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I think that,in practical terms, we would be talking about completely hollowing-out something like Ceres, then firing it off into the void.

I would advise the one on the left, where FBI crime data is involved, though there are similar uses for the other two.

I own a dozen swords just in case i need to defend my home.

As someone who has literally been stalked by two people in downtown Toronto, at 5:00am, I think a healthy dose of situational awareness is a good thing. I also know that I live in one of the safest countries in the world, statistically speaking.

Absolutely, though our reputation isn't stellar for some reason. Just don't do a search for "Brampton drivers" :ROFLMAO:

I live in what is often considered a "bad city" in Canada; Brampton. In my life here, over the past 50+ years, there have been precisely 3 violent events in my neighbourhood. 1) A guy I went to high school with, who was what would be referred to as a "troubled teen", killed a guy in a local bar...

The average break-in seems to involve some opportunistic thief with a screwdriver, or perhaps a crowbar. Not a jackhammer. If you have something that's going to take them an hour or two get get into, then you've likely succeeded.

Unfortunately, it's something that I deal with far too often in debates. "The number show...." "Then number show nothing, without putting them in context."

Quite. In the numbers game, it's much like the frequently made statement that "more than half of marriages end in divorce." Without the metric of how many of those people were already on their second, third, fourth.... marriage, the raw numbers are pretty meaningless.

Even a cheap metal cabinet from Walmart (mine is from Canadian Tire) is far better than nothing, as long as it's properly constructed with no single point of failure, and is lag bolted to studs. Mine had to be inspected by the local firearms officer and he was pleased with it, and the...

I definitely agree with that sentiment but because he does still frequently put out stuff that I want to watch, I'll click a few minutes in to see what it's about. Little known fact is that they don't get paid unless you watch past a certain percentage of the video (something more than half, if...

Season 1 theme: Yes. Season 2 theme: No.

A little story by Harry Turtledove, that's somewhat adjacent to your post. https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf

Wise words. Keep your eye on the sparrow, When the going gets narrow.

Now I'm wondering if "Professor of Rock" is a member here. This dropped today.

I would argue that all evolutions are more likely to produce crabs, than civilizations.

Or it could simply be that intelligence and civilization, at the level that might recognize one another, are uncommon enough that we're alone at this specific time and region of space.

Human (Singular) - Wisdom 10 (Average) Human (Swarm) - Wisdom 2

Et tu, Fruité