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Comment The US didn't, but their friends did (Score 1) 126

America probably didn't do the targeted assassination, but Israel has done and is still doing plenty! See the bombings on the Supreme Leader and friends in Iran at the start of the war. It's fascinating seeing the war in Iran going on right now, the US is genuinely kicking the crap out of Iran but at the same time is not able to stop Iran throwing a few drones and missiles each day to keep the Strait closed, or halted attacks on the gulf states. I checked out an open source map that's great, epicfurymap.com, and it's interesting to note that where targeted assassinations are seen, it's always done by Israel thus far. The main normal strikes are very much the US, but anything slightly non military is Israel almost all the time. A useful tool for the US

Comment Re:Space civilizations needed (Score 5, Funny) 69

Give it about 11 minutes after the first space colony launches. The people from New Plymouth Crater will insist they’re nothing like those oxygen-stealing freeloaders from Beta Dome. The proud citizens of the Glorious Republic of Elon’s Folly will claim the ice mines of Upper Crater 7 as their sacred ancestral vacuum. Meanwhile the Free Asteroid Commune of Rock #482B will blockade shipping because the Jovian Belt Confederation insulted their flag.

Comment Timescale (Score 0) 81

Realistically it's going to occur slowly enough to depopulate everyone in a safe and secure manner, there's only 400,000 people there. The airport handles 8 million passengers a year. It's too important geographically to abandon completely. What's much more likely to happen is that people will continue to move there, because it's not a problem.

Comment Cosmere for beginners (Score 1) 49

So for those who don't know, many of Brandon's books are very separate from each other on very different worlds with different magics but are set in the same overall universe. You might have metal based magic in Mistborn, or storm/oath based magics in Stormlight Archive, but each are pretty different. You don't need to have read any of the other series of books to know what's going on, but there is some crossover between a few characters that can hop to other worlds that have very little bearing on the story but are fun to know. The Mistborn Trilogy would be a good interesting start, or perhaps just do Elantris. The Stormlight Archive is simply too big and too slow to do I think (and well, is only half finished) As he's getting older and has found success, you can tell his writing is starting to suffer - I don't expect we'll ever get an answer to the whole Cosmere storyline, and I don't think the TV shows will ever manage it either. There just isn't enough time to do all the different series before an executive decides "Lets reboot this one". But that's ok, as long as we get a couple of series out of it, I'll be chuffed.

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