That’s dangerously close to the “if it saves just one child” argument.

Sure, but if you have future past super materials, you just make your structure even lighter. It’s not like you can build the skin strong enough to survive weapons fire, but you can make it light enough to get out of the way of weapons fire.

That is the most fabulous smoke screen ever.

I thought that rogue was more empire v2. The good guys die, vader kills everyone within reach, and they barely get away with the plans.

A thing that has been annoying me in space sci fi lately, is that craft designed to operate in atmosphere at least part of the time have the structural integrity of naval ships. They really should be more like airplanes, made as light as possible.

I hate when institutions try to describe problems with absolute numbers instead of percentages. The US Navy is really big (citation needed). How many fires do they have per year? Are the extra 15 mishaps a big deal, a medium deal, or not visible in statistical noise?

First let me agree that college kids are often idiots. They are young, and haven’t had a chance to learn to know better, despite often thinking otherwise. One way to learn is to make mistakes, like posting stupid stuff on walls.

Those wheels are waay ahead of their time.

When she says that only 10% of the rockets mass is recycled, is she referring to the fact that 90% of a rocket is fuel? Because that’s rather disingenuous.

The term “immigration center” certainly explains Spicers bizarre “Holocaust center” talk.

Well, I don’t think a president can pardon himself, so theorticaly at least, he would still have to go to jail if there is a crime. It’s just that he can continue to be president.

Hey, I didn’t think it was ironic either. While I have some understanding of what white privilige means, I’m at a loss of what is mansplaining. Do you have time to break that concept down for me?

I think impeachment is possible, assuming the evidence is somewhat strong, and most importantly democrats win majorities. But it’s not clear they can get any majority in ‘18 in the senate, much less 60+ seats.

I don’t know. I think some debates will become incomprehensible in time, like the very serious concerns people had about allowing the Irish to enter society (imagine talking to a time traveler from the past who is very concerned about the Irish. It’s not so much that he is wrong, it’s that we can’t comprehend how he…

Everytime I see the title I hear sean connery yelling in my head “I am the last one!”

Yes, but that’s hardly a new development. The new development is who those subsections are.

I don’t think I agree. I mean, yes, if the evidence is completely noncontroversial, like multiple recordings of Trump himself stating in explicit detail exactly how he colluded, how he knew it was illegal, how he didn’t care, and maybe drowning a puppy in the process. But that’s somewhat unlikely to turn up.

The thing about privileged, is that it’s very hard to see it in action when you are on the side that benefits from it (and very easy to see it if you are not). Most people agree that it a fundamentally unfair situation that should, ideally, be remedied somehow (exactly how is a subject on which there is very little…

Impeachment is a vote, not an automatic process based on an outcome of a crime.

Sure, some concepts get so associated with certain viewpoints that they become hard to separate. See also “state rights” and “freedom of association”