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I just got this today from 1440 Daily Digest. It sounds promising, and due to tariffs, no less. $500 Billion back into the US Economy ain't so bad.

Apple Boosts US Investment

Apple announced yesterday plans to invest more than $500B in the US over the next four years, marking its largest-ever spending commitment. The initiative includes hiring approximately 20,000 new employees across multiple states, primarily focused on research and development, silicon engineering, and artificial intelligence.

A significant portion will fund a new AI server manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas. The Houston facility will produce servers supporting Apple Intelligence (the company's AI-powered personal assistant system), shifting the production of these servers from outside the US to domestic facilities. The announcement comes amid renewed pressure from the Trump administration regarding tariffs on goods imported from China, where Apple assembles most of its products.

A pretty good Series of books starts with just this scenario. The first book is called "Going Home" by A. American

I agree this would be a pipe dream... but it's not like we haven't kind of already done it once...

The Intracoastal Waterway is a navigable inland waterway that runs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States. Some key details about its history:
- Planning and early development began in the early 19th century, though some natural inlets and rivers were already being used informally as inland routes.
- The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1909 authorized formal development of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Boston, MA to Beaufort, NC. This allowed for channel improvements and the construction of artificial canals to connect natural inlets, bays, and rivers into a continuous navigable route.
- It was largely complete along the Atlantic coast up through Virginia by 1940. Additional legs extending it southward to Florida and along the Gulf Coast extended progress through the 1960s and 1970s.
- It was intended to provide a sheltered, shallow-draft route for coastal shipping and transportation as an alternative to more hazardous open ocean routes. This allowed commercial traffic to avoid rough seas and assisted trade and development of coastal communities.
- Over the years it became increasingly used for commercial fishing and recreational boating as well. Barge traffic carrying bulk goods like petroleum and coal was also common through parts of its history.
So in summary, the Intracoastal Waterway is an instrumental inland water route, over 3,000 miles in total length, built along the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast starting in the early 1900s and improved gradually over decades to support coastal trade and transportation.



I'm not saying it would be cheap (Or Quick), but why not keep the process going to the West Coast? Aside from deterring the immigration problem, we could finally send and receive goods to the Western United States via waterways without the weeks-long journey to the Panama Canal.

Of course, it might be kinda hard to dig through the 4000-5000 feet that the continental divide is above sea level at the border... muh details.

I read the books long ago: 2001, 2010, 2061, and 3001

I remember when the crew went somewhere in the ship to discuss the antenna being actually functional, where HAL couldn't hear them, HAL could still see them and read their lips. They discussed turning HAL off.

HAL has a prime directive to complete his mission and not tell the crew the true mission, but if the crew is planning on turning him off then the only logical step is to kill the crew and complete its mission.

I don't remember the monoliths giving knowledge. I thought they were to send a signal to whatever space higher power that humans had evolved enough to 1. Notice objects 2. Advance enough to get to the dark side of their moon and locate another monolith underground. 3. Reach one floating around Saturn... at which point the space higher power would make contact. (It was changed to Jupiter in the movie)

So I know this doesn't answer the main question, but I remember watching the making of Empire Strikes Back, and that wasn't what was said..

The cast & crew first learned of it when they saw the finished film. When we shot it, Vader's line was "You don't know the truth, Obi-Wan killed your father." Only Irvin Kershner, George Lucas & I knew what would be dubbed in later. Agony keeping that secret for over a year! ?? LINK

— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) May 24, 2020



So in the original filming, the cast and crew thought he was killing himself or escaping by falling after he heard that Kenobi killed his father.

Thought that was some neat trivia.

There is no way this will come to pass.

The enormity of the change that this would require is lost to all the greenies that want to eliminate fossil fuels.

The best explanation for climate change I've found is from Micheal Crichton's take on the issue. Aliens... makes more sense than any other argument I've seen. It is a bit of a read, but it is worth it.

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I find it interesting that a few weeks after the Terminal List airs, there is an outbreak of Marburg Virus...

I am reading/listening to the Jack Reece series of books, like many, I assume, and I am currently on book four, where they are talking about, of all things, the Marburg virus.

Is this a coincidence, or is someone in the media reading the books a little faster than me and getting ideas for fake news that could try and sway/scare mainstream people. In the book, the Marburg virus turns out to be airborne... watch in the next few days, they report the virus is airborne, and there will be reports of people close to the outbreak that recently traveled to Texas and Denver... just like in the book.

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This is not what the book says. I know because I just finished it. Yes, the initial polio vaccines were contaminated with monkey viruses and likely resulted in the cancer epidemic that no one is talking about today. However, this is not what Dr. Mary and Co. were working on in their secret labs in NOLA at the time. It's relevant only to show what type of medical research was being done at the time and what they could accomplish. They we irradiating monkey viruses to mutate them to create a cancer causing bio-weapon to kill Castro (presumably). Their work had little to do with the polio vaccine.

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Fair enough I read it a few years ago... obviously got some of the finer points a little jumbled. Thanks for getting the record straight. And you are right it is a great book everyone should read especially if you have any connection with New Orleans. :cheers:

I was more focused on the whole cancer-causing problem with the vaccination, not so much about the storyline of the book. Did I remember correctly that the vaccine was also rushed?

(Sorry for the wall of words)

I keep seeing people reference the polio vaccine as an example of why we should get the Covid Vaccine. They use it as an example of how we used science to eradicate the scourge of polio.

I read a book Dr. Mary's Monkey, based in New Orleans and is about a lot of things ranging from the Murder of Dr. Mary to a conspiracy by the CIA to murder Castro. Throw in JFK's assassination and Lee Harvey's involvement in it and you get a pretty interesting book. Supposedly the book is based in Fact and not Fiction makes it more interesting, at least to me anyway.

According to the book the CIA planned to murder Castro using a polio vaccine that was known to increase the chances of cancer... Something to do with using a certain type of monkey to generate the vaccine and certain monkey cells being transferred to humans in the process of inoculating the masses, and the fact that the entire vaccine process was rushed.

I decided to look into it a little and there is a wealth of information out there and I came across this article.

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Background: The presence of SV40 in monkey cell cultures used in the preparation of the polio vaccine from 1955 through 1961 is well documented. Investigations have consistently demonstrated the oncogenic behavior of SV40 in animal models. Early epidemiologic studies were inadequate in demonstrating an increase in cancer incidence associated with contaminated vaccine. Recently, investigators have provided persuasive evidence that SV40 is present in human ependymomas, choroid plexus tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas, however, the etiologic role of the virus in tumorigenesis has not been established.

Materials and methods: Using data from SEER, we analyzed the incidence of brain tumors, bone tumors, and mesotheliomas from 1973-1993 and the possible relationship of these tumors with the administration of the SV40 contaminated vaccine.

Results: Our analysis indicates increased rates of ependymomas (37%), osteogenic sarcomas (26%), other bone tumors (34%) and mesothelioma (90%) among those in the exposed as compared to the unexposed birth cohort.

Conclusions: These data suggest that there may be an increased incidence of certain cancers among the 98 million persons exposed to contaminated polio vaccine in the U.S.; further investigations are clearly justified.

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98 million persons in the United States Exposed... in 1960 the population of the United States was 181 million. Half of the population was exposed to (injected with) a potential cancer-causing agent. Deaths caused by Cancer seem to have a dramatic uptick in the 50s, 60s, and 70s compared to the earlier half of the century.


The fact that I read this book about so many things. Including the rushed polio vaccine, that caused cancer in the 50s. The fact that there is a lot of information about this rushed polio vaccine out there and that it wasn't found for 6 years at least... just makes me smile and shake my head every time someone uses the "what about the Polio Vaccine" reason for the Covid Vaccine.

I will, I think, decline this current rushed vaccine.

Holy Wall of Words Batman.

Geography plays a big part in this answer. Like most things, geography isn't fair either.

When Agriculture started, if you were lucky enough to be born next to the coast of a sea or ocean way back before we had trucks, railroads, and airplanes to move goods, then your settlement could not only export excess goods on the water but also import goods that could help your society prosper in mass. The more you exported, the more wealth you generated, the more your community flourished.
If you were born in a landlocked country, then you had to rely on caravans at best. Even if your origin was next to a substantial water source and that waterway source dropped in elevation (Waterfalls) to make it unnavigable, you could not use it for transport. It even has a lot to do with where those navigatable rivers go. For example, if they empty in the arctic ocean, like many in central and eastern Europe, utilizing that waterway for only a few months in the summer doesn't get you very far. You are better than those poor SOBs in landlocked areas but not much better. So your society will only produce what it needs to survive because creating more than is necessary without a way to sell it is wasteful, and very little wealth is generated. You might have wealthy landowners in that society, but that society would be considered poor as a whole. That was how commerce worked for thousands of years most if not all shipping was on the water.

Now fast forward 10,000 years, and some areas have prospered. There has been a vast divide generated over these 10,000 years, and now we can start to transport things over land and in the air more efficiently. Where do we build these roads, railroads, and airports? We make them between the prosperous areas to move goods more effectively. Believe it or not but we are still in this building phase. The areas that are not prosperous do not get the railroad, or highways, or airports. They get the one or two-lane roads that that big trucks can't quickly get through. And why would they? They have no goods to transport, and they have no wealth to buy goods.

Only Switzerland that I know of as a landlocked hard to get to place in the world, found a way to become wealthy, but that is because they profited on the fact it is hard to get there. People like to bank where it is hard to break in and out of.

Is this the answer to your question? Maybe or maybe not, but I bet it has a lot to do with the why.