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6-6-'24, WBR Live, “Daily Constitution”, (Pics on wimkin) Some machinery repair today. I say to restructure the “retirement funds (/social security)” into a -one time payment- to establish residences with a 'propane into electricity' conversions for profit, using waste heat for said homes (anyone look at the potential Arctic methane ice melt lately?). Would that leave enough 'meat on the bones for the 'energy' companies? “It's the economy stupid”. Pay us for having to call repair when -your- machinery fails. We all remember what happened when the aircraft first bombed the battleship, right? The same could be said of today's US military aircraft. (Bad representation): It is not the potential of 360 spin and recovery, the 'stall' (it don't) of 45 KNTS (empty), the lack of required moving control surfaces (directed air), the rocket not requiring an open-door radar warning, the flight stable not requiring 'fly buy wire', the scalability to drones, or the consolidation toughness of simplified controls that I like. It is the "Sidearm" that brings a whole new world to dogfighting that spikes me (tanks suck). BTW, What are the performance numbers of a 'cargo' aircraft' dropping a filled raft, 10' off the water (supported at a lower speed with hydrofoils on the gear doors) with parachutes, and all arms and people facing outward, behind 'reflective' inflations? A lot of machinery starts off as big, bulky, and unable to be used in the manner of all the ways Science Fiction wants it to perform. “If the mountain can't come to Mohamed...” The “Kecksburg Bell” -presumably- proves concept, but currently impractical for on board application in primary thrust, and heat. Why not incorporate (at least some) of it into the launch system? Kind of things...