I think both the upper and lower stages use pressure for reinforcing the structure. If the tank vented then it could collapse.

In the time I could see it on the video it looked like it was reoriented itself heat shield first which is the natural passive orientation. It could have deployed chutes later.

This guy has to do everything big

Because politicians are known for their long term thinking? All of the problems you state have to do with governments and central banking and have zero to do with free markets.

You should quite smoking. It's not good for you.

Is it just me or does it look possible Dragon survived? It would be interesting if it came down under chutes.

And now we Floridians have a new reef to dive.

Not quite. Inflation is simply an increase in the money supply. But the new money doesn't get handed out evenly. That's the point. When you bail out the banks they get to spend or invest with it which causes bubbles in those markets. You would only have general rising prices if the money was handed out to everyone.

This is really a result of the crappy econonmy due to the wars and banker bailouts. In the 90's when I started working this crap didn't fly because I had a couple of standing offers in my pocket. I did eventually switch jobs due to a new boss that would play games. He seemed surprised when I gave my 2 weeks notice and immediatly said he could counter-offer. I said no thanks because all that would do is cause them to keep you on long enough to look for a replacement.

The real election is over way before the general election. When you have two bought and paid for frontmen the establishment can't lose.

It is amazing how much effect the mind has over the body. I'm not saying placebos can cure cancer but if you got people to believe things like backaches, migraines, ulcers, etc when there are no signs of injury could be cured. I had horrible backaches until I read a book by Dr Sarno and realized it was all in my head. When I figured out I was repressing anger it all went away. That might have been a placebo as well but it worked wonders.

I don't know. If someone reached into their pants to get their speech and said "Excuse me while I whip this out" I'd laugh pretty hard. Even more if it was a lady.

Capitalism has nothing to do with harnessing greed.

If you want to try an engineering analogy think of Economic systems as Control Systems linking allocation of resources and production to what consumers want. Capitalism is the best system because it has feedback in the form of proftis and loses. Entrepreneurs take an educated guess as to what people want and how to arrange resources to meet that demand. Freely set prices let them (and the rest of the market) know if it's a good idea (profits) or bad idea (loses). If you make loses it means you are not using resources efficiently and those resources are freed up. If you make profits it means you are doing a good job and you get more resources to work with. If you make "Outragous" profits this gets the markets attention and other people will move into your market driving down profits towards an economy wide average.

Every regulation and political policy that gets in the way of this process makes things worse. Central planning by definition means overriding consumers choices and makes things worse.

It went from 169 MW to 1 MW in 30 months. We are about 18 months past Dec 2013 so if the reduction is about the same we have approximately 10 kW of heat.

This happened before when one of NASA's HR people left their laptop with every employees information in an unencrypted file in their car and it was stolen. We got 2 whole years of credit monitoring.