Ars: What would be the way that an administration should propose something like the Golden Dome? Not through an executive order? What process would you like to see?
Moulton: As a result of a strategic review and backed up by a lot of serious theory and analysis. The administration proposes a new solution and has hearings about it in front of Congress, where they are unafraid of answering tough questions. This administration is a bunch of cowards who can who refuse to answer tough questions in Congress because they know they can't back up their president's proposals.
Ars: I’m actually a little surprised we haven’t seen any sort of architecture yet. It’s been six months, and the administration has already missed a few of Trump’s deadlines for selecting an architecture.
Moulton: It’s hard to develop an architecture for something that doesn't make sense.
I think it's relevant that there doesn't seem to be any oversight for civilian safety in regard to experimental flying objects.
If a large-scale government space project doesn't get oversight (or consequences), how much is there going to be for a shipping business?
not China per se, but more like general lack of safety regulations bad
and hey, free drone!
Yup. It does make me wonder if Trump is maybe doing a favor for some investor buddy, raising the price so they can exit at a higher value.
At the moment, not many:
The government bailing out a dying company is probably going to float the price, at least for awhile.
Er, well, there actually was a German nuclear project during WWII (nuclear fission was discovered in Berlin in 1938), which is why the Einstein-Szilard letter was written to FDR. Germany was actually ahead in nuclear physics research, but fascism destroyed the scientific community.
Are they fast as lightning?
This is the country that drops rocket boosters on residential areas (more than once) (more than twice).
I don't think I'd want to be living in the areas where the rich people are getting their stuff delivered by drones.
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Chicago has 2.6 million people. This number of accidental deaths is 0.0042% of the population.
They scored a grade of 99.9958 on this test. Is reducing the accident rate even a realistic target? There are always going to be some incidents that you can't prevent, some circumstances that you can't predict.
I'm not saying the safety effort shouldn't be made, but 0 is not a realistic target in the real world. You can always try to address edge cases, but you can't actually eliminate them.