Nobody ever said nuclear energy was a long-term solution, but it's better than our current strategy.

Nuclear should be used as a transition power source until everyone is ready to go totally green. The alternative is to keep building more coal plants while we wait...

Helium 3 is in the roadmap of China planning to land before 2030 on the moon and open a mine to extract it

No, It's on the list of "Things we want but aren't really f***ing feasible at this time."

Google, "Chinese economic problems."

And in all seriousness, predictions for space are rarely accurate. In the 60s, there were predictions space travel would be almost normal by now.

Do you get what roadmap means? It is planned but it will not necessarily end up this way. Nevertheless China will be the most serious pretender for missions to the moon with a manned landing in the next decades, like it or not.

Do you get what roadmap means?

It's not on the immediate roadmap...everyone gets what it means now, tsh. Also, China has no economic problems to speak of, it's the most powerful country, today.

But can you link article for how this He-3 power would work? Why specifically He-3 is needed? How is it supposed to be better than nuclear power? It's a noble gas, not good for reactions. Hydrogen I would think is better.

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- Free healthcare and education for everyone.
- No nuclear enerygy. Rely on renewable recources (40% of Energy produced in Austria comes from rivers).
- Greatly reduce the military personnel (Protect your own country, but get out of the rest of the world).
- Guns are only avialable to people with special license.
- Become military neutral. (Leave the NATO) ( You would save BILLIONS yearly that way)

I like 2 out of the 5.

I don't get #4. What are these special licenses? How tough are they to get and is everyone in Austria eligible to get one or is there a quote on the number? Also are all guns allowed to these people with special licenses? Just curious :)

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So what you're saying is it's not on the immediate roadmap? It's fizzer! We're compromised everybody escape while you can

I don't get #4. What are these special licenses? How tough are they to get and is everyone in Austria eligible to get one or is there a quote on the number? Also are all guns allowed to these people with special licenses? Just curious :)

In most the EU and other sites, how it works is, if they see anyone with a gun, they can ask to see your license, to make sure you bought the gun legally. I think you'd actually like this system better, since the EU has a far lower murder rate than America, despite like living settings, and also there's more freedom on what kinds of guns you can get (as I understand, in America, for example, you can't have automatic guns - well, in the EU, you can.). Also, you get a license by basically having a non-violent criminal record and a pyschologic evaluation to make sure you're not mad.

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- Guns are only avialable to people with special license.

Won't reduce gun deaths, crime and won't reduce the availability of guns by much. It may radicalize a small percentage of the population (let's say 1%) and that would be way too much trouble for something that won't work.

Won't reduce gun deaths, crime and won't reduce the availability of guns by much.

It would, as anyone with a gun could be asked (by an armed policeman) to show a license or get their gun taken away from them, against noone asking them, noone taking away illegally gotten guns. The availability of guns, well, in America, that's a bigger problem than in Austria. But anyone who got a gun, with any "available" way can be checked if they got it in a right way.

It may radicalize a small percentage of the population (let's say 1%) and that would be way too much trouble for something that won't work.

How's that? Radicalisation?

It is illegal for the police to just check someone's house or person for something without a warrant. By the time it takes for a warrant the person could easily hide his gun or give it to a friend for safe keeping. There are also many who simply wouldn't tell police or anyone they have a gun and keep it secret, it's not like the police will just randomly get a warrant for someone who doesn't even give suspicion.

It will radicalize people who think it is their obligation to defend their rights. 1% of the population, ps, is 3 million. That would be a huge chunk of people willing to kill, bomb and attack the government.

Also, China has no economic problems to speak of, it's the most powerful country, today.

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=shanghai+composite+chart
Try googling "Chinese shadow cities" and tell me they don't have a huge bubble waiting to burst

^+1. I just met someone a couple of weeks ago who moved from Fuzhou in South China because her parents feared the housing bubble was going to collapse.

The Chinese government exercises a huge amount of control on the relative "freedom of markets". Their use of currency manipulation has largely kept them alive at the expense of other trading partners. Not to mention that the Chinese government can without question close down their entire stock market trading operations if the Shanghai Composite goes in the red too much.

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/chinas-monumental-ponzi-heres-how-it-unravels/

Besides the housing bubble, the Chinese have also engaged in dollar diplomacy with their huge treasury currency reserves (which were at $4 trillion at one point). Basically they use their state owned corporations to invest in strategic or small or poor countries that happen to be tremendously valuable for their natural resource deposits. They can then leverage their investments in the country's economy to gain essentially automatic locks to raw materials such as fossil fuels and minerals for their country's industrial production.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/foreign-exchange-reserves

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/business/international/chinas-global-ambitions-with-loans-and-strings-attached.html?_r=0

Try googling "Chinese shadow cities" and tell me they don't have a huge bubble waiting to burst

There are ghost towns in America, there are ghost towns in China, there are ghost towns in Russia. Their beings won't be the end of these countries.

The Chinese government exercises a huge amount of control on the relative "freedom of markets". Their use of currency manipulation has largely kept them alive at the expense of other trading partners. Not to mention that the Chinese government can without question close down their entire stock market trading operations if the Shanghai Composite goes in the red too much.

They have an unfree market, so what? It's all the more stability for them, that's the advantage of unfree markets and governments: stability. Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and all the communist countries in the Cold War, they were in stable economic slipspace until the 1980s. Seems like an advantageous power to me.

Besides the housing bubble, the Chinese have also engaged in dollar diplomacy with their huge treasury currency reserves (which were at $4 trillion at one point). Basically they use their state owned corporations to invest in strategic or small or poor countries that happen to be tremendously valuable for their natural resource deposits. They can then leverage their investments in the country's economy to gain essentially automatic locks to raw materials such as fossil fuels and minerals for their country's industrial production.

And how is this Chinese economic weakness?

^They're investing in failed African, Asian, and South American states that are completely unstable and unlikely to repay loans and debts. They're throwing money at countries on which they won't get a return.

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It is illegal for the police to just check someone's house or person for something without a warrant. By the time it takes for a warrant the person could easily hide his gun or give it to a friend for safe keeping.

Well, for guns, forget a warrant, if you see a gun, you check who's holding it. Stop.

There are also many who simply wouldn't tell police or anyone they have a gun and keep it secret, it's not like the police will just randomly get a warrant for someone who doesn't even give suspicion.

Doesn't apply to those who don't show about their guns, just the guns the police see.

It will radicalize people who think it is their obligation to defend their rights. 1% of the population, ps, is 3 million. That would be a huge chunk of people willing to kill, bomb and attack the government.

Propoganda can change all that. Probably about 1.5% Americans hate the government as is; that's how many voted politic groups other than Democrats or Republicans in the 2012 presidential election (if governmental figures are to be believed).

They're investing in failed African, Asian, and South American states that are completely unstable and unlikely to repay loans and debts. They're throwing money at countries on which they won't get a return.

They're not stupid. There are no failed South American theodes, they are investing in these sites, though, and gaining international power and allies through these countries, even if some don't pay them back in timely. I mean, you can say the same thing about foreign help loans: they're throwing at money at countries on which they won't get a return, but they do want an alliance with.

Propaganda is at a high right now. How are you going to convince people any better when you already own the news corporations, schools, newspapers and radio stations?

Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, and all the communist countries in the Cold War, they were in stable economic slipspace until the 1980s.

This helps prove my point. China, as a communist nation, is long overdue for its economic collapse.

There are ghost towns in America, there are ghost towns in China, there are ghost towns in Russia. Their beings won't be the end of these countries.

Yeah, but the American ones are Western relics, not the source of a housing bubble. They have shadow cities, not just shadow towns. You do realize the problems of investing huge amounts of money into something with no demand, right? It's could easily be even worse than '08

^The problem is not just that they constructed these massive cities. The problem is that the Chinese people actually bought them as a form of investment. The Chinese people believe due to State Run Propaganda that real estate prices will keep going up in China, when in reality they're bound to collapse in these areas where there is no economic development and just empty skyscrapers. What happens when the real estate prices collapse? The investors, mainly the middle class, will have their investment portfolio wiped out which will cause a full blown economic meltdown. And since China is a global partner and US-Chinese trade is at $500 billion, it will cause a global economic crisis.

This helps prove my point. China, as a communist nation, is long overdue for its economic collapse.

With communism came stability, not any kind of collapse. There are Berkadif waves in capitalism, with capitalism is freedom, but unstablity.

Yeah, but the American ones are Western relics, not the source of a housing bubble. They have shadow cities, not just shadow towns. You do realize the problems of investing huge amounts of money into something with no demand, right? It's could easily be even worse than '08

It's a waste of money, not much more. No harbinger of collapse. And you know, Canada, Canada supports some of it's north towns with money and food shipments every few months, and even though it's every few months, and economically unprofitable, it won't bring about Canada's collapse (though ideally, it should be stopped).