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I would say what’s most surprising to me is how much of the fanfic has already come true

Very little came true.

Early in The Third Empire, a pro-Russian, Kremlin-sponsored uprising occurs in Ukraine. ... as well as the rejection of the anti-Russian NATO bloc.”

The people of Ukraine were the once to oust Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, instead turning toward pro-Europe, rejecting Russia.

In The Third Empire, Russia wins World War III because the West fears nuclear war.

The opposite has been true. Russia has made "red line" after "red line", with zero nuclear response. Even if Russia did decide to become nuclear serious, theres a good chance most of their nuclear arsenal doesn't work, and no country believes the sabre rattling anymore. There's a whole Wiki of Russian "red lines" of threats that went unanswered by Russia when they were crossed.. Russia's nuclear threats are a joke.

It was stipulated that Russia renounced any encroachment on the territory to the west of that demarcation.

Nobody believes that either. Crimea was invaded in 2014. If Russia wouldn't be encroaching, then the "little green men" would never have occurred. No one, especially Europe and Ukraine, believes Russia will ever stop invading. Sweden and Finland are NATO members now. Where was that prediction in the book? Russia is worse of now than they were before.

“You don’t like us?” the emperor mocks a French-television interviewer. “All right then, go to war with us and conquer us … Or refuse to buy our energy products, oil and gas, so that we starve to death.” The narrator notes that the loss of Russian oil would have raised prices and “brought down the European economy.”

Hey look at that! Europe was drastically reduced its Russian energy consumption with further plans to eliminate it entirely. Europe seems to be doing just fine economically. Russia's economy is in the toilet.

Further, new capacity is coming online from the Caspian region through Azerbaijan, Georgia and other non-Russian nations completely bypassing Russia and supplying Europe.

Yuriev imagines that Russia has a secret weapon that makes the country invincible to nuclear attack.

Fiction frequently employs a Deus Ex Machina or Wunderwaffe to seem militarily superior. Russia doesn't have it. The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal certianly isn't it. Ukraine has already shot them down before with US provide Patriot missile defenses.

The Russian government was letting its own citizens and the whole world know that Russia had fought with and vanquished not only the American army but the American civilization.

Russia is marching over 1000+ of its reproductive age men into their deaths in meatwaves every single day and has been for well over a year. Russia past the point of demographic collapse. And for what? More Russian captured ground lost since the initial invasion that they started with with all of Kharkiv and half of Kherson. They Russian Black Sea flagship sunk by a nation without a navy.

The biggest miss of Yuriev's predictions is that he didn't see that what remains of Russia after its defeat in Ukraine will be a fully controlled vassal state of China. Any future "leader" of Russia should really be learning to speak Mandarin.

What is most surprising about this fanfic is that apparently the nation of Ireland conquers and occupies most of Antarctica. Sláinte Mhath!

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To Europe from an American: I'm so sorry our American trash president and policy is showing up on your shores.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for Brazil to send up their own satellites with rockets that are already capable

I'm assuming you mean "rockets that are already capable" from other nations? Brazil already does this.

than to waste time, money, energy and

Brazil isn't wasting any money. This is a South Korean company launching a South Korean satellite from Brazil. In fact, Brazil is benefiting financially, which could, to your original point, feed more people because they have the money from these launches.

hurt the environment by trying to launch their own?

Funny enough, launching from places like Brazil is actually less environmentally damaging than launching from the USA, China, or Russia because this Brazilian launch site is on the equator, meaning less fuel is needed to launch from here than other nations with spaceflight programs. This geography is why Europe's launch site is also pretty close by in French Guiana.

So if your concern is less environment impact, you would want MORE of the worlds rockets to come from here.

I’m not saying Brazil doesn’t need to launch a satellite, I’m saying they don’t need their own rocket program.

As already stated, this isn't a Brazilian rocket, nor a Brazilian rocket program.

I already addressed that. There are more problems that humanity needs to solve that spaceflight can address.

They don’t need more.

How do you know? Feeding people isn't the only problem facing humanity, and its not only problem spaceflight can address.

On the downside, Energy Dome’s facility takes up about twice as much land as a comparable capacity lithium-ion battery would. And the domes themselves, which are about the height of a sports stadium at their apex, and longer, might stand out on a landscape and draw some NIMBY pushback.

This is surprisingly good! I would have figured it would have taken far more than twice the land than a Lithium battery solution.

yeah, sure thing buddy. the CO2 will be in a closed loop until it won’t. just like Fukushima and Chernobyl were supposed to be closed loop systems, until they weren’t. disasters happen, no matter how much the techbro mindset insists that they’re impossible.

So you concern is the ecological impact should this bubble fail and the entirety of the CO2 is released to the atmosphere as pollution? Did you even read the article? They discuss that.

First, a full on failure would be rare. Then, a full on failure of 100% loss of the closed loop CO2 is equivalent to 15 round trip flights of a jet flying from New York to London. To put it in perspective there about 250+ flights of this length per day from London, with many being much much farther.

So you're comparing the impacts of a once in a lifetime nuclear power plant failure to the impacts of another source 1/16th of something that already happens every in one airport. Your logic is why out of whack on this if this is your concern with the bubble.

I was thinking about much larger scale bubbles in "unwanted" geological depressions such as old open pit mines or rock quarries. The depression in the ground might offer more protection allowing it to scale up higher in volume.

Your internet traffic is already encrypted in transit, that what the “s” in https means.

You don't get the "s" until you have the "https". Your DNS request which turns www.TheWebsiteYouDoNotWantKnown.com into its IP address happens before you have the "s" in "https". By default, that request is sent in plaintext, and frequently by default, to your internet service provider. So an outside monitor may not be able to see the contents of the website once you establish your https connection, they likely know that you went there and have a good idea how long you stayed on it.

While its also possible to encrypt the DNS request with DoH or DoT, its not on by default and requires the user to take configuration actions in their browser. If they're looking at VPNs for the first time, they likely don't know this and are sending their DNS requests in the clear.

Spaceflight helps feed people.

Why Satellite Imagery is a Game-Changer for Agriculture

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Its an interesting approach to optimize if this is the case. They might be able to seek exotic materials that exhibit larger thermal expansion and add them in places like the bottom of the cylinder head or on the piston rods each closing the gap in the combustion chamber (increasing compression).

Depending on where in the engine they can do this, they could also put in custom/adaptable cooling so they could have some kind of control over this during the race as a tradeoff between performance and wear.