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We sometimes make too much 'noise' about our independence, while not actually doing enough to properly protect our freedom from those in power - or who desperately WANT to be in power. Lots of false patriots (or as Thomas Paine said 'Sunshine Patriots') in the US will talk the talk, but not walk the...

That's basically the Frank Herbert 'Dune' Highliner in a nutshell.

Huge FTL (albeit jump ship/dimensional gate or..?) ship - disgorges lots of smaller craft in the destination system.

This is probably quite true. Consider that in the not too distant past, children often died very young. Infant mortality was very high even in Europe and the early US/Canada. People often just accepted that this would happen and moved on as best as they could. It would hurt but, they dealt with it...

Have no fear! Smith is here! Moments later...he's spaced...

^ Human fallibility being one of the biggest weaknesses of any security system. Fishing attacks, exploiting people's greed or stupidity...etc...

And so many don't even know the different between a "Cruiser" hull and a "Destroyer" hull - not that it matters as much anymore. Or for that matter, that a "CV" is actually a " C ruiser, a V iation" instead of " C arrier V essel". Technically, the Ticonderoga class were intended as improved Kidd cla...

From my point of view - assuming the Theians can't contest orbital space, the battle's already over. Resisting from that point only invites destruction. Any reasonably well equipped orbital fleet should be able to select from a variety of attack methods including "crowbars" (simple metal rods) that ...

Once starvation comes into the picture - anything (and everything) is possible...

Somehow - this circular argument kinda brings back this old Art Clarke story:

http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clark ... ority.html

Keep in mind that power generation also implies more cooling required.

Anything that produces power, or uses power, or transfers power (minus perfect superconductors) produces waste heat. Thermodynamics will not be ignored...

Kinda missed the point of the comment there but..?

Right - stop this thread immediately! It's getting very silly! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Graham_Chapman_Colonel.jpg People are spending far too much time and energy trying to justify something that has very limited practical applications. Mechs are -cool- but, not really somethi...

^ And that's where the materials used would be critical. Whatever "handwavium" is used to build a "Mech" would have to be very strong, tough and very light. If you have something like that - why not just build a better tank from it instead? Unless you have to fight in a swamp, or mountains - there's...

^ And that's what's scary... The Clown Wars was really bad, The Phantom Idiot was dull/bad. Rotten Tomatoes - 56% rotten...

Yes - there is a "cool factor" with walking tanks - otherwise Japanese Anime would be far less fun/varied and we would never have had "Battletech" (and other such fun games).

Practical? Absolutely not - under any realistic conditions.

Thing is - that image of Kirk as a shoot-first, ask questions later, always gets the girl type isn't entirely correct... He just as often talked, or otherwise figured his way out of a bad situation - i.e. used his wits. Yes, that means he occasionally talked a computer into suicide with a quick cour...

Haven't subscribed to Disney+ (and probably never will) so, no Madalorian for me...

Somehow appropriate:

From what I've heard (trying to avoid spoilers), it's got 14 different plots all wound up and then run through a blender!

I know it's not related to this story line/universe but... "Infinite Diversity, in Infinite Combinations" comes to mind...