If you remove manned space flight from NASA then you've got lots of money for space science. It's not lack of money holding them back, it's throwing it away on stuff that isn't useful.

The major powers are not interested in bettering the common African man, they are interested in resource extraction and exploitation. The reason Africa is so poor is: 1-Agriculteral subsidies have wiped out the local farmers. 2-Import duties have wiped out any manufacturing they might try to get going. 3-Any time they manage to do something right, the West comes in and takes it from them. 4-The West deliberately undermines (and kills) any local government that doesn't support them over the interests of their own people.

China has a 1 child per family rule, you might want to research this as it's morally less damaging than your suggestion. Also note that the first world countries are all in population decline, it's the third world that has the surplus. So either wipe out the third world or convert them into first world countries and the population problem is gone.

You are suggesting the car makers build custom cars for the rental company. It's more likely a theft deterant system, combined with a way to prove who stole/vandalized their car.

Down pillows would probably fail, as they depend on the air between the feathers. Air bags however should be sufficient, provided you pile them a few hundred meters high (and don't miss).

If you can reach orbit from a planet then you can reverse the process and land on a planet. It would require a lot of fuel in mars orbit, and some rocket engines, but that's just money not future tech at work.

Turning the Dragon launcher into a satellite launcher is easy. It's mostly just taking stuff out from the manned launcher and covering what's left with a launch shroud. As for the space shuttle, we'd have been better off just keeping the Saturn 5 launcher. It had a heavier payload, more reliable, and the design was paid for. Even if we had to launch 2 to get the men in orbit it would still have been cheaper and safer.

Prices have risen steadily the last year, also known as inflation. The government has a good reason not to admit to that though so don't expect to hear about it in the news.

Getting the public riled up doesn't appear to solve the problem of the government sneaking around doing illegal stuff. If you want this to stop, you must solve the problem of how to force the government to follow the rules first.

You don't want to make gears by casting, you want machined metal, probably with heat treating. You could definately prove the design this way though, before building a real one.

Mars gravity is close enough that it shouldn't have any health or safety risks, and most of our technology should still work correctly.

Make the reactor is pieces small enough to launch. Refuel it a bit at a time just like civilian reactors do on earth. build a smaller reactor, as you only need a few megawatts of power. The cooling of the reactor will be an issue, no oceans/lakes or viable air cooling.

Set up a sun shade to make dry ice, have a solar concentrator to make it gas. Use the heat engine to capture the energy. No long power wires to the poles required.

I think ALL government communications should be recorded. Email, letters, phone calls, memo's. Record it all, and keep it for at least 10 years.

When a government staffer sends an email to the secretary of state (both using a government account) the email travels from his/her computer to the server (in the same building) to the secretary's computer. It doesn't touch the internet at any point (no intercept risk). When Clinton sends an email using her private account it goes from her computer to the open internet to her private server to the open internet to the government server to the destination computer. That's TWICE it's wide open for intercept.