You have to keep inflation in mind. 550 would be 450 2019 dollars.
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Not really a countermeasure, but the scalping certainly proved that there is a lot of people willing to buy their stuff at high prices.
Not really, they certainly had secret executions but they were limited. And a lot of that was done by police or the militias. The army wasn't just rolling around shooting people.
Yeah, but if you have a high refresh rate monitor and you want 4k plus 240 hz then you probably need this.
It's stupid to send a mission there just to pick up samples. Just wait for the next rover or lander test mission and then send that to land closer to the samples and pluck them up on the way back. They're not going anywhere.
The article is wrong. You don't need high growth, any amount of growth more than 0 over a long time frame will inevitably see a civilization spread throughout the galaxy. If there was a civilization a hundred million years old in our galaxy it would be noticeable.
Sulfur cools the planet but not by shading, it's more similar to how CO2 acts but in reverse.
That's not really relevant. Fine particulate emissions from coal power plants, which are already mostly gone in the US but are still used around the world, don't travel a really long distance.
That's just used for curries
This is just fake propaganda.
As always, buying a used previous gen flagship is the best value.