"I give you the Light of Earendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places when all other lights go out."

RT @shashj: There is a really fundamental difference between freezing the war at the line of contact (de facto partition), asking Ukraine t….

In before DARPA worked on USS Defiant all along

RT @FennellJW: Famously sung by the survivors of HMS Sheffield as they waited to be rescued in 1982.

RT @RinNishimura: Yomiuri reports that MOD is closely watching the mayoral election in Yonaguni Town, Okinawa, which may determine whether….

Seems overkill, or at least I would have let just Rutte (and perhaps Stubb) go: Rutte as Secretary General is moving himself well, and Stubb as the Finnish President can provide example as to why certain arguments from Putin are bollocks (like NATO expansion).

I wonder if the new Carrefours will have the Centauro B1s: a bit too chonky for my neighbourhood, but it would still be put to good use.

Jokes aside this is a glorious pic of Mriya and Buran.

RT @Mauro_Gilli: Io mi chiedo con quale coraggio questa gente insegni agli studenti l’importanza del rigore logico e metodologico nella ric….

RT @HunterStires: The video taken by the Philippine Coast Guard clearly shows the wake of the PLAN DDG after making a 180 degree hard turn….

Or at least the last rough equivalent I can think of is the Iran-Iraq war of the 80s, that lasted about 8 years and had quite the tally at the end.

Would go so far as to predict times and casualties under the assumption "all else being equal": the conflict isn't in a vacuum and there are so many moving bits that could influence it. With this said it's true that the conflict has been a grind the world hasn't seen in a while.

RT @TechEpiphanyYT: The "L"s keep on coming. Germany has become a complete joke of a country. The psychopaths shut down all(!) perfectly f….

RT @MV33Racing: "Bro shows up. Does a lap record with full tank and traffic. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves". Franz Hermann at the Nürburgrin….

RT @DubhDonald:

That is 3 years away, which isn't a whole lot of time when US shipbuilding in such a sorry state that it would require the likes of a reincarnated Adm Rickover to get the whole thing moving at a reasonable pace (and even it's not guaranteed).

RT @Talon_Haribon: Looks like the AFP is about to sink their teeth in. .

Unsure about peace being reached by having the talks start at top level, especially seeing how prior lower level talks went nowhere, but at least it has the potential of being more productive. We shall see how this would go.

RT @mrjeffu: Airing this weekend on NHK: Simulation: Defeat in 1941, a two-part historical drama about the Japanese government's Total War….

RT @mrjeffu: In 1971, Emperor Hirohito of Japan made his first official visit to Europe. His plane stopped in Alaska, where he briefly met….

I mean the world had to be a sphere, otherwise cats would have dropped everything.