12-07-2025, 09:37 AM
I’m reading Anthony Beevor’s tome on WW2, and I would add the T-34 to that list of achievements, but nobody’s heard of Mikhail Koshkin.
EVs are definitely not bunk, not from a science, engineering, or economics viewpoint. Liquid fuel engines are well on their way out, and any attempts to turn the tide in the US will only result in the country falling even further behind. The aged langur in the White House despite. His mercenary Veep has no ideological axe to grind against progress, and will try to please the left as well as the right of centre, in a broad church.
But regarding Mars - yeah, the only thing that makes it a reality is competition. Maybe the Chinese get there first, and colonise the inner planets while the US builds another museum of creation. And then someone wakes up and the space race begins anew.
EVs are definitely not bunk, not from a science, engineering, or economics viewpoint. Liquid fuel engines are well on their way out, and any attempts to turn the tide in the US will only result in the country falling even further behind. The aged langur in the White House despite. His mercenary Veep has no ideological axe to grind against progress, and will try to please the left as well as the right of centre, in a broad church.
But regarding Mars - yeah, the only thing that makes it a reality is competition. Maybe the Chinese get there first, and colonise the inner planets while the US builds another museum of creation. And then someone wakes up and the space race begins anew.