Bailouts could doom the airline industry!
04-11-2020 | 08:19 PM
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Bailouts could doom the airline industry!
If you look at the history of the railroads, you'll understand why:
https://fee.org/articles/railroad-history-suggests-federal-bailouts-could-spell-doom-for-airlines/
https://fee.org/articles/railroad-history-suggests-federal-bailouts-could-spell-doom-for-airlines/
04-12-2020 | 01:34 PM
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04-13-2020 | 06:45 PM
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Of course none of this is first hand knowledge
Near earth supernovas and Gamma Ray Bursts are another one, but I don't think we'll be close enough in our galactic orbit for at least tens of millions of years to be near any stars that are massive enough to go supernova.
04-14-2020 | 08:10 AM
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04-14-2020 | 09:49 AM
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Interestingly, I recently learned that the Chicxulub Asteroid impact caused such mass extinction more so because of its angle of arrival, rather than its mass. I recall that it impacted at about a 30 deg angle, which caused it to "skip" several times, before coming to a stop, and that this caused much more heat to be released into the atmosphere than a 90 deg impact angle would have.
Of course none of this is first hand knowledge
Near earth supernovas and Gamma Ray Bursts are another one, but I don't think we'll be close enough in our galactic orbit for at least tens of millions of years to be near any stars that are massive enough to go supernova.
Of course none of this is first hand knowledge
Near earth supernovas and Gamma Ray Bursts are another one, but I don't think we'll be close enough in our galactic orbit for at least tens of millions of years to be near any stars that are massive enough to go supernova.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Jupiter_impact_event
This asteroid impact disturbance is the size of the Pacific Ocean. It occurred 11 years ago.
The image you're looking corresponds to an impact energy measured in Billions of tons of TNT (the largest fusion bomb ever tested was about 50 million tons). An impact like that might well end human civilization.
04-14-2020 | 09:52 AM
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Railroads declined because of airplanes and automobiles, not because of mismanagement.
Airlines will go the same way once teleportation becomes readily available to the masses, and is no longer the jealously guarded purview of starfleet elites.
Airlines will go the same way once teleportation becomes readily available to the masses, and is no longer the jealously guarded purview of starfleet elites.
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