small vacuum tubes are already used by banks, they work well.

add in a maglev train and this becomes worthwhile.

The hyperloop is not a cheap project, but it might be affordable
in comparison vs. a atmosphere very slowly becoming like venus.

At some point with Maglev and no friction due to it being a vacuum tube
the energy savings are going to make it worthwhile.

Research what the total cost of all the commercial airline fleets are,
adding in their fuel costs, maintenance costs, etc etc...

Robot landers have been to mars, need to make robots that can repair each other and 3d print new parts.

Once you get self repairing robots sent to mars they can mine out a radiation free tunnel system.

Once it has a underground greenhouse established, human survival is viable there long term.

I'd make separate tunnel systems to avoid the "all eggs in one basket" issue.

For power on mars I lean towards a LFTR reactor as tested at ORNL in the 1960's.

I think they proved sub surface water on mars so that solves that.

I think if we took 10% of the warfare budget it would EASILY be done.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nm...

Done for 4,000 times less then the F-35 funny enough.

The energy lie is a popular one, but a lie none the less.

Geothermal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Solar: ( solar thermal has less industrial waste )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ocean currents:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.smh.com.au/articles...

Jet Stream power: ( 1% would replace all other forms of power on earth )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

ran safe, tested fail safe via freeze plug for 6,000 hours @ ORNL in the 1960's
not adopted due to extreme difficulty in weaponizing byproducts
one byproduct is Pu-238 which is in high demand for RTG application in space
this liquid non-rod based reactor design allows for consumption of 90% of nuclear waste
and turned into usable electrical power

Algae based oils:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Most people now realize the political world is a blizzard of bullshit, now you
can realize it extends a bit beyond that.

There is a thing called the volatility index, some traders follow it and base their investing off it.

Some have the idea its bad, some have the idea its good, and 3rd set sees any kind of movement they can "hedge"
as potential for "churn" and they make their money off that.

So its all depend on your approach to fleecing the masses.

GPU's were used for bitcoin for awhile, but then fell to FPGA's, and then to ASIC's at present.

The Antminer S9 at 14Terahash is the current power vs. hash king.

You can do GPU mining of Ethereum and do well, but it is diminishing in returns daily.

Also it requires a GPU with a large amount of oncard RAM, most are using 8GB vid cards.

Did a bit of research on coin mining recently and roped in a few friends to help,
and that is the combined key takeaways we found.

I am sure there is a fair bit we missed, but those seemed of primary concern to us.

Yup, lol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Actually in LENR they are finding gold in the nuclear ash so to speak.

http://e-catworld.com/2017/08/...

https://www.google.com/search?...

Some might say bitcoin and wall street are both a numbers racket.

They go up and down for arbitrary reasons, sometimes manipulated by large players.

The numbers racket used to be illegal, now its policy, the irony is rich.

If you factor in all the oil wars in the middle east and Africa then the "real" cost of oil is a "bit" higher.

Say a few trillion in taxpayer money, thou some might say a war would be manufactured somewhere
else to continue the Mil-Indust complex feeding frenzy.

My favorite single item being the F-35 at $2 trillion that doesn't work.

97% of the US money supply exists are numbers in computer networks not even as fiat paper.

bitcoin just jumped that 3% gap, and locked out the ability to supersonic print billions a month
for the bankters club, and attach debt to each dollar printed.

So while both systems are faith based, and both systems do not have physical material value backing them,
some might say bitcoin is the lesser evil due to the lack of debt attached to the creation of each unit.

Thru history all empires fall, it was well noted by Gore Vidal in his book
"The decline and fall of the American Empire"

https://books.google.com/books...

The book isn't perfect, but it makes some key points that are absolute gold.

I am not on blue team or red team as believe both are political theater.

Yes and No.

there will be lame passwords, but some of this might be the fact that most firmware is backdoored.

https://www.google.com/search?...

That uber kool-aid tastes so good, just can't stop drinking it.

reminds me of some of the wall street boondoogles, and the F-35 one.

$2 trillion for a plane that doesn't work right, and is outperformed by older models.

This is the fact that most ppl have a hard time accepting.

Government is the longest running conjob on the planet.

It promises many things to many ppl, but delivers on few,
and what it does deliver on usually costs more, and is
not as "marketed/propagandized".

Government is just another conjob, thou perhaps the largest and
oldest one except perhaps religion.

I think the inference of a real pile of bodies is most recently seth rich.