Yay, cheap champagne

This is absolutely the best non-comedy Lesley Nielsen movie. Poor man already had the same haircut even back then.

Ehhh, I recently posted elsewhere: about 80 species of mosquito carry dangerous (for human) diseases. The other 3400 are harmless if very mildly annoying. And all of those species share a niche with their harmless genera mates.

It’s really really hard to kill just one species though, especially if they DO share an ecological niche with the species you don’t want to kill.

Fixing memory leaks (while not breaking anything else) is surprisingly difficult sometimes.

they have negligible kinetic energy and zero penetration, relying on surface heating to cause damage.

Once you’re talking hundreds of kilowatts of average power (usually pulsed in much shorter increments) you’re not really talking about “surface heating” but more about “metal instantly vaporizes” if you focus that beam on target.

But even then, you don’t need to hit the explosives. Pumping THAT much energy into a target will absolutely destroy sensors even if does nothing kinetic.

There are bullets and bullets. A 35mm flakpanzer round is very much not the same cost as a 9mm bullet from a random handgun.

Similarly, there are lasers and lasers. A 30kW laser like being tested in 2015 is nowhere near the 300 kW monsters like HELCAP meant for missile defence.

To compare, 300kW laser delivers 300.000 joules on target every second. Now, granted, that “target” might be a circle bigger than your actual target, but then, bullets can also miss. A 20mm solid bullet from a Phalanx CIWS delivers some 60.000 joules on target per hit. 300kW doesn’t so much “heat the missile” as it “makes metal sublimate on the spot”.

Oh, but “not being into the opposite gender enough” will follow closely behind.

“socialism with lemming characteristics”

I know lemmings don’t actually run off of cliffs en masse, but this still feels less than flattering.

There are some 30 species of mosquitos that can transmit Malaria. There are about 3470 species of mosquitoes that don’t.

So, if you get rid of those 30, some of the other will probably be a decent food source.

That old timey optics bench gear is HUGE. Imagine the table this goes with

Ah,the story of the worst DM ever, an inability to say no, and a table that doesn’t actually use the rulebook at all.

Killing Anopheles is easy and smart, because no more malaria, and there are many other options to fill the niche.

Killing Anopheles while not also wiping out all those other insects is really really really hard

My friend, this is Call of Cthulhu, where “OP” means you die two sessions after the rest.

again?

We as normal humans from earth always speak like that, do we not?

The percentage of casualties that go back into active service depends not only on medical skill, support systems and casevac, but also very strongly on how desperate a country is.

This is VERY common. Keeping people locked up means you have to employ other people to keep an eye on them, maintain a facility, feed and clothe the people, etc etc. Not only are you depriving society of their value, you’re depriving society of everyone else’s value too.

The closing monologue from Captain Sisko in the Deepspace 9 episode “In the pale moonlight”.

Oh yeah, it’s straight up theft.

I mean, within set boundaries, it can work pretty well. Having it entirely free is demonstrably a bad idea for all but like 17 people.