Added your plan next to Ropen's. Is there a reason you put the first overflow into FRM instead of optical computers? It's close enough that with a few omakes we could get optical done in '74-Q1 if we put '73-Q4 overflow into it.
That's a mistake. Optical Computing shouldn't be in 74-Q1 at all. During 74-Q1 we will be having vulnerable miscommunication between our Lab I on Elysium and our labs on Mindoir. We shouldn't be researching anything valuable there.
I'll have to update it but it should be QEC and FRM only there.
BTW - only major differences between your plan and Ropen's plan (that I can see) is that Ropen gets optical computing a few turns earlier, and gets 3 suit techs (Suit Mk II, Suit Mk III, and Re-entry Shroud) to your CASIE and Black Fucking Gun. You also get Mk II reactors a lot later, which isn't a huge deal,
Re-entry shroud isn't on there because it's useless, as I showed earlier, the Mk II will be slotted here and there with omake bonuses, and frankly I really don't see hte need for the Mk III anytime soon.
I think it'd be more like "once you've served as an elected official in any capacity for X years, you need to take 5-10 years off." Long enough to break the incumbent choke hold, but short enough that contacts and political leverage would still exist.
We already have politicians serving longer then that though. Britan's longest serving PM was for 21 years and they have plenty of PMs who held such a role for around a decade. Two recent ones would be Tony Blair (10 years) and Margaret Thatcher (11 years). Then of course there are Australia's two longest serving PMs Robert Menzies (16 consec 18 total) and John Howard (11 years)
Sorry thought you were saying politicians should be limited to 5 to 10 years. I still think simply letting people decide when and how a politician needs to be removed from officer is better then arbitrary limits.
Being out of touch is one of the major problems that we have even now with long serving politicians, who haven't worked anywhere outside politics for so long that they don't really understand how the rest of the world works anymore. They wind up being really vulnerable to lobbying and misinformation, instead of making rational and informed decisions. You frequently hear about this when politicians make stupid gaffs in how they talk about modern subjects, or how much presenters have to dumb stuff down for the politicians ("series of tubes").
Actually I've only ever heard that sort of stuff out of American politicians. I can't think of an Australian example.
I agree that having incredible politicians serve long times isn't a bad thing. What is a bad thing is when a mediocre candidate is never even contested or replaced due to incumbency and party loyalty.
That's a flaw in the system that, hopefully, has been fixed by the time of the game.
Besides there is another factor to consider. With increased lifespan people will become bored.
Odds are you'll see a lot of people entering politics after retiring from working for 80 odd years. They'll have a nice nest egg and probably be interested in the local community, for the same reason you have a lot of aged voters in America.
With indefinite life spans politics no longer becomes the sort of thing you have to dedicate your whole life to. Instead it's something you can pick up as a
hobby.
It would depend on what the eighteen year old put into it and what kind of history they had.
Spoiled rich kid with no history.
Just because it's out there doesn't mean you shouldn't check. Especially coming from someone like Liara who doesn't have a history of that stuff. If she had a history of making out there theories that have been proven incorrect then yeah not taking it seriously is understandable.
No she has a history of
nothing.
A quick glance over her paper to see that she has no actual evidence, just conjecture, and a look over her background and it's
obvious she's just a spoiled brat who thinks she's the best thing since sliced bread so her half baked theory
has to be right.
Take that and combine it with
pride and
arrogance and it's easy to see why any scientific community would dismiss her as a joke.
In fact this is basically what happened to Daniel Jackson in Stargate.
