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From the Klu Klux Klan Imperial Wizard's point of view, he had to choose from what he considered the "lesser of two evils" David Duke wasn't running for President, so his choice was the same as ours, he could have chosen Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. A lot of KKK members are rural blue collar workers, most of the countryside has gone for Donald Trump, and aside from their racist agenda, the candidate which benefits them the most they figure in terms of jobs, would be Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton. I don't think its a great surprise that the KKK would endorse Trump, but it has nothing to do with White Supremacy, after all both candidates are white. A racist is not on the ballot, so they get to pick what they consider the best between the two. Because a racist endorses Trump does not mean that Trump is a racist, that is faulty logic.

Here is another related idea In this case its a cylinder that rotates once every 90 minutes.

The continents are relatively undistorted

This world comes with its own fusion powered light source, it need not orbit a star. One idea is to have it orbit the fifth gas giant orbiting The Sun, this planet is projected to have around ten Earth masses, it has a perihelion of 200 AU, a Semi-major axis of 700 AU, and an Aphelion of 1200 AU, and an orbital period of 10,000 to 20,000 years. Because it has an artificial sky (the inner cylinder) you can project whatever latitude of daylight on the inner habitable surface of the outer cylinder. I think if the inner cylinder touches the atmosphere, it can regulate local air pressure using a ventilation system and fans, this occurs high in the atmosphere above the breathable portion, but you can create low and high pressure air masses and adding and subtraction air to various places, causing winds to flow in the desired direction, simulating a rotating planet.

They don't need to be boyant, simple air pressure within the bags can support the tower I don't think the shaft need be evacuated, you simply push hard enough to overcome the air resistance, as you go faster and higher the air thins out and there is less wind resistance. In fact you could even push the air upwards with your payload

Well Trump wouldn't be spending his money in this case if he were President. A tall mountain is made of rock, the highest tall mountain there is, is Mount Everest, I think with modern construction techniques, we can build something that was even taller because the construction material we would use would not be rock. Mount Everest is about 5 miles high, using a compression structure, I think we could build a structure that was 10 miles high or 52,800 feet. In the center of the tower, we can build an elevator big enough to carry a rocket.
1 second
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by accelerating up this shaft at 2 times the acceleration due to Earth's gravity, we can achieve a velocity of 0.35 miles per second, if we accelerate up this shaft at 3-g then we end up cruising at 0.7 miles per second at an altitude of 10 miles, this is about 0.5 km/sec and you till have 10.5 km/sec to go to achieve escape velocity or about 7.5 km/sec to achieve orbit. The rocket would continue to ascend for 114 seconds after having accelerated up the tower at 3-g for 57 seconds, starting at an initial upward velocity of 3648 ft/sec, it would reach a maximum height of 207,936 ft. or 39 miles, if the rocket fired its engines in a horizontal direction for the 114 seconds it took to reach that height and accelerated at 3-g, it would reach a horizontal velocity of 10,944 feet per second or 2 miles per second, almost half orbital velocity, it would take another 114 seconds to fall back to 10 miles altitude after that, if we ignore the curvature of the Earth., If we added another g of acceleration, we could probably reach orbit in another 120 second by canceling our downward fall.

The Media has been mostly on Clinton's side. You know how I can tell? The polls on November 8th all pointed to a Clinton victory, and then the actual results of the election were tallied and Trump won! Now why with all these polls did they err on the side of a Clinton victory? That is because the media taking these polls wanted to see Clinton win, people who suggested that there was a hidden Trump vote were derided as crackpots, until the actual results came it, and then the Media pretended to be "shocked" at this "come from behind" victory for Trump! Yeah right! I don't believe it!

I have not heard any talk of secession, there are some riots in various big cities, but the military is not supporting them, as parts of the Military did during the Southern Rebellion called the Civil war from 1861 to 1865. the rioters are just being sore losers.

Do you watch soccer? You are from the UK right? Do you like to see the referee playing in the game in his striped shirt, kicking the ball into the goal and yelling "Score!"? That is how I liken states competing in the free market, the government is the referee, it can't be allowed to be the participant, that is called a conflict of interest. The referee cannot be expected to be unbiased if he I a participant. The government is funded by taxpayers, you can't really want government workers selling hamburgers and hot dogs in the park driving out all the free market participants, that is called unfair competition! A government supported by taxpayers and writing the laws, should not be selling things in the market and competing with people that have to live off the revenue of their sales, unlike the government!

The term "Capitalism" was coined by Karl Marx as he needed an enemy to sell his Communism against. Communism is an invented thing, it needs to be actively managed by government and enforced to prevent market economics from taking over. What Karl Marx calls Capitalism is when government minimally interferes in the market instead of maximally interfering as he would like. There have been market economies since before the dawn of civilization, people have traded since before there was writing. The American Indians had a market system from before the first arrival of European settlers, tribes traded with each other, and so there was a market. Karl Marx didn't like this, he thought that the government should control all trading relationships, that is what Communism is all about!

A Swedish physical chemist, Leif Homlid, is producing ultra-dense deuterium, though the news-bite is a bit vague on how much and how stable it is. However it’s 130,000 times denser than water and would make a fantastic fusion fuel in an ICR fusion system. Might even make deuterium rockets a whole lot easier than Friedwardt Winterberg has imagined. Sure would be a less bulky way of storing the stuff if it could be made in bulk.

130,000 times denser than water?!!! Metallic hydrogen is only 15 times as dense as liquid hydrogen, which makes it about as dense as water. Metallic deuterium would be twice as dense, but 130,000 times as dense? So one cubic meter of the stuff would weigh 130,000 tons? I wonder how much gravity it would have? That would be 130,000,000 kg. 867438000E -11 Newtons

You could maybe make a pure fusion bomb have a metallice deuterium-tritium core surrounded by a mantle of metallic protonium-hydrogen. Ignite the protonium on all sides so you have an even burn. The metallic protonium turns to gaseous protonium producing inward compression of the core. While the outer shell is undergoing H + H combustion, the core is getting crushed, as it implodes it heats up, maybe to fusion temperatures, and basically what you have is a fusion bomb without plutonium!

Metallic hydrogen has some other properties as well, superconductivity, we could use that to build a magsail, the article said it was 15 times denser than liquid hydrogen, about 14 cubic meters of the stuff weighs a ton, so that means a cubic meter of metallic hydrogen weighs a bit over a ton, a little more than the density of water. Metallic hydrogen is also monoatomic, its chemical formula is H, and monoatomic hydrogen is its own oxidizer, H + H -> H2 plus energy. the reaction product is molecular hydrogen, which because of its low molecular weight has a high specific impulse, and a temperature of 6000 K, about the temperature of the surface of the Sun. By mixing the exhaust with more hydrogen, we can lower its temperature so that it can be contained within a reaction vessel, but it would enable a single stage to orbit vehicle. Metallic hydrogen is hard to make, but easier than anti-hydrogen, safer to use as well, it is non nuclear so it isn't radioactive, and the exhaust it produces is simple hydrogen, which at the temperature it exits the reaction chamber, will quickly combine with oxygen in our own atmosphere to produce water vapor.

Has anyone ever built an actual house out of legos, you know they type one can live in?

It would be great for building space colonies out of, and spaceships, Iron and nickel are building materials.

You could dig inside the asteroid, and if you go deep enough, all that metal bulk should protect adequately from all solar flares. Metal isn't he best shield, it produces secondary radiation, but if you go down far enough, even that will be ameliorated. Besides nickel and iron, there is likely heavier metals such as uranium in this asteroid, so space reactors, this could be valuable, there is likely gold, platinum and yes tungsten in this asteroid.