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Bunkers, meadows, cold.. Switzerland.

Oil will be a problem that we will be able to overcome. The technology to move away from oil exists, generally, and we should be able to get away with using that technology for another century at least. Long term we really do need to find some better solutions though of course, but i don't think its quite as dire as some of the doom and gloom predictions (and not nearly as good as the predictions by some fossil fuel companies of course)
Edit: virex has already said all that anyway.

( such as lack of space, and resources ) start to lessen, conflict lessens. 

There hasn't been a war in (western and most of eastern) Europe in 60 years, there hasn't been a war in china for 60 years. Both those areas were rather common for war before, when they had less people and more resources than they do now..

In my opinion, you can't wrap up humanity with a simple rule, the whole "well this cycle will happen etc etc". Fact of the matter is that we've made things like computers, the internet and electricity that we've never had before. We can't really look at history as a guide as to where we're going, the game has just changed to dam much.

Phosphorus is nothing to panic about seeing as if humanity was really pressed we could recycle human waste product into a renewable fertilizer (there is phosphorus in human waste). The only reason we aren't doing that currently is that I guess people think it's kind of gross... I don't really understand how it's any more gross than using animal waste product but there you go *shrug*.

Err, what exactly do we generally do with human waste now then? i was under the impression that most of it was processed, then used as fertilizer.

Attach your mechanisms and open+close it before you fill it with magma?

Last time I read there weren't even working thrusters or anything, your ships couldn't move at all.

Thrusters have been in for like, 2 months now..

You can't encrust weapons with gems, as far as i know. that could be a major issue.

All i've had with FB's in the last few months was one made of salt that died in 3 hits...

I don't think it'll be that bad. I, for example, have a 12V source in this household. 4 infact. They're each attached to cars.

Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on August 08, 2011, 12:32:15 pm

We have the Army Corps of Engineers, if that's what you're thinking of. They're the people who FUCK UP all the seemingly impossible things, like building gigantic dams, fixing ecological disasters, and digging canals between oceans WHILE DEMANDING MUCH MORE MONEY THAN THEY NEED.

Fixed for you.

Full Disclosure: I have an intense dislike of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Well, thank's to having nothing to compare it to you can't really say either way. I'd imagine if it was done via the normal free market approach it'd be even more expensive though, but of course we'll never be able to tell. However my experience with the consturction industry is that there's a lot of stuffing around in it though. No idea how much there is in your army engineers though.

Quote from: Lord Shonus on August 08, 2011, 05:25:13 pm

Besides the political risk, such a force would only be a tenth as effective as the proffesional force we have now.

Less. Teaching people to be able to kill other people is not such an easy thing, let alone the lack of proper discipline and other products of large amounts of training. Not to mention the effect it could have on the economy.

So um... yeah its worked out so bad for every other country that has done it...