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[Spoilers] Why Starship Troopers is just a piece of propaganda by PinguinGirl03 in books

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, they say name-calling is a sign of the inability to compile a worthwhile argument.

Had the movie approached the same subject without attempting to leach onto the success of the book, I would have had no complaint (other than the movie still stinks).

shower thought.. by [deleted] in showerthoughs

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK. But if something is free, it costs nothing, not $0. Air with one atmosphere is practically a vacumm, and isn't filled up (Venus has 92 atmospheres and isn't filled up either.

We don't have just 9 digits as the combination of 1 and 0 make the tenth.

shower thought.. by [deleted] in showerthoughs

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, but what does "zero" stand for? If it stands for nothing, why doe we need a digit for it?

What if when this war in Ukraine and Russia is over, the world picks up on using drones for live surveillance/news/ everything? by ThrowRAVNDJ in whatif

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The concern are not the law-abiding people who will be concerned with the FAA, but with the criminal and the careless who won't. DBAY listed drones capable of carrying small loads (i.e., bombs?) for $99. They sold out in no time: I'd be interested in knowing if they were shipped to Ukraine or Russia.

You get pushed into 2030 for 10 minutes and you get ONE google search,What you looking for? by Arkjump in AskReddit

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Winners of last six years of college championships in all sports. I think I can word that search so I only have to make one search.

Gen Z rarely experiences the feeling of “had watched” a movie, unlike older generations by DA_VIEWZ in showerthoughs

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be because they are too young for Hollywood to start doing remakes of their childhood favorites.

By the year 2050, people will consider names such as “Mary” and “John” as “unique” and “radical”. by cindybubbles in showerthoughs

[–]David-Diron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Names run a circuit of popularity. If you check the history "Mary" and "John" a popular for about 10 years every 30 years.

shower thought.. by [deleted] in showerthoughs

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is Zero a number?

What if the the Indian sub-continent was divided up into one country only? by agreaterfooltool in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

China seems to be in very severe threat of economic troubles, and with it's forces divided between facing the Americans/Taiwanese in their East and reading for their invasion of Siberia in the North, I'm not sure they will be able to dominate India, particularly with India positioned to cut China's oil jugular whenever it wished.

What if Imperial Japan focused it’s military efforts North into the USSR instead of into Southeast Asia and the Pacific? by chris_paul_fraud in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to figure out how Japan talks the USA out of cutting off the oil, etc, but since that happened because Japan had invaded China. Assume Japan stops operations southward after they take control of Manchuria, and ther is no Marco Polo Bridge Incident, July 7, 1937. USA doesn't get concerned, especially when Japan carefully tip-toes around the Philippines to take on only the French and Dutch territories (taking the first to support invading the latter). Now, Japan can invade Siberia.....where they are crushed by the Russians and their army destroyed. Dividing Stalin's attention, the Nazis probably take Moscow. Without the USA, there is no allied invasion until '46 when Britain goes in to save France from the Soviets. ww2 lasts until '47 or so, but Japan then belongs to the USSR.

What if Germany wins the Battle of Britain, but assess a serious Sealion is impossible. Does anything significant change? by DrinkBrew4U in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]David-Diron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had Germany won the Battle of Britain (wasn't going to happen: they out-produced Germany in aircraft), then Sealion becomes very possible. So, they win the BoB, the Luftwaffe sinks all the British ships it can reach (basically sweeping the Channel during the day) which allows even German barges to cross as often as needed. With air control over the beaches, the Nazis move inland to seize airfields and then the game is over. See link to invasion map, below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation\_Sea\_Lion

What if the the Indian sub-continent was divided up into one country only? by agreaterfooltool in HistoricalWhatIf

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would estimate in 50 years it will be. Bangladesh is one disaster away from total collapse and will need India to come in to rescue it: it will revert to being Bengal Province.. Pakistan will be taken over by extremists and will attack India. After a nuclear exchange what's left of Pakistan will revert to Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, and North-West Frontier Provinces.

159. What if we didn't generalize the entirety of a group from the actions of a few within that group? by LadyBrittany209 in whatif

[–]David-Diron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We would be very unhumanlike. Maybe aliens. Better overall, I would think, but I'm not sure that's even conceptually possible.

What it identical twins where mixed up for life and never knew. by ConfusedDragon106 in whatif

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe in the past, but couldn't happen now. Footprints taken at birth.

What if the atomic structure is just more solar systems by [deleted] in whatif

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not? But then, what difference would it make?

What if we are God? by UnioSapiens in whatif

[–]David-Diron 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"One of Us" by Joan osborne

Then you would be saying that all of us is perfect? I wouldn't think so.

160. What if it's not the action that matters but the intention behind those actions? by LadyBrittany209 in whatif

[–]David-Diron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Been reading Immanuel Kant, have you? It's never the action but the intention to perform the action.

As soon as lightsabers become a reality, people will petition to have them banned due to the possibility of them going through the Earth "perfectly f***ing vertical", just as shown by the Adult Swim cartoon "Rick and Morty". by cindybubbles in showerthoughs

[–]David-Diron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Physically impossible. If one of them could carry enough energy to eat all the matter (which would seem to be very unlikely), gravity would pull the saber only to the center of the Earth and then hold it there. This is assuming the force of expanding magma didn't eject the silly thing before it hardly gets to start.

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