Comment Re:Phantom power has it's use. (Score 4, Interesting) 306
Two words. Passive termination. You don't need to leave the cable box on.
That's much better than Voskhod 2, which also landed off-course in the Urals in similar circumstances, and was surrounded by hungry wolves.
Oh and my favourite 9.7Billion freaking dollars for air traffic control. Honestly that could be done by computers for several million dollars.
That might pay for a requirements analysis, but that's about it. A real system is going to be much more expensive.
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem -- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.