Re: Cheap
So having a steady stream of rather generic ready for the next opportunity might be approaching.
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Strange, and unfamiliar, but dangerous if you succeeded.
You might just spare a thought for people trying to give each of you the intended treatments and management.
One might speculate on whether the refusal attributed to "the NHS computer" is just that, or something more local.
A scheduled service to LEO or GEO, almost.
They have expertise and frequent practice in docking in orbit.
They have 2 well,-tested crew capsules, and one that'll probably work, one if which is known to work round beyond the Moon.
They have well-practiced propulsive landings.
They have the plans if the Apollo ascent stage.
They have much better mapping of masscons and the lunar surface.
They don't have a compelling reason to bodge that together into a minimum soonest mission. TMA-1 might bf there, but if so it has been for a million or ten years, and any waits well.
SR71 flights needed a lot more than the 1 aircraft and 2 crew. Tankers, AWACS no doubt, fighter assets for their exit points etc.
KH11 may be predictable, but it is also repeated, for months. And militarily, stopping your opponent doing something so it isn't observed is not without value.
If you were Spacex or ULA or the US DoD, would you not have a spare spacecraft or two - the next KH (we hatefer current model is) or that drone spsceplane, and s booster available for use in a day or so?
Old enough.
I've not heard ex-colleagues saying golden age, I have heard us saying saved, rescued, repaired.
Modernising Medical Careers was an impressive fuckup. I'd see sources for blaming Blair, or indeed Labour for it. It lead to Wueenslsnd's healthcare system being approximately fully recruited, and then a while later to there being a supply of spare ex-NHS executives offering themselves there, and being rejected.
And then there was the early chaos of the (Tory) Lansley plan.
From one class of users' perspective, the records centre around one patient, the one in front of us now.
Plain text and picture files work nicely, and can all go in one folder.
Automation is another matter, with assistance to writing prescriptions for instance, but even there, sending messages, and dropping a line of text into a file, may not be inferior.
Data for analysis might need to be centralised, but that can be done separately, or programs can pick out one record at a time and ask it questions.
Someone wants to add a new data type to the bucket, fine, provide the open sourced viewer for it.
Then there must be some people cooking with it, insulating with it, or smoking like unfashionable chimneys.
Because there are substantially fewer people smoking, fewer smoking so much, and fewer dying of several of thd conditions caused, exacerbated, or contributed to by smoking.
tl;DR: Balls!
I recall sitting in front of noisy valve radio sets which made EHT from 12V batteries by running a common axle which was a 12V motor at one end and a generator at the otter.
I recall there were big AC ones including ones which ran on 50Hz at one end and 60Hz at the other, separated by a very long DC cable.
But just spinning a big thing up without blowing steam into it would make a good stabiliser, even better if you want a gyroscope.
Demand is not fixed in time.
Also, every megawatt of electricity produced from the sun is a megawatt and a half of gas not burnt - it isn't cheap or unlimited and that will steadily bite more under assumptions independent of warming - and CO2 not yet added to the air.
Saving spare solar etc capacity - as it develops - by electrolysis and burning the result in those gas combjned cycle turbines may be worth doing to avoid wasting sunshine or piping gases to homes. Once it is spare, it is cheap.
and take off again,
And a few times more.
And with a more delicate and difficult payload.
Batteries with a 3 year shelf life are no trouble, even without panels or Pu.
The article mentions the Mars return vehicle in orbit, awaiting rendezvous with the Mars to orbit launcher.
You should think better, rant less.