Begs the question of what would become of the EU if Russia were able to join having got their political, economic and legal systems in order, but subsequently regressed a la Hungary and Poland, with … (View Post)

FPT TimT Posts: 5,222 5:42PM edited 5:43PM Pulpstar said: » show previous quotes They aren't constrained by human level tech, but they are constrained by the laws of physics. Places in space are... f… (View Post)

I guess you never buy any insurance of any kind, then. To me, preparing for a war that never comes is a pretty good outcome. (View Post)

By saying that NATO 'has no purpose since the end of the Cold War', you are saying that there is no need for open, democratic societies to organize themselves politically and militarily to be able to… (View Post)

By our own admission, human understanding of the laws of physics is primitive, to say the least. We admit to not being able even to observe the majority (85%) of matter, for example. Who knows what a… (View Post)