The Daily Populous

Tuesday February 6th, 2018 evening edition

image for Elon Musk: 'If we are successful with this, it is game over for all the other heavy lift rockets'

If it's a success, Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful and cheapest way to launch heavy payloads into space.

"If we are successful in this, it is game over for all the other heavy lift rockets," Musk said Monday evening on a press call.

The Falcon Heavy has three boosters attached to each Falcon 9 rocket, and SpaceX has become quite good at recovering them for refurbishment and reuse.

Musk said it was designed to be reused more quickly than the Falcon Heavy.

It would need extra testing and provide more power than what planned future Falcon Heavy missions would require.

If Falcon Heavy blows up the launchpad, rebuilding will take nine months to a year, Musk said.

"It's either going to be an exciting success or an exciting failure — I'd say tune in," Musk said. »

Britons Respond to Trump Attack on UK Healthcare: 'Nobody Here Would Trade for What America Has'

Authored by commondreams.org

The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working.

In Britain, the poor don't need to win the lottery to afford medical care.

Under the current U.S. healthcare system, nearly 30 million Americans lack healthcare—a number that has risen significantly since Trump took office. »

Medical marijuana bill passes Virginia Senate 40-0

Authored by newsleader.com

Read about Staunton's Narduzzi: Pain over politics: How this Staunton Republican became an advocate for medical marijuana.

More: Medical marijuana bill passes Va House subcommittee.

Governor Ralph Northam, also a doctor, is already on record in support of Let Doctors Decide medical marijuana laws in the Commonwealth. »

Farm Sunshine, Not Cancer: Replacing Tobacco Fields with Solar Arrays

Authored by mtu.edu

Michigan Tech researchers contend that tobacco farmers could increase profits by converting their land to solar farms, which in turn provides renewable energy generation.

Pearce notes that tobacco continues to be farmed in the U.S. today because farmers can make money doing it.

“We were interested in what conditions were needed to enable tobacco farmers to begin installing solar energy systems on the same land,” he says. »