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How Deep Space Nine’s Dominion War Nearly Wrecked Star Trek’s Utopia
Star Trek likes to imagine itself as a franchise that is largely above conflict, but it is defined by it: and how its most idealized heroes in Starfleet and the Federation react to, and become shaped by it. While Trek’s history is littered with devastating battles, few conflicts hold a mirror to Star Trek quite…
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Seized Russian Super Yacht Sells For $US67 Million, Bumping Up Host Country’s Entire GDP
The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda finally unloaded a Russia superyacht seized by feds around the start of the invasion of Ukraine and it just made the tiny country a pretty penny: $US63 million in profit, or about four per cent of its Gross Domestic Product.
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Here’s Why You Don’t See Many Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships
Atomic power may allow us to ply the oceans, but there are drawbacks.
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New 3D Scans Show the Titanic in All Its Sunken Glory
The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sunk to the bottom of the Northern Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew. Now, researchers have gotten an unprecedented look at the entire ship on the seafloor, by creating a digital scan of the wreck from hundreds of…