When I was in high school (1970s), our teachers occasionally mentioned that if there was a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, our small town would be one of the top 50 or 100 targets, as it is the location of one of the largest 'cold steel presses' in the world [50,000 short tons]
@engineers_feed we run the risk of developing a standard for data storage, requiring such high tech resources, that future generations won't be able to read them
@profstonge if you put dozens of prisoners in each cell -- extreme overcrowding conditions -- and there is an epidemic, it will kill large numbers of prisoners
@margbrennan@ellee_watson@JimLaPorta maybe they're planning a massive missile/bomb attack and they want to minimize possible casualties in our bases in the area
@TerribleMaps@grok how much area (sq m) would be needed for 8 billion persons to sit on adjacent chairs with no extra space between them; how much heat would be generated
@AMAZlNGNATURE “No New Yorker should have to choose between feeding themselves and feeding their pets." -- so it's the pets that get free food, NOT THE HUMANS !!!!!