Should NASA Stop Building Space Ship On the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11
Yesterday I was watching an interview with the CEO of SpaceX company and he was pretty clear about the NASA spaceship program, as for the first time in the history American astronauts will use the Russian Soyuz space rockets.
Flights surely won’t be cheap and that’s exactly what the CEO doesn’t like. In his words: “why we should send money to Russians if we can keep them in our economy.” I disagree we can send them to Russians if they will be able to provide cheaper and safer flights. But this is most likely not going to happen.
So there is question, if SpaceX shuttles are successful and if they will be able to fulfill their missions properly do we need a new NASA shuttle anymore?
Dragon spacecraft which can be used for transport to the ISS
I think we would not because global prosperity can be achieved only by doing things more effectively, including spaceships.
By the way, do you remember that Wernher von Braun, disobeying orders, continued work on the design of new Jupiter rocket which in many ways over ran US military accepted projects. Braun with his Army Ballistic Missile Agency then could do much better work without direct government funds and even with the order to stop the works. By the way his rockets were later used for Apollo program.
So how do we actually know that NASA is right, can be SpaceX better. I say let the market choose.
However I wish guys from Apollo 11 have a good health and hope we’ll see you here in next 10 years and together celebrate 50th anniversary. You’ve made a great job up there.
Demoncracy, Who Will Protect Us Against Anarchy of Government
So far I’ve heard that without a state the world would be place full of anarchy and injustice. But who will protect us against the anarchy of government which has the monopoly on violence?
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If you remember Nazi Germany, I bet that majority wanted to expel Jews then, but was that kosher?
One should be clear when the society stop being understood as the voluntary interaction of sovereign individuals but instead of as the collective thinking organism (brotherhood) then we are very close to a situation that larger, stronger, bigger part of that society starts discriminating weaker part.
Rights must be equal to all the people, and often argument if someone doesn’t like that we have special laws against him he can leave our country. But we often forgets on one main fact – private property is created voluntary but the state is enforced! Therefore it is an aggression and isn’t the main reason of law to prevent aggression?
Aggression is anything which interfere ownership rights of individuals. Beginning by body ending by the property gained in voluntary exchange or by homestead principle only then is not committed any aggression! Idea that we will ban for example abortions is then an aggression, because an owner of a woman body is the women herself, therefore she can decide what she want to do with her own property.
I guess that anyone would not like if others dictated him, do not sunbathe, or you cannot marry this one or this one, but that is exactly what’s going on when we forbids abortion or homosexuality. We use force to prevent voluntary usage (exchange) of legally owned property (kids call it theft).
My freedom ends there where I am not willing to accept intervention of others.
You maybe have heard our state our laws, but if you accept your laws just because you are strong enough to enforce them on some area, then you should accept anyone who is same strong or stronger to enforce his laws on your land. Only then it makes a sense of non-aggression and as long as you are aggressive do not forget that I can defend myself.
Dumb-Jazeera How Israeli Boycott Kills Arabic Children
Its not so far when I pointed at a typical economical leftist nonsense in the New York Times, and just yesterday Al-Jazeera scored. Lets go to the video
information value = zero so at least enjoy a pretty journalist
How many times I will have to say that trade is not a zero sum game? From trade profits both sides! Any regulation against the voluntary trade will lead to decrease of wealth on both sides.
Farmers want to end imports from Israel, how bad must be those Israelis who can sell their products cheaper, and why any Jordanian farmers did not protest when they were selling food to Israel during the Shmitta year. Actually I have my doubts that 2000 tons of food will ruin Jordan agriculture as it produces only 166 000 tons of cereal per year. What about the whole food production then.
Anyway even if it was a true why is so bad that the people in Jordan will have cheaper food? But I have an idea , all those loosing farmers can buy that cheap food and sell it in Egypt, couldn’t they?
It would not work?! Have you ever heard about boycott? The Israeli “Apartheid” boycott exists because they want to stop the killing of kids. Well it is not a bad idea isn’t it? There are now two kind of boycotts first is voluntary organized (by the way the site is using an Israeli technology) and second is organized by the Arab League.
But here still obtains that any forced boycott will harm both sides. For example Strategic Foresight Group had calculated that Arab states have lost an opportunity to export $10 billion worth of goods to Israel between 2000-2010.
Now do you know what is the biggest killer in the world? This is an example from great episode of 20/20 broadcasted many years ago. (you can see worth of watching episode here)
even in modern countries is the biggest killer poverty
By the way in Egypt for example organization Save the Children estimates that every year die about 60 000 kids as the result of the extremely big death rate for children under the age of five.
So I am just suggesting why the economy which have huge water consumption (4 times more than Israel per capita) and not developed agriculture if the world leader in agriculture is next door.
Just imagine if that rate fell only for 10% it would save 6 000 kids per year. For example between 2000 – 2007 has been killed about 1000 Palestinian kids by Israel, according to B’tselem (note that they are not much kosher numbers). Former Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir once said: "
Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us
I know she was talking about suicide bombers, but with the boycott we are reaching absolutely new level. So who is actually bigger bad guy if 42 000 kids could be saved by cancellation of the boycott or if 1000 kids could be saved by “wiping Israel out of the map”?
Star Trek Biggest History Moment was Capitalistic
A lot has been said about the Economics of Star Trek , from the new movie we know that Vulcans are taught the meaning of "excludable" and "rival." As Grek Mankiw, a Hardward Univeristy profesor, pointed recently.
From older episodes we know that on the Earth are no longer used money, there is a separation of public and private good, government must care about social questions. This all suggest that in the Star Trek world works some socialistic utopia. However the most important moment in the Star Trek history was definitely the first WARP (faster than light speed) flight, which opened way to the Universe and caused the first contact with Vulkans. Lets go to the video to realize what was Zefram Cochrane’s motivation.
Money, girls and beach! I even don’t like to fly. What can be more “capitalistic” than this? Actually greed is not always that bad Bill Gates left Harvard and had an idea that to achieve software quality will be required payment. And the result? He had started operation system revolution and later found the biggest private charity foundation in the world.
Despite of the Star Trek technological perfection, the world without money is one big unconsidered idea and I am not the first one who suggested that. So live long and prosper, oh and spend!
By the way Zefram rocks! See this one
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