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Then how come your so resistant to Canada joining this "Alliance?"

And the black slaves of Georgia were people! This position you have is a decidedly illiberal position for someone who calls himself a liberal! Are you saying people are property? I'd like to see you stand next to a black Canadian citizen and express that opinion and just look at his reaction to it, that would be amusing!

The question is which people count as people and which don't! Now if one is going to go around buying and selling human being as slaves, what do you think their attitude towards the Indians was? The Only reason blacks were brought to America was because Indians kept on getting sick and dying whenever there was an attempt to enslave them! Also most of the land we stole from the Indians was before the Civil War and by Democratic Pro-Slave Administrations. It was during a Democratic Administration, that of James Madison that it was decided to invade your country Canada! No Republican Administration ever did such a thing!

You should appreciate the sacrifices we made to eliminate slavery and to save the Union from people that wanted to corrupt it with slavery. Look what happened to the Roman Republic and Empire, they never eliminated slavery, and see how that brought down Roman Civilization!
Not to nip pick, but the Kentucky Long Rifle was used during the American Revolutionary War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_rifle

And the Lincoln Administration did not force any Southerner to stay in the United States if he didn't want to, they could have fled to Mexico or South America, and some did after the Civil War.

They could have saved themselves and us a lot of grief if they just took their slaves and moved to South America with them. One might ask however, what about the slaves' free will?

Well you see, those Southern Generals were not part of the United States military's chain of command, they resigned their commissions from the US Military, so therefore the US Generals were not subordinate to them no matter how high a rank they held in the Confederate military.

But the United States did not cede any of that land to them, and Fort Sumter was US government property!

Well I think someone fired those cannons, they did not fire themselves, the most likely culprit was a Democrat of course!

The United States did not hand over the fort or any of the land to the Confederates, so legally they did not have a right to be there, not did they have a license for those cannons, some of which by the way was stolen property of the US Army!

You know Robert, I thought you were a Canadian, not a Southerner! Did all those escaped slaves make a mistake by fleeing to Canada? I wonder? I'm not going to use the "r-word" but I wonder what some black Canadians might think of your pro-southern point of view, or the fact that some of those southerners may have owned some of their ancestors!

Well the Moon actually blocks half of all cosmic rays, you get less cosmic rays sitting on the surface of the Moon than you do in free space. Night time means that astronauts need to carry flashlights and need thick soles on the boots to protect their feet from the cold ground. Vacuum otherwise makes a very good insulator, it is probably easier to keep warm in he dark on the Moon than on Mars at night, the thin atmosphere does give the suit a little extra work in maintaining is internal temperature. These are only problems if you are in places where there is not constant sunshine on the Moon. The place to build a base I clearly at the poles, if you want o rely on Solar power. One can make excursions to other places while they are lit. There is also energy storage possibilities.

A suicide bomber is basically a Drone made out of flesh and blood, he has his programmers that send him out to kill people, presumably he I going to care what you do afterwards. The Japanese had a lot of suicide bombers, but after we dropped those two atomic bombs, they still surrendered, they all didn't want to die! The society that supported those suicide bombers (aka kamikazes, and Bonsai warriors), quit when they saw that their society might not survive if the did not surrender after those two atomic bombs. After they lost all hope for victory, no matter what the sacrifice, they gave up, this is what we need to do to the Islamic societies that support the terror war against us.

That is want Musk want to do. The Moon is just another destination for him.

remember this map? 13,670 m/sec for Mars. 15,070 m/sec for the Moon, if you add the numbers on the subway map. The thing is Mars has an atmosphere to conduct braking maneuver, the Moon does not. To get to the Moon, you have to do everything with rockets while Mars gives you a freebee for slowing down. Thus you need to expend more propellant to send a given tonnage to the Moon, than to Mars. Sending something to the Moon to build infrastructure to get to Mars just doesn't make sense. Mars has more of everything than the Moon does. The thing about the Moon that is important to us is its proximity, if you are living on the Moon, you have almost real time communication to Earth, so close in fact that you can have a real time phone conversation between the Moon and Earth as President Nixon did one time with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during the Apollo 11 mission

The same was true of the Pilgrims as well, they left their extended family behind in your country, England! Being in a pressurized habitat is simply a detail. Anyway the inhabitants of Mars will have much better communication with their Mother planet than the Pilgrims did with England! For Martian colonists, communication is limited to the speed of light, for the Pilgrims it was the speed of the fastest wooden sailing ship!

You fail to mention that it was Obama's deal to swap Central American immigrants and send them to Mexico in exchange for Australia sending us their radical Muslim immigrants, that the do not want, from Indonesia so they can come here and kill Americans! You left that part out. Obama is upset that we are protected by two oceans, which many Muslims cannot afford to cross. Islam is an Old World religion, the religion of the New World is mostly Christianity, there is not a single Muslim country here! Obama wants to pay for their tickets to come here, he sees them killing Europeans by bombs, guns and running them over with trucks, and he thinks America is missing all that fun!

You know I first learned about Muslims at the time of the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979?

The Mexican government by the way denies that Trump threatened to invade Mexico, that was misreported! We are receiving a lot of false reports by an unhappy and angry Media that is upset that the election didn't go their way, they thought they had smoothed a path for Hillary Clinton the White House, and they are very upset that it didn't happen, so now they are lying through their teeth. By the way, whats it going to do to our Mars aspirations when you are busy alienating the one person who could be a big help in getting a humans to Mars program going? Has Obama ever shown any interest in doing that? Do you want o wait 4 years and do your darnedest to get Trump impeached and removed from office, and then hope that whoever replaces him is someone who is pro-space and a Democrat? Do you want to see people on Mars or are you just going to fight Trump tooth and nail for the next four years?  You need to realize the Media is nursing a grudge and is not doing its job in truthfully reporting news about Trump! They want to control who becomes the next President and they feel they los that power to the American People.

Its starts by them calling a halt to all terror attacks! They started it on 9/11! If we no longer need those extra security precautions at our nation's airports then the war is over. The last time I flew in an airplane was in 2001 right before the attack on 9/11. If we ever get back to the procedures that existed before that attack, then we truly know that the terror war is over! The other side let that genie out of the bottle, the unleashed the dogs of war and terrorism on us, now it is their responsibility to stuff that genie back into the bottle and undo the damage they have done to our civilization! if they can't do that, well maybe they should have thought of it before they started it. Ending the war is their job and their responsibility, since they started it on 9/11 in the first place! Do they want to come the negotiating table and put an end to the war they started? Let them!

How many people flew in airplanes by the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brother's first flight at Kitty Hawk?

Well there is the next generation telescope. The SLS could lift a large telescope which may be able to find extrasolar planets, that would be well worth an SLS.

I think Titan deserves a flagship mission, I would say a rover/orbiter mission. Lets get some high resolution maps of the entire surface of Titan!. We need an orbiter to orbit Titan just above its atmosphere. The orbiter would also act as a communications satellite to relay information from the rover to Earth I think the Titan Rover should be similar to Curiosity on Mars, it would be powered by a radiothermo generator. Another question is whether we should have a flying rover? Titan's atmosphere is much thicker than on Mars, it should allow probes to fly. I think we would want a probe that can craw, fly, and swim. We might want to check out the bottoms of liquid hydrocarbon lakes and rivers, we might want to fly over them, and we might want wheels as well. What do you think?

Well it fits with his plan of a trillion dollar infrastructure program using public-private partnerships. SpaceX is a for profit company, that means some of the money for certain space programs can come from private sources, so long as a feasible plan to earn a profit is put forward. What private investors invest, the government doesn't spend. Seems to me a reusable rocket could be profitable, the article also mentions using similar technology for point to point transportation on Earth with a reusable rocket. This will beat air travel, you can travel anywhere on Earth's surface in less than an hour, from New York to New Zealand for instance. Airplanes would become obsolete except for short distances. I wonder what an international spaceport would look like based on SpaceX technology, does it have multiple launch and landing pads? It would seem to require one for each rocket. the rockets would not be able to taxi to the gate, passengers would have to walk up to the launch pad and take an elevator to the passenger cabin, they would then climb up a ladder to their seats, slide on their backs to their acceleration couches, and strap themselves in as they get ready for launch. Then the rocket would blast off making a lot of noise, after a bit the first stage would separate and return to the spaceport, while the second stage continues on a ballitic trajectory above the atmosphere, it would then turn around and retroburn into the atmosphere, then land on a landing pad, the passengers would then disembark down a ladder or stairway.

The Moon would also be easily within reach with ITS technology. A Moon mission starts off like a Mars mission only it would be much shorter The rocket launches goes into orbit, the bottom stage lands, a tanker stage is loaded, then it launches again, meeting the upper stage to refuel, then it goes into translunar injection, lands on the Moon, maybe it can refuel with some lunar oxygen and then blast off for Earth again. Seems it might have to stage and leave parts of itself behind on the Moon until some local refueling sources can be developed. Oxygen is plentiful, carbon and hydrogen for making methane is more scarce. Perhaps fuel can be delivered to lunar orbit.