Did you even read Sotomayor’ dissent? I did.
Did you even read Sotomayor’ dissent? I did.
You are not considering the part where we can’t use relevant testimony or documents to prove that what the President does is illegal in the first place. The President can just say whatever illegal things they did were official acts, and all the evidence that might prove otherwise is off-limits. It relies on other people in the administration to not follow the illegal order, but of course that is a weak protection and the President can fire them or do something illegal to them without consequence too.
The right to arm bears…
Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney is exactly what you are looking for.
I had this posted over my when I was at engineering college!
I think I’m saying that mining on asteroids will probably never be profitable or realistic (with a possible exception of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen CHON once people are living on orbit). Mining on other planets might require understanding different geology and maybe different refining technology. Anything mined on a planet will likely stay there. But there just won’t be any ores on asteroids because they never had a chance to differentiate into higher and lower concentrations of various useful metals.
Metallurgical engineer here. One thing I never see talked about on this topic is how astreoids don’t have nearly the mechanisms for concentrating matals into ores like planetary bodies do.
So while there may be a higher proportion of, say, iridium on an asteroid than the average of Earth, it is pretty homogenous. You would have to refine the whole thing to get a little bit of iridium. On Earth, it may be more rare on average, but Earth also concentrates metals into ores via heat, gravity and water action so that you can mine a small area to get what your want economically.
Metal meteoroids are mostly iron, which is cheap on Earth and of little use in space. Aluminum, which is useful in space, is one of the most common elements on Earth and even higher on the Moon, but it’s only economically mined in tropical soil that had ages of water erosion. Titanium, different process but similar story.
Given the economics of getting to where you want to mine, mining a non-concentrated rock, and then transporting it back to Earth’s for sale I just didn’t see any path for mining asteroids.
Once there’s is an established human presence in space, there might be a reason to mine organics (CHON) but that is not now and not what people think of when they tout asteroid mining.
His name will be on the ballot, but if scotus finds that he’s ineligible he can’t win the nomination here, so vote for him would be wasted. Well, it’s wasted no matter what but you know what I mean.
You can resist your dark urge too. That has a fun ending too.
After you’ve had the Ultimate Love Affair that has broken you, leaves you certain love has been poisoned in your system, then, and only then, can you be saved and uplifted by the Post-Ultimate Love Affair. - Harlan Ellison http://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0072/ERBAEN0072.htm
Deleted my 8 year old account and posts just last week. Feels great man.
Well to be fair to the actual journalists, a lot of those articles are published by random people with an agenda that are labeled “Contributor” as opposed to staff.
Shrug maybe they could. They have yet to prove it in the real world in the US, as you mentioned.
I like that my ISP has no profit motive and is driven solely by customer/taxpayer satisfaction.
I wouldn’t like it if it became a political football, but so far so good. I think its safe for now because it is the same network used by the fire and police departments. Comcast really tried to kill it off.
I love my Model O Glorious mouse. Adjustable dpi super dependable.
We taxpayers built a municipal fiber to house broadband in Longmont Colorado. Stable service, one of the fastest in the nation and inexpensive.
I love it when a telecom asks me to"upgrade" to their service. It messes up their script when I ask them if they can beat 1 gig up and down for $45.
This is the way competition should work. Some things private companies do better, other things the government can do better. Let them hash it out in the market without loading the dice.
This is exciting since it shows how easily you can build additional bunkers as the universe expands.
Half-drow dark urge warlock. Interesting reactions to my race so far.
Never mind. That is the way to change it, but for some reason it’s not always clickable.
There is a place that looks like you might be able to change the dice there, how but clicking on it doesn’t seem to do anything yet.
Side note, for the in-game items it’s in your camp in the travelers chest.
I think that was in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, iirc