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NASA/DARPA Super Mars Rocket
On Oct 27, 3:19*pm, Rick Jones wrote:
Let me guess - they thought it would launch from a secret site in a volcano on a Japanese island? I saw that movie. Nancy Sinatra did the theme song. John Savard |
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NASA/DARPA Super Mars Rocket
On Oct 27, 1:35*pm, Ian Parker wrote:
You have a touching faith in private enterprise. Private enterprise can do amazing things, it set Google up. Private enterprise though :- 1) Cannot work miracles. 2) Is out to make a profit. Exactly. There was supposed to be this big conspiracy, hiding Nazi plans to make oil at $5 a barrel from coal, after OPEC raised its prices. But since the cost to the Arabs of pumping oil out of the ground was below $5, even if their price was well above $5, someone building such a plant would have no way of selling the oil it made - the Arabs would drop their price to $4.98 when it became operational. The same problem applies to mining and refining rare earths in the United States. There are things that governments have to do. John Savard |
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NASA/DARPA Super Mars Rocket
On 30 Oct, 06:33, Quadibloc wrote:
On Oct 27, 1:35*pm, Ian Parker wrote: You have a touching faith in private enterprise. Private enterprise can do amazing things, it set Google up. Private enterprise though :- 1) Cannot work miracles. 2) Is out to make a profit. Exactly. There was supposed to be this big conspiracy, hiding Nazi plans to make oil at $5 a barrel from coal, after OPEC raised its prices. But since the cost to the Arabs of pumping oil out of the ground was below $5, even if their price was well above $5, someone building such a plant would have no way of selling the oil it made - the Arabs would drop their price to $4.98 when it became operational. The same problem applies to mining and refining rare earths in the United States. There are things that governments have to do. The same applies to solar power as well. The policy for Western governments is quite clear. You set the price of oil to the consumer at the solar price, or a little bit above. If the Arabs reduce the price a Western Government should impose a tax so that alternatives to oil are not priced out of the market. W Governments can never allow the Arabs, or the Chinese to hold them to ransom. It seems to me odd that the right has insisted on military forces strong enough to beat the Chinese, but have not addressed the "rare earth" vulnerabity. - Ian Parker |
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