USA talks fail over Debt Ceiling ! ( Archived) (15)

I have to admit you saw the grid lock in government coming, Jaun. After the mid term. Both sides are using the debt ceiling for political reasons.

Heck....we should just print a new currency. Fold on the American dollar. Others have done it. We can call the plan....the Obama
monetary solution. We do so like to give him all the credit right now.

CS forums were never for clear thinking, Juan. They are for slice and dice political arguements

OK you wish a solution. Here is one.

We force reduce in Iraq and Afghanistan. Leave enough for manning border bases that operate the sensors and ELINT operations on Iran. Much like the Canadian radar line of the cold war. It doesnot cost a lot. Reduces our foot print in the region.

Back here at home. We increase our energy production of the shale oil and Gulf oil for export. Become 100% energy independent. Forget the environment for a time. Others have. It still here today.It is not going anyplace.

We increase our production technologies. Here Obama just placed a new proposal out to aid manufacturing technologies with government funds. This even the REP can support. Might even get down to home construction methods and materials production that get your home construction materials cost down.

We focus on technologies that we have a natural economic edge on.Trying to compete more in the world market place with them.

We reinstall Constellation and Aries program. We fly to the Moon and elsewere. Leave the Russian and Chinese in our dust. We join the Euroepean in their new rocket plane. 2.5 hour flight from Paris to Toyko. Said to be flying by 2040. Maybe sooner If we get onboard. But this bird need bigger and longer runaways. Meaning new airport construction. Here I have local proposal in for this county to make one.

We solve the Mississippi River flooding problem. Here the Chinese have developed a mountian hydro method that drops water thru tunnels into turbine generators for alternative energy. I already submitted the proposal to DoE and Army Corp of Engineers to look at.

We take another look at high speed rail. Not for regional transportation but for cross country route. The airlines are leaving to many on the tarmac for to long. They need some national competition.

There is more. But so far no-one has said 'no' to either of my two proposals here. No-one has all the answers. But we all have some of the answers. We just needs to share them.

The Aries/Constellation program was $97b over a 11 years years. Employed nearly 200,000 during that period. Actually it was two launch vehicles....a manned capsule system and a heavy lift vehicle.

Now you have a foreign contractor (from Australia) coming in to provide a new heavy lift vehicle...but not a manned capsule system.

NASA could add the manned capsule system (Aries) for a fraction of the $97b.

The moon is now important because of the water that has been found on it. Who ever gets there and controls the water, controls
future deep space flight operations from the 1/6th gravity lunar surface.

It is not just the Moon.....it is manned deep space operations from the moon. Consider the lunar surface a jump off point for missions ala Star Trek in the distance future.

But.....I have a gut feeling that I am dead on with the assessment that the White House killed future lunar operations because of the Islam thingee. So it could cost a buck to do and the White House would still say no.