Without taxes and without government, there will be little or no investment in infrastructure, transit, education, science, national parks and so on.
There might even be a few hundred billion dollars left to invest annually in new energy and mass transit economies, and science-mandated CO2 reductions.
This changed after moving to SF when I realized the city has gotten public transit down to a science and owning a set of wheels was no longer necessary.
He is happy to answer questions about conditions on Venus, the historical importance of transits and what new science may emerge from studying them.
"The science of public transit is not too complicated," Mr. Cervero said in an e-mail message.
On Tuesday night around 2.4m people in the UK tuned into BBC2 to watch a Horizon special on the science of the transit - a respectable audience for a science programme up against the live launch of Big Brother on Channel 5 (which had 2.7m viewers).
About 50 to 70 riders take the X32 each day, most of them going to Bronx Science, according to New York City Transit, which operates the line.
Their rarity highlights the news hook for Andrea Wulf's account of this ur-Big Science project: the next transit of Venus happens to be soon, on June 5 and 6, 2012.
Crowdfunding routes is an interesting strategy toward quickly generating profitable new routes, compared to the complex science and art of transit planning.
The resulting light curve was made available to the public by the Kepler science team, revealing four transit events over 33.5 days.
