Bang! thank you for saving me from my foggy memory :)

I tried looking up anything from Heinlein that fit my memories and couldn't find a trace, read a summary from wikipedia on Skylark series and it did not sound familiar, but you hit it dead on.

That would be pretty hilarious, although I would hope to have some compact fission/fusion reactor with about twice the expected life of the trip as a primary power source...

Things do go wrong... I remember an old Heinlein story where Cu (I think) was used to power their star-drive and somebody sent him and another astronaut on a 'one way trip to oblivion'.

They managed to react enough copper out of her wedding band to effect an escape, since Heinlein only killed a few of his protagonists

This could provide a basis for a 'constant acceleration drive', that could travel interstellar distances without requiring a reaction mass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It's because we are tired from telling all them damn kids at reddit to get offa our lawn

MRI machines
http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=re...

Have no US tariff, this would allow us to sell more machines overseas to countries that have just eliminated their tariffs

You can look up the products and see which ones have US-sided tariffs that are being eliminated

For example, non-volatile memory
http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=85...

Switches and routers
http://hts.usitc.gov/?query=85... ...have no existing US tariffs, and we would benefit from other countries dropping their barriers to trade

However, stereoscopic microscopes enjoy a 5-7% US tariff, and will see competition

It will take a while to sort out, but this may work in our advantage

I took it that the juice cleanse was terrifically effective and they lost control of their bowels

But, I have a potty-mind

Don't forget the GOP rule, "No backsies"

In the summary they mention that they had retired Foreign Personnel reviewing information to determine if it was classified or not.

So, apparently there was an attempt to identify classified information, and a dispute of what should have been deemed classified.

It would seem that is where the quibbling is, unless they intentionally ignored the advice of these reviewers

They have whipped their base up into a rabid mob, there is little else they could do to get their attention besides demanding that she be burned as a witch

Yeah, I tried to cover that under item 4 with "goes over procurement and QA processes all struts and bolts"

Admittedly not a "smoking gun" sort of statement, just *ahem* a summary

In this case the 'receiving antenna' is the belly of the spacecraft, which is covered in ceramic tiles designed to covert the energy into heat and act as a heat exchanger. This introduces interesting problems with targeting since the large ground array all needs to hit the same few hundred square feet of target

There is a whitepaper linked from the company website:
http://escapedynamics.com/wp-c...

The short story

Microwave provides source of energy by targeting heat-absorbing material
Heat exchanger is used to heat and compress Hydrogen to 150 atmospheres
Hydrogen is fed to aerospike nozzle, which provide impulse thrust gt 750 seconds
Claims launcher will be able to provide 8% to 12% of total weight as cargo

Right now most of the website is pretty pictures and videos, time will tell

Great find, it is important to remember our history in order to avoid repeating it

The lies that the neo-cons would eventually use to justify war on Iraq are clearly laid out on the front page:
" Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam’s secrets"

What we found out after destroying the country and destabilizing the region was that the inspectors had been COMPLETELY effective in wiping out Saddam's weapons programs and that they only evidence that they were ever able to find came fro munitions created with Western aid in the 80's when Iraq was at war with Iran.

Even more important, it contains the list of 'signatories' to the lies. We should never forget who these people are and NEVER let them gain control of our government again:
Elliott Abrams - Richard L. Armitage - William J. Bennett - Jeffrey Bergner - John Bolton - Paula Dobriansky - Francis Fukuyama - Robert Kagan - Zalmay Khalilzad - William Kristol - Richard Perle - Peter W. Rodman - Donald Rumsfeld - William Schneider, Jr. - Vin Weber - Paul Wolfowitz - R. James Woolsey - Robert B. Zoellick