I was thinking the same thing. And no doubt the Russians and Chinese have the same thoughts. I live about 6 miles from a abandoned ICBM site in Arizona and at the time (until '83) the Titan II missile carried the largest yield single warhead..ever. It was a "known measly 9 megatons (and a mass of 9 tons) of nuclear goodby. While it seems small compared to 100tons of whatever, a 9 megaton nuclear pop pretty much stamps out a 50 mile flat radius and there is still a website that will calculate it for you. While the Russians developed the largest nuclear warhead ever at 50 megatons. it was scary and quite useless in a war as no plane, jet or missile could handle or carry it. But a rocket/missle which can carry 100 tonnes of nuclear bombastardly pop, would allow Presidents, and Chairmen to poop pants once again. But it would also create another round a missile envy, followed by bomb envy, and letting the opposition go with the "largest missile" in its pants, would almost have to force another arms race and while it could create a hugh fleet of missiles to launch to Mars for future inhabitants, its more likely many would be set aside for a "just in case" reason. But another good reason to go to Mars. The Armed Service though, will expect it to carry the next generation of tanks or aircraft which can be bundles up and sent to a Army in need, somewhere within an hour, and as pointed out, a large number of "not good things" with a destination other than where the rocket may land is another likely job. Funding this this though, is a sure way to signal your intention for another "big missile" race, which sounds very manly, but make you lose more sleep than ever, with a hope that climate change as our big problem is not forgotten by mankind in a matter of milliseconds

The issue here was that the all the charges, except the first, were unauthorized use of my card and can be construed as theft. Most family members would not call the police and some children depend on that compassion to skate around their actions. Fortunately, I knew how this system works, and it was certainly not a fraudulent use of the court and police. The police did what they do and, of course the prosecuting attorneys and other always give those involved time to make restitution and drop charges, in this case, most all credit card companies will want you to present a police report, knowing that if you lie, you can be criminally charged. This was a valid report to the police and valid response from my cc company. My niece also learned a valuable lesson in not to take advantage of family members. Had my niece been a hardcore youth miscreant, she would have known it could have been referred to youth court and she gave a sincere apology and told me she learned a lesson. The mistake here was trying to recover the money from Sony, who do not have fiduciary duties on how you handle your money, but instead use your credit card company to rescind a charge to your account that was not authorized, even by a loved one.

The law that deals with this in Canada may be quite different, so my issue may have a different conclusion. My teen niece who was living with me when her parents were recuperating from a bad bout of C-19, did almost the same thing, she ran up my card when ordering games, not really realizing the cost. It was about 1,000 US and I simply called the police. Yup. They came, took a report, but did not arrest her but gave a court date for an appearance. I took the police report and gave it to Visa who then rescinded the charges. Most card companies will do that if you have a police report. Once the card amount was refunded , I refused to make a statement or make an appearance in court but wrote a letter telling them the issue was resolved.Case dismissed, money refunded. All except the niece who could not believed I called the po-po on her.

Gravity Industries was apparently testing it's jetpack in the area: https://gravity.co/

In order for a "ballistic" missile to work well (hit its target) It need a precise "arc" to its target. The earth is not round, it's more like a pear, and it also had "microgravities" that can alter the course of the ballistic missile. If you aim at a large target, like a city, you will most likley hit it, but if you want to hit a US military base, you may not have much luck unless your geodetic maps are very, very precise and good. Unbeknownst to many, the USSR could not hit the broadside of a barn with their ICBM's in the 60's and there was some doubt they had maps that could even hit a city. The farther the distance, the bigger the error. It was said the Soviet Union put its missiles in Cuba as it wanted them to hit something, anything. You cant use GPS to aim a ballistic missile, as it needs to correct course where there are no GPS signals. After the last missile test by the North Koreans, the US sent up a brand new satellite to map precise geodetic measurements "for science", but the accuracy would be exponential over what most countries have. While many countries have their own satellites to map the geodetic shape of the earth, few have the capability to do a precise map between two points, except the USA and probably after 40 years, Russia. China has not put a geodetic mapper up in 5 years and its signals have stopped, and of course N Korea has to hope we put a large city in the pacific ocean or make Guam the size of Alaska. Those who build missiles for a nuclear warhead, now have to worry about the missile being destroyed before it can completely miss its target, and for N. Korea, it looks like they may have enough ballistic information to actually hit the US...somewhere, but even Mexico and Canada are pissed at N Korea too.

I THINK THE COMMENT ON THE ARTICLE WAS MISLEADING. For a SINGLE DAY the electric need of South Australia was met solely by solar power. It is not a permanent deal, Electricity is still provided in abundance by other renewable energy sources most notably by wind power. In fact for quite some time there was an overabundance of energy. Southern Australia is also blessed by a large amount of natural gas, coal and even oil reserves, Even Uranium deposits are in large marketable amounts. But S. Australia has an infrastructure that was not up to par, and to transport electricity to other parts of Australia and for itself, there were infrastructure problems and as renewable did not store energy, that was left to the power turbines and the switching from one source to another and a glitch in the relay exposed the problem. It was fixed by a large battery array, supplied by Tesla and is used to smooth any transitional glitches and more importantly, store the renewable energy and to have a source to distribute it either to its customer base in South Australia, but also through its interconnect, other parts of Australia. Australia has a better interconnect than the US, which has, in the last 4 years, purposely limited building a durable and high capacity interconnect in the nation, most likely through lobbyists for the oil/coal industry, which has seen the use of coal diminish and wished to limit renewable distribution in parts oif the US, in part to maintain pricing of oil, either domestic or foreign.

I said this before, but maybe some thought it was a facetious comment. Do people know here that the Mandalorian TV show is filmed at the MBS digital Studios in Manhattan Beach, about 3 miles from LAX. While the studio is famous for producing the Mandalorian in an all digital format, you also need to digitized an all reality capture for accurate, but difficult to render scenes. Developing a simple small scale puppet/drone, flying it around the campus (or over the El Segundo oil refinery between MBS and LAX doing a video capture and then a digital rendering would seem to me to offer a good and realistic digital rendering on future scenes. Of course, no doubt the operator of the drone-puppet would want to see how high it can go and being that small, would not be scene plainly by passing planes, unless it got to close to the flights paths of planes landing at LAX. This would be a serious breech of Aviation rules and no doubt the operator of the drone would not come forward readily to face possible arrest and fines. The MBS Studious are only 1 mile from the LAX FAA FDSO offices. Go East on Rosecrans 1/2 mile, make a left on Aviation to 777 (about another half mile) to the FAA offices. This is the way.

I am quite sure that everyone here know that the MBS Studios in Manhattan Beach, Ca is where they put together the Mandelorian, which not quite incidentally is only 2.5 miles from LAX. I think it must be the new J-7 jetpack going through its paces. I have spoken.