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To: JohnM who wrote (399593)	2/13/2019 10:48:07 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541732

Christie Dishes on Trump Political Wire by Taegan Goddard “Chris Christie told Trump stories for nearly an hour last night at the Manhattan home of hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen,” Axios reports. “Standing in front of 10-foot-high windows on the first floor of a home that resembled a gallery of modern art, the former New Jersey governor said ‘the thing I’m proudest about’ — now that his book, Let Me Finish, has been out for two weeks — is that nobody he wrote about, some of whom still work in the White House, had dared to deny what he’d written.” Said Christie: “They know I know even more.” “Christie pointed at Gary Cohn, Trump’s former economic adviser, as he said this. Cohn nodded knowingly.”

To: JohnM who wrote (399593)	2/13/2019 10:59:23 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541732

There was a lot of the same skepticism about putting people on the moon which had been done ahead of schedule despite the fact that we were regularly exploding man of our rockets just a few years earlier on the pad. With flow cells, Perovskite solar, novel wind and other technology plus fusion - I believe it is worthy. The fact that the energy business is the SLOWEST industry to adopt new technology is well-documented. The old-guard are technically phobic and feels that the sunk money in existing infrastructure needs to be amortized on a 50 year depreciation cycle. Given that the rocket on the left was typical of what was being made (and failing) at the time Kennedy made his speech and the one the right is what we were sending to the moon less than a decade later shows the kinds of changes that can be completed successfully. Same goes with the intercontinental railroad expansions of the mid 1800's and interstate highway system I was lucky enough to see going in on a cross-country drive in 1967. I'd rather fail trying than wait 30 years for something we could do faster.