So Boerd

Alternate Earth- NMV

so you're going to have to work out he's been transported to a ship you know nothing about and then essentially declare war on them.

He just learned about teleportation and the news would have been covering the instantaneous disappearance of Freedom. Foreign ships show up, Fury disappears? It isn't a tremendous jump in reasoning.

Alternate Earth- NMV

Wish I had known that there weren't any superman/Thor/iron man types when I made a ship designed to fight them.

You have a huge fleet, they can help.

Alternate Earth- NMV

Wait a minute. Fury doesn't get to get off the planet yet. Writing up a post to that effect, but he is climbing at mach .3, Teflon can climb at mach 10. He will likely need your help getting off unmolested, Khan.

Keystone XL

Oil is finite

So is the sun. The only question is when.

Can you imagine how silly it would have been in the 1830s for government to invest in hydropower at the expense of oil? We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves. Coal and Oil to natural gas, natural gas to nuclear fission, fission to fusion. I suspect the renewable we know will never be nothing but a sideshow on the global stage.

Alternate Earth- NMV

Don't take off until Teflon trashtalks you both, Melon and Khan.

Normal?

For the sake of order, we need to have some degree of conformity as mandatory in the form of laws we must follow.

Not baking you a cake does not destroy order.

Who gets to say what a legitimate reasom for enforcing conformity when no material concerns are involved? Society? Doesn't that defeat the point of non-conformity?

Alternate Earth- NMV

Theoretically the cockpit is vulnerable, very relatively speaking. It can take asteroids weighing a few kilograms going 5 kilometers a second but I suppose if a 32 foot bear jumped on it from some height, that could cause some problems.

Keystone XL

The Nexerus said
We should absolutely be investing in numerous sources of energy outside of oil. A diverse economy is a competitive and efficient one, and the energy market is no exception. I'm not against investment in alternative energy, I just don't think we should be obstructing oil production and transportation in misguided environmental crusades.

The question is, should the government do it. I say no, because they muck it up. See: Solyndra.

Normal?

considering they're not even allowed to get married in many places.

That's a discussion for another thread.

You wouldn't want to live in a perfectly accepting or even tolerant society tolerant of whatever nonconformists do. There would be no laws preventing companies from not serving black people, and certainly Donald Sterling wouldn't be banned from the NBA as all he did was say dumb stuff, not do anything.

Nexus Of Worlds Multiverse

Sure. But we should consider hard and fast limits on magic too.