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  AlternateEarth June 30, 2022 at 12:56pm

  A fuel guzzler on steroids-or is it nuclear? Supplies dropped through the pool house? Shut down a row of engines to maintain? Sounds like a giant pie in the sky bomb -lose power and kaput. Down she goes...
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  Drekx Omega June 29, 2022 at 9:23am

  

  5000 passengers on a flying hotel....?? lol🤣I wouldn't trust anything with "Europe" stenciled on it. "Air Europe." It does sound typically European, as a pie-in-the-sky concept...
  If it "never lands," what is it's purpose....? Passengers tend to want to embark and disembark, to get places....Or are these "inventors" proposing to parachute select passengers down at their destination stops.....???
  
  🛫So it takes off in Dublin and as it travels over London, a dozen drop off, Paris, a dozen more, Berlin, nine, Kiev, zero, Athens, eleven, etc....??🤣🛫🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂🪂
  
  Of course, even nuclear subs need periodic stops at port, to re-supply.....Or are these hotel plane flights demanding that passengers bring their own packed lunches..?? lol🍔🍎🍏🥑🥨🧀🫓
  
  This is zany....🤣🤣🤣
  
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    Roaring Lovely > Drekx Omega June 29, 2022 at 12:13pm

    

    What do you say about 'international space station'(ISS). To me it too sounds to be too 'European', with the 11 European countries (and even 'globalistic') and has strangely excluded China despite being a spacefaring nation.
    
    I read that soon it will be in space no more. Then only Chinese Space Stations will remain!
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      Drekx Omega > Roaring Lovely June 29, 2022 at 1:06pm

      

      Well, whenever space is politicized, it always makes for tensions and the Chinese are treated unfairly, to some degree, by the "International community" of joint space farers...lol The ISS participants....
      
      It's like the G7, when you expel a nation, such as Russia, from the G8, it loses it's credibility as being international and becomes "international in name only."
      Obviously China was excluded from the ISS, so felt the need to construct their own....However I would suggest that China's view of space travel is very much a throwback to the cold war rivalry between Russia and America, circa 1950s/60s/70s...
      China is far too secretive about what they do and get upset when they make mistakes in space, so try to coverup....This is not healthy...For example, their failed rocket that crashed into the moon, in March...They will not admit to mistakes...That is a Chinese problem about "losing face." They should get over it...
      
      I do believe that many other nations want to get involved in space....Britain has sent astronauts up with the space shuttle and also with the soyuz....and ESA and ISS...
      There is a new space programme being created by Britain, in response to Europe kicking us of their space research programmes, even though British technology, expertise and money, was the greatest contribution...Again, it's all politics and jealousy, and the UK has received similar stonewalling, to that suffered by China...In our case, from the EU's ESA and other joint ventures in space...We had to withdraw our support for the Galileo satellite navigation system, as the EU/ESA really get jealous about our technical talents...and of course, cannot get over Brexit...It still shocks them...
      
      Currently, the UK is planning rocket launches from Cornwall, using the UKSA...HQ in Swindon, Wiltshire...
      
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        Roaring Lovely > Drekx Omega June 29, 2022 at 1:36pm

        

        Your analysis is great! 'Cold war era mentality' is something that the world should get out of it completely because it is a kind of 'them vs us' mentality that does not reflect how the world (especially the modern) actually is. In the modern world, we cannot divide nations clearw into 'friends' and 'foes'. On the contrary it is more beneficial to categorize further. It is just like the way Britain pulling out of EU makes it more agile and can now make independent deals with Rwanda etc. As you can see it, this can solve problems that simplistic seeing Rwanda as generally 'the wrong country' cannot solve. A more realistic view is that SOMETIMES one countries does it right in one issue, sometimes it does it wrong, sometimes it does some things the right way, and then it does other things the wrong way. International relationship should be done in a shrewd way so that we are able to benefit from everything 'good' from one country while dodging everything 'bad' from that same country. This cannot be done if countries are simplstically labeled as 'bad guys' or 'good guys'. Sometimes USA might have to compete with China over smartphones only to find that this does not necessary hinder the same countries from cooperating in space programs etc.
        
        It is also the same for non state actors such as kurds, Hezbollah, Hamas etc. One reason US failed in middle east was that it was too fixed in the 'foe vs friend' mentality. This allowed Iran etc to outplay it by use of myriad of groups that render US unable to pin point 'who is the friend' and 'who is the foe', nullifying its otherwise immense military power!

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        Drekx Omega > Drekx Omega June 29, 2022 at 1:26pm

        

        https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-space-agency

        

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  Roaring Lovely June 29, 2022 at 8:36am

  Nuclear powered aeroplane? They (the governments) donnot want such things since they worry that nuclear technology might easily leak to the so called 'non-nuclear countries'. Notice that Newzealand, for instance, donnot allow any nuclear submarine near its waters etc. They tend to use such 'nuclear energy' to power war machines, otherwise they would have rather created a nuclear powered civilian ships. The thing is that governments have to stick in too much on such projects and such 'ships' wount be that cool or very 'commercial' etc
  
  How heavy will such an aircraft be, if we must be sealed with container of several meters thick lead? What about it it crashes? It kill a total of 5000 people in a single blow, like a nuclear bomb? And wouldn't the toxic nuclear meltdown due to the crash creat an horror in wherever the plane crash on? If it will be on Paris, theb bye bye to that city!😆
  
  This is a bad idea, anyway. They should zero in on a space station, preferably the ringed one. But such projects are not urgent now. We should first deal with economy. No need to build luxuries which only tycoons will afford!
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  Krishna Kalki June 29, 2022 at 3:54am

  

  5000 people …yes quiet a lot…one way to reduce the population on the surface ..really to get rid of the troublemakers on the surface is to send them in space for good