Even at the time of the Revolution, it was obvious to many commentators that the American colonies would overtake Britain, in terms of population at least, by the mid-19th Century. By that time, the only way Britain can retain 'control' of the American colonies would be to give them what the...
At least at the High School level there's a split between offense and defense. I don't know about kiddie levels of play, because I only played in High School.
They do. It's just done pretty quickly.
That's a large exaggeration. Yes, the NFL has its games interrupted for commercial breaks. No, this is not a necessary feature of the sport. When I played in high school, the game would flow more or less uninterrupted through to half time. Yes, the plays make it stop-start and enable the...
It becomes less effective. There's a reason they tell you to replace your SAPI plates if they fracture. But my understanding of tanks is that the armor is arrayed in tiles which each cover a small area. It's less likely for the tank to get hit on the same tile multiple times, and they can be...
Football's kind of a capital intensive sport. Pads, cleats, balls, helmets, etc. Whereas soccer is... not. A ball, some sort of goal. That's a fairly large obstacle to overcome in much of the world.
The conventional phase of some of the United States & allies wars against various nations have been pretty lopsided. How long did ground combat in the first Gulf War last? 100 hours? And how rapidly did we defeat Iraq's conventional military in 2003?
The Spanish-American War was rather lopsided...
We know way more about the ocean than we do about most of space. After all, space is mind bogglingly huge, and the ocean is just 70% of the Earth's surface, extending down a few thousand meters. We've made decent topographic maps of much of the ocean, we have a general idea what life looks like...
Even assuming the whole of the US Army goes along with this coup plot, the US Army in 1933 amounts to under 200,000 soldiers. Many of whom are in the Philippines. I doubt the US Army could hope to actually gain control of the US in 1933. And I doubt most state governments would go along with the...
For Insurrection. Stealing inspiration from SFDebris on this, to be clear.
We keep the Ba'ku, keep the youthening radiation, keep the So'na. We can even keep the opening with Data being on the fritz and defaulting to his ethical programming. Then, we have the Enterprise come in. Riker and Worf...
It depends on whether or not Zoroastrianism had as big an influence on early Judaism as some scholars believe. If it did, then removing Zoroaster removes - or radically alters - all the related religions. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all become unrecognizable or nonexistent.
Are you a Chinese propagandist or something? What kind of warning do you think China gets when the Soviet Union launches a nuclear strike? China's got a few minutes between launch and impact of nuclear armed IRBMs on any targets the Soviets deem worthy. And while I admit unfamiliarity with the...