Recent content by Cydonius

Similarly, you could have had someone decide to use 'core' in English for the central structure of a cell, and this then spread to atoms as OTL to give 'core bomb' and 'core power'.

I fully agree. Especially with the mention of it being the best Star Trek film ever made, I've said that myself more than once. I watched the Making Of documentary not too long ago, we were lucky to get the film (as it is) at all given that the production fell lucky - the team were protected...

Is this still causing you issues or has someone found a solution yet? My interest is piqued :) It feels like this is down to browser settings rather than system-wide, and the fact that you're only seeing it here would be down to the rarity of websites that offer both UK and US localisation...

It's a good series so far, considerations like this are something I'd like to know more about than I do and the level the articles are running at feels completely accessible, and engaging, to someone like me who's essentially an interested noob in the subject. One question that springs to mind...

I'd like to second @Von Callay, I really preferred the way dark mode used to be. Blue on grey really doesn't work for me, and the lightweight text links, e.g. the You Are Here type links at bottom left of the page, are hard to read now.

Working from some rather hazy memories, I know that there were good sources of tin and lead in the two Britannia provinces at the time, along with the silver that's often found in lead-bearing strata. There were also productive gold mines in South Wales. There was certainly enough money...

I imagine Gret Britain would have remained divided between the increasingly self-Romanised polities of the south-east and the rather less Romanised polities of the rest of the island. So although the classical Roman town layouts, roads and aqueducts would have most likely been lacking, much of...

Aye, that's definitely more what I was trying, and failing, to convey earlier.

I see what you mean about the overall feel. It very clearly says "New Zealand" to me, but feels neither communist nor socialist in any way. I think the black field plays a large part in that, socialist flags have so often had a red field in OTL that I think I expect either a red field or a...

With the exception of the Temporal Cold War, I think your analysis comes pretty close to my feelings on the matter. I felt deeply let down as soon as they released the Akiraprise starship design instead of something more fitting with what felt like a proper design lineage, and that impression...

I'm not bad at German and can manage very basic touristy French and Italian, though as ever reading > listening > speaking in both cases. My grand sum total experience of Romansch is a 26-min video on a youtube channel called Ecolinguist, where a Romansch speaker gave clues to a series of words...

Thanks for this one. I latched on to the series quite early on, such that my copy of the first book is in a format that's cut in a different size and has a 'discordant' cover art theme to the other books. All bought from Waterstones in Sheffield. I like your analysis. I agree that the battles...

Personally I wouldn't characterise scientific understanding as necessarily antithetical to a polytheistic religion, just look at India. Scientific understanding was already quite well developed in India, yet Hinduism remains predominant even now. Although from what I understand of Hinduism...

Interesting idea. You might be able to make a case for a ramjet-assisted interceptor, although while the bombers it's intercepting remain propellor-driven and the interceptor only has guns/cannons for armament then the interceptor will have to drop down from ramjet-speed to be an effective...

Aye, I think it's a very interesting division. I hope that's not just down to its rarity though. The Y itself (a pall) has featured in heraldry for a long time, you can blazon the South African variant as a pall fesswise. I'm also very partial to counterchanging, though that works best IMHO...