This is a slippery slope fallacy. In order to argue this point you must demonstrate that A will lead to B and B to C, and so on, not merely state that "it might happen". I do not care to demonstrate anything. If you disagree with what I said, it's fine by me; it's not as if I'm trialing f...

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I hate porn movies with dangling, loose plot threads.

Iceland might be able to get away with it, as isolated as they are. The rest of the world would be facing prohibition in the US during the 20's style conditions pretty quickly I would think. Suddenly there would be huge criminal money to be made selling something that was previously legal. Sounds l...

Aha, thanks for the replies.

This has probably been touched on before, but looking through the DITL starship articles I decided to actually use the speed calculator for a change. I was curious how the different starships measured up to each other in terms of maximum cruising speed (in c). I was a bit surprised when I noticed th...

I saw it. It was good. It does tie in with the previous movies more so than you would think. I love the 'one' cameo. It does bug me more on my history side of things to see a Iowa class battleship in the Cuban missile crisis. Loved that cameo too; for me it was the single most memorable moment of t...

I'd love a cheese pie right now. There... *fixed it*.

I'll agree with CVN65 taking the carrier spot. The list is about what weapons changed the world the most and the Enterprise is clearly that. I still say Forrestal was a much more important step-change than the Enterprise in the evolution of carrier warfare. Nuclear power was certainly an important ...

At the very least it should be the CVN-65 Enterprise and not the Nimitz class in that list. Nimitz is only quantitatively superior to the Enterprise due to incremental technological improvements. But really the list just mixes true technological advances or highly influential designs with weapons wh...

The integrated circuit aka the microchip. While not strictly a military innovation, much of its early development was for military applications. And, yes, I know it doesn't fall into the weapons category, but I think it's worth mentioning in this context. Some of the things in that list wouldn't eve...

Yeah, it's amazing how calm and unfazed the journalist was, almost as if he was prepared for or expecting this. If I was talking to someone who would reply with the same couple of ideas to every question, I'd somehow find some subtle way of letting him know I'm questioning his intellect. Something l...

I see; that's not surprising, Romany/gypsies living in this part of the world had a tendency to adopt much of the mythology and customs of the people dominant in the region they were inhabiting. In our case they did more than just adopt Romanian mythology, they gave it a personal twist, with all sor...

Wars are rarely declared these days - if a formal declaration is required then the US hasn't fought a war since the 1940s (their last official declaration was against Romania, interestingly). We're honoured. :mrgreen: *ahem* We had heard about an infestation of strigoi, and were just trying to prev...