What motivation is there for those at the bottom of the structure with no prospect of any inheritance whatsoever? Some, to be sure, will see ways in which they might find some degree of financial improvement and well-being. Many will not. Even if they work extremely hard.
Take your marks, get set, let the smearing begin.
to slow down at the descent, the descent engine has to provide enough thrust to counteract gravity on the moon and reduce forward speed.
basic marketing rules. Let's face it, if you know your bike won't last 5 years, would you buy it? (except perhaps Mike63, he does 4,000-5,000 miles a year).
I've long agreed on that desirability Danidl, but it does create big problems in an economy, particularly a lack of large savings and subsequent investment. People would avoid leaving anything, being on a permanent spending spree. They'd want to cash in their homes, but no-one would want to buy them for that purpose since they in turn would lose everything at death. And there'd be no rented homes.
Did you edit the following... " Idiot. You'd kill off the whole economy. You obviously know nothing about human motivation."..as appears in in some later posting
But changing IHT laws would be a tiny tiny step in overall redistribution of wealth. Changing it without changing rest could destroy far more than ut creates. Our IHT is already a punishing tax which as it stands actually affects middle earners far more than the type you would wish to rebalance. The top earners have ways of moving, transferring and redistributing wealth before death. As it stands good planning can totally avoid its affects anyway... (if you trust people, family, friends) Give your wealth away and stay alive 7 years... You, ve cracked it... Folk never do though...
Lets assume that's correct. KN are the same on the Earth as the Moon, since force is independent of gravity. 16KN is about the weight of a family car. Can you now imagine the blast you'd need out of the bottom of your car to make it hover 10ft in the air? How much sand or dust do you think would remain underneath it?
I. m not saying one way or other about this, but if it were faked (which it could have been) dont you think a couple of tons of sand, dust, or whatever couldnt have been deposited around craft.
The veracity of the moon landings is not a subject that has interested me much, but I do have one thought on it now.
I agree with that, my feelings are that even if they did go the debacle mentioned above probably along with other issues has been covered up.
The dark side facing out into space would be ideal for those, but only the Chinese have landed there so far, unmanned.
Let’s liken this to a helicopter landing in a snow covered field or a desert. Recirculation of sand and snow disturbed by the down wash is a significant problem. It can cause total loss of vision and orientation reference due to the dense cloud of particles surrounding the aircraft. This phenomenon is well known, has caused numerous crashes and procedures have been developed to minimise the affect.
Its not the prospect of inheritance that is the motivation! Doh! Is everybody on this list totally ignorant to what motivates people to work hard?
it won't be long before the Chinese go there and colonise the place.
My children no longer need my help.
The thing that makes me the most suspicious is that they've never been back in 50 years. That's incredibly long in this age of technical advancement. From the time Kennedy said that they would go to the time they actually went was only a few years, when the best computers had less computing power than a smartwatch today. I bet most of the engineers were using slide rules to do their calculations. I heard a spokesman from NASA the other day saying that they no longer had the technology to do a manned landing on the moon, and it would take 10 years to develop a suitable craft. It just doesn't add up.
