That isn’t really a railroad, more like a tramway or wagonway. Those are very old, the Diolkos dated back to the 7th century BCE, and the Qin dynasty had something similar for hauling coal. That type came from Europe and had been in regular use since the 1300's. Wood was perfectly fine for those.

Lot of comments here saying this is ridiculous, but South Korea is also home to thousands of US troops, a hostile neighbor to the north, and Seoul has drills on a semi-regular basis in case they get hit with tens of thousands of artillery pieces loaded with nerve gas shells. Nationalism is a pretty common response to…

Kavanaugh must love being compared to the Saudis. 

Nah I mean he was a perfect VP. Had dumb mini scandals that made Obama look more competent, pretended to be more liberal on foreign policy, so Obama could be “strong” and overrule him, could hobnob with foreign leaders and voters alike.

Water is about as expensive to move as it is to distribute to coastal areas through desalination. Unless we all move to Saskatchewan, this sort of scenario doesn’t make sense to me. We didn’t invade Canada during the Oil Crisis, and they would be willing to sell, especially if the alternative was invasion, which would…

Excuse me sir, may I call you stupid?

And to prevent that from happening, the US forces in Europe were given liberal authority to use tactical nuclear weapons at natural choke points, making the the sort of troop concentrations necessary to carry out the strategy you envisioned impossible.

We claimed initially we were bringing democracy for Iraq. The Constitution WE wrote stated these sorts of things had to be approved by the Parliament.

That’s part of the problem with nuclear power, certainly. But we really don’t have another choice as far as power goes. Keeping under 2C will be difficult with nuclear and impossible without it. Wind and solar, even at astronomical growth rates, won’t be ready for at least another fifty years, and electricity usage is…

There were huge fuck-ups involved, no one doubts that. My uncle was part of a team that studied the disaster and recommended fixes for reactors in the US to prevent that event from occurring.

They will become more precise, accurate, and complex. But they still take a lot of electricity to run. Barring enormous advances in battery technology, a portable 3-d printer is out of the question. Plastic takes a certain amount of energy to melt. You can’t out-innovate basic material constraints.

There’s been crappy, homemade guns for as long as guns have been manufactured. Zip guns, pipe pistols, ect. Not to mention the fact, anyone with enough money to buy a 3-D printer could also buy a used milling machine and manufacture a far superior lower receiver, which is what this guy seems to be going after.

I actually meant to reply to a post three above yours, my apologies.

Better than the ten-day traffic jam in Heibei/Inner Mongolia

Energy storage would cost far more than building nuclear plants.

Obviously you have never been to China

Next to the huge fucking earthquake, followed by the huge fucking tsunami, I don’t think the reactor was the problem.

I can think of ANOTHER raptor that would have terrorists shitting their pants...

Yeah, my grandfather got a draft exemption to Vietnam because his wife was sick at the time, and joining the military would have left his family in poverty. It could just apply to both sexes.

Selective Service requires a reinstatement of the draft to be passed for people to be called up. Seeing as how a major emergency would almost certainly involve a draft, this just eliminates the fumbling of looking through a bunch of records. It is fairer, too, seeing as how not everyone goes to the DMV/registers to…