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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • In terms of NATO defense, yes, many european leaders are “weak”, as in, they know that their citizens don’t want to get dragged into the war, so they take every opportunity to de-escalate. They all don’t want to be seen as the one starting a war.

    You won’t find me defending their indecision, but their stance makes sense when you consider that they don’t want to engage russia. And there are some good reasons for not wanting to. There are better reasons to engage IMO, but I can see their side.


  • You’ll have to be more specific. When it comes to rockets, there simply isn’t much money to be made in europe. There aren’t any good spaceports in mainland europe and the market isn’t big enough to naturally drive big investments. You only have one government-operated launch provider whose main goal is to just exist, so you remain independent at least in theory and some startups that are trying to push into the cheapest segments of the launching business.






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    I know that to align with the books, Vault Seldon had to be clueless, but

    I found it a bit unbelievable how Vault Seldon acts or has acted. He had the Prime Radiant, learned that it could be used to peek outside his vault, should have known that the future was ‘off course’ even after the second crisis, but he gave the Prime Radiant to the very person that was compelled by law to work against his plan? And because he gave the Prime Radiant away, he didn’t know anything about the real third chrisis.

    In season 2, Vault Seldon struck me as someone who realized that for his plan to work, it required more action and that he had the power to enact this action. In season 3 so far, he seems to blindly follow his ‘programming’.