Epicurus0319

Nuclear threats against enemy countries have been overused so much by Ruzzia being a tough-guy and more recently by Iran and Israel that they are now meaningless. When America legalized gay marriage in 2015, Iran shat a brick and fantasized about nuking us, but no nukes flew. Iran and Israel routinely threaten each other with each of their 3 warheads, but no nukes have flown. Ukraine started buying tanks, ordering F-16s and attacking Crimea, but no nukes flew. NATO recruited Finland which Ruzzia said was an attack on them, but again, no nukes flew. Ruzzia started directing its legions of keyboard warriors to salivate over Alaska, but no nukes flew. An Israeli politician fantasized about the country committing hara-kiri by nuking Gaza, but no nukes flew. Whenever someone fears that WW3 will start, I remind them of that fact.

The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood and telepathically tell them that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your body that is present in humanity because a woman made of a rib was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical apple tree. And this Jew’s father (who magically impregnated a virgin so she stayed a virgin all without her consent) planned all of this while living in nothingness for eternity and one day got bored of living in nothingness and decided to set this into motion- and hates transgenders.

And if you do not believe all of this without question, he has a special place full of fire, smoke and torture where he will send you to be gangraped through the ass with red-hot spikes by horned red creatures for eternity until the universe’s heat death. But he still loves you, and wants to save you from what he will do to you if you don’t believe in him despite, for a good 2000 years, appearing only in clouds and on toast and allowing his “chosen people” to almost get wiped out by a country-sized murder cult (not to mention everything they went through before that).

Makes perfect sense.

No wonder they love Ruzzia so much, probably because they threaten us with nukes that can totally singlehandedly launch Florida into orbit (source: trust me bro) on a daily basis (to the point that between them, Iran and now Israel nuke threats are now meaningless) and suddenly want a state from us that would give them thousands of gays to kill and put them on Seattle’s doorstep (so just one Trump-like president away from tech secrets and even deadlier homophobic killing sprees for them!), now that it’s becoming a frozen Saudi Arabia sans enslaved desis/gay-defenestratings

Claim to be left-wing, but kick all of that to the curb to lick the boots of any far-right extremist faction that promises to conquer and erase a vexing pro-Western neighbor- Ruzzia, Hamas, etc.

It was invented by some scottish guy long before we had the means to measure things that would need it, and ever since that multibillion-dollar satellite thing fell to pieces even American scientists use metric units, we learn them in every grade level’s science class and our scientific community has this understandable atmosphere of regret that Congress was too lazy to completely kill off imperial units when they had the chance

Isn’t Rankine the Kelvin of Fahrenheit

What if there was once a sentient civilization tens of millions of years before us, but then it either destroyed itself at some point (leaving behind what are now our uranium deposits) or was wiped out by a flood basalt or something? What if the feared “bad ending” for humanity a la a nuclear war is the only civilization apocalypse that has already happened?

Kelvin mostly seems to be used to measure unimaginably hot (like ovens, metal forges, stars) or unimaginably cold (e.g. planets beyond Mars) things, Fahrenheit still exists only because the US Congress was lazy (though as an American I do find it somewhat useful for comparing weather and Earth’s climate zones in finer detail than just -1 in winter and 28 in summer), and I’ve never heard of that last one.

Ah I see, I should’ve worded that paragraph better

Yeah. I hear NASA and India are planning to send 3d-printer robots to lava caves to seal them off, cover/get rid of all moon dust and build permanent bases there (but as of now the priority seems to be researching the polar water-ice and using moon rocks to study what the early solar system’s geology was like)

The Moon’s daytime is half a month long and can reach 120 C so we’d need some pretty powerful heat shielding. And there’s no ozone layer to protect the electronics from radiation, and I’m pretty sure the Moon orbits outside of Earth’s magnetosphere. And the shielding used for such a project could also be used to fix climate change here (and terraform Venus later) with orbital parasols. And whatever unimaginable technology we’d need for such an ambitious project may as well be used to run a grid of electromagnets and power lines across Mars to give it a magnetic field