Obviously it's pointing to Dr. Mark Watney.
Does anyone even breed actual war horses anymore? When was the last time cavalry saw combat as part of a regular army, WWI?
It might literally require generations to raise enough and train them to field a functional cavalry regiment. Are there even people living today who know how to train horses for battlefield conditions?
One of those dudes literally didn't drink water for unhealthy periods of time in order to make his muscle definition stand out more on camera.
The "they" that make the decision not to invest in proper documentation are not the "they" who will have to answer the same question over and over... that's somebody else's problem.
Do not patronize these systems, regardless of how small you think your individual impact might be. User counts are used to justify continued investments in these things.
People need to just say no.
HA hA Ha!
Everybody has to play along with our delusions, or the market crashes because we're ridiculously over leveraged!
Muah ha hah! Mine is an evil laugh!
I just found a channel that has amazing, hours-long documentaries about the space program that uses original sources, including audio from real missions, that’s better than anything I’ve seen, even on PBS.
Well don't keep it to yourself, man.
Right, because they weren't wacko authoritarian isolationists. Choosing to participate in international relationships is a thing that mature, stable governments do.
Attacking your neighbors for self-enrichment is a thing that tyrannical dictators do. Attacking your own people to increase your political power is a thing that nutjob authoritarians do.
I can't think of any particular reason that would be worth lying about.
Hmm, I wonder... our current standard of time might end up being the standard for a long time, primarily because of GPS. Before we had global data networks it wasn't really possible to syncronize clocks all around the world. There used to be a telephone service that you could dial which would tell you "The time is now eight fifty-five PM" or w/e because that was the most effective way to distribute a coordinated time signal, and then you could manually set your local clock/watch to match.
But GPS depends heavily on accurate time information, and keeping it accurate is very complicated. Relativitistic time dilation applies because the satellites are:
- far enough away from Earth (~20000km) that they experience different gravity than devices on Earth's surface, causing local time for the satellite to be be faster, and
- moving so fast in their orbit that they experience a measurable slowing of local time.
(that's right, using GPS on your phone is a real-world demonstration of the theory of relativity in practical effect)
..and all those satellites are constantly checking in with each other and ground stations to make sure they're in agreement.
As a result there is now a de facto standard time reference for the entire world, and all networked devices depend on it for their own timing, and it is accurate to microseconds at worst.
100 years ago people were still winding mechanical clocks every day, and setting them by the local churchbell.
Sure, if you only want to fire it once and you don't really care if it hits what you're aiming at.
Born and raised to rule... no one has ever been this cool...