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the conventional interpretation of Presidential pardon powers has always been that it's only valid for Federal crimes The list of words that have been used to describe Donald Trump is very, very long. I don't think "conventional" is one that's ever made that list. Is there any explicit st...

Solauren wrote: ↑2020-11-13 11:13pmImagine if Trump really leaves it looking like that...

The place would still be in better nick than Madison left it.

Can the USA do snap elections the way the UK could? I'm not sure, but I don't think so - the impression I get of their entire system is that it's designed to break rather than bend. AFAIK that will only happen if it happens after they are inaugurated. If they die after the election but before confi...

The most interesting scenario but most ghoulish is that Trump and Pence both catch the disease,win re-election but then both pass on after November 4th. In that case it would be Speaker Pelosi would be president and depending on when they die the 12th Amendment says the House of Representatives mus...

Another datapoint for pre-industrial infantry - the Numenoreans. Their average height was something over 6' 4", with the tallest known individual being almost 8', and (as Gunhead notes the importance of endurance) capable of long marches with full kit (about 25 miles a day normally, 35+ forced).

#2 - She was actually openly and aggressively hostile towards critics, no matter what their criticism was, or how they phrased it. This was the core of the reason Traviss got the strength of opposition she did. Reacting to an opinion that her numbers seemed a bit small with "my gut reaction is...

darth_timon wrote: ↑2020-09-17 05:23amIf life can exist in the atmosphere of Venus, I'd be willing to assume it can exist virtually anywhere

I'd say the same about hydrothermal vents.

Although it's going to be a ball-ache to prove anything unless a witness comes forward or security footage is recovered. A blast on that scale isn't going to leave forensic investigators much to work with. AH.com has an image of the site. I suspect a forensic investigation will be somewhat tricky. ...

Although it's going to be a ball-ache to prove anything unless a witness comes forward or security footage is recovered. A blast on that scale isn't going to leave forensic investigators much to work with. AH.com has an image of the site. I suspect a forensic investigation will be somewhat tricky.

LT.Hit-Man303 wrote: ↑2020-06-28 03:02pm

Elheru Aran wrote: ↑2020-06-28 02:39pm Memory Alpha is probably your best friend here.

Thanks for the tip off, I have never heard of this site but I'll look into it.

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DITL is also very good, as both a source of canon data and ideas. GK made a point of clearly distinguishing between what came from the screen, the books, and his own fanfic backstories.

So hypothetically if WW1 had not happened then the Germany could possibly have achieved the OP hypothetical order of battle but wartime priorities and events severely curtailed this outcome. Even then, i assume the British would still have more ships in service. Vastly more, especially since the 41...

Adam Reynolds wrote: ↑2020-06-14 10:55pmWas there ever actually such a thing?

There wasn't - it's the closest concept I could come up with combining huge range, the ability to land and take off from pretty much anywhere, decent tactical performance against a dedicated short-range interceptor, and significant ground-attack capability.

41 battleships, 20 large cruisers, 40 small cruisers, 144 torpedo-boats, 72 submarines, and 101,500 men, Is that what they toughed the Germans had in 1920, ho far where they off if you look at what the Germans at the end of the war in 1918 had. To answer the necro because (for about three seconds) ...

Again though, those still have "terrain" of a sort - think of it as "anything that constrains the battle area" rather than geographic features. So - the convoy escort actions, or the Glorious First of June (which, in fairness, had slipped my mind) still had something that made t...

Do escorts fighting off submarines in the Atlantic count because there was a whole part of both World Wars just about battles taking place as far away from other fleets and defences as possible. There was also the Glorious First of June - a French Revolutionary War fleet action fought over a convoy.

Yeah there's plenty of stories to draw from as long as you let go of the notion that this chase must happen at random spot in Deep Space as far from anything that could block or obscure sensors as humanly possible so that both sides will have clear visibility at all times and neither side would eve...

Have a sort of town guard organization to step in and deal with stabbing sprees/guy who just beat the shit out of a prostitute for fun/Florida Man. Make sure they're unarmed and drill it into their heads that their goal is to make sure everyone goes home unhurt as much as possible (this may be easi...

Honestly I think Shep is somewhat on the right track for the cost analysis, but of course we have to look at if the TIE fighters even needed hyperdrives for what they were intended to be. They weren't long-range strike craft, they were local patrol craft always assumed to have a base or ship nearby...

MKSheppard wrote: ↑2020-06-09 05:09pmIn my head canon, the Disney Sequel Trilogy doesn't exist.

Or some scavenger on Jakku spent longer than she should have rummaging around inside the big metal box of a Star Destroyer and ended up with heatstroke. I hear that can lead to quite extraordinary hallucinations.

any surveillance footage of the heroes running around the battle station and they might have identified the whole bunch (aside from Luke) before they escaped. As for Luke, I'd say somehow his name was found out shortly after Yavin, whether inquiries on Tatooine turned something up, or someone in th...

Galvatron wrote: ↑2020-06-06 12:44pmWell, that's kinda what happened. The Supremacy was crippled, but it wasn't destroyed outright.

It was chopped in half. If that "wasn't destroyed outright" then neither was the Bismarck.

Maybe the "one in a million" Holdo maneuver requires Force-sensitivity, just like Luke's kill shot against the Death Star did (another "one in a million" shot, according to Han). Yes, that would mean Holdo herself may have been Force-sensitive and simply never received any Jedi ...

Well, they had an hour (less?) in the big space worm, but yeah, I never thought of that. Thanks. They also thought that the big space worm was a cave they could stay put in until the problem was solved, and that the main hyperdrive was repairable with on-board resources. Given that Han tried the ma...

Eternal_Freedom wrote: ↑2020-05-26 12:35pmThough the ST let me down badly on that front - we still didn't get a decent space battle with big capships wailing on each other. Closest we've gotten to that is Endor, Coruscant and Scarif.

Are you suggesting that Den Helder in space doesn't count as a proper battle?