The sphere is so big that it will appear as flat for any purpose you can think of.

Oh, wait…

Extreme left.

Norway on the other hand…

Well… That’s how a democracy is supposed to work. Or even a monarchy, but the support would have to be more vocal then.

There are barely visible tiny features that would have eroded away on Earth.

That said, they are barely visible and tiny. If somebody said it’s just some weird concretion, I’d completely believe it.

Said 2 months into the war…

A speed-boat is something you get a few dozens in a container, all for the price of a single missile the US will use to destroy them.

Iran doesn’t need a navy to keep Hormuz closed.

From the news I’ve been able to find:

US - The Strait is now open! We will escort any civilian ship not related to Iran so they can traverse safely!

Iran - Yeah, the US tried to escort a ship, we have hit their military ships as a warning.

US - Iran lies! No ship was hit! We will keep shouting instructions from a safe distance to any civilian ship trying to traverse the Strait, like we promised earlier!

Lol! The US government is a bad joke…

Is this the Onion?

I mean, I wouldn’t doubt it’s real, but it surely sounds like a joke.

Also, he’s asleep.

Ever wondered where those magic numbers on that definition come from?

But no, I misremembered it, the relation between the step and a second is a coincidence. It’s the size of the meter that was decided in function of time, in the division that best approximated a step.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0412078

Yeah, it’s easy to create badly formatted diagrams for any small database.

At some point things will become so bad that the monopolies will fail.

It’s not possible that consumers will keep insisting on failing from the same con from the same parties all the way into non-working software. (And they are getting pretty close to non-working already.)

Both the meter and the second were created from a step length, just like the mile.

There are way too few children an babies on that pile.

The entire Empire? With thousands or millions of people maintaining it?

There’s no dead person out there complaining that they spent too much time in a computer…

Well, honestly if I was up for realism I wouldn’t watch a movie about space wizards magicking an entire empire out of existence.

No, not automatically.

You only go around punishing people that do bad things, not everybody that finds themselves in a random situation.

Probably not heating what you want.