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[Morrigi]

Oh, probably. It wouldn't be doing any planet busting, but it'd be relatively easy to build something up there able to bust up a city or two. Probably not with death lasers, but rods from god are close enough, right?

Death lasers and particle beams are so much cooler, though.

[notquitethere]

The latest Pluto images were a missed opportunity. We could have put that dwarf planet down for good.

[LordSlowpoke]

i have found an encyclopedia from the year 1968

who wants to learn random shit about their 1968 era country

[Frumple]

Death lasers and particle beams are so much cooler, though.

Yeah, kinda', though I'd say KKVs are still pretty great.

Think the closet we might be able to manage right now is something microwave based? Pretty sure folks've considered orbit to ground energy transmission via something along those lines using more-or-less modern tech. You'd just have to point it somewhere besides a receiving station and it wouldn't exactly be the quickest thing in the world, but still. It'd kill people. Probably.

[notquitethere]

i have found an encyclopedia from the year 1968

who wants to learn random shit about their 1968 era country

What does it say about Iceland?

[Graknorke]

i have found an encyclopedia from the year 1968

who wants to learn random shit about their 1968 era country

Czechoslovakia was still around in 1968 right? Do that.

[LordSlowpoke]

i have found an encyclopedia from the year 1968

who wants to learn random shit about their 1968 era country

What does it say about Iceland?

...on second thought i regret this idea

it'll take a while, i got past the first page and am already tired of it, i'll get back to you on it though

i have found an encyclopedia from the year 1968

who wants to learn random shit about their 1968 era country

Czechoslovakia was still around in 1968 right? Do that.

well fuck

[notquitethere]

Just a single surprising fact?

[LordSlowpoke]

iceland's boring as hell, sorry

closest you'd get is an economic screwup in 1967 that gets mentioned in context of recovering from it, and that one guy ran two parties at once, with one of them being part of the coalition government and one of them being in the opposition

[Sheb]

And Belgium?

[scriver]

Sigh. You don't have to go immediately to looking up bad words, Sheb.

[TD1]

Hey, he's French. They're fond of bad language.


(Yes, I know you're not French.)

[LordSlowpoke]

And Belgium?

the prime minister demanded extra powers to tackle various economic problems, which he ended up getting, but his government collapsed anyway because the walloons were demanding what they said was decolonizing flanders (insert french language everywhere, etc.)
it's the year when nato headquarters in brussels became a thing, there was a conflict with the congolese who seized a belgian mining company which got resolved after about a year, then the congolese got salty because there apparently was a revolt caused by white mercenaries
jumping over to the kongo section says it was the portugese supporting the rebellion all along

fascinating

[andrea]

Italy?

[martinuzz]

Eston Kohver, an Estonian police officer that was arrested by Russia last year, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for 'espionage'.

According to Rusland, he was caught on Russian territory, carrying "illegal firearms", and "spy equipment"

According to Estonia, he was abducted from Estonian soil by Russian agents.
At the time, he was investigating a smuggling ring possibly led by Russian secret agents, when he was abducted.

The EU has protested the trial's outcome, and demanded his immediate release. EU Chief of Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, said the detention of the Estonian is "illegal", and the defendant did not get a chance of a fair trial. She says Russia is breaking international law.

In Estonia itself people have reacted shocked about the trial's outcome. About one third of the population of 1.3 million people in the country speaks Russian, and the country fears Russian interference like what is happening in Ukraine.