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But then there's still nothing from firing one long distance hit and scrapping away all these PD, leaving the fighters available to play. That just means "always fire one gun or missile before launching fighters," that's all. There. Are. No. Blast. Effects. In. Space. Your one hit can't t...

I know. I merely say that we choose to have the claims expire, in order to have peace. However, therein lies a hidden danger when successful feats of ethnic cleansing and colonization would be serving as examples for future invaders, encouraging them to keep the territory for as long as possible to...

I don't care so much about the tent aspect as about the fact that there will be ~5000 children of various ages be living there, mostly unsupervised. All ages, all kinds of social background, traumatised, with no parental or other friend or family support, and nothing to do most of the day - unless ...

So... you're basically saying that Trump did with North Korea what he accused Obama of doing with Iran, right? Yeah. The difference is that Obama didn't walk away praising the Ayatollah and saying "Iran is no longer a problem." Because Obama isn't a dumbass. An international agreement wit...

If they're tent cities in any way comparable to a lot of the tent-based accomodations that have sprung up to hold illegal immigrants over the past ten to twenty years in the American Southwest, they're going to be a lot closer to the "North Korean labor camp" end of the spectrum than the &...

If Picard was churning out starships in his backyard, maybe it would've attracted the attention of the Federation... which is why he sticks to wine and Starfleet vessels are all we see ;) One distinct possibility is that while Earth , specifically, has no privately owned key industry (i.e. privatel...

Not sure whether to put this in History, Off-topic, or News and Politics. If needed, move elsewhere. Over history, there's been plenty of examples of someone or someones living somewhere, and another group coming in and trying to also live there, peacefully or violently. Sometimes trade is involved...

Cause treating them like, you know, human children would mean spending more money on dirty brown foreigners. Position on illegal immigration aside, how is building a tent city to house the children a bad thing? Especially as an easily done cost efficient measure that can be increased or decreased w...

If it were a simple matter of "flip this genetic marker to grant immortality," probably so. It's not going to be that simple. It's going to be a battery of different modifications. No one of them is going to grant biological immortality, realistically; there's going to be a shitload of the...

In any case, its already a big win to Kim Jong Un, simply by making him a "legitimate" leader in the eyes of the world, and putting him on a level with the President of the United States. And while he's hardly the first evil man to be accorded such a place, it should not be forgetting who...

The thing is, rich people can afford to spend exorbitant sums of money on things that almost certainly don't work, as long as those things are not dangerous. A blood transfusion, once it's been tested for infection, is on the whole not dangerous. Homeopathic remedies, which by definition are effecti...

Now you're grasping at straws. The exact people you propose will have a monopoly on life-extension medical techniques (the rich and powerful) are exactly the class of people most able to penetrate veils of misinformation and marketing nonsense, not least because they can hire professionals specifica...

I’m thinking that ships would normally have fighters or missiles rather than PD guns to fit with the ‘you want stuff you can close up behind armor plates’ thing I’m positing. Well, if it was me I'd expect something like the Phalanx gun turret: some kind of weapons pod that can be essentially bolted...

Private ownership is pretty clearly confirmed to exist in the Federation, even to the scale of owning large tracts of property (the Picard vineyard, the Sisko family restaurant). Unless we assume that they're just operating those facilities on behalf of the state or something, but we don't see any ...

The funny part is that the 18th century land and slave owning class which started the whole genocidal enterprise even enter these discussions at all. Because historical revisionism is unhealthy, and discussing a document while in denial about who wrote it is a form of revisionism. By being mindful ...

I mean, to be fair, even in a scenario where turtling makes sense, it's almost certainly a good idea to have close-in defensive weapons capable of counterattacking small craft threats, or capable of destroying a very weak small craft attack. That way you don't run into situations where all I have to...

Ah. I see. I thought you were talking about blood transfusions in general , as a life-saving and thus life-extending medical treatment. The belief that transfusions from young patients would rejuvenate old patients has been around in one form or another for a long time. It is, so far as the scientif...

There is NO sign that the Founding Fathers EVER seriously considered that a president could use the pardon power to render himself effectively above the law. That is very obviously not what they meant; they took great pains to ensure that no part of the government they were designing would be above...

So in this scenario, fighters are no threat to anything aside from exposed and vulnerable equipment, yet both sides have chosen not to run PD and instead shield/armor their sensor gear in a way which leaves them blind to the attacks that can actually kill their ship? In this case, doesn't it make m...

Uh... now blood transfusions are very well tested. If you're talking about the 1800s, before blood typing was understood, well yes there were people willing to test it, and a lot of them died . They generally tried it because they were desperate- say, already dying of blood loss. This is different. ...

To be fair, Burlew is clearly trying to resolve sideplots, and that takes some time and effort. The whole entanglement with Tarquin was a way of getting rid of Nale (though it also introduced a new antagonist in the form of Durkula, it clearly wasn't part of the 'winding down' even if it did wind do...

Okay, let's clarify. Consider a generic, abstract 'setting' in which heavily armored starships can easily 'hang on' and weather the weapons fire of small, 'strafing' attackers. Where surface features such as sensors, engine nozzles, and the like are vulnerable, but the core hull of the ship is insid...

A unipolar world is never going to be as good or stable an arrangement of things as a multipolar one. Neither is going to be stable - nor the imperialism of many great powers, neither the imperialism of two or one great superpowers, all such configurations are objectively lacking stability. ...Do I...

The thing is, a lot of the ways we express our basic nature do depend on material conditions. Our modern concept of courtship and dating is very different from the concept that prevailed a few hundred years ago, or even that which still prevails in other parts of the world with more or less the same...

You're right in broad. In the narrow Deliveroo case... Well, given that door-to-door delivery of takeout food is a thing, while carryout meals are also a thing... It's safe to say that "get your food delivered from the restaurant to your doorstep by a courier" services have always been wob...