Your analogy is only valid if there are exactly two commerical airlines, each with a fleet of one plane apiece that take six months to refuel and prep for the next trip.

1. Manned telescope on the Moon. 2. Supply depot/launch pad for a Mars shot. 3. Fusion research (He^3) 4. Nuclear and other dangerous research (we can blow stuff up/melt down/whatever without affecting our biosphere!) 5. Space based manufacturing plant for future missions

Menards does this today. linky-link

Funny - you do this: s/environment/economy/g and you're voting for Ron Paul

I think it's commercial wholesale pricing - the types and volumes of panels you'd use for a massive solar plant in the desert somewhere, not the type of kit you'd put on your roof. They're talking about $1/watt because they're comparing it to the equivalent cost of coal fired electricity, and the $1/watt figure is an apples-to-apples comparison.

> There is no free space flight. I've been waiting since X-wing Alliance for a new Star Wars game that allowed that.

Wow... Back then I was doing tech support in my first IT gig. It was a summer job while I was in College. I was doing tech support for a reseller that serviced small to mid-sized businesses. One of our clients had purchased Windows 95 PCs, an HP Laserjet 4si, and WordPerfect for Windows 3.11. Due to a bug between Windows and WordPerfect, the client was completely unable to print. There was no fix -- WordPerfect's printing engine was completely incompatible with Windows 95. I was completely unable to fix the problem. Is this the same issue they're litigating over?

...were covered 30 years ago here.

The Americans tried to do the <A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points>right thing</A>. Blame the <A HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points#Wilson.27s_speech_vs._Treaty_of_Versailles>French</A> for the disaster that was the Treaty of Versailles.

What does that analogy have to do with private property rights?