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Now, im ignorant in this field, but couldnt you create an artificial water barrier around the reactor to absorb heat, that isnt part of an ecosystem?  could you also then use this heated water to produce hydroelectric or steam power (forgive me if i dont know how water power works)?

You probably couldnt tell a mexican from a venezualan.  your ignorance is blaring.

switzerland is a lot easier to run because the world doesnt hate them, and they have a FAR smaller population...but they have a more democratic system, i think thats what auqakah is getting at.

from what zubrin says, no.  according to rocket science...it would take more fuel and time to go to the moon first, and there would be no advantage from a moon launch.

if we could design an anti-matter production facility on a ship, it would be an amazing boon...as far as i know, it would be the only type of propellant you could maufacture in flight...just filter in normal atoms, and take out the antimatter. 

theoretically, couldnt you produce endless amounts of antimatter in flight?  thus, wouldnt the propellant weight be minimal?

I like the idea of terrestrial and martian plastics and kevlar better than soil...if i remember right, zubrin wanted to use soil as bricks, or radiation shielding.  bricks would be okay, but i still like plastics better, more flexible, mobile, less time to deploy, and cheaper.

bull. a "few"?  you have no clue how many illegals we find, and overlook.

couldnt a rocketplane using a nuclear engine, or methane fuel (which could be made whenever it lands) provide more flexibility and speed?

Weclome back Adrian!  I read some of your journals...very interesting stuff!  Any luck with the biosphere?

No, working in a defense contracting facility counts as working in a defense contracting facility.  im not going to divulge the name for personal reasons, but if i really needed to, i could prove it with my knowledge of the parts we made. 

of course, you can try to belittle what i said.  it still stands, i worked at a defense plant.

i still think for heavy movement, treads are best.  they can handle any terrain, and you can have them conform to almost any grade.  if you need to, you can made them spiked, and spikes would be more effctive on treads than on legs...you never lift treads, you use the spikes to grab and push, while on legs, you lift them, so half their value is lost.

legs might be very effective for fast exploration, however.

because my vote should count just as much as somebody from colorado's.  it wont, because my state will vote one way, and beyond that one vote, it doesnt matter.

the electoral system is crap.  if it went the other way, the republicans, the ones who spent $200 million to prove our president had sex with an intern, would have shown the country what being whiney bitches really means. 

you want to talk about whiney bitches?  talk to the states who were upset that they didnt have as many people.  boo-hoo.  in a sports game, the team with the higher score at the end wins, not the team who won each quarter. 

you speak boldly about the majority in other topics, yet you slither around it in this one.  why should the majority of our country not be the measuring stick for our president?  it should.  its not fair that millions of people who voted for gore didnt get their votes counted.