Spin Launch goes around in circles with Ka'u

['elepaio]

If you want to quote me, then quote me properly. Don't put words in my mouth. It's unethical and downright dishonest.

Hahaha! You're funny brah. Not as cute as you think you are, though, to be honest, you rock those heels..

^^^ POT MEET KETTLE ^^^

[AaronM]

fling something into space.

I’m optimistic.
If some of the people on this thread can toss baseless arguments into thin air, SpinLaunch might shoot something out there too.

Guffaw!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

While we argue about whether the technology is possible, on September 27th SpinLaunch conducted their 10th successful test.  What they didn’t do is launch it from Ka’u District, while employing dozens of out of work residents:

SpinLaunch just catapulted a NASA payload into the sky for the first time
The company's test demonstrated the viability of catapulting satellite components into the sky.

https://interestingengineering.com/innov...sa-payload

[randomq]

Any higher and they'll hit the firmament!

[TomK]

I'm going to use that quote elsewhere. Thank you, randomq, you will be acknowledged!

[leilanidude]

While we argue about whether the technology is possible, on September 27th SpinLaunch conducted their 10th successful test. What they didn’t do is launch it from Ka’u District, while employing dozens of out of work residents:
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To be honest, I doubt that SpinLaunch would have hired more than one or two folks from Ka`u as security guards...

[iquetzal]

When the nimby crowd drives all investment off the island, from bakeries to pig slaughterhouses to telescopes, your bright young people leave.
This leaves you with the young and the hopeless who amuse themselves torching cars at Honolulu Landing, arson, drugs, burglary, highway death, etc. etc.
You can have intelligent development, or you can have escalating youth crime.
Or you can tell people here to stop having kids.

[AaronM]

When the nimby crowd drives all investment off the island, from bakeries to pig slaughterhouses to telescopes, your bright young people leave.
This leaves you with the young and the hopeless who amuse themselves torching cars at Honolulu Landing, arson, drugs, burglary, highway death, etc. etc.
You can have intelligent development, or you can have escalating youth crime.
Or you can tell people here to stop having kids.

Meh, welcome to Hawaii.  Where the nimby crowd is our elected officials, big business and big landowners in addition to the kooks.  The brain drain here is a real problem but not one that will be addressed any time soon. 

As far as the "arson, drugs, burglary, highway death, etc. etc.", we are getting guns now so that should be an interesting development!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

To be honest, I doubt that SpinLaunch would have hired more than one or two folks from Ka`u as security guards...

Let’s say you’re right.
What would the 100 professionals with good paychecks contribute to Ka’u District?  
They’d buy groceries, go to restaurants, build houses, hire house cleaners, yard workers, fix their cars…
Maybe if enough people bought their groceries a Foodland might open up again benefiting everyone.

So even people without an advanced degree, residents who aren’t rocket scientists might have a better chance at employment than they do now.

[TomK]

To be honest, I doubt that SpinLaunch would have hired more than one or two folks from Ka`u as security guards...

Well, that's not the experience of the astronomical observatories in Hawaii which are probably the closest thing to a project like SpinLaunch. Firstly, you are going to need a significant construction crew to build the site and it makes little sense to bring in the majority of that workforce from the mainland. Secondly, the observatories are typically employed by about 50% of local staff, although admittedly not many are from Ka'u, although many live a long way from Hilo or Mauna Kea on this island.


Once the facility is operational, you need engineers, technicians, admin staff, as well as all the ancillary staff, needed to run a large project and it's inefficient, inconvenient, and expensive to hire people from the mainland and there is local talent coming out of Hawaii colleges and universities, I see them all the time, so why wouldn't you hire those people? If they don't get those opportunities, then yes, they'll leave the islands.