I mean, eventually, sure! Look at Boeing selling safety features as extras and blowing up in their face.

This has come up before. Boeing tried to pitch a 747 cruise missile launcher, which would have carried 120+ tomahawks.

My guess, CCP wanted to know if triggering an alien invasion would result in human players letting go of their petty rivalries, and banding together to fight the common alien foe.

So they watched Macross. Saw how humanity spread out there and then put that into the competition?

how the fuck is a reply that takes your joke and removes the creative part have 4X the likes?  I fucking hate this place.

Nobody is invading, nobody is coming for your money. Get those Cold War, “Wolverines!” fantasies out of your head.

“who saved the free world twice because of our military might.”

I applaud how Lowry handled that situation. The way he plays the game, I was certain he was gonna put hands on the colonizer, straight up.

It looks like there’s still an ablation issue. Look, heavy armor is heavy, yes. But the round that dings off, even if it leaves a dent, doesn’t significantly, if at all, weaken the vehicle. This thing looks like it did great on that ONE round, but more hitting at or near that initial impact would have half it’s work…

Most of us would also be quite happy to see this material incorporated into our smartphones as well, absorbing the impact of a fall with a few dents instead of a shattered screen.

Not everything. States with plentiful wind and solar resources (and those that are implementing wind and solar) are replacing not only bigass utility baseline plants like nuke and coal - they’re replacing natural gas plants including peakers. California is replacing gas peakers with batteries for solar right now.

I was a teenager living in West Germany at the time. Try living under the fear of the radioactive clouds heading your way. The entire time all you hear from the authorities is talk of mass evacuations and the like. Nightly nightmares about your hair falling out and getting cancer.
There are two events I will never…

When I was in the Arabian Sea in 2002, enforcing the UN Blockade on Iraq, I had an incident one night where a dhow (small fishing boat) drifted too close to my warship. It was lighted but apparently unmanned from what we could tell, and was dead in the water and adrift.

This was fairly well covered by the NY media when it happened, but its roots stretch back a long way.

And nostalgia+Poptimism is the speedball that devastates communities.

Hey there!

Neat! I watched the whole thing, it was strangely soothing (AC2 music helps).

The show is dark and full of errors? Ehh????

I would like to thank Melisandre for increasing the lighting in this episode by 100.