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I dunno why they have to make it so complicated anyway. Isn't it much simpler and more plausible to suggest that the FBI, CIA and/or various other three-letter agencies knew the attack was imminent but intentionally let it happen because the Bush administration needed a convenient smoking gun to ju...

You can call this monstrosity what you like. The DPRK also adds the word "democratic". And what of it? Most people can tell the difference between a real and fake democracy. There were names that were meant to unite democracies that were strong enough for global police actions. "Coal...

I'm instinctively suspicious of one-world governments because, as Purple said, monopolies are bad and such a thing would have a monopoly on violence. This is just a hypothetical situation, though, so why let that stop the fun? Let's take a crack at this. Firstly, association with this body must be v...

You have reached the shocking conclusion that the Minbari are in fact religious nuts. Congratulations. Well excuse me for venting. Anyway, my frustration wasn't so much with them being religious nuts, it's with the fact that no one acknowledged or seemed to care about the fact that the Minbari are,...

So the Minbari fought a war of extermination against humanity in living memory--nay, recently enough that veterans of the war are still serving in the military--and yet things are for the most part hunky-dory between the two species. Humanity does not act like a civilization that came within a hair'...

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Call the police?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the general concensus is that the answer to OP's question is "Yes."

It could be the fanboy in me talking, but I'm fairly sure the Empire could kick the Imperium's ass.

I'm looking at stars ~15-20 lightyears from Sol and ~10 lightyears from Tau Ceti. Wikipedia has a list of the closest stars to Earth*, and Wolfram Alpha has a function where you can type "distance from X to Y" and it'll calculate it**, assuming you use a star name it recognizes (it's parti...

Just based on the reputations of both sites, I'm inclined to believe WA more, but it'd be nice if I had more to go on than that, so...what sites should I trust with this? Mind you, the ultimate goal is to know the distance from one star to another, so sites that can do that for me would save me a lo...

A thoughtcrime being defined as a thought or motivation someone has that other people (in this case, you) deem immoral according to your personal moral code, but that that person does not act on or communicate. If so, why? This continues this thread: http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&a...

If built by launching the necessary materials from Earth, the estimated cost for the system in 1980s money was around $31 trillion if launched using Shuttle-derived hardware,[4] whereas it could fall to $15 billion with bootstrapping, assuming a large orbital manufacturing facility is available to ...

Fucking Netanyahu. I have no words.

What exactly is "mass stream technology" ? Using linear accelerator tubes containing streams of ball bearings / iron filings / ions as structural members. Instead of static transfer of force via tension & compression, force is applied by changing the momentum of the matter stream, usi...

You know how a space fountain works? It's that.

100 km walls is what these sorts of megastructures have in the Orion's Arm universe. Not seeing the problem, really--if you're even building something like a Ringworld or a Banks Orbital in the first place, you've clearly got some of making structures which should collapse or tear themselves to shre...

I'm surprised no one's brought up supramundate worlds yet. Build a shell (with mass stream technology) over a large planet or small star at the level where the effective gravity is 1 gee, cover it with atmosphere, and use the star at your heart for power. Orion's Arm builds a fuckton of shit out of ...

I'm not going to write this because I barely qualify as even a casual fan of either series, but it struck me recently* that it would be pretty freaking amusing to transport Equestria to the 40K universe and have the ponies, just, utterly dominate. *due to, well, this: http://www.screwattack.com/show...

Yo, turns out I did screw up. With the years of the various planets, specifically. Their calendars will have to be totally redone. um, can you sketch the plaents, stars and rough orbits on a napkin for me? Hard to picture this at the moment. I'll work on that. It all depends on where the stars are l...

Let's see. One point in favor of the Falcon is that it severely outmatches the Enterprise in speed. While we don't know the actual speeds hyperspace allows, we do know that there was a galaxy-spanning empire, and that puts a certain lower limit on it--if the time it takes for news of a rebellion to ...

Good plan SMJB, though 1, this is sci fi, and your talking about fantasy but secondly, you don't have the population needed to keep a hive world working. Multiverses where all fiction is real is an inherently magical concept, and we're clearly allowed to mix and match universes with contradictory p...

Right, so here's (a somewhat cleaned up version of) the numbers I've come up with so far with the help of several Artifexian* videos: http://41.media.tumblr.com/2f7f30a9d471d78b7408a77957b8d623/tumblr_nvtgi2F8VR1u31ou2o1_1280.png http://36.media.tumblr.com/b833fe6bc0bade48dbbfc3220a9999e8/tumblr_nvt...

My Universe: Star Wars My Base: Coruscant...removed to someplace outside the Galactic Empire. According to Wookiepedia ( http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Coruscant ), Coruscant is slightly smaller than Earth (didn't it used to be the other way around?) and has 5,127 "levels of city", so acco...