TIL! I'd heard of SSTO - and it sounds like you're saying they're a retrofit away, at least for the US government - but not asparagus staging. It's called "propellant crossfeed" less casually, apparently, in case any one else wants to look into it.
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Ah, that makes sense. I wonder how big of a rocket you'd need for that last step.
Doesn't that kind of imply this vehicle would be capable of achieving orbit? I figured speed would at least be limited by dry weight ratio.
Let's not go there, on second thought.
Project Loon, too. The idea isn’t new, and I kind of wonder why it’s more viable now.
Same for Starlink. There’s only so much bandwidth even a very modern antenna can have. And something flying is going to be power-limited as well.
It sounds like a Starlink satellite costs more than a million dollars, so that’s a pretty good deal if so. I wonder why this isn’t a thing already?
Jesus. Somebody got kicked out of their house over that, guaranteed.
As with most brain questions, nobody knows exactly.
One theory for the purpose of it, is to prevent us from confusing things we dreamed about with things that actually happened.
Edit: Lol, this always gets downvoted, but it's the truth. We know nothing about the brain; almost all the studies that get reported on are basically this.
I mean, define terrorism. I'm not about to Ted Kaczynski anything, but political violence is how literally every civilisation is built and maintained.
Follow up question, would it ideally work like the old Java Applets then, where you have to explicitly ask to launch a web app?
Yeah, these guys are going to find out pretty quickly that they're not warlords, and you can't Agile, litigate or buyback your way to suppressing a coup. They might still come out in a good position, because they have easy access to nice stuff and important people, and that doesn't instantly go away, but it's not going to be how they imagined.
Kamil Galeev had a good quote on this once: "Innovators are greenhouse flowers, they flourish only in very safe societies". And honestly, a lot of these guys are barely innovators.