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Dropping a MOP from a C130 is unlikely to work. Even if you could jury-rig it, they have to be dropped from high altitude to get up to speed. The C130 would struggle to get much over 25,000ft with a 14 ton payload.

I've always assumed that this was due to legalities regarding who claimed those worlds first. The Federation and Cardassians weren't really talking to each other, but the Federation knew they had probably claimed some of the systems in the area. They warned the colonists, but the colonists...

Motoko might be functionally immune to cyberpsychosis, but are her viewers? Is Nox going to go cyberpsycho by proxy?

4chan's days as the internet hate machine are long behind it. There won't be any retaliation of note.

You can tell which people don't even bother reading a single paragraph, never mind the article.

Crossroads A Harry Potter AU in which he's not the boy who lived (Neville is), his dad was supposedly a deatheater, and Harry himself is a prodigy at transfiguration and duelling. He's also a cheeky little bastard ("Professor Umbridge!" I greet, putting on my best smile. "Allow me to...

I don't see this going well for the Cylons. Raiders don't hit particularly hard and are very fragile. Battletech stuff generally doesn't have these problems and they don't have the numbers to make up the difference. Their only saving grace here is their willingness to use nukes. Electronic...

The timelines diverge when the portal is created. Otherwise it would be difficult if not impossible to keep track of teams in the future world when people in the past start acting on information brought back. It would also start turning into parallel stories as you'd need to focus on the...

So the SB any silver linings thread has already got to the point they're convinced Trump is going to deport anyone Latino looking and if he can't do that he'll resort to death camps. And they claim people who thought the 2020 election was rigged are nutjobs. Or maybe they've just grossly...

So it looks like Germany's ruling coalition is in the process of collapsing.

Trading in gold and jewellery is the sort of thing pawn shops watch out for, so that would raise alarms bells and would likely require being paid by card so they can track it. But yes, finding someone down on their luck to help would be an obvious way to get started. They'd certainly stand...

The modern world meeting and dealing with a historical society is something often considered. What about the opposite? A portal between the past and present which is surreptitiously secured by the past society before anyone notices. How would they go about exploring the modern world? Let's...

If you've ever wondered what Starfleet's JAG office is like, here's a video explaining it.

What will be interesting is if Russia can't meaningfully challenge this incursion, at least not in any kind of timely manner. They're already throwing everything they've got into Ukraine as fast as they can get it. All their heavy gear is there, their supplies are there. They've basically...

On a more light-hearted note, the shooter has apparently gained the nickname Re-Tardy Oswald.