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90 so far

over 9000

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Drumpf can go fuck himself

100

90. The only thing I think he could be doing better is reining in these retardef leftist anarchists. But he's earned the benefit of the doubt where that is concerned. All in due time.

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spotted the CTR

about an 80 to 85 especially in light of the tpp so so far so good :)

45

About a 75. Temporary immigration hold could have been better executed, and not sure what his angle is with DeVos. Still, he's doing pretty good given the circumstances.

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90-95.

To be fair he is getting lots of extra points for actually doing ANYTHIHNG he said he would do before getting elected. That is unprecedented!

Ricky/100

I will let kek decide.

12

the only credible thing he's done is attempted to keep his campaign promises. Some of them anyway.

After appointing billionaires to his cabinet I think the whole "Drain the Swamp" thing is gone.

With the courts throwing out the travel ban and Mexico refusing to pay for the wall Trump really isn't making much headway.

>Trump really isn't making much headway
Friday will mark his third week in office.

he need more rope

this

kek decided

100.

He's doing the best he can to fight the system. He will prevail at the end, I am convinced.

Do you think it is worthwhile to debate the relative merits of a shit or turd sandwich?

To frame the discussion of Trump properly, we shouldn't be interested so much in his merits relative to other presidents but rather relative to what is straightforwardly possible.

Some people make the mistake of giving him a high score because they like a thing or two better than Obama or Hillary. But relative to what he COULD do but isn't, Trump is at no more than a 1 or 2 out of 100.

The US government has the capacity to do the following:

Year 1-2: build space elevator
Year 3:

(1) deploy enough solar panels to produce $20 trillion worth of power per year
(2) retrieve several asteroids with tens of trillions of minerals

Year 4:

Pay off solar panel purchase, space elevator purchase, and now have $20T income stream from power generation alone

With funds from selling asteroid mineral wealth, begin paying for the terraforming of Mars

Year 5:

(1) With new $20T income stream, taxes are cut to 0% across the board, national debt is paid off
(2) Orbital rings are deployed on Moon and Mars, the beginning of terraforming process on Mars

Year 6:

(1) having paid the national debt off with power generation income stream, government can now afford to issue $25,000 checks to each American every year while maintaining current spending and spending an additional $25,000 per person on infrastructure
(2) A vast array of projects on Earth are initiated including NAWAPA while the orbital ring system is expanded to a global hyperloop transportation grid

1488

Is it possible to build a space elevator today?

Yes:

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The key idea is the Orbital Ring version of the space elevator, not the geosynchronous tether concept you are familiar with.

See, for example, Paul Birch's writings:

orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-I.pdf

The orbital ring only requires tethers about 300 kilometers long which is technically feasible with common material like steel, but ridiculously straightforward with better and already available material like kevlar.

85, he triggers more liberals every day.

100 if you're a rural and suburban retard

0 if you're a city person

There are some important questions. First, how much would it cost to do something like this?

We need to send about 160 million kilograms of material into space (See Birch's boot strap estimates in part 2: orionsarm.com/fm_store/OrbitalRings-II.pdf)

We have rockets available at $2000/kg costs to LEO today in "mass production" mode, which is only about 10-20 launches per year. Compared with the couple thousand launches necessary for a space elevator, $2000 is an unreasonably high upper bound for launch costs.

We also need to include the cost of materials. A space elevator is about 98% steel and aluminum, 1% kevlar, and 1% other such as superconducting magnets. Most of the mass (98%) cost around $1/kg, with an average cost per kilogram of no more than about $10 per kilogram.

Summing the above up, we get about $430 billion in launch costs plus another $1-2 billion in material costs.

In other words, we can have a space elevator for less than $450 billion - significantly less than one year worth of DoD spending, one bank bailout, many times less than a variety of pointless wars, etc. This is well within our reach financially in other words.

Kek decides with my last two digits

What do we get in return for this $450 billion investment?

Virtually unlimited value. For example, with a space elevator we can reliably launch our nuclear waste into the sun. We've spent $100 billion building a waste repository in Nevada, but it was ultimately decided not to even use it. Now it costs only a dollar or two per kilogram to get rid of all of the nuclear waste in the world.

Second, we have immediate access to viable asteroid mining industry. Because the cost of delivering payloads to LEO drops to about $1/kilogram, we can not retrieve asteroids with trillions of dollars worth of minerals for mere tens millions of dollars in addition to having an easy viable way of returning those resources back to the surface.

We acquire the ability to deploy profitable solar power in orbit above cloud cover and with the ability to return said power back to the surface with near zero loss by running power transmission cables down the elevator.

Just how profitable?

With increased luminosity in space, enhanced exposure time, and the ability to deliver base loads, solar panels pay for themselves in only 1-2 years while having a 20 year life time.

In other words, if you put $5 trillion of solar panels into space, you get your $5 trillion back by the end of year two and a $5 trillion income stream each year thereafter.

In other words, the US could cut everyone's taxes, both personal and business, income, capital, death, or otherwise, all to 0%, not even cut any benefits or current spending, and pay off the national debt within a decade.

92.

Easily 77

It should already be obvious that the entirety of the political debate spectrum is cointelpro.

Are taxes too high or too low? Irrelevant, we don't actually need taxes.

Is social spending bankrupting us? Irrelevant, we can retire the national debt without cutting spending all while having no tax whatsoever.

What does this have to do with taking the red pill?

We've had the technological ability to undertake such a project for decades.

That means all the squabbling you have heard your entire life, money, debt, spending, taxes, scarcity, whatever, is all bullshit. Not only is it bullshit, anyone with rudimentary knowledge of the world has known that it is all bullshit for all of this time.

In other words, once you come to understand the such a project is and has been technically feasible for decades, you have to reevaluate many things.

Why is there nothing of this in the conspiracy media? They are not really trying to expose or solve any problems. One hundred percent of it is cointelpro. From the Young Turks to Infowars or whatever, they are all completely full of shit because solutions to our problems not only exist, are easy to carry out, but this has been the case for a very long time.

Similarly, you now know that 20%+ annual GDP growth is possible. If Trump gives you 3-4% instead of Obama's 2%, he is simply working with the establishment to try to placate and subvert a rising tide. If we see the easily achievable 20%+ growth rates, it is at least possible that he isn't a subversive. Anything less and you know he is a fraud.

88/100

80
He's actually doing a lot of shit that he said he'd do and doesn't give a fuck about what anyone says. I don't get why the rest of the world thinks their opinion on our policies should matter. If you really care about refugees that much, take in more except you won't because you know the problems it will cause. The media, politicians, and rich CEO's are all being reactionary camwhores. Funny how it took the President you hate to donate a small portion of the millions/billions to a cause you say is fundamental. Everyone know your just riding the wave to make yourself look good and the second it goes out of fashion, you'll move on to the next thing

90
Apart from not banning more Muslim countries and actually getting it to work. but he's started/done an outstanding amount of promises in just his first 2 weeks in presidency.

Trump is done at this point. Mega corporations run this country and they're all taking legal action against him. He will be impeached by year end most likely.

14+88

80 he should do more to troll China

Satellites orbiting in a polar formation will eventually hit the space elevator and destroy it, as the counter weight of the elevator extends up to and beyond GEO synchronous orbit. Has anyone come up with solution to this problem?

He said during the NRA endorcement that he'd get rid of gun free zones asap. Can he actually do this with an EO or something quick?

he does that and it's 95, so far, like 85-90

id say 85 very good so far

87.5

Not gonna lie, former Trump voter here. This is fucking hilarious watching Trump crash and burn. But in all seriousness we can't let this guy get the nuclear codes.

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9 ouf of 11
so about 82/100

100

Only politician I've seen to ever follow his promises

id say about 98

90. He loses 10 points for not adding Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Turkey to his ban list as well as his threats of military action against Iran and China. We don't need another war where Americans die for kikes (Iran) nor do we need a nuclear war (China). Other than that, Trump has done a good job by actually KEEPING his promises (unlike most politicians).

100%
hes already done 80% of what hes promised me in the first month

its honestly pretty incredible

101

64, would probably shill for again

There is little reason to keep orbiting satellites when you have orbital rings and elevators. You can just hang the satellites from the ring wherever you want them.

As far as the elevator extending up and beyond GEO, no. We have no materials strong enough for tethers of this length. The first elevator would only go to ~300km or so.

If you want to reach GEO you have two options:

(1) use the ~300km elevator as a railgun and have your projectiles leave with sufficient velocity to climb that high. This is impractical for humans to make it to GEO however because the g-forces required are too high.

(2) build a series of rings. If kevlar is our elevator material, you need about 10 orbital rings to climb all the way to GEO altitude. The spacing between each can be successively greater despite material strength being constant because gravity gets weaker as you go up.

Conveniently, the 2nd-10th ring are super cheap to deploy once you have the first because of the physics described in (1): you can use one of your elevators on the first ring as a railgun platform to fire material into GEO for your "10th" (2nd to be built, 10th highest in the end) ring. Then you have an elevator from GEO down to several thousand kilometers below GEO which you can use to lower the material from the 10th ring down to the desired position for the 9th, and so on.

End result is you have 10 rings, each connected by kevlar based elevators between them, on which you can transport any material to GEO including humans at comfortable g-forces (arbitrarily low).

His desire to fulfill campaign promises borders on obsession. 2/10 worst president since Lincoln.

my digits

Bout 88

its too early to decide. But since he's actually keeping his campaign promises and pushing bills to bring back our rights, I'll give him a 90