Just about whatever european country you live in (1) has inadequate natural resources including fossil fuels and must rely on imports from Russia and the Middle East (through middlemen or honestly and directly),

(2) has a fertility rate so low that the native people are aging and dwindling, that the country will lack the younger men needed to fill military and industrial/factory positions in the not-distant future,

(3) has negative native white population growth offset by non european immigration and natural increase, along with rampant disease-spreading, family-killing, dead-end perversion and mental illness (homosexuality and “transgender� self-mutilation, drugging, dress up and make-believe),

(4) has a pathetic military force,

(5) has a populace that either believes in nothing much, or worships a dead wife-less child-less job-less ranting jewish man and thinks that eating his flesh and drinking his blood will help,

(6) lacks meaningful industrial capacity or has significant capacity that is declining due largely to unaffordable energy (due, in turn, to euro refusal to buy oil and nat gas directly from the Russian Federation as they did before 2022),

(7) has excessive government debt,

(8) has poor and/or declining workforce participation rates, and a poor and/or worsening worker-to-retiree ratio,

and (9) actively supports and aids cultists who are intentionally mass-murdering and starving Palestinian people (“israel�), with over 75,000 women and 75,000 children estimated murdered in the past year, almost every hospital and school in Gaza intentionally destroyed.

Euro-bitch, please.

The phrase “asleep at the switch” was made up just for people like you. Prizing engineers but not the people who live there and are the historic nation means the nation can cease to exist. You make the nation into nothing but a corporation. Who works there can change so long as the corporation lives.

Europe is headed for demographic apocalypse and you’re waxing about how wonderful it all is.

A few decades ago, a charity in Australia professed to give dying children a last wish. A woman wanted the charity to pay for her dying child to visit Disneyland. The charity balked, and offered a brief trip to a nearby beach resort instead. Bad move. The lady protested, the charity was opened up to scrutiny, and almost all donations evidently were going only on administration. Donations then dried up completely and the charity folded. In some SE Asian nations, the NGO staff live extremely well; luxury apartments, expensive cars and high salaries. I wonder much how really trickles down to the locals.

NASSA video is hilarious.

Thank you!! I laughed my ass off at the article and comments.

Life is so dull and tedious with all the virtue-signalling censorship.

My son is in the Aerospace engineering program and registered for calculus III last summer.

It was a fat, loud, militant black bitch with a degree in education instead of math – an obvious diversity hire.

Her 12 page syllabus was a bunch of DEI/woke twaddle about how quiz and exam scores provided no measure of performance so instead the kids had to meet with her privately in her office to be given word salad evaluations three times in the semester.

She had the worst evaluations I ever saw in 20 years as a professor and department head. The kids were terrified of her extorting woke virtue signalling propaganda out of them, with their grades unknown right through the final exam. My son dropped the course immediately for linear algebra but to think a University math department would do this is horrifying.

I used to give money to charities, until I found out how little money actually goes toward HELPING PEOPLE. Just about all of the financial information that I have seen (when available) almost always shows an exorbitant amount of money used to pay inflated salaries and for (more) fund-raising.

I will share a little anecdote with the readers that actually happened TO ME. Quite some time ago, I received a telephone call from what sounded like a nice older lady, who was seeking donations for the United Way. She asked me if I wanted to contribute and I said no, but that I had a suggestion to make.

She asked me what the suggestion was and I told her that perhaps Elizabeth Dole, wife of MILLIONAIRE Republican political honcho Robert Dole, whom United Way was paying $100,000 per year to shuffle papers at a desk, to kick back some of her outlandish salary.

The lady laughed and told me that I was not the only one who had made that suggestion.

Just about every “charity” is a SCAM – exorbitant salaries, huge amounts of money for fund-raising efforts and very little money to actually help people or animals, in the case of ASPCA and HSUS (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals & the Humane Society of the United States).

Speaking of the ASPCA and the HSUS, if those two charities were actually concerned with helping animals, they would combine their efforts and thereby do away with all of the duplication of efforts of the two organizations. But they don’t care about that; they are only concerned with keeping their exorbitant salaries and cushy jobs.

Thank you.

Humanoid apes inflicted on positions of power by you-know-who. Results are ALWAYS the same:

Coleman Young
David Dinkins
Kwame Kilpatrick
Marion Barry
Eric Adams
…….

On a much smaller scale it is the same shit nonetheless. Look at this gorilla mugshot:

“Embattled shelter exec paid himself $651K with funds meant for needy: DOI”

https://nypost.com/2019/12/16/embattled-shelter-exec-paid-himself-651k-with-funds-meant-for-needy-doi/

“DOI also found that the nonprofit’s chief financial officer, Keith Walker, scored $485,541 in 2016; its operations executive, Douglas Wood, made $383,429; and even the bookkeeper, Kanta Lachman, banked $332,276.”

Ya thing this shelter is something huge like Empire State Building ? Not at all. Small 4 floor building in Bushwick, NYC. 629 Chauncey St, Brooklyn, NY 11207

Racket was closed by the Feds a while ago but the poignant reviews of former shelter dwellers still linger on Google Maps:

“This has got to be unequivocally the worse shelter I have had the misfortune of visiting. The food is unfit for humane consumption, since my stay At Eddie Harris I have lost 17lbs.
Another thing that’s horrible here is the absence of functional bathrooms. There are 30 men on a floor to utilize
Two toilets and one sink. How disgusting is that. Each morning, when I awaken to brush my teeth there is a line
Of men jocking for position for the sink.
Can you imagine 30 men spitting into one sink. So uncivil.
On the all this place is one step away from an abandoned building . Do not
come here. This place is absolutely horrendous. Not for any decent human being to live in. Warning, do not come here or you’ll live to regret it!!!”

Another reviewers mention permanently broken oven in the kitchen so they nibbled at frozen meals pretended that it is some brand of exotic ice cream ���

KAMALA FER PRESIDENT ! YAY !!!

“Nassa”

Bwahahahah. Funny as heck.

Good thing she never got the CEO job as she’d have been the aerospace version of Carly Fiorina. You would think Boeing would have learned their lessons after McNerney but in all fairness its not that bad a decision to put execs in NoVa near the customers.

As long as you have operational leadership in place in the KC metro – and make sure you have the right contract teams in place to match up to every client – what’s the harm in executives being based in the DC area? You can always dig up some 2-stars to have lunch with at the club, or invite out on the boat or to a Nationals game. Can’t underestimate the importance of schmoozing and kissing ass and being at the right parties. Someone’s gotta do it, and you wouldn’t ask some white-socks engineer, right?

If running fast (with or without a ball), being promiscuous, having high time preference, high levels of aggression, low levels of agreeableness, and low curiosity were traits that advanced human knowledge and civilization, blacks would be in the catbird seat.

And pretending that everyone is the same and that therefore there are no racial group differences, and that therefore blacks are the same as/interchangeable with whites, does everyone a huge disservice. Everyone knows that blacks have been routinely as a matter of policy, artificially elevated to positions they could not obtain otherwise and this creates a rational fear of being harmed by black incompetence and/or malevolence.

Whereas in meritocracy, even if tainted slightly by nepotism or corruption, competency is generally assured. It functions less to elevate the incompetent than to simply extend benefits based on in-group preferences, which is largely a rational impulse borne out by the experiences humans have had with social trust.

“Well Done�…I have no “beef� with your post. Such sparkling wordplay is “rare� indeed.

I’ll be “Moo-ving� on now….

You have no udder thoughts on the subject?

That civilization collapsed into itself.

The group responsible for PR decided it was better to just forget it ever happened.

The history might mention an important historical date like Juneteenth.

Have you forgotten when NASA sent a bunch of cattle to a space station orbiting the earth, to find out if they could survive long enough to become food for astronauts on a long voyage?

They were the herd shot round the world.

“Well Done”…I have no “beef” with your post. Such sparkling wordplay is “rare” indeed.

I’ll be “Moo-ving” on now….

; )

Have you forgotten when NASA sent a bunch of cattle to a space station orbiting the earth, to find out if they could survive long enough to become food for astronauts on a long voyage?

They were the herd shot round the world.

The insert reminds me of a couple of jokes I heard when, in 1983, the first black astronaut lifted off in the American Space Shuttle:

“First coon to the Moon” and,

“The jig is up!”

The Ted coon moved on to doing Ozempic commercials. He wears a red helmet that is not big enough for his blubber lips. I laugh my ass off every time I see it.

All true, but what gets me is that 99%’er Whites use those facts as an excuse to needlessly focus on blacks while ignoring the High IQ 1% White & White Jew Elite monsters who use blacks to torment them.

Most 99%’er Whites I know still think Obama is some black fag who magically materialized just-to-get-Whites when the bastard is only a creation and tool of 1% White & White Elite overlords who count on the 99%’er Whites to continue focusing on largely mentally retarded negroes. (blacks must be genetically ancestral enemies of Whites which would explain most Whites fixation with them)

Also, your facts reveal that nigs are not masterminds of jack shit. Just violence and half-witted grafts. And who are not the ones increasingly pushing a Nuclear War, are not the ones (regardless of Obama) who ran and continue to run the U.S. economy into the men’s room shitter. Who lack any intellect capable of doomsday schemes such as dimming the sun, creating engineered aluminum resistant food crops or the chemtrails that have increased aluminum in soil by infinity, creating deadly vax for man-made viruses, are not remotely capable of cooking up schemes such as releasing diseases on American civilians, spraying DDT on children as they eat their lunch.

I could literally go on citing examples for the rest of 2024 and the entirety of 2025

The prime enemy is not some romper room-brained stone age black simpletons. it is 1% Elite Whites and White Jews. Those fuckers I am concerned with primarily.

How’s your good friend Diddy doing, Anglin? He was your pick for President, at one time. I suppose you two were very close, but Nick was much closer, uh huh, and you were so jealous.

Why can’t we just say what everyone knows? Blacks are extremely inferior mentally and the evidence is overwhelming.

1. Black-americans come in last in all standardized tests. Asian-americans do fine on all the tests so it’s not due to cultural bias in the tests.

2. Africa is by far the poorest and most backward continent on the planet. All of black africa is now controlled by blacks and has been for decades so it’s not due to racism.

3. No black has ever won a Science Nobel Prize unless you count one in 1979 for the semi-science of economics. They have won many nobels in non-brain fields like Peace and also in Literature so it is not due to racism.

4. Out of 1725 chess grandmasters in the world, only THREE are black.

5. 50 years of affirmative action special treatment and blacks have fallen even further behind. What does that tell you?

How many times have we seen this ?

Anti-black discrimination = racism

Anti-white discrimination = fighting racism

Whitey On The Moon (1970)

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Show some respeck–Dat is a schtrong Black Maine up in hea’

Ted is an HBCU grad (Morehouse) so you know he knows his stuff. LOL.

He was proceeded as head of Boeing Defense and Space by an even worse pick–they had a female non-engineer named Leanne Caret, a Boeing lifer who was selected for the post because vagina, but was forced to resign and leave the company in 2022 at only 55 years old.

She in turn, had taken over the Boeing defense/space boss job from Dennis Muilenberg, who moved on to bigger and better fiascos as CEO.

In 5-6 years as defense chief, Caret “masterminded” Boeing defense and space disasters like the Starliner, KC-46, T-7, MH-139, and MQ-25–all of them hardly mentioned in the MSM, but costing Boeing (and taxpayers) big big bucks and a total loss of trust and confidence from the Pentagon. She also moved the defense top brass from the HQ in St. Louis to the DC area, making them even more out of touch,

The best one was/is the Air Force One replacement program. Leanne and Dennis negotiated that personally with Trump. Instead of the usual “cost-plus” (unlimited money no matter what) contract, Trump held their feet to the fire, with a firm but fair fixed price contract that would have nicely rewarded Boeing doing a quality job in a timely manner. Of course, Boeing these days can’t do either of those two things, so Boeing has had to eat any cost overruns-I think it’s a couple billion so far, and counting. LOL. So DJT saved the taxpayers bigly.

It’s funny-they actually had high hopes for Caret to eventually be Boeing’s first female CEO.

Northrop and Lockheed, and I think Raytheon already had them. All the cucks wanted Boeing to follow suit-Imagine the media blitz! Grrrrrrrl power!

But then those two downed 737 Max aircraft and the 350 dead people ruined everything and the Boeing house of cards fell. Sad!

EVERYTHING WAS STOLEN FROM US!!!

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Sounds like you are the one without a sense of humor, a bit defensive as well, may even have a chip on your shoulder. Grow up a-hole, what a moron. If you were trying to be funny in your post, that wasn’t clear, maybe it is you who is funny.

Not having someone actually filling the role and duties his position should have been doing is what contributed to the failure.

I have only one question. Was the brain surgery needed to remove your sense of humor, very painful?

Commenter “Truth” isn’t going to like this.

To which I say, keep up the good work.

(Truth sure is on this site a lot considering he hasn’t been married very long. and has 2 step-kids. He’s on here more than me and I’m retired and kids are gone. You’d think he’d have better things to do there in sunny Albuquerque).

Make sure you put the red dot on the medusa bust, as the hag in the photo looks like a pajeeta.

Whatever minor “benefits” can actually be derived from “diversity” and “inclusion,” they are not significant, and they clearly are far outweighed by the costs which are extreme. A 100% White Male staff could easily brainstorm, hire a few POC consultants, and generally just try to ‘include’ some POC ideas in their planning and get further along toward the goals than bringing many POCs onboard full time just to try to get the same effect. Hiring 99% on actual knowledge and skills, along with some soft skills, working with others, etc., is what is needed, and then however many women, or POCs are hired using those criteria, is how many should be included.

Surely if diversity and inclusion are conducive to technological innovation then countries like Japan and China, where everyone involved is Japanese and Chinese, respectively, would be far behind the West?

Not having someone actually filling the role and duties his position should have been doing is what contributed to the failure.

Has there ever been another time in history when the civilized ruling class freely turned over power to the illiterate recently freed slave population?

Wakanda forever…!

There’s no way that this cuff link wearing negro played any part in stranding these two heroic astronauts in space. I’m sure he was too busy running “freak offs�, swigging bottles of Hennessy, while covered in baby oil, to have caused this type of damage to Boeing.

Space exploration is inherently dangerous and requires exceptional intelligence and self control. Boeing should reorganize and staff their entire space programs with Haitians. Put two Haitians in a rocket ship with a few dozen cats and a couple of geese. A crew like that could punch through the Van Halen radio belt and reach Mars.

This is not a black hobby…

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Airbus is mostly United Technologies and Lockheed Martin.

Starliner has cost Boeing $1.6 billion in overruns

Cost? Are you sure? I’d imagine these overages have been buried in other programs and long since paid for by Mr. and Mrs. SixPack.

They got the wrong Negro for the job

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Celestia uses language that is not my own, but is essentially correct. White European nations built the great cities, the great arts, the great technologies and medicines, constitutions, universities, scientific and navigational discoveries, and on and on. When we were at war, it was mainly fratricidal.

Our grave mistake was the importation of too many Third Worlders into our cultural institutions and allowing too much sympathy for the Jewish cause to become that group’s hijacking of our cultural and political ideals. “Whites” are not blameless, but they were galaxies ahead of the cr*p that became dependent upon us. And because of this we are in fact sorry for you, Jedi. You’d be nowhere without us.

Which hamstrung European nations do you mean? I live in Europe, in a country that esteems and prizes engineers (there are several such countries on the continent) and have not turned over great companies to PC asses. Airbus is just fine. Not your Boeing.

Jesus Christ, I knew the Invictus Games were a horrific example of using disabled veterans to sell unquestioning militarism (Well, probably the vets themselves are probably the biggest problem and true believers, kind of like transgenders who advocate for children to be mutilated just like them) and pretend Western soldiers have died and been maimed for some higher meaning beyond Israel (Essentially using victims of the wars to advocate for more wars) but I didn’t realise the likes of Boeing actually sent execs there to give speeches!

That’s just insane, Boeing is using paraplegic soldiers to advertise their weapons! How the hell do they get away with this? How is that not a scandal? This is supposed to be a charity which uses any profits to help injured soldiers and their families, how are they booking out massive auditoriums with custom graphics? It doesn’t even look real, it looks like something out of the Mission Impossible or those GI Joe movies.

The NATO ghouls will infest anything. I suppose it’s not unlike “poppy fascism” in Britain where an anit-war symbol somehow became identified with the British military and supporting anything it does. Except the Invictus Games were always like this. Such a moronic frat boy idea of the military, it exists for you to get best friends for life and for you guys to go on adventures. And hey, we should do something to make the guys who got a bad deal out of it feel less bad bro.

you don’t want to accept responsibility for destroying your nation

It is well known that pro whites endlessly raise the issue of other whites that have tolerated jews, this is pretty much accepting responsibility if you believe that whites as a collective are to blame. However more important is the issue of solving the jewish problem, there is nothing more irresponsible in this world than allowing these evil entities to continue to exist.

Trump won’t change a thing, DJT and the modern GOP are fully onboard with all this ESG DEI and cheap immigrant labor, new citizen taxpayer thing.

They indoctrinate MBA students with ESG and CRT at college, thats where the corporate rot starts.

Stard Wars Boy,
There is no de-niggering of civilization, that is to say, convincing the white women to stay away from the nigger, without turning the nigger into an object of ridicule and gut-level revulsion (bypassing rationality). Making a joke of the nigger is a part of the process of a body healing itself.

9 will get you 10 that the dumb nigger was sacrificed to protect a dumb Indian. Like the $9 hourly offshore dots who so expertly programmed the Boeing 747 Max. Whites hate niggers most of all but for some strange reason use that as some sort of incentive to give other colored races a free pass to their own detriment as the non-negro coloreds hate Whites just as much as the blacks if not more so.

Your response proves my point – you don’t want to accept responsibility for destroying your nation; you would rather waste time and energy chasing phantoms,blaming scapegoats. I am almost sorry for you.

“ You, ie people of European descent� LOL

Nigga Pleezzzzz, the world would be paradise without niggaz, Jews and third world leeches sucking on the tit of whitey.

Does us a favor and phuc off, eat schitt and die……

So NASA is sweating bullets cause they are getting heat from the government about how few black astronauts there are.

They have a meeting and one of the execs says, “Hey, we’re gonna send a monkey up next week to go circle the moon. A run of the mill launch to check stuff out. There are two seats, just grab some random black dude sit him next to the monkey and we will be off the hook.”

They think this is a great idea and convince the janitor to go up on the flight.

The launch is successful and the janitor is sitting right next to the monkey, things are looking good.

The janitor sees the monkey turn a few dials on the dashboard, so he turns a couple dials too.

Then the monkey hits a few buttons, so, he hits a few too.

Then the janitor sees the monkey look at a note in his pocket. He is curious. Soon the monkey falls asleep.

Very carefully the janitor reaches over and gets the note out of the monkeys pocket and reads it.

It says, “Don’t forget to feed the nigger.”

The good news is, we can solve the energy crisis by hooking a generator
to Wilhelm Böing spinning in his grave �

Except that the niggers have never dominated any aspect of the USA. You cannot therefore, reasonably, blame the niggers for the collapse of the us. You, ie people of European descent, destroyed your nation through mass murder all over the world (incessant warfare), in the name of bringing democracy and civilization to the world, thereby squandering trillions of dollars; money that could have been put to better use. You also destroyed the family unit, which is one of the most important bases of civilization by glorifying infidelity in Hollywood films, glorifying the perversion of the lgbtqxyz lifestyles, encouraging toxic feminist movements, etc. If you are serious about saving your nation, stop looking for scapegoats (the jews, the niggers, illegal immigrants,etc) ; accept you messed up, then course correct.

For anyone who hasn’t see the excellent documentary program about the Old Negro Space program:

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Niggaz are a multidimensional alien monkey race from Wakanda (aka Detroit) that use Vibranium powers (aka Burn-loot-murder-rape) to manipulate black holes (aka hoes) to transverse tha universe (aka tha hood).

That’s why the universe is collapsing in on itself instead of expanding.

Damn! You rite good!

I’m still snickering…

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I think it will be sooner than 25 years. Especially if course corrections aren’t made (trump isn’t elected, the woke keep getting elected at all levels of government, the woke keep getting jobs above their skill level).

Yeah, but wasn’t Wakanda’s space program that started intergalactic space travel, run entirely by Negroes?

I stopped scrolling down when I saw James Lindsey and hit end page and started scrolling up to write this.

How to destroy a once successful company 101. I truly wonder what the endgame is with this societal suicide mission? The White male on his knees washing and kissing the feet of every NAPA, or just the simple extermination of all that won’t comply to whatever the fuck it is these cunts want. The funny part is, that very thing seems to change from day to day.

Soon, gone will be the day that the cream that rose to the top and even with the imperfections and societal issues, built in record time the most successful country in the world. The biggest mistake in the history of this and many other nations was the allowing of those literally bringing nothing to the table, the right to vote. I give the US another 25 to 50 years and it’ll look like some sort of bastardized version of hamstrung European nations where the order of the day will be man buns and worshipping of everything that isn’t male, and White.

Newton was overrated by British media. He was a hardcore plagiarist. Those were the time where Europe were getting access to scientific knowledge from India, China, Egypt etc. Newton copied calculus form Indian sources, and added Church type metaphysics in his work and made thing overcomplicated. Nobody use Limits in calculus for practical engineering. Europeans made math as a religion instead of just being a tool of abstraction.

See C.K Raju’s explanation about Calculus without Limits.

Newton’s Godly hype was manufactured much after his death. There were so many critics of him when he was alive.

Tesla see electricity differently then his contemporaries. He was non-academic which is the reason why he was ignored by academia, as academia is about settlement and dogma manufacturing. I have read almost everything about Tesla and replicated many of his radiant energy experiment and got positive results which cannot be explained by academia.
https://www.quora.com/Genius-and-Geniuses-Who-was-smarter-Albert-Einstein-or-Nikola-Tesla/answer/Partha-Sarathi-Mishra-%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A5-%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%A5%E0%AD%80-%E0%AC%AE%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0

So who cares what any jerks says, when I have practical experience unless I am handicapped.

I do not know today the status of the space mission, even who is on board now….. because I do not follow space adventures, believe there are better ways to spend money…

However, enjoyed this listing from about 4 years ago…. would much appreciate a staging of the space events. the stuff of high quality comedy…. I do not know if I believe it, or some of the subsequent posts on that subject. I could believe the saga of the lady and the toilets, having experienced human nature for so many years ( more than eighty).

I may try to check on the toilet situation on space stations these days….

I can positively say, absolutely correct. I’ve read to much history and examined too many sources on this subject to know you are correct. On another note, the American astrophysicist , John Richard Gott, wondered in one of his books, “Time Travel in Einsteins Universe” why the rocket plans for the Saturn five were destroyed. He stated that they were one of the most remarkable achievements ever, in rocket engine design.

… when inserting quotes in a foreign language, nowadays it’s easy enough to check for correct spelling e.g. via internet … vive la petite différence !

Men and women pee in a dissimilar way, to start with. It was not a problem for last six thousand years of recorded history, but now, for the enlightened West, it has become a real worry.

Since this old writing from Shamir popped up.
The Greek democracy was also known for it’s crazy sophists, and what more.., and they came up with a lot of crazy ideas too. Nothing new under the sun, just different in detail, and since the modern democracies are more intensely populated.., you have more fools running around. It’s just that democratic propaganda altered history a bit and swept some stuff under the carpet when they wanted to try it again, it makes memory short.
Old news, business as usual.

If the male astronauts can’t succeed in making Houston rescue them from the bit*h, they can always slap it and threaten to space it; that’ll get Houston to spend the money; hell, Houston may even build a shuttle and send it in record time.

Fantastic comment mate. I want to write something on this.

I love astronomy. I love space. I love science fiction. Believe me when I say this…..nobody on earth would be happier than me on the day we land on Mars. But…….to me it seems like a pipe dream. Logistically impossible. Think about it…the take off, the path plan which will take them 2 MONTHS MINIMUM to even get close to Mars, and then the landing……what are the chances something doesnt fuck up??? Why is nobody pondering on these questions? What is the space crew supposed to do in the interplanetary flight for 2 months? What are the chances that the hull isn’t breached by some space rock or other activity in those months? How haphazard will be the landing on a volatile foreign land when we fail more often than not even on our bases and launch pads with familiar routines?

Let alone building a martian base, let alone propagating life there, let alone building a self sufficient colony…….how will we even land properly even if we somehow managed to get into the Martian orbit at exactly the designated place?

As I said I love space and I’d love for my opinion to be proven wrong. But mars seems impossible. A base on the Moon is far far more realistic albeit still something out of fantasy. But Mars? No way.

Personally, I think that Elon Musk is a world-class IDIOT. He obviously has not seen a government subsidy that he does not like. I would no more trust him with my “future” than I would trust my Himalayan cat with it.

If Musk were such a “people person,” his injury rates at his automobile assembly plants would not be the highest in the industry. Also, there would be no need for the United Auto Workers union to attempt to organize his workers.

To slightly paraphrase an old quotation, “Behind (almost) every fortune lies a crime.”

Thank you.

FYI about Toyota’s solid state battery –

Victim and cancel culture is not a product of the Frankfurt school and or of contemporary ‘woke’ people. This is democratic propaganda of conservatives.
Victim and cancel culture is and has been central to democracy itself from the beginning throughout the whole spectrum. A part of the previously rebellious democratic people are merely trying to put the blame along political lines, as their memory is short and they are spoonfed with propaganda. US society has been a rebellious ‘cancel’ society right from the beginning.

The question should be: who is Elon Musk? How did he catapult to Automobile magnate, SpaceX entrepreneur, tunnel boring and all the other things? Every enterprise he chairs hangs from the public tax teat.
Someone should look into bow he was selected.

I go to the gas station once every two weeks and fill my truck’s 36 gallon tank with gasoline.

Can’t wait for your direct from natural gas to battery transfer of power.

LOL!!

Since batteries are DC storage, you need an inverter to convert its power to AC. Due to where I live and the numerous outages we get every year, I invested in a backup system over a decade ago.

An Inverter / Charger (I/C) keeps the batteries topped off using power from the grid; no need for a smelly and loud generator. When it realizes there’s an outage, it switches over to battery power in less than 1/60th of a second. Computers and other sensitive gear really prefer a full sine wave inverter. The much cheaper square wave units can run machines but even a fan sounds strange when getting non sine wave power and motors will run hot.

Normally your house electrical system is also split to a sub panel that gets its power from the I/C and the output from the I/C runs a subset of your house that wants no down time. To run a whole house on batteries and an inverter is where a Tesla Powerwall or similar equipment comes into the picture.

Electric motors have an almost flat torque curve. They consume the power they need for the load, so there’s no real need for a transmission. The added weight, cost, space, complexity, jerking on a gear change all say to not use one.

I purposely don’t have a WiFi gadget. All my computers are hard wired. My smartphone therefore has no access to an Internet signal. I use it as a phone and charge it about every 10 – 12 days when I hear it beep at me. I can’t stand web browsing, getting email, etc on that postage stamp sized screen. I can palm a basketball and trying to use the on screen keyboard with my large hands is frustrating. If there’s a photo or something I want off the phone I USB connect it to my computer and download it. My personal machine has a 33″ primary monitor and a 42″ monitor that I use when I’m designing something in CAD (BricsCAD Platinum). Sometimes the wife and I watch a video on the large monitor.

I’m not for Big Wind or Big Solar but I’m rabidly for local self owned solar and wind power.

How many kilowatts per hour are you generating from your windmill and solar panels?

Hello Bill,

Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Toyota is rumored to have a solid state battery that will charge in 5 minutes ready for 2024 that will do 1000 miles per charge in a typical vehicle.

When (if?) this happens it will be a total game changer for all things electric, not just vehicles. I’d imagine every house and every appliance to have this sort of battery backup built in. Imagine not worrying about the food in the fridge when the power goes out, and having the ability to quickly recharge it with a simple generator that you could run for a short time. Perhaps we could do away with the grid entirely. Every home could be energy independent. Sounds wonderful.

When I estimated “likely more than 100 solar panels in most placesâ€� I was using 250 watt panels in overcast places that are less than ideal for solar, and I kinda of assumed off grid. You are correct. If you’re just looking to charge the car for daily travel 30 or 40 400 watt panels would be sufficient for most people in many places. Grid tied systems would eliminate the “can’t charge the car in the dark without a big old battery bankâ€� problem.

I think it is foolish of Tesla and other electric car manufactures to omit the transmission like they have. I think a transmission would be beneficial for range as well as motor longevity. Electric motors have plenty of torque, so they would have plenty of power in the cruising gears. Why run wide open sucking up electricity instead of cruising at a lower rpm? I don’t get it.

I really do wish they would build new cars without the spytech and the unnecessary overcomplicated electronic gadgetry. I think many people would prefer a more simple, unconnected automobile. Not everyone wants to be all connected all the time. Just a solid, reliable, get in turn the key and go mobile.

I do have an old cell phone and I’m sure it can spy on me, though I can easily take the battery out. I occasionally turn on the data (3g) (sometimes it only comes in 1g) to send or receive a photo. Hell, I rarely use the cell phone, but it is convenient at times. I’m on the $80 a year plan and I always have more than half of my left minutes to roll over. (I have a $400+ dollar credit so I guess I should use it more.) I think the newer phones with multiple cameras and faster connections are much better spying tools than my old, usually not connected, often turned off, cell phone. Not that I’m hard to find as I’m a hermit, or that interesting to spy on. They’d get bored pretty quick if they cared to listen in on my cell phone. Not sure they’d hear anything most of the time. Sometimes I leave the phone in the car for days.

I’m a linux guy too. I haven’t used anything else in years. I’m also a manual transmission guy. It’s just more fun that way. I live in a rural area, so I don’t see much traffic, unless I take a road trip or have to go closer to Atlanta for some reason. The county where I live has about 10 traffic lights, mostly near the highway and the “cityâ€�. I get a blistering 6mbps for $70/mo from the only provider in town via DSL, but it does come with unlimited nationwide landline telephone. As you say, not much spying going on at that speed.

I really do hope that Toyota solid state battery that you mentioned becomes a reality.

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“…Why make electric cars when much electricity comes from burning natural gas at a distant power plant? …”

There’s several complaints here that complain the electric cars run off of coal, less efficient, could use natural gas instead, blah, blah, blah, you are missing the point entirely. With an electric car you can use LOCAL, like on your house, solar and wind and charge your car. You’re not locked in to the Oligarchical society control grid. Eventually I hope the car will be able to be power the house in case of electrical outages.

There’s a new solar cell supposedly being made this year that has 40% efficiency. it will go a long ways towards making solar cheaper. This has just begun. There’s a vast amount of research on this and solar will get cheaper and cheaper all the time.

I’m not for Big Wind or Big Solar but I’m rabidly for local self owned solar and wind power. it takes away the monopolist energy advantage. After all I can’t drill an oil well but I can make a wind mill or some sort of concentrated solar power system.

As for “racism,� it can’t be cured, since all whites are racist no matter what we do. Even if whites were gone, the battle would rage on between mixed-race people and non-whites. Thus, “anti-racism� is now not like a religion; it is a religion. It has a cult of saints, a devil figure, and claims of miracles and supernatural occurrences. George Floyd rivals Jesus even within the Roman Catholic Church.

Comparing antiracism to religion is intended to show that neither works in the way they are supposed to because they are not true. However this familiar trope of white ‘nationalism’ has got aproblem because religion does clearly work to increase individual reproductive fitness even in Catholics church where the disseminators of the evolutionarily useful illusions are themselves celebrate. Religion works to pull people together, which is why it was reintroduced in the USSR during ww2.

He got it wrong because Communism didn’t work …

It did at what they concentrated on. War at its best has an element of religiosity that was lacking in the USSR. Putin has remedied that with a return to the old methods of pulling all together. See how the late Donbass cutthroat Motorola is now part of the mystical body of Christ in the modern world.The above iconography bears a remarkable resemblance to a New Yorker cover of Floyd over a montage of black victims of racism. In the West the elite are using the tried and trusted methods, while race realism has cold hard science. Oh dear!

Elon Musk is a man who wants to solve problems. His girlfriend, the musician known as Grimes, defends his occasional offensiveness, noting that his life is about “making travel/house power etc. sustainable and green.�

A lot of the hate on the internet may be from holders of Bitcoins (uses as much electricity as Poland and rising ) who he has just burnt on environmental grounds by crashing the crypto’currency’ price by refusing to take it in payment after being previously seen as a supporter. He’d already used SNL to tank Dogecoin.

Musk has said he is has always been haunted by a feeling of loneliness. It may, or may not be coincidental that LSD , which one or two people (including Azealia Banks who knows Grimes and has stayed in Musk’s house) say he uses, hits the serotonin 2a and 1a receptors which mediate a feeling of mystical oneness and contentment respectively. By the way, blacks have different serotonin receptors, which is probably why they are less anxious. Musk also allegedly takes MDMA which hits 2a and dopamine too. Musk’s assertion that he works 120 hour weeks and requires something similar of his employees may not be due to his insomnia problem (something that Edison suffered greatly with admittedly) and just be compulsively anxious industriousness. I can’t help feeling that if you work people that hard they make mistakes. Werner Von Braun’s got their chance because the designated A team were overworked and their rocket blew up on the launchpad. The actual manufacturing process robotics of Musk’s gigafactory is the work of a German company, but all the same.

I commend Musk for taking up the task of saving the Homo Sapien species. If there is a asteroid barreling our way, hundreds of years out, we might want to have a plan already in place so that when that day arrives, we are saved. Progress takes forever and a day, and with all the red tape of bipartisanship and religion, it’s a few extra days, but in the end I think Humans can be even more civil than monkeys.

Maybe this partially explains the phenomenon we see in the West: the commoners have lost access to their elites; the elites no longer sympathize with their people.

The jock/nerd dynamic that begins in secondary school and stays with people throughout their lives seems like quite a new development in the West and has continually become more pronounced with liberalization of females. Rarely do intellectual giants from previous generations talk about their difficult teenage years causes by excessive intellectualism.

Ironically, while the status of nerds during their teenage years has been declining, they have become more powerful in adulthood. The distribution of power continues to shift further to the nerd spectrum. Compare CEOs from previous generations to our current ones.

I rarely witness such a sharp jock/nerd divide in other cultures.

If I were running the government back then I’d have this n****r hung by the noose and put on public viewing. I’d rather spend money sending probes to Mars and Venus than help black kids and assist their ilk. This is not just a terrible song lyrically, it reeks of compounded stupidity. To even condone an achievement such as the apollo mission and that too because you are too lazy and stupid to help yourself shows they are an inferior race biologically and in mindset. They are a burden on the system and society here. End of discussion

I accept your silence as an admission against interest. (That’s lawyer talk.)

I just don’t know what part of simple arithmetic you don’t get.

You may have the last word, so you can make up some more stuff. I’m done replying to you.

You seem like a reasonable person most of the time. I’m sure you understand the accuracy of my point and I know that admitting it on a public forum is distasteful.

Math is hard, I agree.

I’ll tell you this story. I started out as an engineering student at a very good engineering university and had got through the easier math levels. At that time, integral calculus was the last level before the Nirvana of the obscure theoretical stuff. It was a five unit course, which was a third of my units for that semester.

(This was a long time ago. I don’t know what they do now. I suspect it’s much different.)

The course had one exam, the final. As you may know, integral calculus requires a familiarity with function types, because you have to recognize the type before you can do the calculation. I spent forty-eight hours doing calculations so that I’d know the types as well as I knew the types of lovely coeds that wandered the campus in those pre-feminist days.

I went into the exam with full confidence. It consisted of five questions. We had three hours to finish. The first three took me about ten minutes and then I saw that the last two were complex functions. I dove in and put all my work on the paper. I couldn’t break them down into familiar types and I worked the full three hours. It was clear that I would only have successfully answered only three-fifths of the exam correctly. It turned out that it was enough that I passed the exam, but I wasn’t going to go on to Nirvana with a C in that course.

I took the exam paper back to my roommate and asked him if he saw where I’d messed up. I said I couldn’t integrate those two equations. He looked at the paper and said, “The instructions say to differentiate.” After overcoming my desire to jump from the dorm room to certain death, I followed the written instructions and completed the two problems in five minutes!

Then I switched to pre-law.

You apparently have a reading comprehension problem. I never said a power plant was 10% inefficient. I said the conversion to the battery results in about a 10% loss.

By starting off with the fuel used in an ICE vehicle and the equivalent fuel used in an EV vehicle, the comparison starts off on an equal footing from the energy perspective. That’s why everything is turned into kWh.

I know math is hard, but do try to go through the numbers in post 142, which I’m sure you’ve already read but find its facts distasteful to your firmly planted fantasy position.

I don’t have to resort to an ad hominem because I have the facts and truth on my side.

Tesla’s battery is actively climate controlled and doesn’t suffer as much with degradation in temperature extremes.

I was not only referring to the battery degradation due to temperature. I meant that in cold climates to have a cabin heater in an EV takes a big toll on the battery…in an ICE…it is free (part of the wasted energy you so love to point out).

I clearly stated that range and charging times are currently an issue somewhere in this articles comments. I also stated that these are being worked on and in the next few years will no longer be of concern. I never ignored these obvious facts.

I clearly stated that when the very serious downsides to an EV are corrected I would be a proponent.

Those downsides are :

Cost
Range
Recharge

I like the concept of EVs…I don’t like the reality of EVs

In your dreams.

I confirmed no such thing. Gov’t getting into the picture is just what they do. Electric vehicles are required as cheap oil resources become less available. Although oil is abiotic, the large pools of it from ancient times are being used up faster than their natural replacement. The future has to run on something other that petroleum products for the vast majority of energy needs.

Nuclear is the only option to replace oil and it will be conveyed via electricity and even some hydrogen. Mother nature is having her say and is removing the oil teat to wean the world off of using it. It’s as simple as that.

And you’re abominating the term “efficiency” by assuming that the battery is a fuel. The battery is the equivalent of a gas tank. It stores the energy.

The ICE uses ONE transfer of energy, which is about 50% efficient. Counting in oil changes, car washes and tire changes, it is probably35%.

After FIVE transfers of energy, some of them very inefficient, the EV is losing over 95% of the fuel used. Your Natural gas power plant example of 10% is something you blew out of your ___. No generator of any kind has an efficiency greater than 40%.

Go back and engineer your software Mr. Phony!

Musk has admitted needing medication to sleep. He may, or may not, be a long time user of LSD, but the fact he has said he believes we are living in a simulation is not very reassuring about his sense of reality.

When did Carl Bosch get dropped from receiving credit for pioneering the advent of synthetic fertilizers? Never mind. I still buy their tools and appliances. Excellent quality.

As if shredding the fragile fabric of our atmosphere was not folly enough, the skies are being peppered with weapons, technologies with intended or convertible malevolence. A laser here, a bucket of anthrax there… Whether Musk knows it or not, ha, his craft are certainly part of a future where terrible war will be waged from space.

Laws are already being passed to eliminate ICE vehicles in the next 10 to 15 years.

Thank you for confirming that electric vehicles – except for milk floats in high-density cities – are 100% dependent on regulatory arbitrage.

Eliminating all subsidies, preferences, magic elixirs and wishful thinking, the cost of running a gasoline engine is the most efficient use of the energy that the sun produces and stores in a fuel. It will always be thus.

Well said. Amen.

Why the disdain for Musk? They’ve always hated White achievement.

Dig the rhythm of “White on the Moon” done in response to the moon landing.

The 1992 SNL presidential debates with Ross Perot were hilarious. All downhill since 1992. We’ve seen 28 years of bullshit.

Huh, and it looks like one my comments was redirected towards you. Odd.

Initial results said yes, but the most recent trends aren’t encouraging.

Musk a pure grifter. Not as incompetent as Elizabeth Holmes but just as dishonest.

Men are never going to set foot on Mars, let alone colonize it.

We’d have a colony on the Moon now if it were possible. It’s not.

The whole Mars Colonization conversation is a wet dream by Geeks, who in an earlier age would have been given a thick ear and told to go away.

People are idiots.

The Haber process is the cause of Africas baby boom. Foreign aid has little to do with it.(Indeed, the standard objection is that most gets stolen by the warlords)

Even if the Tesla only has a 300 km range per battery, it still has twice the efficiency as the ICE.

I clearly stated that range and charging times are currently an issue somewhere in this articles comments. I also stated that these are being worked on and in the next few years will no longer be of concern. I never ignored these obvious facts.

Tesla’s battery is actively climate controlled and doesn’t suffer as much with degradation in temperature extremes. That was a problem with the original batteries in Nissan’s machines.

You are now redefining efficiency as range per tank full. How clever.

I tried using common sense to try to cut through the fog. Forgive me, my mistake.

I already addressed your common-sense argument.

With this tiny amount of energy, it has a 600 km range or 200 km per gallon equivalent.

Yes, I doubt the numbers. In real-life situations, the Tesla does not perform as advertised. In the winter the Tesla performs very poorly in the cold north. In the summer the Tesla performs poorly in the hot south.

For the obvious reason, you continue to ignore the fact that the range and refill times of EVs are horrible. If the ICE you describe has a 15-gallon tank it can travel 750 km before refilling. It will be 150km further down the road than the Tesla before it needs refilling.

Are you challenging an ICE for a distance traveled per time period, with a Tesla?

Travel efficiency is distance traveled/time. Keep in mind the battery charge time: 12h at 220V

But the whole point of this pissing match is moot. Considering the situation in this country the subject of EVs has no importance.

Even without a theory of evolution, we can still see that we “get here” through random chance. Every genetics textbook has a chapter on the application of the theory of probability to the inheritance of genes.

And when you consider the messy way human conceptions often happen in the real world, like the young women who go to parties around ovulation time, drink too much and go to bed with men they just met, then you really have to question the role of “intelligent design” in the process.