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Goodness, in the early days of space exploration there must have been a major exodus to produce a pirate/non-affiliated society that large. Before the governments were prepared enough to send out properly loyal and equipped space vessels, one imagines every Weyland and Yutani was sending out expeditions, while people just looking to get away set out with whatever ships they could cobble together. A few hundred here, a couple thousand there. It all adds up. The corporate vessels being forced to search ever further in vain for sources of profit until they couldn't make it back, if they were ever meant to, while the early colonists either (mostly) failed or lacked the means or desire to stay in contact. They took the risks, so when Earth sent its official navy out into the galaxy they had an example of what not to do.
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I don't have a vote to offer, but I just have to say. A computer facility so large and powerful that it needs a whole ocean to sink its heat into? That's kinda mind-boggling. What are they trying to do, break 256-bit encryption with brute force?
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Just out of curiosity, what would it take at this point to defeat that battleship guarding Orion?
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Wasn't the death toll in the war in the billions, instead of hundreds of millions?
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nweismuller posted:It's hard to estimate, but I sincerely doubt it got as high as 'billions'. Bear in mind that not all losses in ground fighting are even 'casualties', properly speaking. Logistic expenditures, occupation forces, damage to materiel, and the collapse of military units through retreat, desertion, and surrender are major factors in planetary invasions. Yeah, but wasn't there an espionage attack that reduced Earth's population by a billion at one point? E: found the discussion of this point from page 22 onwards. Montegoraon fucked around with this message at 05:27 on May 29, 2017 |
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That's because the common cold isn't one disease, but hundreds, coming from multiple families of viruses. They barely even have symptoms, but seem similar because they use the body's own immune response (mucus release, sneezing, coughing) to spread. So curing the common cold is, ironically, a bit like curing all forms of cancer.
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Oh, the questions people ask... 
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I'd love to see anyone play CK2 to recreate the feat of having horses take over the world.
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