Given the 96 deal was, Russia gets it nukes back in exchange for respecting Ukraine’s borders.
Developing them may not be so stupid. Using them first, sure, stupid. As it is for any nation. But MAD was effective with Russia. While no nuke reprisal ability, clearly leads them not to give a shit about treaties they agrred to.
They said shell is guilty
Nope they said they had a responsibility. Not the same thing.
It basically translates to. Prior to this judgement no corperation could be held accountable for failing to meet climate targets. Now they can.
Yeah no disagreement.
My comment was more being practical. IE the real world we live in. If it was not for conflict ( first ww2 then cold war ). Rockets and space travel would never have seen the funding needed to develop. This goes on the pretty much everything - GPS, communications, weather n and on. All of it was funded mainly due to the military.
Without that it is hard if not impossible to imagine the wealthy considering the investment in tech worthwhile. And at the end of it. Real world the desire for the rich to protect or grow their position is the cause of all the above throughout history.
Honestly, I’m not saying this is a good thing, it’s fucking depressing.
But without war. I doubt the world would have moved past feudalism. There just would not be the motivation to change.
Glad he found something to do with his little mushroom.
unfortunaty large parts of our “exploring the wonders of the universe” has been developed from “firing explody rockets at eachother.”
Yep. That is more about getting weight into space. As we know water can provide protection.
But the issue of moving water from earth to space then building a 2 layered craft strong enough to surrou d passengers with a foot or more of water. While doable theoretically. Is just a huge huge task.
If mankind is seriose about such. Robotic collection of ice from space is more practice. Moving it towards earth using it to create hydrogen and oxygen slowly via solar. Then using that to move the water itself into earth near orbit. From there building a vessel able to rotate and protect occupants from radiation etc would be possible.
But seriosly the amount of work involved. Mars really is not the best place to go. Once humanity has developed the ability to generate graverty. Confirmed mankind can live is centrifugal generated enviroments. And developed to robotics to move ice and asteroids into orbit.
Honestly building O’Neil station like structures would be healthier then trying to live in 1/3 g of Mars anyway. Mars is worth learning about. But musks population plan is not really the best way to make humanity less at risk of planetary loss.
Unless someone nasa/or musk, starts looking at the effects of centrifugal gravity on long term health.
Its just not going to happen. Atm anyone travelling to Mars is unlikely to be fit to explore by landing. Given the trip length.
But we have understood centrifugal artificial gravity since before space flight, and planned to experiment on iss.
But cheep politics has not bothered.
Can’t imagine them tasting very good.
I spose if you wrap um in bacon, pretty much anything taste good. But at some point. It’s just a waste of good bacon.
As likely as this is. (not that Oxfam is exactly the scientific research org I look to for evidence. I do not have any reason to doubt)
But it seems to me the top 1% is an easy target. When the huge commercial shipping to reduce labour costs and cheap plastic packaging etc used to handle it are equal if not a much larger overall cause of deaths.
Just a much harder oner to argue for the change of, even if public opinion can actually have more effect.
The top 1% have ignored public opinion since the invention of money. Commercial cooperation may try, but hiding or greenwashing is normally the closest they get.
Nope. Nor evidence of it haveing ever existed.
The above guess is no better then religion. Based on current evidence.
What happans next?
McDonalds releases a new burger!
Honestly. I assume if they vocally announced an policy. They worried the tories and media would successfully paint it as anti semitic.
No matter how rubbish that may be. It would be hard to garrentee the media could not manage it. More so after corbyn.
They likely considered no opinion to be less controversial and risky to the election then taking a side openly.
Not sure id have agreed if asked at the time. But hard to argue now.
Likely 11k living with humans.
There response. Pass a law declaring rwanda safe.
Seriosly
The tax only applys to soda. Fruit juces chocolate bars and all the other crap in vending machines is the same tax as always.
While still crappy calories, they are all better than soda. As a % of the carbs is not refined sugar.
Yeah in some cases. But not the majority.
Amd hopefully that will never be the case.
Because while we have the legal concept of being to young to make decisions for yourself. That concept means children do not get to screw their life up because learning is boring.
Once you decide children choosing to not educate themselves is acceptable. You throw away all other ideals of an age of maturity. While the US seems happy to do that with crimes etc. Most of the rest of the world is more logical.
Unfortunately teaching is not really about the children’s future. Its about the society.
Agree. Although this was about an exercise on nato borders rather then a state joining China.
It is still in international waters. So tough shit. While it being done on nato borders during an important nato conference. Again tough shit but clearly China trying to make news.
that mostly are non-practicing
Just to be clear. Practising was not a consideration to the NAZI ideals. And is in no way relevant to any of these events.
I’m not saying it’s a good idea. I def would rather not have more nukes about if it can be avoided.
Just maybe not stupid. When you consider Ukraine was pretty much the home of the USSRs weapons tech, People there developed most of the nukes and the MIG aircraft. That is likely why in part Russia want it. The expertise is still very much there as we saw with Ukraine MIGs compared to Russia. They have been upgrading since the 90s.
I’d guess if any nation was able to throw this together as a MAD Like defence in time for trumps potential withdrawal. It would be these guys.
Also given how close to Moscow, They are. The tech would really only need to be 1945 level for Russia to recognise the risk of continuing.