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[Sheb]

My ideal plot would basically be training day (spoilers ahead!) with the roles reversed. Young idealistic superman showing the old cool Zod around Metropolis, superman trying to impress and walking him through his powers. As the movie goes on we clock that Zod know's more then he's letting on, and when he gets the powers he should act like he's high with it. The mystery is what Zod's planning.

I'm still missing the motivation though.

Power for power's sake is a thing though. Else, why would so many Roman have schemed their way to the Imperial throne, knowing that the average lifespan of a third century Emperor was two years?

[hops]

I mean what else are they going to do? Ancient times were so boring some dude in yellow robes thought it would be better to just cease to exist. You might as well die spectacularly after backstabbing all your friends.

[EnigmaticHat]

My ideal plot would basically be training day (spoilers ahead!) with the roles reversed. Young idealistic superman showing the old cool Zod around Metropolis, superman trying to impress and walking him through his powers. As the movie goes on we clock that Zod know's more then he's letting on, and when he gets the powers he should act like he's high with it. The mystery is what Zod's planning.

I'm still missing the motivation though.

Power for power's sake is a thing though. Else, why would so many Roman have schemed their way to the Imperial throne, knowing that the average lifespan of a third century Emperor was two years?

You don't understand Sheb, all those other guys were idiots.  I'm the one that's going to make it.

[Egan_BW]

If the origin of the term "trolling" in terms of the internet came from a fishing technique, doesn't that mean that a person who trolls on the internet is not a "troll", but a "troller"?

[Parsely]

Where can I learn about the proliferation of nuclear weapons to China in the 60s?

[Paxiecrunchle]

How do social insects determine which caste they'll develop into (Soldier, Worker, Queen, Other more specialized tasks)?

[Sheb]

How do social insects determine which caste they'll develop into (Soldier, Worker, Queen, Other more specialized tasks)?

Can't speak for all insects, but AFAIK it's the food they're given. For bees for exemple, larvae fed royal jelly will develop into queens.

[Neonivek]

According to the newest information it is Genetics, the different castes differ genetically. (The exact mechanisms are... immense)

Though it should be said that even Soldiers, while specialized, still act like workers. So some of the castes are not as stringent as their titles seem.

Honeypot ants have an exception in that one "caste" is created by feeding a worker until their bodies change...

Finally males are created through an entirely different process involving unfertilized eggs (Yes, a species where unfertilized eggs hatch)

[Helgoland]

Where can I learn about the proliferation of nuclear weapons to China in the 60s?

I'd start with a book about the Sino-Soviet split, or maybe a general book on the history of Communism in East Asia. From there on out, use the references given.

[Comrade P.]

If my high school history doesn't fail me, Sino-Soviet relations actually weren't all that great in the 60's. Apparently the communist party of China wasn't stoked about the bashing of Stalin's personality cult and some degree of condemnation of his policies by Khruschev.

EDIT: I now understand that this probably had nothing to do with the question. Just consider this a snippet of unnecessary trivia.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It is fascinating to me how drastically the realignment of China ended up shaping modern geopolitics. Let alone that it may well have lost the Cold War for the USSR, it created what evolved into the center of global trade and pretty much all of China's current power. China was important before the 80s, but not like it is now. It's unfathomable how much material was moved to create all of this, all ultimately because Mao decided to go with the devil he knew in Nixon.

[Helgoland]

If my high school history doesn't fail me, Sino-Soviet relations actually weren't all that great in the 60's. Apparently the communist party of China wasn't stoked about the bashing of Stalin's personality cult and some degree of condemnation of his policies by Khruschev.

IIRC China developed nuclear weapons before that though, and with Soviet help. Maybe the time given in the original question was off.

[Sheb]

According to the newest information it is Genetics, the different castes differ genetically. (The exact mechanisms are... immense)

Though it should be said that even Soldiers, while specialized, still act like workers. So some of the castes are not as stringent as their titles seem.

Do you have any source for that?

[TD1]

Ye gods, Sheb.

You can't just ask to see a man's source.

[Baffler]

It technically is genetic. All ants in a colony have the same genome, it's just regulated expression that differentiates minims from minors from mediae from soldiers and so on. This paper talks about the mechanisms for regulating caste in honeybees, but as it notes the final determinant is the amount and type of food given to the bee during its larval stage, and the mechanism is the same in ants and termites. The second paper talks about genetic differences in eggs in a leafcutter ant colony fertilized using sperm from different males, and how it seems that workers of different genetic lineages contribute different proportions of the various subtypes of worker.

https://bmcdevbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-213X-7-70
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/16/9394.full