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Comment Re:NOT LUNAR SOIL (Score 1) 92

So, of the order of a 100 tons per person. About 10 to 20 moon flights. Not perhaps impossible, but incredibly expensive and you also have to provide water and air. Those could presumably be found on the moon, but the infrastructure to collect them would be another considerable investment. If I was seriously considering this, the first thing I would do, is build a linear accelerator (at high altitude) with a nuclear reactor to power it. That might make it practical to send significant weight of material into space (unlike rockets). However, the potential to use such a system as a weapon would create issues with building it.

Comment Re:Accountability (Score 1) 66

You can reasonably argue it either way. Having worked in the corporate world and watched companies manipulate their earnings to ensure that senior management gets their inflated bonusses, I have little confidence in company financial reports. With skillful accounting, it is fairly simple to move profits from one quarter or even one year to the next. Of course, that is not even considering outright accounting fraud, which I am afraid is a lot more common than we know.

Comment Re:Accountability (Score 1) 66

If you can learn anything useful from a quarterly earnings report, I am impressed. There are so many ways of manipulating the numbers. Also, many industries have seasonal cycles, so earnings are often concentrated in one quarter, and the other reports tell you nothing. Companies should be required to report whenever they have a significant change in their financial condition, not on specific dates.

Comment Re:Wow, who knew... (Score 1) 105

Usually as their bosses. Senior management being corporate politicians and bullshitters themselves, seem to be attracted to subordinates that copy them. People wonder why so many companies seem to be badly run. It is because management is made of people who talk a good game not people who really know what they are doing.

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