an old, outmoded study, done by people with a vested interest against oil substitutes.

A real engineer wouldn't use the extremely unfavorable choices the writers of that study used. Plenty of choices at each step, and they used the least favorable ways, and fr...

It's not a quetion of Hoagland pleading to be invited, and then getting hurt... It's only about him submitting a paper that sounds halfway decent, and paying his entrance fee, and he'll get a time slot.

I've been at a few Mars Society Cons, and all sorts of stuff goes on, from all sorts of people...

See also her time with David Letterman about "Black Swan".

Natalie Portman on David Letterman 11.22.2010 on youtube, about 4:50 in when he says she used to be a pig!

Gotta be natural and laugh like a doofus sometimes!

Love her.

I have an old version. Got it seccond hand, no idea how old it was. The weld between the steel generator tube and the brass alloy jet body broke and it shot out a huge flame of raw burning fuel.

I took it to a local store and told them to send it back for repair, and if it wasn't too expensive, I...

How does having lots of guns in law-abiding citizen hands make for a violent society? If it's known that lots of people might be armed, what sort of logic says that people will fell it's good for them to threaten others?

They'll say that gun owners live in fear... Who's more afraid? The ones who ...

Total B.S. to call the French "cowards" because they didn't want to follow the American sheeple into a false criminal war for profit.

Far worse to be led by the nose into a never-ending war for false reasons by a bunch of criminals.

KNOWN for FACT that the "reasons" for invading Iraq were false ...

The reporter repeatedly called the Russian navy ship a "battleship".

ASW destroyer

see the wiki entry

Russian_destroyer_Marshal_Shaposhnikov

Good to have them on our side.

I always thought Ahmed should have taken Olga back home. The movie doesn't even say if he might have left offspring with her.

Vladimir Kulich later played "The Beast" (stone hell demon) in season 4 of "Angel", though he was in very heavy prosthetics and makeup, and only for the close-ups and spe...

Had to dig around to find about "Olga" (we never heard the character's name):

Maria Bonnevie, from Norway.

I appreciate everything he said, but as in that case in Florida, the magic word "marriage" shouldn't matter more than a fart in a hurricane.

The rights equivalent to marriage should be theirs (and any other couple or group who wants to share those rights and priviledges)

"Marriage" is the barba...

Now you're just being sarcastic...

Re: BigSmokePolitics

and they sit and cower and wait to see if the cops ever show up.

Where if people are armed, and hear shots, they can cover themselves and others and wait with safety in case the shooting comes their way.

Better yet, if it's known that people might/will be armed, then a nut...

and see

Kitty vs. Robot

youtube.com/watch?v=8NvPcphRbec