When WWI ended, something needed to be done with the lands. Most of it worked out somewhat well.
not really. borders drawn by cartographers in Europe resulted in lots of messy stuff we've been dealing for decades.
I figured that even if someone did manage to trace my sudonym back to myself that noone cares at this point and even if they did there is zero evidence left and I could always just claim that I made it all up.
Unless you are running for congress, senate, or president then your opponents will use this against you. If you are not a millionaire then this career choice is not an option.
Hey, what if years from now someone running for election at state or federal level gets some dirt uncovered from when they did mischievous things when they were a child. i.e. recovered Facebook, Twitter, Instagram shenanigans.
I was in the military and we could not operate all willy-nilly.
I heard NTIA runs a "tight ship" and very diligent on coordination and authorization, unlike FCC which is mostly a political organization which doesn't stop sellers from offering things like 10watt 1.2GHz video transmitters that operate in the 950 to 1200 MHz aeronautical navigation (transponders) band. I was talking with a presenter at IWCE some years ago who has worked with both NTIA and FCC, he said compared to FCC the NTIA is horribly bureaucratic.
I was told it was illegal. Whether that was just FCC strong-arming or not, I don't know.
back in 1990s (I heard various versions, too lazy to spend time trying figure out the real story, but here goes) when easily modified scanners can pick up cellphone calls, someone picked up a conversation of Newt Gingrich and someone else. He recorded the conversation and sent tape to a reporter. Shortly after a congressman introduced legislation that would make receiving any freq except broadcast illegal. Obviously that law was not implemented (I think result is scanners had to be designed so they could not easily be modified). Usenet forums were screaming at the time about this, one was "it's that liberal from Los Angeles who wrote this stupid law" which someone pointed out that LA suffix behind name is for Louisiana and congressman is a republican.
It is likely that the military doesn't need deniability. Many FCC rules don't apply to the military.
military, like other federal agencies are "licensed" and freq coordinated by the NTIA and there databases are not publicly available like FCC general menu reports. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/Gener...
If these towers are not registered with the FCC, then what would happen if one possibly fell over?
Nothing. Like a tree falling in a forest with nobody around to hear it. Besides being factious that FCC no longer does enforcement but probably get attention from OSHA or local planning dept that issues permits.
Maybe it's time to cut the cord from Comcast, my last month!
> Argue all you want, you still have to deal with the tyranny of the Rocket Equation.
I remain puzzled by the point of your post. [snip] The politics not the physics of the US space program more or less preclude that.
I probably jumped discussion too much, it refers to some people advocating commercial space that "it is easy" just like airplanes, emphasizing it's just a little harder. Actually it is difficult getting to LEO, SpaceX has made it lower cost when compared to "Arsenal Space" but still there is no cheap. So don't expect in 10 years from now going to LEO will be as straight forward as driving to Pittsburg.
We will have to see what next 10 years will bring, 10 years ago nobody expected us to be in a situation like we are now.
If the Soviet Union had managed LEO or the moon, do you think they would have not used it?.
Of course they would use it, like they used Sputnik and Gagarin to show superiority of communism and those were countered with NASA and Apollo. When these were successful, they were reduced (we abandoned going beyond LEO, and NASA struggles). Look at current "threats" which are not from USSR so the agency with one less A than NASA gets unlimited budget and authority, and can skirt the US Constitution.
And rather than continue to do something that hasn't worked in around four decades (and really, the Space Shuttle and the Apollo programs were just money sinks) maybe we could look at things that do work, like SpaceX's approach?
Apollo succeeded because the politicos (those in power) realized if Soviets land on the moon first, they will plant the Hammer and Sickle flag on the surface that will enslave the world in Communism (not really but that's what they thought). So with that in mind, do whatever necessary to prevent that from happening otherwise their goose is cooked (strong motivator like 25 years before when threatened by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan).
Then after what next? Shuttle was left over from more ambitious missions of orbiting stations, lunar bases, mission to Mars, etc. And it could have easily not happened. see Dale Myers on MIT OCW video in 2005 when he said at time it looked like last HSF by US would have been the Skylab missions, Apollo-Soyuz was not scheduled at that time (sorry too lazy to get link but it's on youtube). Nixon realizing many people laid off in states with lots of electoral votes (CA and FL) so give them a big program to continue, in 1972 he said to OMB stop objecting to NASA plans for Shuttle and approve it.
Fast forward to 21st century and progress made by SpaceX and others is result of wealth inequality. Few billionaires have some billions they can put into to what they want rather than meeting political objectives (war, votes, whatever).
Argue all you want, you still have to deal with the tyranny of the Rocket Equation.
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