Then stop saying stupid shit.

This motherfucker could be shoving your mom into an oven and you’d be like “but what about the Epstein files?!?!”

We are literally days from an actual war between the US and Europe dumbass.

This, mainly so I can buy used when y’all upgrade.

Assuming it isn’t intended to return to earth at terminal velocity the station will ALSO need to bear the mass of arresting its descent, so no, that wouldn’t do much.

Easy. Do you live where bombs will be dropped during the war you are about to be start?

The magical hold is simply telling them what they want to hear. They are responding to their racist fascist desires being validated.

The dichotomy is more “how do we get some utility out of these humans without having to just kill all of them because we think genocide is probably wrong.”

My point is that it was a bad analogy because that’s exactly what it is.

If people don’t keeping buying our fake perpetual motion machine we aren’t going to make back the money we invested in building it!

Because the thing that makes American companies make money isn’t the production of better products its “business magic” that games stock prices. its been that way for a long time.

The fun thing about America is that you can literally just walk to a shop and buy a gun today. The fact that everyone who opposes Trump hasn’t done that says a lot about the real situation on the ground there.

Do something about it.

America has the richest and most heavily armed population on earth. No one feels sorry for your inability to control the actions of your own country.

“His voters” being most of the people that cast votes in the presidential election, so yeah, its really not “just him” is it?

The mechanics of smoking a pipe involve scraping accumulated ash from the bowl and scowering the stem. There is zero chance this thing isn’t insanely dangerous to smoke.

This doesn’t stop with Trump. They voted for Trump and they voted for the congress that protects him. They will just pick another person that does the same thing, but probably sounds less stupid while doing it. This is an America problem.

I see. So Russia didn’t invade Ukraine and Israel isn’t exterminating Palestinians. Its just some of the people in those countries doing it. No one is responsible for what their country does.

We already know how to do this, its literally the first thing we did when we sanctioned Russia for Ukraine. Target the business interests of the people actually making the decisions.

Right, except that a bowling ball weights about 6kg and a tennis ball weighs about sixty grams, so we would only need to build a platform that weighs 1% of the total mass of earth.

Except that you would drag it out of geostationary orbit every time you used it? Like no matter how heavy it is your still moving it closer every time you pull on the cable. You would need to constantly thrust equivalent to the mass of the cable and whatever the cable is pulling. At that point aren’t you still basically just launching shit?

The more you think about it the dumber it gets. You would need to constantly move reaction mass to to the platform to create that thrust, but you’d have to use that thrust to counter the mass that you are bringing up. It’s all the same problems as conventional rocketry.

How do you anchor the end in space so that you don’t just retract the cable every time you try to use it?