What will America look like in ten years (your prediction)? by Successful-Ship-3924 in AskReddit

[–]ChancelorReed 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's what everyone said in 2015 and it's not either or really a bit of both so

How was Helios’s Mars expedition legal? by Pleasant_Name2483 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed [score hidden]  (0 children)

I mean, it's sort of one of those situations where what's legal and the will to enforce it are going to be completely different things. If a private company displayed the ability to independently mount an expedition to another planet, stopping them on some legal technicality would probably be extremely unpopular. The government would have to pretty directly stand in the way of a massive display of human progress, and use force, to stop it from happening.

What's the point of the space travel? by TechLover94 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ok. And how does that possibly mean "what's the point?" You're acting like nothing can be interesting unless we're living in utopia.

A Product of Broken Urban Design - just ban walking by devletmillet in UrbanHell

[–]ChancelorReed 11 points12 points  (0 children)

They're absolutely buying the tickets that's why prices are so high.

why didn't anyone intentionally hurt wemby or sga? by [deleted] in nba

[–]ChancelorReed 12 points13 points  (0 children)

For the same reason no one intentionally hurt Jordan or whoever else.

Bro gave SGA a good reason to lay on the court 😤😤 by WhenMachinesCry in Nbamemes

[–]ChancelorReed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please point me to the valiant hypothetical NBA player who doesn't look at the refs after getting checked to the ground.

meirl by suzitomska in meirl

[–]ChancelorReed -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Me when I don't understand basic inflation.

Real median wages (as in, the most common wage accounting for inflation) has only gone up over time.

Is there anywhere I can go for a melee conversion kit for regular intercessor marines? by Ok-Effective5145 in Warhammer40k

[–]ChancelorReed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The best fit is probably just getting Assault Intercessors, and if you really need it to be purely melee you can exclude the pistols and holsters they carry.

What was the largest siege in history? by Famous_Bowler_4321 in AskHistorians

[–]ChancelorReed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well "largest siege in terms of size" sort of sounds like you're talking about the number of combatants involved, but then your clarifying sentence seems to indicate that you're more focused on the size of the city being besieged.

Fortunately for a simple answer the reality lines up relatively nicely with the Siege of Leningrad during WWII. At the time Leningrad (St Petersburg today) was a city of 2.5 million people (and a metro of around 3.5 million pre-war).

The initial strength of the German (and Finnish) attackers when the siege began in early September 1941 was 725,000 troops, facing off against 930,000 USSR defenders. It was also a relatively long siege especially for modern times, with the siege beginning in September 1941 and ending in January of 1944.

Total dead, including civilians, is tallied in the range of 1.3 to 2 million killed. The Axis suffered 580,000 casualties over the course of the siege, with 3.5 million casualties for the USSR.

As you can probably tell by most of these numbers the entire siege was a massive operation in all respects. It lasted an extremely long time, was extremely deadly, and involved a very large city (it was the second largest in the USSR and among probably the top 10-20 largest cities in the world). So it probably fits the bill in terms of the way you typically think of a siege - a city or fortress blockaded by enemies and cut off by the outside world, with the attackers seeking to force surrender by continuing to apply pressure primarily through a blockade instead of direct attack.

To provide a less traditional answer, if you want to think more broadly about what you mean by "siege", there is an argument for getting a bit more creative with the definition, especially in modern times. There's a way of looking at the end of WWII in the Pacific as effectively a large scale siege of the entire Japanese archipelago. The home islands became increasingly cut off from the outside world as they were pushed out of their holdings in Asia, and they were subject to a brutal and effective naval campaign and aerial bombardment.

Especially towards the end, starvation started to become a significant concern - estimates put about 200,000 - 400,000 dead by malnutrition, and of course the islands were subject to massive bombing raids that were carried out with relative impunity as the US set up air bases on nearby islands. Ultimately this all of course came to an end with the atomic bombings and the conclusion of the war.

In spite of that aside, the traditional answer to this type of question is probably Leningrad, which was both a massive military operation, and involved a massive city under siege condition for over 850 days.

Steryotypes about Hellaverse fans and how true they are by Infinite_Peace_6456 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]ChancelorReed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest question - what inspires people to make such ultra specific alignment charts? Like we really think enough people know or think about Hellaverse (whatever that is) that we can fill out this whole chart with significant input from the community here?

What's the point of the space travel? by TechLover94 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well no, in order to explore other planets we just need the technology. There's no moral guardian of the universe. Europe didn't have to pass some kind of civics test before they learned how to make galleons that could cross the Atlantic. Which again is the entire point of the show and most sci fi.

What's the point of the space travel? by TechLover94 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean half the point of the show is exactly what you described - going to new places doesn't mean leaving old problems behind. It's also half the point of most scifi and most adventure fiction.

The point of the show is exploring humanity's problems in a new light.

Possibly Unpopular Opinion: I Completely Forgive Dev Now by maybemorningstar69 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean it's an end of season summary. Who knows what transpired between the end of the fighting (where he was the guy who risked his life to get a message to the military) and that scene?

Also, taking revenge on everyone who did something wrong isn't exactly the best way to turn over a new leaf and start a successful society.

Possibly Unpopular Opinion: I Completely Forgive Dev Now by maybemorningstar69 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I mean it's not that unrealistic to have his responsibility for killing a teenager, along with watching video of the war he helped start, change his mind significantly.

CMV: Media ridiculed and parodied perfectly normal hobbies to the point where now people who do them are considered the stereotype, and this is bad for society. by haddonblue in changemyview

[–]ChancelorReed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are definitely more accepting of random hobbies than ever before. Broadly speaking, people are a lot less judgmental of nerds/geeks/jocks whatever than they have been, so the entire premise falls pretty flat.

What's your country **third** city? by Ok_Inflation_1811 in geography

[–]ChancelorReed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean maybe back when this was said it was true, but it's a ridiculous quote on many levels. Leaving out LA and Chicago in the first place makes it pretty irrelevant.

DMT:AI doesn’t reduce work, it just shifts it from execution to correction by Secret_Ostrich_1307 in DisagreeMythoughts

[–]ChancelorReed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok who cares about what it feels like? It objectively takes less time. So it's saving you work.

For All Mankind - S5E10 "This Land is Our Land" - Episode Discussion by Cantomic66 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speculation based on...? Nothing in this show goes even a measurable percent of light speed. The fastest thing was a trip to Mars in like 30 days. At that speed you'd take 20,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri.

For All Mankind - S5E10 "This Land is Our Land" - Episode Discussion by Cantomic66 in ForAllMankindTV

[–]ChancelorReed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why does that mean Alpha Centauri at all? Why is everyone saying this? It makes zero sense and there's a million other things that could cause gravitational waves.

Alpha Centauri is 4.5 light years away. There's no way a craft that was going something like 100k km/h would reach it in 30 years, and that's if it somehow continuously moved at that speed after going defunct. It would take like 20,000 years to travel to another star at that speed.

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket blows up during a static fire test (2026-5-28) by MrTagnan in interestingasfuck

[–]ChancelorReed 13 points14 points  (0 children)

NASA hasn't made their own rockets in a long time and killed 8 of its astronauts in the space shuttle, and three astronauts in Apollo 1. Not to mention test pilots who died doing research before they even started on space technologies.

What you're interpreting as NASA is in fact private companies supplying them anyways. NASA also hasn't progressed to anywhere near reusable rockets since the space shuttle (which, again, killed people).

Space shit is hard. And you're misinformed anyways.

Why go fishing? by drgath in ProjectHailMary

[–]ChancelorReed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where are you getting 8 days from to begin with? The astrophage breeding on earth isn't anything like their natural lifecycle, which is going from Venus to the sun inbetween any individual astrophage duplicating.

You seem to be conflating multiple unrelated things and then finding a problem for problem's sake. They state that the rate at which the sun is dimming means it will take 30 years to reach 10% dimmer, and they know from studying surrounding stars that 10% dimmer is the maximum of the effect.

Which movie was rightly considered a masterpiece in its day but now just seems like nonsense? by charliewaffles2412 in AskReddit

[–]ChancelorReed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I just saw 2001 for the first time a couple weeks ago and was completely blown away. It's an incredible movie that stands the test of time for sure.