Official Derailed thread... Wait, what?

Starship Troopers, the guys that wear powerful power armor with jet packs, who make quick shock and awe raids and quickly depart in their dropships.. Suddenly wearing equipment that is in many ways inferior to late 20th century infantry, no power armor, no jetpacks, no powerful rifles - just the same shit used in late 20th century but painted black. I guess if I make a cardboard mech suit and paint it black it's that much more powerful.

/Grognard

 

And with long periods living in zero gravity, our hypothetical space vikings aren't going to be the toughest guys around anyway.

 

Physically toughest would be the miners on heavy-G worlds. You know, the guys we raid regularly for tribute. In space you're tough if you can stand cold, radiation and extreme accelerations.

Radiation - requires less radiation shielding which weighs like sin
Cold - can keep the nominal temperature lower thus reducing heat signature and allowing for surprise attacks
Extreme accelerations - things like dodging incoming fire (including lasers), maintaining such high area of possible positions by the time incoming fire reaches you that it will be impossible to reach a good firing solution other than to disperse fire and attempt to saturate the potential target area.

 

I'm also pretty sure all the stuff in the autism spectrum is genetic. I think whether it's active or not is a chemical thing from when still a fetus but I haven't read that much on it. Autism is highly heritable

so is what I have which is Aspergers (only recently learned I had it. goddamn kids and their support now these days. didn't have this kind of testing when I was in elementary school. or most of us in the borg really.) similar to autism but much milder and I seem to be on the higher functioning end of it.

 

I think you just explained why autism rates are "going up".

 

well if is genetic and triggered by chemical stuff in the womb (and the fact that theres actual ways of finding this stuff through testing now and not "timmy has ADD he needs this medication" when he doesn't have that and it's something else entirely). I mean look how the chemicals in foods are always changing. But it probably mostly is the testing methods to see what people have and they can actually differentiate now and it's not these 20 people have ADD but 2 actually have x 3 have y and so on.

 

I was tested the last year of HS, but the tester herself was a relic and the test was so damn annoying that I didn't want to spend my entire day completing it.
I honestly thought that there was also something wrong with it, basically "read this long story and answer these questions".. and similar stuff. Kind of reminded me from childhood when I pronounced 's' the way swedes do it (having spent early childhood in Sweden) and we had a speech therapist at school who had been out from work for past 20 years and started applying early 70's methods. They were mostly endless pages of "write the following letter 500 times" -"lots of monotonous repetition is what'll fix you up!", not that I needed fixing, I just pronounced the letter the way swedes do in the south.

Yea, it's kind of like with crime. If you have very low funding for police and very bad coverage people will eventually just not report anything to begin with. Increasing funding will initially lead to a steep increase in crime statistics since people start reporting and the police start noticing.

Kind of like that with this one. Very difficult to know exactly unless there's a history of screening for a given disease, usually only after then it will be possible to actually say anything about changes since modern medicine doesn't know shit about how things work and relies almost solely on statistics. It's not as if it worked like "aha, this virus, we'll produce this antibody and it will be knocked out because it can't stand this and we understand it". No, in reality it works like "we've been feeding ill patients anything from battery juice to sausages to apple juice and we discovered that battery juice increased mortality rates while apple juice had an effect that falls within error margin". And when they randomly find that X seems to have an effect they try to break apart X in order to find out what part of it might be having the effect.

Whereas common human experience is "uhm, I read online that vaccinations can make you more attractive for alien abduction that involves molestation, fuck it if I were to let them molest me! This is also supported by Mrs. 'I believe Tarot cards know future' saying that real medicine is bad and that putting one drop of dried tea leaves to my drink daily will open my chakras".

 

I would take De Tomaso Pantera over De Lorean any day.
Yes. I said that.
I mean, come on man...



VS.

 

Hell, even a Fiero is better looking than a Delorean.

 

Pantera... Hell yeah... i would take that over a Delorean any day of the week... i dream of owning a Pantera

 

That Pantera's color.. Need to change.

 

Better?

 

I didnt even watch the video Clan and I can guess ice cream in the back pocket is Kentucky....cause...fucking horse thieves lol

 

50 foot snow sculpture