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Me, seeing that that scenario says we have to go back to 1908: Well, guess I have to fucking figure out how to write out all the shit I do know about Stargate lore and make sure it survives until the 1990s, without it getting fucking tossed in some US government backroom. Best bet is to give...

Currentpast 8 Sodan Homeworld Milky Way Galaxy August 1880 Silence hung heavy in the mist-shrouded woods, broken only by the muffled tread of boots on the damp forest floor. The majority of the squad were Colonial Marines, with half being xeno-brids. With their black, faceless helmets, their...

The Urbanmeme is not a bad starter Mech for the Earth Alliance to make. Since they're not infected with the brain bugs that BT people have, they could probably whip up something like those rollers in the feet of the Gundam Leopard from Gundam X. That'd make the things decently more mobile...

IIRC, it was the first in the US market to do shorter runs, but I'm not sure about mid-season breaks. I know Stargate Atlantis had them, I don't remember if SG-1 did too. That said, British shows at the time were generally shorter runs already, so if anything, that was just the US/Canadian TV...

Which part? The divisions, the NIL/transfer stuff, the schedule, or a mix of them? Because yeah, the schedule stuff is the most likely to kill this thing dead if the colleges can't get them to budge on it.

Here's what that super league idea apparently was going to look like, somehow stealing Josh Pate's eight 10 team divisions idea while coming up with divisions he'd probably hate: Sportico recently obtained a “confidential” pitch deck, which was circulated by the group in mid-February. The...

Peter talks about the Russian reserves: -End of March, Ukranians massacred 76th Air Guard Group (something like that), some of Russia's best troops -Were fighting in T55 tanks, built at beginning of Cold War, require 4 people to operate -All of the original 2000 active tanks are either...

High birth rates vs bad demographics: -Yemen and Nigeria have high birth rates, not a lot of industrialization -Have to look at infant mortality/child mortality under 5 years of age in countries without history of industrialization -Overall life expectency also has to be looked at -Better...

IIRC, Truman's problem was MacArthur wanting to nuke the Chinese, so having thermobarics and letting MacArthur blast the Chinese probably doesn't lead to that firing.

I dunno, IIRC, LeMay is the military until at least early Vietnam, so there's a non-zero chance he sells people on bombing the jungles of Vietnam into looking like the surface of the moon to take out the VC.

Update on FSU vs ACC - Florida Edition: Critical points Cooper has made The ACC's anticipatory filing against FSU was a form of forum shopping Believes that motion to stay in Leon County should be postponed. This case isn't a local concern but a state concern and one for all states with ACC...

WWII What If: The thermobaric bomb is invented not long before the nuclear bomb's deployment... but instead of getting canned like a lot of other weapons projects, Curtis LeMay keeps it alive and champions it as a conventional alternative to nukes, leading to MacArthur deploying them in the...

Peter worries about Europe after Germany implodes: -Germany has: extremely high value added economy focused on ultra skilled labor and precision, relatively cheap energy from Russians, global cover for exports via the US -Germany getting fucked by aging population, getting cut off from Russian...

You'll literally never get the latency down if you don't have server farms all over the world to reduce the amount of distance covered. The speed of light is too slow for most gaming streaming to be practical if you have to use centralized servers.

The ACC might be dead by July: (1) If two of Clemson, FSU, or UNC leave before June 30, ESPN can unilaterally renegotiate with ACC via Composition Clause immediately. (2) ESPN has already refused to extend ACC media deal, ACC/ESPN deal will expire in June 2027, ending the Grant of Rights. (3)...