As a side-note - it takes more energy to land on the Moon than on Mars due to Mars having some atmosphere that you can use to break without expending fuel. It makes a huge difference in delta-V calculations. Also it is clear that Mars has far more useful natural resources than Moon including CO2, water ice and metals. That makes Mars more likely as a colony that could feasibly survive without Earth than Moon.
One other application that was not mentioned is that this mass capability and price makes it feasible to launch a relatively cheap tug that would repair and refuel multiple existing GEO satellites, possibly even replace some modules with upgraded parts under remote robotic control. If one cheaper tug can service and thus extend life of a dozen GEO satellites like this, it would pay for itself.
]]>We would need a serious natural disaster to challenge that kind of record.
]]>As for increase of exports - if the exports are in a categories where the demand is inflexible, then changes in price have little impact on volume sold in the short term. You are not going to suddenly decide to buy twice as much factory equipment just because it is for some reason at half price now. You will buy the same amount for half price and move on.
]]>EU, naturally, will not negotiate anything until article 50 is invoked while cutting UK out of anything possible. Not doing that would be a political suicide for Junkers and co. Dombrovskis will immediately initiate euro clearinghouse move from London to Frankfurt (for market stability purposes). And the market slump will go on until the exit conditions and decision are clear. The best thing the Remain people can do is give Boris and UKIP the wheel and watch them crash and burn before taking the control back after the terrified public votes to Remain.
]]>Now he is in charge of the EU monetary and financial policy. If you think that he will allow euro clearinghouse activities to remain in London, you are dreaming.
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