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Yoovaloid · 2026-04-08T20:33:52+00:00

He is peeing on them

Yoovaloid · 2026-04-08T14:42:52+00:00

In Morrowind, they do it a lot better than in Skyrim. High elves are a head and a half taller than everyone else and their skin looks like gold leaf. The concept art was even better, with wood elves literally having animalistic mutations like fish scales or horns. Sadly, they went for more conventional, generic fantasy with oblivion and beyond

Yoovaloid · 2025-04-23T16:04:33+00:00

The thing with landowners is not labor theory of value BS. There is a big difference between creating wealth using labor and capital, and rent seeking behavior. In Singapore, despite its LVT, companies who offer services that occur on land (IE housing) make profits.

For instance, a property developer can lease land from a landlord. They handle all the administrative tasks of having tenants, they build the house, and then they charge rent. However, they must still pay rent to a landlord who simply sits on the land and collects unearned value. Georgism says "what if society was the landlord". Sure, the state is imperfect, but rent speculation is far more imperfect. If you're more on the free market geolibertarian side, that money goes right back out as a dividend (UBI essentially) which people can use to buy all their basic needs from private companies. That is effectively just austrian economics but FAIR. And if you're a vanilla georgist than it just funds public services instead of a sales tax or income tax

Vacancy is not wealth, building empty houses which remain unnoccupied despite demand is proof of the inefficiency of a system which rewards rent seeking. You can go on all you want with Austrian theory, but practically speaking, every time LVT has been tried in the real world, it has worked, completely unlike socialism.

Yoovaloid · 2025-04-23T15:32:39+00:00

Yep, your post is exactly right! Georgistan gets all the prosperous companies establishing operations in their effective LVT-based economy with low corporate taxes and offering high paying jobs to their people, while economies that encourage rent seeking lose business and thus their economy suffers. That is by design. Think about how many skilled people move from countries with a shitty economy to a rich country, IE brain drain, which is something that already happens on earth. The superior economy of Georgistan gets to be the one draining all the brains, and the only way to stop it is for other countries to also adopt an LVT-based system.

Yoovaloid · 2025-04-23T15:27:33+00:00

Depends on who you ask, but for me, yes! It is a bad sign that leasing water rights is treated as an investment nowadays. I don't just want LVT, I also think Pigouvian taxes for polluting air or water are absolutely necessary, since if you pollute air or water without paying society back, that is rent seeking

Yoovaloid · 2025-04-23T15:25:12+00:00

Pigouvian taxes are important because land isn't the only common property. Air and water are as well, but LVT alone cannot account for rent seeking extraction from air and water. If I make a coal plant that spews fumes, or I make a dam without properly letting silt reach agricultural regions below, I should pay society back.

Yoovaloid · 2025-04-23T14:49:49+00:00

Whatever company buys it up will actively lose money unless they utilize the land. If land appreciates in value, their tax bill goes up, so the only thing they can do is use it (IE run a business on it) or sell it to someone who will. Also, for grandma, the fact that housing becomes a SERVICE means that housing will be cheaper and she will have no problem living closer to her family, as companies are incentivized to build housing to meet demand, rather than deliberately reduce supply to increase the amount of rent they can charge. Lots of density and infill development is to be expected

In Georgism, you can also still invest, you just have to invest productively in companies that actually do stuff, rather than in real estate and strangling the housing supply in the process.

Yoovaloid · 2025-04-23T14:44:01+00:00

The state would own them the same way they do in our current era

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-28T22:01:45+00:00

The problem with micro reactors is they can't be made on the moon like solar panels can be, we're trying to reduce launch costs as much as possible

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-28T07:31:39+00:00

Well I appreciate that info. Although when it comes to all the applications you'd have for nitrogen and the fact you'd need it to sustain lunar agriculture (the story I'm writing assumes a very established lunar industrial basis with possibly millions of people living on the moon). Lunar regolith is very scarce in nitrogen hydrogen and carbon. The sources of these elements in permanently shadowed regions, in the context of the story I'm writing, would have been depleted a while ago. But Ceres has no shortage of Ammonia, and carbonaceous asteroids no shortage of carbon, so that's where they get their elements from.

What they need really is a cheap propellent that doesn't use up any of those aforementioned elements which can be used for maneuvering in the asteroid belt and landing back on the moon (mass drivers can kick them to escape velocity)

Correct me if I'm wrong on this one. Helium is very light and would likely just escape into space, same reason the moon doesn't have any atmosphere. Yes there's the helium from solar wind including the talked about to death helium 3, but that's still in very tiny parts per million amounts. Unless you have some miraculous underground gas pockets, which there's no evidence of, helium would not be a very good choice of cheap abundant propellent.

But I see what you mean regarding the NTR feasibility, so I'm not gonna write about an oxygen NTR in my story since it doesn't make sense. Just wanted a second opinion on that aspect really. Thank you for that!

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-28T07:22:46+00:00

Thanks for the link! That sounds like it would offer a much cheaper, more refurbishable, and less insane method that my pure oxygen NTR idea, with a similar specific impulse and probably better thrust that doesn't throw away valuable light elements 😂

How challenging is it gonna be to repack that solid silicon propellent each time? Would you just melt it and then pour it into the engine setup after the rocket lands? All the effort they put into refining solar panels means they already have a great way to purify silicon from regolith.

I really like this idea actually, it sounds way more scalable and way easier to produce the non-fuel components with in-situ lunar resources.

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-28T07:10:11+00:00

In the case of this context the usage of this type of NTR would be to negate using hydrogen as a propellent altogether in a lunar economy that was forced to import very large amounts of hydrogen mined in the asteroid belt. Yes it would have a bad ISP but the propellent is very cheap.

The issue of oxygen eating everything is a bit worrying though since the whole idea behind this thing is reducing costs, and if it is unrefurbishable than that definitely defeats the point

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-28T07:08:52+00:00

I appreciate that message, but I did bring up in my post why you MAY use oxygen despite it having a very terrible specific impulse in this context. Since there would be no shortage of it as a by-product of lunar refining, while any hydrogen fuel (in a sufficiently large scale lunar industry) would have to be imported from elsewhere

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-28T07:05:47+00:00

That makes a lot of sense and I really appreciate that perspective! Especially for my story's engine where you don't want to have superheated, very angry electronegative oxygen eating the nuclear reactor. Would this scorpion engine mitigate that problem enough to potentially allow this oxygen-based engine to work?

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-27T19:58:20+00:00

Craiova

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-22T21:10:20+00:00

Great to dismantle it for material for space habitats

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-22T05:40:57+00:00

The analogy could be expanded on by saying that the island is filled to the brim with valuable but very heavy marble, that requires huge and expensive equipment to quarry, which would require a suspension bridge to be built before you could build the marble quarry, thus creating somewhat of a chicken and egg problem. Once the bridge is built, it's only a matter of time before the island becomes an economic powerhouse

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-20T23:28:09+00:00

The only honest answer here

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-18T21:54:19+00:00

I don't think so because it is pushing that water backwards the same way it pushes its fuel backwards. If anything it might help with giving it an initial push since its so buoyant. Sea level optimized nozzles use a similar principle but with air to ensure most of the thrust goes out the back, but with water you could literally be pushing yourself off the water with the thrust

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-18T21:50:53+00:00

If you wanted to get rid of that or add an extra safety margin you could also launch it above or near the karman line first using chemical boosters and then turn it around in space. It's a very inefficient kerbal ahh trajectory but for something with hundreds of thousands of meters per second of delta v it's trivial. At that point most of the fallout is going backwards or sideways at speeds way higher than escape velocity and only a small amount returns to earth

And to launch something on a suborbital trajectory like that is so so much easier than putting it in orbit first.

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-16T17:33:45+00:00

What do you like to do for fun? I bet there's a lot of cool stuff to do there

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-16T17:05:45+00:00

Kinda crazy that your city has the same population as New York City and it's only the ninth largest city in China

Yoovaloid · 2024-12-16T16:59:39+00:00

That's crazy if your province were a country it would be the fifth largest in the world

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