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It wasn’t an attack, and I doubt he saw it as weakness unbecoming of a man. It was how Ed thought he could help Gordo deal with his trauma. I’m not saying that is the psychologically recommended way to help someone, but it is a way. Ed helped him and covered for him for a decade, and it wasn’t...

Sure, but Gordo wasn’t even up to going on the test flight. Ed just pulled a classic “man up” bit of reverse psychology. Notice how quickly Gordo stopped feeling sorry for himself and how close he was to decking Ed. I think that was the exact reaction Ed was going for - better to be furious, at...

May not like it, but it is exactly how one would expect a military man of his generation to connect with a peer. Notice that it worked. Gordo was like a completely different person when he got in that cockpit.

Given that that problem wasn’t particularly well solved until much later in the colonial era, I don’t think time keeping was a big distinguishing feature between the 15th and earlier centuries.

Mind if I ask for elaboration on points 2 and 3?

Why? Its 1983. The black population of the US was around 12%. If NASA were to approach this from the perspective of “we need 12% of our astronauts to be black, then thats 24-25, depending on how you want to round.” Not only should a space agency not be selecting astronauts to fill a quota, its...

If there was nothing that antique civilizations didn’t possess, then it wouldn’t be a distinguishing technology.

What food preservation tech, in particular?

There is often enough discussion of 'what if America was discovered earlier?' usually featuring the Romans getting the job done. We know that sailors in antiquity had the ability to circumnavigate Africa in principle - Phoenicians did it, but had to do a stop over to literally grow their own...

Another one of my high concept questions, and technically one that would have a POD in the 19th century, but I'm mainly interested in the impact in the modern era. So, let us assume that China has the following national borders: Let us also assume that, at minimum, Burma/Myanmar (whatever it...

Curious how you propose banning an intangible thing like a test.

Neither is going to happen. Parents get quite annoyed when educational options are taken further away from their control. They get mad enough when states do it, imagine the furor if the feds did it.

You don’t. Society can only get so bloodthirsty.

Honestly might be better to just close the thread down. The title itself explicitly invites the discussion.

Yup. I don’t know how long this was the case, but salt was traded on a 1:1 ratio with gold. Of course, the Saharan trade cities were the source of said salt, and they would trade with the Med for everything *they* wanted, buying with the gold that the Sahel states traded to them for their salt...

This is exactly the issue. People can dislike something vehemently and share that opinion, but there is always a movement to shut down criticism with “if you don’t like it, don’t watch it.” Heck, people can even like parts of something and dislike other parts. I am very interested to see how...

Those were exactly the sort of smaller animals I was thinking of.

In any discussion on entertainment, there are plenty of plenty of people who, whether they intend to or not, defend attacks on the series in question in such a way as to easily be construed as trying to shut down criticism. These defenses are often loudest when it is the company responsible for...

Nobody - to the best of my knowledge - is claiming to be attacked or to be the targets of a conspiracy. It is being claimed that a show that was marketed a hard scifi show set in an alternate 70s-80s is focused more on mass market drama, which is undeniably true.

Which is why I doubt they will do so. Maybe some smaller animals, but large ones? Nah.