I hate to break it to you guys but there's nothing cool hiding in the labs.
Everything that is even remotely advertisable has been advertised by these companies to try to increase stock value.
The culture that built the SR71, the B2, battleships, Space Shuttle etc simply doesn't exist anymore.
It's a lot easier to tell ourselves "we didn't ACTUALLY go to the moon" than it is to admit that we effectively live in the ruins of a more advanced civilization that briefly appeared in the 20th century, but was bashed into the grave by bureaucracy, social spending, and contract mismanagement.
Look at NASA:
- Webb a decade behind schedule
- Grace Roman a decade behind schedule
- X59 half a decade late
- DreamChaser dead on arrival
- X33 dead in the cradle
- X38 dead in the cradle
- Starship/Falcon 9 developed independently of NASA objectives
- ISS on life support with no proper follow-on.
Yes, Isaacman is fighting to change this, but this is clearly the track record of an agency that did not continue the pace of the 20th century.
I have the honor and privilege of getting to experience a LOT of America's engineered solutions for space, and I continuously find myself more impressed with the 40 year old hardware being replaced than what we're replacing it with.
Simply put: we don't have *it* anymore.
We need to get it back. We need more Boom Supersonics, a new Skunkworks, an army of Elons. We need the government to be run by Isaacmans with a civic leadership all in agreement that their job is to BUILD the Republic, not to "manage" it.
So, how do we get there? How do we bring this back?
El primer pais más seguro del mundo es El Salvador: todos los delincuentes están en la cárcel.
El segundo, Marruecos: todos los delincuentes están en España
If you receive government assistance you shouldn’t be allowed to vote until you are self sufficient. You don’t get to tell me how to run my house if you don’t pay the bills.
Sono colpita dalla strategia incredibilmente brillante che il PD (e la sinistra in generale) ha scelto per cancellare dalla retina degli elettori l'immagine di migliaia di giovani uomini che sfondano un confine nazionale Europeo, invadono una città e scatenano il caos.
- asserire che "non è davvero Europa", minando la sovranità spagnola.
- asserire che erano già tutti rientrati, tranqui, implicando che i rimpatri sono cosa buona e giusta.
- asserire che c'è un complotto tra Marocco, USA e Israele per punire Sanchez, implicando l'equazione "risorsa = flagello" per i musulmani di cui cercano il voto.
Giù il cappello, signori.
Boh non capisco le critiche nei confronti dello stop temporaneo a Schengen. Ok che non confiniamo, ma è chiaramente una misura preventiva. Aspettarsi che questi flussi si fermino li, o tornino indietro piuttosto che riversarsi in *tutta* l’EU è ingenuo a mio avviso.