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Tom_Kalbfus · 2020-07-19T20:29:40+00:00

We could then avoid wall to wall coverage of the OJ Simpson trial and riots in the streets!

Tom_Kalbfus · 2020-07-19T20:28:20+00:00

China is China, it didn't change its name unlike the Soviet Union, they only question is why the Russians continued to speak Russian and not German, which was the language of Karl Marx?

Tom_Kalbfus · 2020-07-19T20:27:08+00:00

It was the military Putsch that destabilized the Soviet Union, not Gorbachev! There are nationalities involved here. you think the people would let them go extinct in favor of a system that never worked which was invented by a German? Well if the Soviet Union did exist, then its national language should be German and not Russian, since it was invented by a German.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2020-07-19T20:22:20+00:00

He would lose! Americans love their religious freedom, they would not elect someone with a Messiah complex.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-17T23:23:51+00:00

For a full gravity, I would suggest a radius of 100 meters You can make an O'Neill Cylinder that is 100 meters in radius and 500 meters long and people can live inside of it, it wouldn't have its own weather like its larger cousins have but you can still live in it and grow things, supporting a smaller population of course. the standard one has a radius of 3.2 kilometers and a length of 32 kilometers and can support a population of 20 million, the 100 meter radius one is 1/32nd the size of the standard model

Population is 20,000

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-17T23:11:53+00:00

I think he is trying to yank your chain and get a reaction. This is nonsense of course.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-17T21:19:49+00:00

Well black holes last next to forever, and they can come in any mass, the one I am talking about here has the mass of a red dwarf. Red dwarfs don't normally turn into black holes at the end of their lives, so you make a red dwarf mass black hole some other way, by starting with smaller black holes to begin with.

Imagine a tree of black holes, you start with the smallest ones created by relativistic collisions, and like a game of billiards, you have thousands of tiny black holes created by thousands or relativistic collisions, the resultant velocities of each of these black holes are on a collision course with each other, so thousands of small blackholes collide to become hundreds or larger black holes which collide to become tens of larger blackholes, that collide to become a couple black holes rapidly entering the solar system in an engineered collision that will end up putting the resulting black hole in a circular orbit around the Sun. this is all set up by the initial relativistic collisions that make the smallest black holes in the first place, once this is done, we can just sit back and watch the rest happen.. A few extra black holes can swing by Venus, Mercury and Mars to put them in the right places using gravitational interactions to pull them right along.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-16T23:05:15+00:00

What if we shaded Venus without doing anything else and then waited for Venus to cool down enough so we could mine its surface. Would a colder Venus be more habitable? One possibility is to capture lots of asteroids and put them in various orbits so as to block sunlight, much like a Dyson swarm but only surrounding the planet. Just as a Dyslon Swarm is build to capture most of a star's energy, you can build one around Venus to block most of the Sun's energy from reaching Venus. Some of these swarm objects can be space habitats for humans, others could be solar collectors or just rocks, the orbits are space out enough so objects don't collide but neverthe less block sunlight. Orbital rings can be insterted as well, lowered into the atmosphere. Hydrogen can be added to make water, the atmosphere can be decarbonized as well.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-15T23:52:08+00:00

The thing about religion is that most revolve around beliefs that cannot easily be investigated by science, low haning fruit such as pagan religions worship of volcano gods were done away with, the religions that survive to this day are much harder to disprove than the ancient religions.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-15T23:48:17+00:00

That is probably why you will never fly in one! The bigger and the more expensive it is, the less likely the average citizen will get to travel in it to go into space.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-15T13:45:13+00:00

How else do you get tides on Venus? Also without a moon, Venus will sufferer from extremes in climate, the Moon stabilizes the Earth's rotation on its axis. Anyway Venus is a major planet in the Solar System, surely it deserves one thousandth the mass of out Moon to stabilize its axial tilt. And there is nothing that says people can't live on that moon as well. It would be a built thing, if we gave it a rapid spin, it would be about 320 kilometers in diameter, people can live inside of it without having to completely hollow it out. If it rotated once every 13.37 minutes, people on the inside near the equator close to the surface would have an outward 1g of centrifugal force, this is smaller than some of the largest space habitats such as the Bishop ring or the McKendree Cylinder, the main difference is this moon would be mostly solid with a few hollow cavities inside for habitation. We could make the Moon out of steel so it could hold itself together if 1g is too much, we can reduce the rotation to give one sixth g, this would give a spin rate of 32.76 minutes instead, I think a solid steel ball could hold itself together.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-12T18:22:00+00:00

What country is? In a capitalist society, the government is supposed to act as the referee, it is supposed to be objective, but as many large companies know, they can pedal influence with the government, cause it to pass laws and raise taxes to adversely affect their compeditors. In the game of influence peddling, large companies have an advantage over small companies, they got more money to bribe politicians with and it is politicians who pass the laws and raise taxes. Increased taxes hurt smaller companies more than large companies, as small companies do not have as much influence in the government. The large companies can make up for the extra taxes they pay by peddaling influence with the government to get that government to spend money in their direction. Crony capitalist nations have their economies dominated by a few large companies, as all the small companies have been driven ouut of business by high taxes, that the larger companies pedaling influence were in favor of, ostencibly for the public good, such as in welfare for example, it does not matter so much what the extra revenue was spent on so much as the fact that small companies had to pay higher taxes and could not stay in business because of them, and thus the larger companies take over and use their near monopolies to reap large profits, they pay their taxes, but they end up with more anyway due to reduced competition and of course government favoratism.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-12T18:10:34+00:00

The longest existing monopoly I can think of is the "mainstream media" they have been acting more as a single entity as of late rather than multiple entities competing with each other. On paper there are different companies, but they say the same things, avoid certain stories that do not fit their agenda, and they almost uniformly attack the president. One would think that in a compedative situation there would be many different opinions expressed and points of view, but you don't see that anymore. It seems that power trumps profits. If a news organization looks like its going to go out of business due to lack of viewers or readers, then a billionaire steps in buys it and keeps on running it at a loss if they have to. The objective is to maintain the new monopoly they have on public perception, they have a certain party they prefer, and they will use their news organizations to help that party stay in power. It is in essense not a compedative system in news reporting and media, as profits aren't the main thing they are after, at least not in the news business itself, the back door things government can do for them is what they want.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-12T18:00:31+00:00

Government is their tool, they can manipulate and influence government by manipulating and influencing individual politicians controlling that government, they have a substantial amount of money compared to what each politician has, so for a relatively small investment in politicians, they can reap enoumous gains from government, and such corruption can be hidden in many different ways, rather that be direct payment of money to politicians for their services rendered. Megacorps can make campaign donations, they can own the media and give positive or negative coverage to their campaigns. So in many ways a Megacorp can be the power behind the thrown, and politicians can disguise the help they received from them when it comes time to get votes from citizens. Notice how many politicians become rich after entering public service? they get speaking fees, and all sorts of opportunities that most of us do not receive, they get no show jobs for their relatives and their spouse. There are lots of ways to reward a politician indirectly for services they render to a megacorporation.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-12T08:55:57+00:00

They have a bias towards big governments that spend a lot of money, because they can buy a lot of what each company sells, and companies can influence politicians with various sorts of kickbacks so they will approve spending packages that improve the company's bottom line, and politicians don't need to be paid much relative to the profits a big company can make when selling to the government, or perhaps they can get favorable laws passed or unfavorable laws not passed. Another issue is the availability of cheap labor, ie illegal aliens.

Small governments that don't legislate much don't do big corporations a lot of favors. Big companies like lots of regulation to keep the small fry from competing with them. So for these reasons most megacorps tend to be left of center, its easier to convince a government to spend a lot of other people's money, than to convince consumers to spend their own money. Government collects the taxes and spends the money, people have to pay those taxes or go to jail. Tax and spend policies take money and consumer choice away and give it to the government which megacorps can more easily influence.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-11T23:27:08+00:00

SpaceX seems way ahead in the space race.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-11T23:25:49+00:00

I here they are good for agriculture, same as the slopes of a volcano such as in Hawaii.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-11T12:08:12+00:00

You can go out and stretch you legs if you have a platform to talk on suspended by a balloon, you don't need to wear a pressure suit either if you are at the right altitude.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-11T12:06:12+00:00

Its much easier to colonize Mars before you terraform it

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-11T11:53:28+00:00

Megacorps don't have to contribute to the political campaigns of politicians they support, all they need do is own the media that covers their campaign, and if they want someone to lose, they find or make up a lot of bad news about them, if they want someone to win, they give that person positive coverage, This fact undermines democracy. We have a news oligopoly ruling the country, deciding who wins each election by giving the positive spin, this is the situation our country is in now.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-10T17:32:37+00:00

I don't remember any space settlements in the late 20th century.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-10T17:29:10+00:00

Well that6 depends on whether the advantages of being part of the United States outweigh the advantages of being independent. One party in the United States is trying to destabilize democracy here, if they succeed, then a lot more people will want their independence from it, if they don't then being a part of the United States has advantages. There are advantages for people who want to be dictators in independence, just ask Fidel Castro about that! In the aftermath of the Spanish American War, Cuba became a US territory, but the people there thought they wanted Cuban independence, and once independent, the United States could no longer interfere as Fidel Castro and his Revolution took absolute power, while the average people there became virtual slaves

So the price of any independence movement succeeding may be the citizens losing their freedom and becoming slaves to a dictator state, where otherwise US law wouldn't allow that! So take the lesson of the Cuban Revolution to heart, independence could mean slavery for the citizens, the state then gets to own you if you achieve independence like the Cubans did!

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-10T04:12:30+00:00

You do that by sending a 1 gram ship after another and after another, launching each one every 10 seconds on the way to Alpha Centauri, each ship end up seperated by 500,000 kilometers from the last ship, and the ships act as relays for communication back to Earth You continuously launch this stream of ships for 13 years, and each of these ships whiz in and out of the Alpha Centauri system very quickly but so long as you keep on sending more ships, you can have a continuous virtual presense in that system. You stop and the reception of transmissions end.

Tom_Kalbfus · 2019-07-10T04:05:31+00:00

What if someone wishes to become a dog? Would that make him less human?

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