crankypants65
crankypants65 t1_ixml7rr wrote
Reply to China’s space station will run high-energy beam experiment for controversial solar power plant: chief scientist by Soupjoe5
Next they’ll be starting forest fires in Oregon with it.
crankypants65 t1_ixluwxe wrote
Reply to If a solar flare were to wipe most if not all technology, what plans/countermeasure could be taken to slow rebuild things like the internet? by Zak_the_Reaper
I’m not convinced that the internet has done enough good to warrant being brought back.
crankypants65 t1_iy6lzgd wrote
Reply to TIL that after the battle between the USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere, the captain of the Constitution, Isaac Hull, refused the sword of surrender from the captain of the Guerriere, James Richard Dacre, saying he could not accept it from a man who fought so gallantly by alcapwnage0007
I was so hoping it would say that he couldn’t accept the sword without the captain’s blood on it. Disappointed by chivalry.