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This was the subject of a meme which originated on 4chan after an Indian poster on /int/ claimed that people only defecate in "designated shitting streets".

Also relevant : https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/log_scale.png Isn't this energy density, amazing as it is, offset somewhat by the need to reprocess fuel elements (which costs energy)? Granted I'm of the opinion that nuclear fission should be part of any sustainable energy solution worth pursuing, but ...

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Given that fungal cells possess a cell wall and animal cells do not, would it not be possible at least in principle to develop an anti-fungal medication that works by attacking fungal cell walls? Do fungal cell walls provide any protection from the immune system of the host?

I think we might also be overestimating our ability to detect starfaring civilisations. The kind of things that seem to be most often talked about in terms of spotting evidence for ET civs include things like Dyson swarms and big fuck-off torchship rockets. But if most of them are building much smal...

Would the US Navy test its officers by making a captain take a 1950s era destroyer against an Arliegh Burke as a challenge? That would have no value for either side. They might if they were facing the prospect of fighting a massively superior foe in open warfare. Since the US Navy has never faced a...

In the unlikely event that it is some kind of Dyson swarm, let's hope that it's not a Griefer.

Probably the same kind of reasons we don't have any supersonic passenger aircraft any more. The political will doesn't exist (looks like the ring would involve multiple countries thinking on the same page), and the blind idiot god of the market doesn't demand it badly enough. It's not just technical...

You'd also need to be able to manufacture large amounts of highly reliable and energy-efficient redundant gravity generators if you want to be able to live on the inside surface like on a planet. If such a structure were to be constructed by some long-gone race and then discovered by an interstellar...

I did some calculations because I was curious. For a population of a trillion people, a Ringworld provides 942km2 of space per inhabitant, assuming an inside radius of 1AU (1.5e8 km). That's a hell of a lot of room, especially when one considers that human inhabitants are likely to congregate in set...

Even if you don't have a smartphone, I believe Razzle magazine is still putting out issues.

Heheh. Issues.

Interesting. I didn't think that Gladiator fights were that tame. Here's a quote from a listicle from History.com: They didn’t always fight to the death. Hollywood movies and television shows often depict gladiatorial bouts as a bloody free-for-all, but most fights operated under fairly strict rules...

Richard Sharpe and his encounter with the Gladiators Had this idea on the way back from work. Not sure if this is the right sub-forum for it. Not long after the events of Sharpe's Sword , a bored Random Omnipotent Being plucks Our Hero from his home reality and dumps him in the Colosseum in Rome at...

We don't have a housing shortage in the UK. What we have a shortage of are homes that are affordable to people who aren't yuppie scum or worse.

How long would it take for the Middle East to run out of refugees? Since there aren't an infinite amount of people living there it stands to reason that such throughput can't be sustained indefinitely.

Is this the same YouGov that publishes polls in the UK? Could reflect poorly on results here if so...

So which God would that be, hmmm?

UK MPs are likely to directly compare themselves to MPs from other Anglosaxon countries and so looking at the posted data they probably do think themselves grossly underpaid. If someone feels that they are underpaid, even if they actually are not, then I would expect their performance to suffer and...

Dartzap wrote:Its depressing for two reasons ... 2) that's how much they need to ve paid to stave off the lure of bribery/corporate money.

Doesn't seem to be fucking working, does it?

OK, so I'm mucking about in Celestia trying to rename a star, but apparently it's not enough to just supply the new name in a supplementary .STC file, you have to also include all the positional data of the star in question within said file. Now, this wouldn't be so difficult if Celestia and/or astr...

It gets people's attention, though, I've got to give it that much. So would screaming "I'M A FUCKING FASCIST", but I don't think most reasonable people would be too mollified by subsequent explanations that "Actually I'm not a Fascist at all, I just wanted to draw your attention to t...

It's one thing to recognise that the accomplishment of equal marriage across the States is by no means the end of the struggle for equality; there is still a lot of work to do. But to say that one is "against equality" especially when one is ostensibly not a bigot, strikes me as very poor ...

This link might also be of interest. Also the DWP are acting like they have something to hide.

Wasn't the reason that the Jem'Hadar rebels in "To The Death" were considered so dangerous by the Dominion leadership was because of the high risk that their rebellion would spread throughout the Jem'Hadar ranks? Granted in that case it was because the Jem'Hadar had an independent white su...