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Instead of a barrel … how about we just donate to a developing nation instead … it would probably be enough to blast the country into the 22nd century ahead of everyone else.

Anyone under the age of 50

Why? Because they will have the energy, experience and ability to take on such an important position.

The fact that this is significant and will probably influence the election as a whole shows in complete fullness that America doesn’t exist in a democracy … it’s a plutocracy, an oligarchy or an aristocracy … it definitely isn’t a democracy.

I think you just went full circle.

Why do I get the feeling that there will be another political assassination in America soon … and why do I have a feeling that this one will be successful.

The more American political history I read, the more I feel like America is just another country like every other including third world developing nations who just happen to own the largest economy and the biggest military.

Snake!

Good idea … how about just a system where everyone elects a regional representative and leave it at that.

No political parties, just political reps representing their region.

I don’t think there are any stupid questions … from the time we are children who learn to speak, we will ask millions of questions about everything because that’s how we learn.

The problem is not in asking stupid questions or the right questions but in receiving absolutely dumb answers.

A monster is only appealing if they act and believe like the supporters wish to be.

And it’s also the power of never taking responsibility for monstrous things in this world. If the monster is given power to do monstrous things, if you support monstrous things then you can watch it all happen. If the monster is stopped and punished, but you had supported the monster, you can stand aside and say you were never part of it.

The monster is only a small part of how monstrous society can be.

or if they wait too long … they just dump you into the replicator and Picard gets to drink your former atoms as his daily cup of hot Earl Grey tea.

… or accidents … imagine placing your finger or hand on a replicator at the wrong possible moment or it just malfunctions and you happen to be standing nearby … your finger or hand either get dematerialized or augmented with a tuna sandwich and a glass of orange juice.

That looks like some wealthy teenager’s basement gaming room for their friends

What if in 40,000 years after a long development, knowledge acquisition, evolution and so much lost time that those same brains decide to return to their origins and come back together and battle one another for supremacy over all the others to become the single and only … ONE

* faxes in German

Good one and a great point … our current attitudes about mind altering substances will be looked at in a very different way in the future … whether that will be a good or bad thing, I don’t know … but I do know it will be far different than how we see it today.

They’ll see us smoking, drinking or ingesting all kinds of weird cocktails of substances, like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or any of the legal and illegal drugs we have today and future generations will see us as just ignorant teenagers who found the medicine cabinet and the liquor store.

I’ve heard that discussion before in past forums and you are right … even ship to ship battles probably won’t exist. It will most likely be space lasers, shot from locations millions of kilometers or light years away from one another, maybe not even from a ship but from a planet or a moon or some station that never moves … a random enemy ship will just be sitting in space and BAM! they get hit without warning by a blast of radiation or weapon of some sort that came in at light speed and no warning.

The modern Star Trek theatrics of a space battle of big ships flying around one another shooting lasers and weapons will look to us how we see submarine battles in World War II

Commander Riker?

It numbed everyone to the point where the majority of everyone just ignores politics now. After a president like that, then to switch to an 80 year old man … the office of president of the Untied States of Anarchy no longer matters any more.