Assume an average centuria of 80 men, taken from the late Republic Era, some time after the Marian reforms. Assume that the spacebattlers cannot...
Inspired by this thread. In 1972, a group of Libertarians dumped barges full of sand onto the Minerva Reef, near Tonga. They called their new...
This is arguably at least partially Rockhound's fault, though I'm not certain if he's a Pointer, or took another path to his commission. The town...
When I originally posted this in the main forum, I wondered if it really belonged here, instead. Due to encouragement there and elsewhere, and the...
Some of the comments in this thread, particularly the question of 'where will they get the money?' and the point that a colony n the Moon would be...
Wanted: volunteers to spend life on Mars - video Speaking in New York, the CEO of Mars One, Bas Lansdorp, launches a search for volunteers to spend...
Spider-Man's repeating meme is 'With Great Power comes Great Responsibility': If you see something wrong, you have the power to fix it, and no-one...
Exactly what it says on the tin. The main thread is here, and there's also a technical questions thread. In short, four new Earths (with...
I have a few technical questions relating to the Five Earths, All in a Row thread, and decided to create a new thread for them, rather than bother a...
Every ten minutes, this little window shows up in the lower right-hand corner of my screen, when running Firefox: [IMG] If I leave the radio...
It's a long post, so if you're impatient, see the various TL;DR summaries in bold red at the end of each section. On December 21st, 2012, in...
Exactly what it says on the tin. By act of RAOB, the editorial staff of Marvel has been fired (unless there's some specific person you want to...
How large would the Earth and Moon look from 13 light-seconds away? For that matter, how large would they look from 26, 39, or 52 light-seconds away?
A bored ROB is making copies of SCP-914, and placing them in various places and times in various fictional universes (with the labels altered to fit...
It is October 31st, 1917. The dead of World War I (meaning, all humans who died as a direct result of the war, rather than during it, but for reasons...
Kind of a mirror of this thread, but without the poll, as there are too many to choose from. There are a wide variety of semi-auto pistols out...
A bored ROB decides that the US Civil War was not nearly bloody enough, and chooses to fix this by giving armourers on both sides clear instructions...
This is in the War Room only because I'm asking about the possibility (though not plausibility or practicality, as I doubt it has either) in Real...
Imagine, if you will, that the Foglios have completed a deal with someone to produce a cartoon series of Girl Genius, and you have been hired to...
Thanks to D&D, many fantasy games, and probably some novels, have some version of Wish and/or Miracle. For nearly as long as there's been a Wish...
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