I don't want us to give up the nuclear deterrent juuuuust yet.
"We do not have nuclear weapons so that we can wipe out the planet in the case that someone launches a nuclear strike against us. All that would do is turn an awful situation into a total apocalypse. Rather, we have them so that that situation can't happen in the first place. The threat of our nukes prevent others from using theirs."
Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby
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Review : Pagan Britain
Having read a good chunk of the original stories, I turn away slightly from mythological themes and back to something more academical : the ...
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"To claim that you are being discriminated against because you have lost your right to discriminate against others shows a gross lack o...
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I've noticed that some people care deeply about the truth, but come up with batshit crazy statements. And I've caught myself rationa...
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For all that I know the Universe is under no obligation to make intuitive sense, I still don't like quantum mechanics. Just because some...
MAD, like the monarchy, is an absolutely stupid idea that has the unfortunate habit of somehow actually working.
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