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• Commented on Place your bets
  Even destroying his mortal body won't kill Mitch. For that they'd need to destroy his soul jar, which is safely hidden in the Library of Congress....
• Commented on WTF
  Not all of the things you reference are the same. For example quarks were theorized to exist, then were observed. And nobody has a testable theory of WTF dark matter is. Dark matter is what we're calling whatever it is...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Capabilities wise, shaped charges work underwater and are just the thing to make holes in steel structures. Several anti-sub torpedoes use that principal and a Soviet double hulled sub has got to be a harder target than a gas pipeline....
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Mine hunting ROVs are a thing that most modern navies have. They already have sensors to find stuff on the bottom in bad visibility and many have the capability to place demolition charges to destroy mines....
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  The Swedes are reporting this on the NPR website: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/27/1125401980/nord-stream-leaks-explosions-russia-natural-gas-sabotage It is "very clear from the seismic record that these are blasts," Björn Lund‬, director of the Swedish National Seismic Network at Uppsala University told NPR in a phone interview....
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  Russian built pipeline leaks gas? The simplest explanation is corruption. On a multibillion Euro project there's a lot of money to be made in substituting substandard materials, using unqualified workers, or both....
• Commented on London Bridge
  My experience with photo reactive glasses is they aren't great. The biggest problem is they will stay dark after you're inside and that they don't react if you're behind a window. My solution is to have a pair of prescription...
• Commented on Bad news day
  I'm far from the first to point out that much of the first world's horror at the invasion of the Ukraine is because this is happening to white, Christian (heritage anyway) European people. In living memory we invade other countries...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
  I am going to blame autocorrect…...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
  Does Skaroan marriage law require the consumption* of the marriage to be valid? Who has the authority to annul a marriage w/in the laws of Skaro/magical code that binds the geas? I'm guessing the Pope wouldn't be the arbiter but...
• Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
  Depending on ammunition selection 556 nato can be less penetrating than 9mmP. Light weight thin jacketed bullets at high velocities can basically disintegrate when they hit anything solid, like a wall or floor. The heavier, slower 9mmP bullets can be...
• Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
  You optimist! Not that the next person in line (Nancy Pelosi) is a spring chicken either....
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  It depends what's meant by 'a safety'. You're correct that the P226 is like a revolver in that it doesn't have a user selectable safety, which is what almost anybody who's talking about guns refers to as a safety. The...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  Technical nit picking from a gun nut: It’s established early on the Sam’s duty pistol is a P226. In chapter 8 (A Game of Vampires) he’s “holding his gun muzzle-down and safety off”. The Sig P226 doesn’t have an external...