"... football-field-long ovens for drying layers of material that have been dissolved in solvents..."
Hyperbolic language meant to spur some sort of emotional reaction, I guess?
This process : deposition of a dissolved solid and then the solvents being driven of by a long, gentle drying process, is pretty common in industry as a method. For example just about every self adhesive product uses this process for its release coating.
Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.
Did you miss my second to last sentence entirely?
Perhaps you could crawl out of your side-bias and recognize that BOTH OF THEM ARE SHIT.
Most countries don't have nuclear weapons and seem to be doing okay.
Ukraine, for example. A nuclear state attacked them, and Ukraine is winning. Of course Russia didn't nuke Ukraine, because that would be suicide. Similarly, if Ukraine had kept and maintained its nuclear weapons, it wouldn't have used them, because that would have been suicide.
I was thinking mostly of the naval vessels, but yeah, Ukraine has allies with both. Or, is a vassal to countries with both, depending on how you want to look at it.
because unless a country needs nuclear for some other reason (primarily to keep nuclear weapons and naval vessels around),
So, basically, all of them, unless they want to be vassals of those who do have those.
Yes. Everyone who thinks it's great spending other people's money should remember you are other people too.
But
I'm not the "other people" they'll take money from
Thank goodness that nobody in the tech sector can live and work remotely! They'll never be able to flee, bwah ha ha!
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson
