Unless, of course, you're giving $400,000,000 of airplane as a bribe to Trump.

Which is why you use solar-powered mirrors for energy. Do take a look at the SPS designs, basically using solar sails to reflect the energy to a generator which can transmit the power to a smelting plant, or keep it focused for smelting, or transmit the energy to Earth as a low density microwave beam. The mining equipment is a bootstrap operation. The first loads of iron smelted from the satellite are used to build the next generation of mining equipment. There is an initial startup cost a "priming of the pump"., but as much as possible you use space based resources.

Energy is _outrageously_ available once the first solar power mirror based plants are working. NASA's last estimates guessed about 20 years to provide return-on-investment for the first few built. They don't have to be in close proximity to the smelting, they can in theory beam the energy as microwaves across empty space.

There are many reasons. The start-up costs are high, and the risks of regulatory issues or unexpected technical issues are high. It's why it's been the province of governments, and business deeply allied with governments.

I said _nothing_ about it being easy, but this is exactly the sort of project NASA and their consultants look at regularly. SpaceX would be in a good position to start it with space-based solar power, if Elon nMusk had not gotten fixated on reaching Mars.

"Decarbonize the rocket fuel".... What rocket fuel? Use solar sails to guide asteroids, slowly to a feasible orbit. Use solar sails as well to mine Saturn's rings for ice, and solar power mirrors to electrolyze the ice for hydrogen and oxygen rocket fuel. Where is there carbon in the fuel?

Bans on Sharia law exist in numerous US states, though it's not a federal ban. Concerns about the treatment of women in communities which apply Sharia law locally are one of the reasons that many nations, including the UK and Poland, have struggled with the behavior of the recent floods of Muslim refugees. The Wikipedia article "Bans on Sharia Law" even cites Germany's attempts to limit communities self-administering Sharia law.

"Do your research". On what? The Golang, Rust, NodeJS, JPackage, CPAN, Pypi, or other source repo hosted tools with dependencies scattered everywhere? One may as well rely on the label "Made in America", it's impossible _by design_ to see past the "layer of abstraction" and verify the whole code stack. This is one of the primary goals of "object oriented" software, to conceal anything but the snippet you are tasked to work on.

There is plenty of iron, and untouched rare earths, shown in spectrographic analysis of asteroids. Mine them in space, pay some attention to tailings and exudates, and mining should be safe for thousands or even millions of years depending on the amount needed. Use the results directly in space for space construction, mine Saturn's rings for ice for life support and reaction mass, and we could have a real space industry.

Luna is not a setellite. It's not even a moon, it's part of a double planet.

Erratic trajectory, likely to leak from unexpected orifices, brittle, soft parts cracked from dehydration, contaminated with all sorts of radiation exposure. Oh, you were wondering about the satellite!

No. These experiments are inevitably short-lived, and avoid the consequences of participants who are, indeed, unwilling or unable to fulfill their end of the paperwork and bureaucratic requirements.

Proves nothing, except that if you give people a lot of extra attention and support and _observation_ they're less likely to slack off. Now, try it with the Now try it with the roughly 5 million Muslim refugees from Turkey who are overwhelming Germany's social services, and declaring Sharia law in their newly settled communities.

It's the one in which Han has an IQ higher than a mug of blue milk.

This is not how the employment AI's work. They are designed to _seek out_ clues about age, gender, race, health, and the other factors that profoundly affect job performance but are illegal to admit are used to discriminate. They're baked into the training data though "following the algorithm" provides plausible deniability.

Money laundering is what it was designed for.

>> "Regret among medically treated" is by no means the same as rates of survival.

> I don't think anyone said it was

You did, you cited concerns about regret when I cited studies about survival.

>> People invested in the ideology refuse to admit or to publish results that conflict with the doctrine they've been advocating, and are silenced by their peers.

> You're an example of why people don't want to publish. You are twisting the results into something they are not.

Because their studies' flaws or more correct conclusions are pointed out. It's a problem common to shose who favor "lived reality" over demonstrating their claims or recognizing inherent bias in their data. Johanna Olen Kennedy's work was unusual in that she detected the source of bias, that her subjects were better supported and without the variety of other negative factors that colored other surveys and analysis. Then she chickened out, which was _profoundly_ unfortunate, since her research could support improving general care for all transgender children rather than merely the medically modified ones.

She did a profound disservice to the transgender children she allegedly supports by her silence, though the resulting outrage seems to have gotten her results disseminated anyway.