Yeah, there is that.

I thought we collapsed a bunch of it?

Trains run fine on coal. So do ships.

"Despite the "catastrophic" damage, one of the film's operating assumptions is that defeat is avoidable as long as the adversary cannot impose its "will" on the United States. "

Maybe you could engrave it on thin sheets of stainless, or nickel, or something. Seems like it would last better and be more accessible.

Yes, that's true.

"How worried should we be about solar storms?"

"Can humanity survive a population of over 10 billion people?"

You have the right of it.

Sure, that's a stupid, dickish thing to do.

I'm not sure there are enough great sci-fi shows and movies to fill a channel.

"There are very few long-term underground cities"

"You're effectively saying that even though Americans die in the military it's OK because the rest of us get some fringe benefit from it. Repulsive. "

[i][b]Exactly[/i][/b].

You're right, it's awesome!

Maybe so. Gary Numan is certainly awesome, and a very posthuman kind of guy. He had a very businesslike way of making himself a star musician, too.

"The designer screwed you over big time!

There's a lot less margin available to be spent on aesthetic design for a spacecraft (at current tech levels) than there is for mobile devices.

Our people in the services are volunteers. Death is a workplace hazard for them, and they take that chance of their own free will.

"Seriously... the budget you should be railing against is the one that funds military interventions in foreign countries. *That* is a truly obscene waste. "