Oh, you think evidence will change their mind?

Maybe a short period of nuclear winter, but hey, we were getting a little hot here anyway.

The thing about an orbital weapons system like this could potentially be is that once you have one, the enemy (in this case US) can hit you, but can never hit you hard enough to take away the threat of your weapon. At least until some decades down the road, when the arms race has advanced so everyone has inaccessible doomsday asteroids ready to hit eachother/take out enemy doomsday asteroids before they can be launched.

That's not several dozen, that's a few gross.

That isn't quite true. Given enough exposure, it is still possible for vaccinated people to get sick. So your kids, even vaccinated, can be put at risk when all the unvaccinated kids show up for school.

Often, a vaccine doesn't provide perfect resistance; if you are vaccinated but are repeatedly exposed, it is possible you can still eventually catch the disease - once you hit a critical mass of unvaccinated population, even the vaccinated population becomes more at risk. So you choose not to get vaccinated, and you increase the risk of me getting sick, even though I was vaccinated.

But they get cheaper if you order 10,000 of them. What is the profit on one UAV-payload of hard drug of your choice? What percentage of UAVs would have to get through, to keep that profitable?

Oh, and you think they want to teach useful sex-ed, or relevant biology? They'd rather just teach kids that drugs are bad, mmmkay, and that sex will make you a whore and give you diseases, then shrug and look the other way when teen pregnancy rates go way up (like in Texas), because teenagers are going to have sex whether you tell them to or not.

That's probably why you aren't running things; war is complicated.

I'm going to start telling people I'm a gravitational engineer.

Only in California. Will TV shows and movies have to have warnings too? Selling things in CA is almost not worth it, what with the extra cost.

As proven in double-blind studies.

You might want to get your adrenaline gauge checked; it seems to be getting crosstalk from your endorphine circuits.

Somebody mod this up.

I don't think we invaded Afghanistan for the copper.

Wow, you got me there. I guess maybe the governments on the moon haven't set official time zones yet, or something?