“Hey, I know, we can design it with a delta wing, no fuel, no thrusters, minimal control surfaces; and when it re-enters, everything has to go 1000% to plan (from re-entry point, to drag, to speed, to rate of descent, etc.) until it just gracefully glides to a stop 300 miles away on the runway.”

You save quite a bit of money when deployed overseas. Nothing to buy really. Now looking back I should have invested that money but my young self always wanted a Harley Davidson.

I walked into the dealer and really liked the Soft-tail deluxe with the white wall tires which they had at $21,000 ticket price. The salesman was an asshole who kept pointing me to the used bikes and sportsters who ranged around $8,000. After repeatedly told him I'm not interested and I want the Soft-Tail he asked me who was going to co-sign to finance it.

Man was I pissed. I told him to get lost and get me the manager. Talked to the manager told him that guy is a prick and shouldn't be here. Bought the bike in Cash at 18,000 out the door. He even through in two leather jackets and two free helmets. Still feels like I king of the road. With my lady who gained a shit-ton of weight since.

But that's another story for another day! Hahaha cheers fellas

Entirely cultural reasons.

1. ⁠We are overall extremely hesitant to invest infrastructure. We prefer to let things come close to outright collapse, or just let them actually collapse, before spending any money on them.
2. ⁠We are obsessed with personal automobiles and prefer to do most of our movement around where we live with them. This makes any other system of transportation very difficult to implement. Ridership will initially be very low, which creates cost challenges. And the population is very hesitant to accept any compromise in freedom of driving or subsidies for driving that might benefit other means of transportation.
3. ⁠We are also, relatively speaking, obsessed with individual land rights and hesitant both to give up land cheaply or to use existing eminent domain powers to buy up land and use it for infrastructure.
4. ⁠Historically, we fear cheap means of transit that connect areas of different socioeconomic profiles, due to the fact that it provides access to wealthy majority areas for racial minorities.

I think we’re capable of overcoming all of these, but these are the real bedrock issues Americans have with mass transit. We don’t like to plan ahead, we don’t want it to get in the way of us driving everywhere, we don’t want infrastructure on or near our land, and we don’t want racial minorities to be able to go to the places where we live.

And of course the only acceptable livery is the NFS one

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