Considering the aversion to controlled burns or other basic preventative measures in a region where human habitations are sprawling all over wildfire risk zones, that's hardly unlikely...

"...I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!..."

I'll just leave this here.

Indeed.

If we're going to stick with 'sandwich sized', I hereby dub this the 'Dagwood'.

No suit, no Big Guy, just Bruce and Tony hitting the road...dammit, I would pay good money to watch that movie!

Well yeah, you're probably right. But it still begs the question of how enforceable the thing is as a practical consideration.

In this case, 'major power' will be 'whoever can get there'. If someone sets up a private colony on Mars, and the UN said 'No, you have to go,' I'd love to see who stepped up to the plate to make it stick when the colonists say 'Make us!'

This reply honestly gives me fewer migraines than 'it worked differently then'. I'm going with it.

Bah. Hate the new commenting system.

So, was there some difference in how star-making happened back then such that it couldn't work in those galaxies, but has apparently blazed merrily on since?

OK, why would it tamp on star creation in older galaxies and not stifle newer ones? Was there some difference in the process involved?

You mean other than episode titles and themes that hearken back to classic episodes?

Color barrier, hell. New parents should have someone stand behind them with a baseball bat. If the name they give is idiotic, they get whacked upside the head, and the kid gets a randomly assigned name of appropriate gender from a 1950's baby book. (Date chosen arbitrarily to reduce the rot.)

And let's not get started on 'The Tempest' or 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', either of which would have been dialed up to eleven, raised to a power of itself, and slashed and burned the measuring system.

I have, though few of the ones I've encountered were nearly as stable as corpore-metal's arrangement would appear to be. Like any relationship, it depends on the people involved.

By definition, yes, any defense establishment should take objects in its airspace it can't immediately verify very, very seriously. If only because of the pragmatic concerns regarding craft merely terrestrial origins.

Whew! Dodged a bullet there, didn't you...

In other words, "Roughnecks Redux".

If "Yuggoth" isn't in the running, I must have words with someone.