A conceivable way could be to disrupt the nuclear force of the target atoms, maybe like an anti-Pion/Gluon ray that self-propagates the reaction through the released energy.

(As we might remember, splitting the atom yields a bunch of energy, and uncontrolled such reactions go Hiroshima)

It might be controlled by sub-particle lensing, probably some kind of magnetic field, to be active at a specific distance.

For the reaction to be contained, either there’s a radially limiting component (air is not particle dense enough to propagate the reaction, or atoms not energy dense enough) or it’s a cascade triggered by the beam which stops when the beam stops (or the reaction gets too far away from it)

As I believe Pions and Gluons are their own anti-particles, I don’t know how we would go about doing this, but hey, that’s for Science!™ to solve.

At least once you can

It already has?

Assuming the same density, about three times as much gravity.

Gravity scales linearly with volume which scales with the cube of the width, (3/2)³ is about 3,4.

What a well reasoned and well described set of posts. You are a credit to our community!

Have you seen the numbers? Could you link them?

The only thing I’ve been able to find is 2,2 million “encounters” in a high year, over the whole country.

Germany takes in a million immigrants per year by itself, and has at least a handful of encounters per immigrant to process them. Also has a bunch of encounters with illegal immigrants.

Germany is smaller than Texas.

Yeah, it’s quite interesting, but it measures encounters without defining them, and it’s very hard to get anything specifically useful for Texas.

The data does more to show that Texas are being whiny about it, than what their criterion for invasion is. I fully expect a ComiCon or similar to drive as much tourists as the whole illegal immigration thing, and that Texans travel in similar sized crowds for any holiday. But there aren’t any clear data on either, pointing to dangerous ineptitude, and emotionally motivated (or “hysterical” as it was called in the olden days) governance.

Texas is about the size of Ukraine or France, not the whole continent.

True, but it might get you far enough that you aren’t “home”, and might be “invading” a neighbouring city.

But I agree, it’s a weakly relevant datapoint, but the only other travel data I could find was that 250k texans fly for Thanksgiving, which was even less useful.

I’m honestly baffled, how do you set policy, have informed debate or even identify business opportunities with so little reliable data?

I can’t find direct data on how many illegal immigrations are happening in Texas every year, but the undocumented population is estimated to be about 1,5 million, and stable. [source]

Between 2022 and 2023, the legal migrant population increased by 10k, and eligible migrants decreased by 50k. If we assume that the whole difference is only due to illegal immigrants naturalizing, that would mean that the Texas yearly influx of immigrants is 60k. [source]

That would mean that the “invasion” requiring armed self defence/martial law is for 60k civilians.

About 10 million Texans yearly travel over 50 miles, [source], does that mean Texas is invading most of the US annually?

(also, it’s ridiculous that you don’t have clear data and statistics on this exact question. Sometimes I love living in the EU)

Shh, they’re trying to catch up

When the options are between having the choice or not, voting Republican is clearly being complicit.

The other side isn’t forcing abortions, it’s giving the possibility.

Check out the Nordics, that’s how they do it over there.

Correct, but they would often benefit from having collective bargaining against the board of directors or other owners.

And organising themselves as a union would also show them that unions aren’t evil and shift focus from exploitation to cooperation. Besides, many unions would have much use of being able to speak for the whole industry in matters of legislation, either as lobby or expert.

Actually, the executives should probably also unionise, it will help normalise negotiations and spread best practices that lead to a better work environment for all.

That’s not entirely true, attacks on Planned Parenthood around the nation have led to several of them being closed, and both staff and patients being too afraid to go there.

Even though jailing the domestic terrorists is a good step to keep them from continuing it, it’s not necessarily enough to stave off the terror.

Terror

Lol, feel free to quote me

Harambe was the Time Lord keeping this timeline stable

It's hard to gauge the veracity of this during the ongoing information warfare, but one detail struck me as funny:

Around 20 million people in Russia — or 14% of the population — are on the brink of poverty or already in poverty, said Lipsits.

This is supposedly after two years of wars and sanctions.

Official US gov statistics puts the US peacetime number at 11,5 - 12,4 %

The official poverty rate in 2022 was 11.5 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty. … The Supplemental Poverty Measure in 2022 was 12.4 percent.

I wonder if this is meant as a disinformation piece?