2 problems with orion (1 is only kind of a problem):

I'm also not sure if the site could physcially hold a building that size and still allow for proper security but I'm just saying

it makes me sad that we didn't go for the gold. Should have gone for a cool 1,000 meters including spire on top. Missed opportunity if you ask me.

I'm not that worried, we had the worst economic climate since the great depression occur 4 years ago. In 5 years there will be plenty of teneants considering we are on par for 4% growth this year.

3 to 4 inches in diameter. Rebar is normally 1 inch

The environmental lobby won't have much say about polluting a non environment like the moon, considering it is peppered by solar radiation and constantly hit with falling rocks anyway, I think that dangerous research with high contamination risk (and consequentally high insurance or risk premiums) will be a major…

this article doesn't go into how complex the menus between actions may have been (might not have been GUI driven) or how expensive the tech was.

We also give them legitimacy, and it isn't the organization as a whole, it is the member nations that are our adversaries (or friends of our adversaries), the fact that they are members is just a coincidence.

I feel that he would make a good politician for the following reasons:

that base is all concrete and steel, all 20 stories of it. Designed to take a road side.... well I mean you would need something more then a bomb to dent that base, its over a dozen foot think reinforced concrete with rebar as thick as an adult man's wrist.

One very tall one, which will be the tallest in the Western hemisphere. Then 5 or 6 other buildings, 3 will be very tall (one 70ish stories, and two of them 50 or 60). From the Jersey it will look like a row of buildings standing side by side.

I still love how the first 20 floors of this buidling are just a giant reinforced concrete bunker using rebar as think as your wrist and a special blend of crete desinged to take massive damage, all with elevators and stairs running up the middle in columns.

we don't need the UN's permission to wage war, we have never signed a UN agreement or treaty that subjects the US to UN oversight in military, humanitarian or ethical behavior. We are not a signator to the ban on land mines, the ban on cluster munitions or any other such treaty.

I had to go to google to translate that one. If it worked correctly, we did.

The extremists would have loved, absolutely LOVED to show a video of Bin Laden walking around with today's newspaper. It would have made us look completely inept. They can't, they were probably asked to, had to tell their buddies that we actually got him, but they can't.

Admiral McRaven.... absolutely brillian lol.

he should run for presdient, and I'm not being sarcastic. Assuming he doesn't believe in some ridiculous policy points I'd vote for him.

Ok so point one we are in agreement on, maybe not ideal but it is realistic when looked at in comparison with nuclear plants (and theya dd to the common good so while we are subsidizing with tax dollars we are getting a benefit as tax payers, we just hope the benefit outweighs any actualized risk).

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