Practical Engineering, by chance?
spauldo
joined 2 years ago
Hard to do with the axe hanging over your head. "Sorry, but chapter 3 didn't score high enough in our magazine poll so we're killing your serialization."
The Doomsday Clock is a judgement call on the likelihood of a global catastrophe. These days use of nuclear weapons would trigger a global catastrophe, but that hasn't always been the case.
Back when the global nuclear arsenal was a lot smaller, was delivered by aircraft instead of ballistic missiles, and the negative effects of nuclear war weren't well understood, nuclear weapons were still on the table for regular use in warfare.
If a war had broken out between the US and the Soviet Union in say, 1950, nuclear weapons would almost certainly have been used. Mutually assured destruction wasn't a thing then, and many people believed a war between the US and USSR was inevitable. And it would have been bad - but not nearly as bad as that same war if it had happened in 1980.
Plus there's the Cuban Missle Crisis. That was a wake-up call. Measures were taken afterward to ease back on the itchy trigger fingers after that.
I don't think so. Things got kind of dicey a few times back in the first couple decades of the cold war.
All of them?
The exclusive right to commit violence is a standard feature of governments, yes.
Funny thing is - that song started going through my head before the image loaded. Just the title was enough to kick it off.
Dammit, now I'll have that in my head for the next week.
Honestly, the cat photos are just a bonus.
I'd be surprised if India had trouble finding someone to sell them uranium. Thorium is still a generation away.
I'd like one, sure.
It's not a deal breaker either way. I have a USB dongle with a headphone jack so it's not a big deal.
I absolutely want wired headphones, though. One less set of batteries to worry about, especially when traveling internationally.
Which is funny to geology nerds because Scotland is literally Appalachia.