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Old May 14th 16, 08:08 AM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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A satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) moves at 7.9 km/sec. To get to an orbital altitude of 250 km and move at this speed, when launched from the surface of the Earth, a rocket has to overcome gravity - being tossed 250 km into the sky, and air drag, as it rises from the surface of the Earth. This imposes a penalty of about 1.3 km/sec - bringing the total delta vee requirement of a rocket launched from Earth's surface to 9.2 km/sec.

A LOX/LH2 rocket using advanced materials has a structure fraction of 4.65% and has an exhaust velocity of 4.45 km/sec. So, the propellant fraction to attain 9.20 km/sec is according to Tsiolkovski's equation

u = 1 - 1 / exp( 9.20/4.45 ) = 0.8735

So, the payload fraction for an SSTO is;

p = 1 - 0.8735 - 0.0465 = 0.08

or 8%

So, a Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) rocket must weigh for each kg (or metric ton) at lift off;

1.000 = payload
1.000 / 0.08 = 12.500 = take off weight (TOW)
12.500 * 0.0465 =0.5812 = inert mass budget
12.500 * 0.8735 = 10.9188 = propellant budget

Ideal LOX/LH2 ratio is 5.5 to 1.0 under most conditions. So,

10.9188 / 6.5 = 1.6798 - LH2 weight
1.6798 * 5.5 = 9.2390 - LOX weight

1.6798 / 0.07 = 24.00 litres/kg, m3/ton, cc/gram LH2 volume
10.9188 / 1.14 = 8.10 litres/kg, m3/ton, cc/gram LOX volume

Reducing Barker's equation to a simpler parabolic equation, we have for 2.5 km/sec and 45 degree angle;

R = v^2 / g0 = 4500^2 / 9.80655 = 2,064,946.4

With a 18 to 1 lift to drag, we have the spacecraft moving downward at

4500 / sqrt(2) = 3182 m/sec

which means that in order to skip off the atmosphere, we must reflect the trajectory by changing the speed by 6,300 m/sec by lift, and with an L/D of 18 to 1, slow the spacecraft by 4.25 km/sec. It skips another 1842 km. A total distance of 3907 km.

By skipping in this way, and then gliding the final 900 km, its possible to travel to any point on Earth and navigate to a vertical landing, and retain sufficent propellant to bring an equal payload back to the launch point, to be refuelled.

http://www.fedex.com/cn_english/tools/package4.html

Inside dimensions: 13.25" x 11.5" x 2.38" (33.66 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.03 cm).
Maximum weight allowed: 20 lbs. (9.07 kg).
Weight when empty: 6.5 oz.
For binders, books and heavy documents.
The minimum billable weight for this FedEx packaging will be 1kg per package.

A 10 kg payload, in a 5.8 kg vehicle that carries 16.8 kg of LH2 and 92.4 kg of LOX - an oblate sphere disk 127.43 cm in diameter and 37.75 cm deep and contains 321 litres of propellant.

It takes no more than 90 minutes to fly to any point on Earth and 90 minutes to fly back. Packages are exchanged at the refueling point, and then packages dispatched to any point on Earth. You receive your package in four hours or less. It takes 442 kW of power to make the hydrogen and oxygen needed from water to keep the vehicle flying. 8 flights per day.

FedEx charges $5,056 for delivery of 20 lbs from Beijing to Paris. A distance of 13,221 km.

At $0.18/kWh it cost no more than $1,323 to bring a package to a central location and ship it back out to the antipodes.

At 5.8 kg inert weight, and $1,200 per kg construction costs the drone costs in quantity it costs $7,000 for each drone. 100 drones cost $700,000 - and Non Recurring Engineering costs are $3.5 million - a total of $4.2 million - earns 800 x $2,500 per day = $2,000,000 PER DAY! when charging $3,823 per trip.

$730 million per year! About 1.5% of FedEx's $49.15 billion per year in revenue. 10% of FedEx's $7.35 billion EBITDA! 75% of FedEx's $995 million distributed as earnings!

The company of 100 ballistic drones is worth $4.3 billion 10% of FedEx's market cap. Not a bad return on $4.2 million.

14 GW Itaipu hydroelectric dam in Paraguay sells electricity for $0.056 per kWh - about 1/3 the cost assumed above. Reducing costs from $1,323 to $441 per delivery, increasing profits or reducing costs for clients. 800 packages per day can be sorted by a dozen individuals working four shifts of three persons a week each working 42 hours. Wage rates average USD$323 (1.8 million PYG).

This is just the beginning. This one company earns as much as 1.5% of the Paraguayan population! Of course, legally speaking, the company operates out of Panama or Bahamas, Switzerland or Lichtenstein - which is tax free on foreign earnings.

The investment of $420 million increases the payload from 20 pounds to 1000 pounds for a fleet of 200 vehicles. The size increases of the disk to 5.83 m (19.1 ft) diameter and 1.73 m (5.7 ft) tall. Cost of fuel is 50x larger - $22,050 per delivery of up to four passengers and payload. That's $5,512 per seat.

The cost of First Class tickets from Christchurch to London for four people is $61,000 - or $15,250 per seat and takes 32 hours. So, this vehicle picks you up at your home and drops you at your destination - you spend no more than 1.5 hours in the air each way, and you arrive at your destination in less than 4 hours after the order is booked.

Distances scale with energy, so energy costs run about $1 per km from Paraguay.

So, from LA to Ascuncion is 9,184 km and from Ascuncion to NYC 7,526 km. That's $16,710 for four - $4,178 per seat. Time scales as the square root of distance. So, from NYC to Asuncion is 61 minutes andfrom Asuncion to NYC is 55 minutes - a total of 116 minutes - less than two hours. Add 4 minutes for vehicle transfer - and we have two hours exactly.

Taiwan is antipodal to Paraguay. So, they would be the longest to service and the most costly.

The vehicle earns $10,000 per seat per trip. $40,000 per vehicle. 8 trips per day, $320,000 per vehicle. 200 vehicles - $64,000,000 per day!! Delivering 6400 people per day around the world.

http://flightlistpro.com/private-jet...2-Interior.jpg

With an Uber type app...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VjcZeuvmo

Shorter rides use a drone helicopter, to take folks to convenient pick up points...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=undX_rxY-dQ

282 kph and 605 km range - So, from Long Beach to Apple Valley, or Long Beach to Vista or Long Beach to Oxnard, that semicircle, contains 18.68 million people. So, any four could be picked up from this city and transported to the end of Navy Way Road on Terminal Island, in less than 20 minutes. There they are met by a ballistic drone from Ascuncion Paraguay, and are transported there in 60 minutes. They each depart for their own location - at the exchange point - and arrive in less than four hours from their time of departure.

Little Bird type helicopters, with stealthy rotor blade - it is whisper quiet for operation at any time of the day or night.


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Old May 14th 16, 10:20 PM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 7:08:45 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
A satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) moves at 7.9 km/sec. To get to an orbital altitude of 250 km and move at this speed, when launched from the surface of the Earth, a rocket has to overcome gravity - being tossed 250 km into the sky, and air drag, as it rises from the surface of the Earth. This imposes a penalty of about 1.3 km/sec - bringing the total delta vee requirement of a rocket launched from Earth's surface to 9.2 km/sec.

A LOX/LH2 rocket using advanced materials has a structure fraction of 4.65% and has an exhaust velocity of 4.45 km/sec. So, the propellant fraction to attain 9.20 km/sec is according to Tsiolkovski's equation

u = 1 - 1 / exp( 9.20/4.45 ) = 0.8735

So, the payload fraction for an SSTO is;

p = 1 - 0.8735 - 0.0465 = 0.08

or 8%

So, a Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) rocket must weigh for each kg (or metric ton) at lift off;

1.000 = payload
1.000 / 0.08 = 12.500 = take off weight (TOW)
12.500 * 0.0465 =0.5812 = inert mass budget
12.500 * 0.8735 = 10.9188 = propellant budget

Ideal LOX/LH2 ratio is 5.5 to 1.0 under most conditions. So,

10.9188 / 6.5 = 1.6798 - LH2 weight
1.6798 * 5.5 = 9.2390 - LOX weight

1.6798 / 0.07 = 24.00 litres/kg, m3/ton, cc/gram LH2 volume
10.9188 / 1.14 = 8.10 litres/kg, m3/ton, cc/gram LOX volume

Reducing Barker's equation to a simpler parabolic equation, we have for 2..5 km/sec and 45 degree angle;

R = v^2 / g0 = 4500^2 / 9.80655 = 2,064,946.4

With a 18 to 1 lift to drag, we have the spacecraft moving downward at

4500 / sqrt(2) = 3182 m/sec

which means that in order to skip off the atmosphere, we must reflect the trajectory by changing the speed by 6,300 m/sec by lift, and with an L/D of 18 to 1, slow the spacecraft by 4.25 km/sec. It skips another 1842 km. A total distance of 3907 km.

By skipping in this way, and then gliding the final 900 km, its possible to travel to any point on Earth and navigate to a vertical landing, and retain sufficent propellant to bring an equal payload back to the launch point, to be refuelled.

http://www.fedex.com/cn_english/tools/package4.html

Inside dimensions: 13.25" x 11.5" x 2.38" (33.66 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.03 cm)..
Maximum weight allowed: 20 lbs. (9.07 kg).
Weight when empty: 6.5 oz.
For binders, books and heavy documents.
The minimum billable weight for this FedEx packaging will be 1kg per package.

A 10 kg payload, in a 5.8 kg vehicle that carries 16.8 kg of LH2 and 92.4 kg of LOX - an oblate sphere disk 127.43 cm in diameter and 37.75 cm deep and contains 321 litres of propellant.

It takes no more than 90 minutes to fly to any point on Earth and 90 minutes to fly back. Packages are exchanged at the refueling point, and then packages dispatched to any point on Earth. You receive your package in four hours or less. It takes 442 kW of power to make the hydrogen and oxygen needed from water to keep the vehicle flying. 8 flights per day.

FedEx charges $5,056 for delivery of 20 lbs from Beijing to Paris. A distance of 13,221 km.

At $0.18/kWh it cost no more than $1,323 to bring a package to a central location and ship it back out to the antipodes.

At 5.8 kg inert weight, and $1,200 per kg construction costs the drone costs in quantity it costs $7,000 for each drone. 100 drones cost $700,000 - and Non Recurring Engineering costs are $3.5 million - a total of $4.2 million - earns 800 x $2,500 per day = $2,000,000 PER DAY! when charging $3,823 per trip.

$730 million per year! About 1.5% of FedEx's $49.15 billion per year in revenue. 10% of FedEx's $7.35 billion EBITDA! 75% of FedEx's $995 million distributed as earnings!

The company of 100 ballistic drones is worth $4.3 billion 10% of FedEx's market cap. Not a bad return on $4.2 million.

14 GW Itaipu hydroelectric dam in Paraguay sells electricity for $0.056 per kWh - about 1/3 the cost assumed above. Reducing costs from $1,323 to $441 per delivery, increasing profits or reducing costs for clients. 800 packages per day can be sorted by a dozen individuals working four shifts of three persons a week each working 42 hours. Wage rates average USD$323 (1..8 million PYG).

This is just the beginning. This one company earns as much as 1.5% of the Paraguayan population! Of course, legally speaking, the company operates out of Panama or Bahamas, Switzerland or Lichtenstein - which is tax free on foreign earnings.

The investment of $420 million increases the payload from 20 pounds to 1000 pounds for a fleet of 200 vehicles. The size increases of the disk to 5.83 m (19.1 ft) diameter and 1.73 m (5.7 ft) tall. Cost of fuel is 50x larger - $22,050 per delivery of up to four passengers and payload. That's $5,512 per seat.

The cost of First Class tickets from Christchurch to London for four people is $61,000 - or $15,250 per seat and takes 32 hours. So, this vehicle picks you up at your home and drops you at your destination - you spend no more than 1.5 hours in the air each way, and you arrive at your destination in less than 4 hours after the order is booked.

Distances scale with energy, so energy costs run about $1 per km from Paraguay.

So, from LA to Ascuncion is 9,184 km and from Ascuncion to NYC 7,526 km. That's $16,710 for four - $4,178 per seat. Time scales as the square root of distance. So, from NYC to Asuncion is 61 minutes andfrom Asuncion to NYC is 55 minutes - a total of 116 minutes - less than two hours. Add 4 minutes for vehicle transfer - and we have two hours exactly.

Taiwan is antipodal to Paraguay. So, they would be the longest to service and the most costly.

The vehicle earns $10,000 per seat per trip. $40,000 per vehicle. 8 trips per day, $320,000 per vehicle. 200 vehicles - $64,000,000 per day!! Delivering 6400 people per day around the world.

http://flightlistpro.com/private-jet...2-Interior.jpg

With an Uber type app...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VjcZeuvmo

Shorter rides use a drone helicopter, to take folks to convenient pick up points...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=undX_rxY-dQ

282 kph and 605 km range - So, from Long Beach to Apple Valley, or Long Beach to Vista or Long Beach to Oxnard, that semicircle, contains 18.68 million people. So, any four could be picked up from this city and transported to the end of Navy Way Road on Terminal Island, in less than 20 minutes. There they are met by a ballistic drone from Ascuncion Paraguay, and are transported there in 60 minutes. They each depart for their own location - at the exchange point - and arrive in less than four hours from their time of departure.

Little Bird type helicopters, with stealthy rotor blade - it is whisper quiet for operation at any time of the day or night.


With the package delivery service you can assure secrecy by using a physical version of a public key cryptography system.

The way that works is those who want to receive items secretly obtain security bags with padlocks and keys. When they want to receive an item secretly, they send an open bag with an open padlock inside to the sender. The sender puts the secret item in the bag and locks it with the padlock. The locked bag comes back to the receiver. The receiver uses their key to unlock the bag and retrieve the item. The bag is handled at Asuncion terminal and is totally secured.

Other things besides contracts that are of significant value;

20 lbs of gold is $371,500 (292 troy ounces in 20 standard pounds (9.07 kg))

20 lbs of Avistin the cancer cure is worth $647,850 - about 4,534 daily doses.

These are positively cheap compared other drugs like Soliris, which is 10x greater.

Not that the ballistic drone would be used for this but its useful to note that illegal drug prices are comparable to the highest priced legal drugs;

Cocaine at $60/gram worldwide is worth $544,200.

Heroin is $60/gram in LA, $165/gram in UAE. $544,200

Marijuana $6/gram in LA, $18/gram in UAE. $54,420 - $153,260

So, a $3,800 transfer charge for anything like this is peanuts.

That's interesting, just going online to confirm something - it appears the death penalty and agressive policing triple underlying prices of illegal drug use - just looking at UAE and USA figures. This suggests that the rate of incidence - by operation of market principles - is 1/3 as well all things being equal.

Cocaine overdose deaths in the USA is about 3.8 per 100,000 people. Cocaine overdose deaths in UAE is 0.7 per 100,000 people. There may be a lower incidence of accurate reporting among certain populations in UAE due to their zero tolerance there.

The real determination of drug use is income level. Very poor countries, even producer countries, have very low drug use rates, not because of enforcement or demagougary, but of income. If you don't have the money, you don't get the drug.

Its clear that drug trade, like sex trade, is used to control people who are otherwise free and capable and divert the use of capital to non productive ends.

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Old May 14th 16, 10:46 PM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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On Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 9:20:07 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 7:08:45 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
A satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) moves at 7.9 km/sec. To get to an orbital altitude of 250 km and move at this speed, when launched from the surface of the Earth, a rocket has to overcome gravity - being tossed 250 km into the sky, and air drag, as it rises from the surface of the Earth. This imposes a penalty of about 1.3 km/sec - bringing the total delta vee requirement of a rocket launched from Earth's surface to 9.2 km/sec.

A LOX/LH2 rocket using advanced materials has a structure fraction of 4..65% and has an exhaust velocity of 4.45 km/sec. So, the propellant fraction to attain 9.20 km/sec is according to Tsiolkovski's equation

u = 1 - 1 / exp( 9.20/4.45 ) = 0.8735

So, the payload fraction for an SSTO is;

p = 1 - 0.8735 - 0.0465 = 0.08

or 8%

So, a Single Stage To Orbit (SSTO) rocket must weigh for each kg (or metric ton) at lift off;

1.000 = payload
1.000 / 0.08 = 12.500 = take off weight (TOW)
12.500 * 0.0465 =0.5812 = inert mass budget
12.500 * 0.8735 = 10.9188 = propellant budget

Ideal LOX/LH2 ratio is 5.5 to 1.0 under most conditions. So,

10.9188 / 6.5 = 1.6798 - LH2 weight
1.6798 * 5.5 = 9.2390 - LOX weight

1.6798 / 0.07 = 24.00 litres/kg, m3/ton, cc/gram LH2 volume
10.9188 / 1.14 = 8.10 litres/kg, m3/ton, cc/gram LOX volume

Reducing Barker's equation to a simpler parabolic equation, we have for 2.5 km/sec and 45 degree angle;

R = v^2 / g0 = 4500^2 / 9.80655 = 2,064,946.4

With a 18 to 1 lift to drag, we have the spacecraft moving downward at

4500 / sqrt(2) = 3182 m/sec

which means that in order to skip off the atmosphere, we must reflect the trajectory by changing the speed by 6,300 m/sec by lift, and with an L/D of 18 to 1, slow the spacecraft by 4.25 km/sec. It skips another 1842 km. A total distance of 3907 km.

By skipping in this way, and then gliding the final 900 km, its possible to travel to any point on Earth and navigate to a vertical landing, and retain sufficent propellant to bring an equal payload back to the launch point, to be refuelled.

http://www.fedex.com/cn_english/tools/package4.html

Inside dimensions: 13.25" x 11.5" x 2.38" (33.66 cm x 29.21 cm x 6.03 cm).
Maximum weight allowed: 20 lbs. (9.07 kg).
Weight when empty: 6.5 oz.
For binders, books and heavy documents.
The minimum billable weight for this FedEx packaging will be 1kg per package.

A 10 kg payload, in a 5.8 kg vehicle that carries 16.8 kg of LH2 and 92..4 kg of LOX - an oblate sphere disk 127.43 cm in diameter and 37.75 cm deep and contains 321 litres of propellant.

It takes no more than 90 minutes to fly to any point on Earth and 90 minutes to fly back. Packages are exchanged at the refueling point, and then packages dispatched to any point on Earth. You receive your package in four hours or less. It takes 442 kW of power to make the hydrogen and oxygen needed from water to keep the vehicle flying. 8 flights per day.

FedEx charges $5,056 for delivery of 20 lbs from Beijing to Paris. A distance of 13,221 km.

At $0.18/kWh it cost no more than $1,323 to bring a package to a central location and ship it back out to the antipodes.

At 5.8 kg inert weight, and $1,200 per kg construction costs the drone costs in quantity it costs $7,000 for each drone. 100 drones cost $700,000 - and Non Recurring Engineering costs are $3.5 million - a total of $4.2 million - earns 800 x $2,500 per day = $2,000,000 PER DAY! when charging $3,823 per trip.

$730 million per year! About 1.5% of FedEx's $49.15 billion per year in revenue. 10% of FedEx's $7.35 billion EBITDA! 75% of FedEx's $995 million distributed as earnings!

The company of 100 ballistic drones is worth $4.3 billion 10% of FedEx's market cap. Not a bad return on $4.2 million.

14 GW Itaipu hydroelectric dam in Paraguay sells electricity for $0.056 per kWh - about 1/3 the cost assumed above. Reducing costs from $1,323 to $441 per delivery, increasing profits or reducing costs for clients. 800 packages per day can be sorted by a dozen individuals working four shifts of three persons a week each working 42 hours. Wage rates average USD$323 (1.8 million PYG).

This is just the beginning. This one company earns as much as 1.5% of the Paraguayan population! Of course, legally speaking, the company operates out of Panama or Bahamas, Switzerland or Lichtenstein - which is tax free on foreign earnings.

The investment of $420 million increases the payload from 20 pounds to 1000 pounds for a fleet of 200 vehicles. The size increases of the disk to 5.83 m (19.1 ft) diameter and 1.73 m (5.7 ft) tall. Cost of fuel is 50x larger - $22,050 per delivery of up to four passengers and payload. That's $5,512 per seat.

The cost of First Class tickets from Christchurch to London for four people is $61,000 - or $15,250 per seat and takes 32 hours. So, this vehicle picks you up at your home and drops you at your destination - you spend no more than 1.5 hours in the air each way, and you arrive at your destination in less than 4 hours after the order is booked.

Distances scale with energy, so energy costs run about $1 per km from Paraguay.

So, from LA to Ascuncion is 9,184 km and from Ascuncion to NYC 7,526 km.. That's $16,710 for four - $4,178 per seat. Time scales as the square root of distance. So, from NYC to Asuncion is 61 minutes andfrom Asuncion to NYC is 55 minutes - a total of 116 minutes - less than two hours. Add 4 minutes for vehicle transfer - and we have two hours exactly.

Taiwan is antipodal to Paraguay. So, they would be the longest to service and the most costly.

The vehicle earns $10,000 per seat per trip. $40,000 per vehicle. 8 trips per day, $320,000 per vehicle. 200 vehicles - $64,000,000 per day!! Delivering 6400 people per day around the world.

http://flightlistpro.com/private-jet...2-Interior.jpg

With an Uber type app...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8VjcZeuvmo

Shorter rides use a drone helicopter, to take folks to convenient pick up points...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=undX_rxY-dQ

282 kph and 605 km range - So, from Long Beach to Apple Valley, or Long Beach to Vista or Long Beach to Oxnard, that semicircle, contains 18.68 million people. So, any four could be picked up from this city and transported to the end of Navy Way Road on Terminal Island, in less than 20 minutes.. There they are met by a ballistic drone from Ascuncion Paraguay, and are transported there in 60 minutes. They each depart for their own location - at the exchange point - and arrive in less than four hours from their time of departure.

Little Bird type helicopters, with stealthy rotor blade - it is whisper quiet for operation at any time of the day or night.


With the package delivery service you can assure secrecy by using a physical version of a public key cryptography system.

The way that works is those who want to receive items secretly obtain security bags with padlocks and keys. When they want to receive an item secretly, they send an open bag with an open padlock inside to the sender. The sender puts the secret item in the bag and locks it with the padlock. The locked bag comes back to the receiver. The receiver uses their key to unlock the bag and retrieve the item. The bag is handled at Asuncion terminal and is totally secured.

Other things besides contracts that are of significant value;

20 lbs of gold is $371,500 (292 troy ounces in 20 standard pounds (9.07 kg))

20 lbs of Avistin the cancer cure is worth $647,850 - about 4,534 daily doses.

These are positively cheap compared other drugs like Soliris, which is 10x greater.

Not that the ballistic drone would be used for this but its useful to note that illegal drug prices are comparable to the highest priced legal drugs;

Cocaine at $60/gram worldwide is worth $544,200.

Heroin is $60/gram in LA, $165/gram in UAE. $544,200

Marijuana $6/gram in LA, $18/gram in UAE. $54,420 - $153,260

So, a $3,800 transfer charge for anything like this is peanuts.

That's interesting, just going online to confirm something - it appears the death penalty and agressive policing triple underlying prices of illegal drug use - just looking at UAE and USA figures. This suggests that the rate of incidence - by operation of market principles - is 1/3 as well all things being equal.

Cocaine overdose deaths in the USA is about 3.8 per 100,000 people. Cocaine overdose deaths in UAE is 0.7 per 100,000 people. There may be a lower incidence of accurate reporting among certain populations in UAE due to their zero tolerance there.

The real determination of drug use is income level. Very poor countries, even producer countries, have very low drug use rates, not because of enforcement or demagougary, but of income. If you don't have the money, you don't get the drug.

Its clear that drug trade, like sex trade, is used to control people who are otherwise free and capable and divert the use of capital to non productive ends.


For the passenger system, long distance first class passengers make up about 8% of the passengers and 27% of the revenue along with 74% of the profits of the world's airlines. There are 3.6 billion airline passengers per year and 700 million of those are long distance according to the IATA. 56 million of those passengers are the target clientele of the ballistic personal transport.

There are about 10 million private charter flights each year for about 6x the cost of first class tickets. A charter flight on a long range jet from Christchurch to London is $360,000 for four people roughly compared to $60,000 on Emirates Airline. Each takes about 32 hours and each has a plane change in Dubai on that particular route.

Offering 3 hour service point to point to any point on the globe, without having to go through customs or security? A brief stop over in Paraguay - stepping from one rocket to another - and arriving at your destination - precise address! Has to be worth quite a bit.

Rather than have a secondary helicopter fleet and a grouping point for even small spacecraft, which would begin to be a problem and attract the attention of regulators.

For free operation, better to just have a fleet of spacecraft of various sizes 1 passenger, 2 passenger, 4 passenger, 6 passenger - cargo carrier (150 lb) - package carrier (20 lb) - letter carrier (2 lb) - and dispatch them from the terminal for each type in Paraguay where there's a 14 TW hydro plant making hydrogen and oxygen propellants.

6,400 seats per day is a miniscule portion of demand. Yet it earns billions of dollars per year at quite competitive prices.

Keeping the spacecraft stealthy during operation - and having advanced AI and sensing suite on board - along with a dedicated earth sensing satellite array, independent GPS and communications - these vehicles after all - are designed around SSTO technology!

You basically, have a tor browser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySQF1b5eOAo

on a cell phone

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onio...519296448?mt=8

And persons can basically call a vehicle whenever they want and go wherever they want and return at prices competitive to first class travel, and in time frames that are 10x faster than conventional air travel, arriving directly over their destination and settling down quietly on fan power the last few thousand meters above ground level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg9guWqKShs

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Old May 14th 16, 11:29 PM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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This entire process described thus far is built around legacy technology. The development of radically new capabilities, like self reconfiguring self replicating microscopic modular robots, popularly known as 'utility fog' chages things radically

http://www.nanotech-now.com/utility-fog.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXpkG93KzdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1t4M2XnIhI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_6p-1J551Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvN9Ri1GmuY

Here, instead of paying $0.056 per kWh for electricity to make hydrogen and oxygen from river water, we have large swarms of robots collecting sunlight, processing air, and soil, into useful products, and then assemble on demand into any desired object.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/77588930/Brand-New-World

Obviously that object can be a ballistic passenger missile fully fueled, and sized precisely for the mission you've conjured it into existence for, and then dissolves leaving you at your destination. Repeat the process to return.

You access the system through an alternative to the dark web, that's delivered by the robot swarm itself.


http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login...er% 3D4684993

Anyone with a modern cell phone has NFC options on the phone. Merely switch them on, and you will find a pervasive signal that will be detected. Link with it, and you will be communicating with a cloud of processors that are pervasively in the environment, and communicate anywhere with anyone.

http://www.techradar.com/us/news/pho...r-phone-948410

You then pay for whatever you want and it gets conjured into existence. When your done with it, it dissolves into the cloud.

So, using our LA to NYC example, again, we travel 3,944 km point to point and require a vehicle sized precisely for this operation, and take only a few minutes and then dissolve back into the cloud.

People would tend to live anywhere they like and begin spreading out. Looking at the 105 million square kilometers of highly valued land, and the 7.5 billion persons grouped into 2 billion residences each within a hexagon 52,500 square meters in area. A separation of about 275 sq m between residences.

Extending areas beyond land, we have the potential of 2 billion hexagons each 177,125 sq km spread across ocean and land. A separation of about 500 meters between residences.

http://www.interiordesiign.com/wp-co...-Retreat-2.jpg


 




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