It's becoming a booming industry in China. They achieved 6N9-grade purity hydrogen from their natural gas fields, which have a content of less than 0.05 percent (other exploited fields have content of 1.0-7 percent), at a commercially viable cost a year ago. That's your "rubbish quality helium". Now there are a dozen companies replicating their work.
It's become a major industry in China, it's large enough that they've managed to reduce their imports even while consumption rises. Of course they have the cheapest electricity on Earth.
At this point a lot of Ukrainians would welcome the latter as well.
Their track record of determining what actually is "waste", however, is not nearly so great.
The joy of letting lawyers and generals with no real-world experience run a society and an economy they don't understand and have no interest in learning about.
Space Farce (spelling deliberate) budget - $32 billion
NASA budget - $24 billion
2026 Pentagram budget - $780 billion (without the Black Budget, nuclear weapons, 18 intel agencies, or mercenary scum hired by Sec of State)
All NASA budgets combined since foundation - $670 billion (including Apollo, ISS, and *much* R&D for the military)
This is why we can't have nice things.
As we used to say in the security profession, the weakest link is not the software, or the hardware, it's always the wetware.
Just be evil . . .
I find it difficult to believe that you are quite so uninformed about the real situation on the ground, but if you're a professional troll you're really bad at it.
Radar installations:
"Blinding the US? How Iran destroyed the $1.1-billion American missile radar in Qatar"
https://www.firstpost.com/expl...
Bases in Middle East:
"13 U.S. Bases in Middle East Nearly Uninhabitable After Iran Missile Strike"
https://defencesecurityasia.co...
Ship transits:
"commercial ship transits of the Strait of Hormuz per month"
https://www.globalmilitary.net...
I find it difficult to believe that you are quite so uninformed about the real situation on the ground, but if you're a professional troll you're really bad at it.
each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary,
Exactly.
Oh, you got a job as one of the Pentagram's force of "Cyber-warriors" I take it? I'd rather live under a bridge than become a war-whore, but to each their own I guess.
It's between Chums Corner and Interlochen (Interlochen State Park also hosts one of the few stands of virgin white pine in the state.)
Perhaps you missed it, so I'll bold the important part:
1) Article 5 only requires other NATO nations to respond as they feel appropriate to their own national interest. Full involvement is not required.
What national interest does the the US have in any Estonia or any of the Baltic chihuahuas, other than as a foil to annoy Russia with?
Two considerations:
1) Article 5 only requires other NATO nations to respond as they feel appropriate to their own national interest. Full involvement is not required.
2) Estonia is small enough that Russia could overrun the entire country in a couple of days, long before the NATO bureaucracy would be finished dithering about whether to respond or not.
As has been demonstrated in Ukraine and Iran, the US is now a paper tiger, with a military armed with finicky, high tech weaponry which is easily overwhelmed by a flood of low cost disposable drones. For example the multibillion dollar THAAD system protecting (for the gods only know what reason) Israel was disabled by some drones costing about the price of a used BMW attacking the long range radar systems it relied on.
If the crash happened in some other county the joke would be funny, but this happened in Grand Traverse. Check out the median home price there. Mission Point is home to a few wineries, and Boeing execs from Chicago have their summer homes there. A few years ago Traverse City built a new pier that can accommodate the larger yachts, as that was apparently a problem.
The crash was near Grawn, well away from the areas that are nice to live in. Last time I was there Grawn had more trailers than stick-built homes. Migrating waterfowl love the corn fields and small lakes in that area.
The point is why do we "need" so many pilots when the only countries we reasonably need to protect against are Mexico and Canada?
Not in the US, we're at least a decade behind the curve and our sclerotic military procurement system looks to keep us there.
The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.
