We are "ranked" 43rd for 2025 in the power-5. This reminds me of the pre-salary cap NFL, where the richest, most committed owner(s) would throw $$$ at players to build a team.
Musk is exactly right. Manned fighter planes are now obsolete. Drone and missile technology has reached the point when any piloted aircraft can be easily taken out. The same is true of tanks. They are obsolete, right now. A Javelin fire-and-forget missile can be carried and fired by a single soldier. Ukraine reports a 94% kill rate with the first Javelin missile.
Trump has been talking about getting the Panama Canal back, but we really need to build a new canal across Central America without locks. The Panama Canal is too slow and too small to accommodate today's large container ships and oil tankers. This time the US buys the land instead of leasing it for 99 years.
The large Lake Nicaragua on the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border. The San Juan River drains the lake along the border to the east into the Atlantic Ocean. This provides the pathway for most of the proposed canal. Then another short canal with locks will need to be built from Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific Ocean.
It felt a bit like Purdue could be making some moves in the starting lineup after Myles Colvin and Camden Heide had struggled the last few games. That change is here with CJ Cox and Caleb Furst replacing Heide and Colvin in the starting five.