Now to get me to resubscribe, get rid of all that ridiculous TLC, Discovery channel bullhsit. I ain’t gonna subsidize that shit.

Here is the neat part. ATC controllers in training needed a huge bump in recruiting numbers 10 years ago. These jobs aren’t something you can pull people off the street to do. There can be zero mistakes, trainees need to be vetted and undergo tons of hours in training and education to be experienced enough to work unsupervised in the tower.

I reckon we are past the point of no return with the current system. Either we are going to see a reduction in operational airports or we are gonna see a lot more automated systems directing traffic.

Oh good, you’re bored, I can now forge in peace. I heard the farmers in the next town over is basically giving away soybeans since the tarrifs hit. I should go and see I can get some to make tofu.

I am just responding to what you said. never called you anything. I got no time to creep on your comment history. I am too busy searching for cheaper eggs on the DL so that I don’t rouse ICE to any potential thought crimes.

I am winning so hard with tarrifs right now. /s

Lets also not forget that this is peanuts compared to the national budget even if it was true.

I am not saying to cut the national defense budget but can you imagine the low hanging fruit that can be gained just doing an audit.

Surely banning homeless encampments will solve the homelessness problem.

Is it bad that things are so bad that this is a win win? like, chance of it being built with Boeing quality? Win. Bugged? Still better than Signal so win. Foreign adversaries threat that uniquely only affects those on board the plane? win with some collateral damage.

I am not seeing a downside

Am I misreading the article? They are using rockets to ship payloads anywhere in the world in the span of a few hours.

I initially thought nukes too. But why “ship” nukes using this? An ICBM is already the preferred mode of shipping a nuke to an intended target anywhere in a few hours. Rods of god don’t make sense either since they are kinetic weapons and need to be dropped from orbit.

I guess, this could make organ donations an international effort at some point.

I honestly can’t think of a single situation where completely discreet orbital payloads costing a billion dollars makes sense.

Even if the payload is split up into dozens of cube satellite like payloads. what on earth is valuable enough to send and keep in orbit but disposable enough that it burning up in the atmosphere is not the end of the world?

I volunteer as tribute if it means I can get fired in 6 months for my incompetence and be provided with a $25 million dollar severance package.

The engineer in me sees a silver lining with the way the USA is being in which it’s highlighting a single failure point dependency on some completely random things.