TallonMetroid @ TallonMetroid @lemmy.world

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Well, yes. As soon as his emergency powers go away his ass is gonna get ousted and jailed for corruption. So of course he's not going to let the killing end until he absolutely has no other choice.

It really isn't. When you know where they started from, and what direction they were supposed to be heading in, then even without knowing how fast they're supposed to be going, it's literally as simple as dropping out of FTL at regular intervals behind the sleeper ship and pointing a telescope in the general direction you're going until you hit the sleeper ship's light cone. What other posters have suggested about potential technical limitations relating the nature of the FTL drive and/or logistical problems with actually doing a pick up make sense as blocking issues, but finding them to begin with is a solved problem. Like, this is basically "where are Voyager 1 & 2 right now", and we actually know exactly where they are right now because we're still picking up their radio signals, powered by a 249W generator (less power than used by a typical modern PC!), from over 136 AU out, and a sleeper ship is going to be way more visible than that.

A sleeper ship isn't going to be doing any maneuvers other than constantly accelerating before the halfway point and then constantly decelerating after the halfway point. Predicting the position of the ship at any given moment based on that is a textbook physics 101 problem that students are expected to be able to solve by hand. If you've got FTL cracked then you've got the computational power to account for any real world variables that would throw off such a prediction.

If you have working FTL now, though, and can get there faster why not also intercept the sleeper ships and bring them with you?

So long as it's the company, and not the fatcats personally, that bears any liability, stuff like this will just keep happening again.

Harry Potter's bedroom used to be a cupboard under the stairs, with a door that locked from the outside.

Yes, forcing Tyrion to watch his first wife get publicly gang-raped before disappearing her is absolutely what a loving father would do. Sorry, guy, but that whole mess is a pretty big torpedo.

"I'm sure these leopards won't eat my face!"

That's because communism has never been implemented at scale except as a fig leaf for authoritarianism.

Obviously, because being the target of a genocide 80 years ago gives you a free pass to do whatever you want forever. Russia's problem is that they've never been hit with a genocide themselves, so they don't get a free pass. /S

Here's everything you need to know from the about page:

To this end, the Foundation also trains and cultivates young writers for careers in journalism and serves as an outlet for a host of both young and established conservative writers and thinkers.

So, y'know, nothing more than a fascist whining about Dems recognizing that there are more non-fascists than fascists out there and are making at least an effort to appeal to them.

Different kid, actually. IIRC he's got a bunch of IVF kids with different women because apartheid emerald money is sexy or something, but he couldn't be bothered to actually fuck them properly. Also couldn't be bothered to be present in their lives as a dad properly either.

Can't go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can't remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren't just reprises of tracks from previous games.

The biggest loser. Nobody loses like Donald Trump.

Every fucking time he opens his mouth, she should interrupt him with "prove it". Like, he says the sky is blue? Fucking prove it.

President Convict has a Twitch account? TIL I guess...

Yeah, but what do the fatcats care? They'll have already bailed with their golden parachutes.

Sad thing is, it'll probably work.

Ah, you're correct. That's a misleading headline, but it's on me for commenting before reading the article.

Why not exhume Feinstein while you're at it, holy fuck.