Eventually we’ll hit it with phones, and then it’s just a matter of time till a solid “base” with swapable components come out. There’s been a couple already, but they still require a sacrifice of size or speed/power.
I'd honestly argue that we've more or less hit it already, since a lot of phones over the past few years haven't really changed from the template of being a black glass rectangle with some buttons on it.
That implies that Britain didn't intend those consequences. But Britain has mastered using starvation as a weapon of genocide, in particular by masking it as an "unfortunate" result of taxes and tariffs.
We do know that the British did try and get the Irish to renounce their heritage to receive aid during the famine as well. Some families had to renounce their Irish name and Catholicism before they would be given food during the famine.
No. Because any advanced civilisation capable of sending a colony ship across light-years to another planet is already so far outside of our current technological ability that it matters precious little.
We would be easy to colonise either way. Doubly so if they have some form of FTL technology to make that trip in reasonable time.
But there's also an argument that anyone who can do so would have a much easier time not dealing with all of that and just colonising an uninhabited planet, or outright using materials to make a thing to colonise instead.
Depending on how they do it, not having to deal with hydrogen infrastructure might be nice, if they keep along with the plan to use refillable cartridges. Hydrogen is a bit more fiddly.
Although this seems much more reliant on humidity compared to a hydrogen fuel cell, which seems like a huge hole if the thing just won't work if it's a dry day/environment.
Cloudflare’s is a corporate solution from the company that man-in-the-middles half the internet and makes me click shit every fucking time. I see it whenever I make the mistake of following a stackoverflow link.
It is also not very useful if you don't use a PC. Every time I look up a Cloudflare-gated site on my iPad, I usually have to jump through a few captchas before it will let me in, if it doesn't decide to be a grump and decide to put you in a sisyphean cycle of captchas, constantly refreshing without end.
Or if you use some software. I have citation software that gets stuck in the loop because Elsevier puts their journals behind a Cloudflare wall, and when it pops up the prompt to prove you're not a bot, just refreshes straight into another prompt.
I think a traditional “shuttle” wouldn’t be up to the task - you’d want a vessel with bunks and space to walk around, at the very least.
They can probably do it in a pinch. In Relics, Scotty is given a shuttle to roam around in, and it's doubtful that the Enterprise would have given him one if it was something that would only be capable of short-range operation.
But normally, I'd imagine that you'd just rendezvous with a starship, who would take you the rest of the way, with or without the shuttle, which would get close enough, and then you'd either have another ship, or use another shuttle to get you the rest of the way.
EDIT: Is the Federation even adhering to the warp five speed limit anymore? I know it doesn’t get addressed after “Force of Nature”, but is there anything suggesting that the speed limit has been dropped completely by the 25th century?
Nothing explicit, though there's behind-the-scenes materials. The nacelles on the Intrepid-class were designed to mitigate that for example, but that never made it on-screen.
On-screen, we just know that warp engines didn't significantly change, and that the Enterprise was able to exceed those speeds after a bit, so it was presumably fixed behind the scenes.
Or as we like to call it, GNU/Gumanities.