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To: LindyBill who wrote (484192)	4/24/2012 5:33:08 AM
From: unclewest	10 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793883

You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist". =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the "State's" dime while never being held responsible for their own choices. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work). =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •The rights of the Government come before the rights of the individual. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars). =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe". =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •An 80 year old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burqa is only subject to having her neck and head searched. =========================================================== You know you live in an Upside-down Land if... •Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and signing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art". =========================================================== Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our world has been turned upside-down. We are in distress. Where do we go from here?

To: LindyBill who wrote (484192)	4/24/2012 9:25:42 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793883

the company employs about 25 engineers and has development contracts for technologies like laser communications This alone is a great investment for the future.

To: LindyBill who wrote (484192)	4/24/2012 10:00:15 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793883

A nice idea. The water is aa snap. However the energy involved in the space travel, mining, smelting and return of precious metals seems very underestimated. I was just discussing this with my son on the phone yesterday. I don't see the technology making the mining cost effective or even close. If mining were perfected to that degree they would be better off mining Antarctica and the undersea world. Other asteroids are rocky and metallic. A throng of robotic mining spacecraft could grind up pieces of the asteroid and smelt it to capture precious metals within. Platinum — which is used for jewelry, electronics components and automobile catalytic converters — fetches about $1,500 an ounce these days, so a single spacecraft would not have to bring back a lot of it for the enterprise to make money. More common metals like iron could perhaps be used as raw materials in space factories, churning out spacecraft and other structures.