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Considering that all combustion-based weaponry as we know it, i.e firearms and explosives require a high-temperature reaction to work, I've been wondering something. Is it possible that one day we could achieve such technology that would allow us to use the opposite, that being low temperatures? If ...

Think about it, if a ceasefire is called-out, Putin will spend a couple years recuperating and resume attacking.

Regardless of whether or not it actually ends with a phyrric victory on Russia's behalf, we're all screwed either ways.

A world without borders will go against human nature. We are a tribalistic and territorial species.

I think this while affair is going to end in a ceasefire, resulting in everything going back to square one.

wjfox wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 3:52 pm

What movie is that?

Ever since this forum got rebooted, I just thought I'd bring up another popular subject in the futurology community. Specifically, the possibility of seeing the resurrection of various extinct species via cloning in our lifetime. Which ones do you think are the most likely to be brought back first? ...

I think a key factor in making one would be if they were able to pull of the construction of an orbital elevator or two. They will be able to build homes in them, allowing millions of surface-dwellers to migrate into space and there will be way more free space (no pun intended) on Earth.

If a stock-market crash does happen, it will probably happen when this whole Ukraine situation is over.

I don’t think things will go to at least 90% back to normal by at least 2024.