that galaxy cluster just goatsed an astronomer

"The 400-pound, four-meter-long, 150-kilometer-range weapon hit and blew up the frigate KNM Trondheim."

Missile is specced at 410 KILOs, with a 125 kilo warhead. Just FYI

I hear torpedo hits are really impressive

fair

Vaping may be far less harmful than smoking, or even potentially harmless. But as someone who doesn't vape, I don't want to have the choice made for me about what is going in my lungs by someone who is sitting next to me and vaping. And I don't think that's unreasonable.

This list needs more Pandorum

Once we unlock the secrets of gravity, this thing is gonna take off for Saturn

In other news, I'd really really like to see an Alastair Reynolds movie competently brought to screen. Like maybe Chasm City.

Correction: Not Doppler. Gravitational redshit

I think you're hating a little too hard here. You could interpret the lines in Interstellar as likening love to a physical force. But the truth is, love is the social driving force behind pretty much everything in the movie: you don't end up with a crazy potentially one way trip without feeling some love for your…

Time is a flat circle

What does a vulcan need with a beard

"I'd have to say your using a pretty loose definition of nano-technology. Typically that would refer to machines that operate at nano-scale sizes."

No, that's categorically not what the typical use of nanotechnology is:

Does the Civilization version have him programmed to start a sex cult asram?

hey, we got Velcro out of that. show some respect

This

Better than purely utilitarian grounds, where the punishment's utility to society justifies itself

yes please don't godwin my thread

"...noting that most of the people with experience in infrastructure management had been compelled to join the party in the war..."

For all of Patton's faults, this was actually one of his more valid points. Look at what happened in Iraq once the de-Ba'athification policies went into place: growth in insurgency, lack…

only shot Soviet POWs