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PatrickStar wrote:

I took the liberty of looking into the details of Libertatem, and it appears that they conform to all the set requirements for embassies, except for one instance of a possibly misplaced Invader tag on Antista, which may warrant further investigation (I'm not in charge of that). Midland of libertatem in texas yeehaw, if you'd like to submit a diplomacy request, at the moment, I'd suggest disregarding the Secretary of State, seeing as Richard hasn't been active for about a week, and a month before that, and sending a telegram to NewTexas or Studly Penguins.

Actually, I talked to Richard today. He was rather nice. I'm pretty sure Antista is dead now, honestly.

Midland of libertatem in texas yeehaw wrote:

Actually, I talked to Richard today. He was rather nice. I'm pretty sure Antista is dead now, honestly.

Well that's what I get for sleeping 20 hours a day...

Germano wrote:

Libertatem it is a remarkable region, considering that struggle for freedom and against all forms of oppression and hatred, as fascism, nazism, socialism and communism. If I'm not mistaken, yours "military operations" are arranged at an interregional treaty called REATO. This region invades and refounds regions controlled by "dictatorial powers" or simply "protects" important places. It is a magnificent ideal, but Texas is a real defender region.

On the other hand our region has embassy with 10000 Islands, and some TITO operations are similar to the REATO. They want to invade The Black Riders, right? For the best of reasons...

So I can say that the request is at least interesting. Anyway I think that any region will be lucky to have embassies in a great region like Texas.

I can't tell if that was dripping with sarcasm or not.

Thank you for clarifying all that Mr. Lt. Gov.! Yes, any speculation on the RMB is merely speculation. As an example, did anyone see Forest or Philosophy 115 coming from out of the blue? We bet not.

And, as for our friends in 10000 Islands, sometimes their peeps get a little over-excited on their RMB and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of senior management. Shoot, sometimes they are not even 10000 Islanders, but merely troublemakers arriving from their enemies to stir up trouble since that is about all they can do to them. We have our doubts about any serious plans about their invading TBR.

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Hmm, this was a toughie that seemed to border on metagaming. It appears that the author is trying to guarantee that any rights afforded to humans in your nation also be afforded to all sapient species in your multiverse as well. So, if you have one Tribble (used for example purposes only since we are not exactly sure if they are sentient although, under the definition in this Resolution, they appear to be) in your nation, then all Tribbles are afforded the same protections and rights granted (or restricted) by the World Assembly. This is a bit much as we have many non-human life forms in NewTexas. NewTexas will go on record as AGAINST on this Resolution. This is only the opinion of NewTexas. We look forward to other Texans' opinions and comments on this Resolution. If good arguments to the contrary are made, we will reconsider our position.

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Here's something worse than Donald Trump trying to be president: What about Donald Trump vs Charlie Sheen?

Germano wrote:

Honestly I do not know very well the US policy, but generally I prefer that the Republican candidates win the elections. After September 11th the United States has defended, they invaded two countries and showed the world its military power. With the Democrats we are watching with his hands tied the terrorism of the Islamic State. The conservative policy of the Republicans is not always the prettiest to appear in a TV report, but is sometimes necessary.

About Donald Trump, I like the idea of an entrepreneur take over the government of a country, because he more than anyone knows what is needed to keep the economy stable. If he is the best candidate, I do not know.

I just hope there is an alternation of power in America. I do not see how another 4 years of government of the Democrats may be good for the United States. Many risk agreements were made in the Obama administration, like the nuclear deal with Iran, the opening of embassies in Cuba. The growing threats from Russia and China in Ukraine and the Pacific.

Ronald Reagan is turning in his grave

I saw we start a crowd fund to either build a time machine or cloning machine to bring George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, back from the past or from the grave to kick this current governments ass for letting the country go to hell.

Trecdom2 wrote:

Our involvement in Iraq helped lead to the rise of ISIL. Plus, most of the reason for invading the country was fabricated.

When the Islamic State begin to decapitate the head of civilians, let's hope that diplomacy of Democrats resolve the problem.

Gig em Aggies wrote:

I saw we start a crowd fund to either build a time machine or cloning machine to bring George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, back from the past or from the grave to kick this current governments ass for letting the country go to hell.

Well, I think that the majority of Americans would appreciate the return of presidents like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. =)

Gig em Aggies wrote:

I saw we start a crowd fund to either build a time machine or cloning machine to bring George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, JFK, back from the past or from the grave to kick this current governments ass for letting the country go to hell.

Just like some idiot who started a petition on the white house website to build a death star (This actually go 30,000 signatures and the government released a ACTUAL statement on why they will not build a death star)

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Trecdom2 wrote:

No, what we really need to is to build a functioning warp drive. Then you do a slingshot around the sun to travel back in time.

On a related note, could you imagine having all 4 of them in the same room together?

"I founded this country."- Washington

"I freed the slaves, and won a Civil War." -"Lincoln

"I sent the first American to Space and prevented a Nuclear war."- JFK

*Teddy looks at JFK and Lincoln.* "I survived an assassination attempt."

Teddy, you went too far.

Also: Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a theoretical physicist!
In all seriousness, warp technology won't be practical until we can develop a material that can survive upwards of 1 light-second/second-squared acceleration (that's almost 300000 km/s^2). The forces involved in accelerating the engines to warp speeds wouldn't transfer into the rest of the ship fast enough, causing the engines to tear through the rest of the ship. If you were to counter this problem by accelerating slowly, you'd reach your destination at about the same time as you'd reach Warp 0.5 (which isn't anywhere close to half of Warp 1, and are generally inconsistent with the previous), and take you thousands of years. One proposed solution is the Alcubierre drive, whereby a spaceship would contract the spacetime in front of it and expand the spacetime behind it, allowing an object to arrive at it's destination faster than light would in normal space. It does, however, require creating a negative mass field around the object to be accelerated. A curious effect of the drive is that the object itself would not experience any additional g-forces even when accelerating. To any inside observers, their "bubble" of spacetime would be stationary, and the rest of the universe would be accelerating at blinding speeds around them.

PatrickStar wrote:

Teddy, you went too far.

Also: Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a theoretical physicist!
In all seriousness, warp technology won't be practical until we can develop a material that can survive upwards of 1 light-second/second-squared acceleration (that's almost 300000 km/s^2). The forces involved in accelerating the engines to warp speeds wouldn't transfer into the rest of the ship fast enough, causing the engines to tear through the rest of the ship. If you were to counter this problem by accelerating slowly, you'd reach your destination at about the same time as you'd reach Warp 0.5 (which isn't anywhere close to half of Warp 1, and are generally inconsistent with the previous), and take you thousands of years. One proposed solution is the Alcubierre drive, whereby a spaceship would contract the spacetime in front of it and expand the spacetime behind it, allowing an object to arrive at it's destination faster than light would in normal space. It does, however, require creating a negative mass field around the object to be accelerated. A curious effect of the drive is that the object itself would not experience any additional g-forces even when accelerating. To any inside observers, their "bubble" of spacetime would be stationary, and the rest of the universe would be accelerating at blinding speeds around them.

I'm going to have a serious talk about this concept because I'm part of the science department for the WSA. We're already talking about Tachyons. Negative mass is an interesting concept.

Gig em Aggies wrote:

What's the WSA?

World Space Administration
or Association
idk
one of those fancy A words.