For conventional weapons, sure. But I don’t think your description fits flamethrowers, sonic, or laser weaponry.

Pretty close to zero multiplied by billions of people yields results sometimes.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-scientist-is-making-an-acetaminophen-alternative-that-is-less-damaging-to-the-liver-180986331/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-high-schoolers-found-an-impossible-proof-for-a-2000-year-old-math-rule-then-they-discovered-nine-more-180985357/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-teen-mathematician-hannah-cairo-disproved-a-major-conjecture-in-harmonic/

Crepe*

Probably because this horseshit wasn’t the state of things when they joined, and now they’re years deep in their military careers and didn’t expect to get kicked out of the military, losing their pensions. It’s difficult to have your life plans stolen from you on the whims of some assholes. I’d probably try to cling to it too.

I’ll throw in a Levar Burton for extra credit.

As a non-Trekkie:

• William Shatner
• Leonard Nimoy
• Nichelle Nichols
• George Takei
• Patrick Stewart

Just don’t ask me to identify which specific shows they were in.

Because it’s cheaper for them to endlessly obstruct the IRS with legal fights than it is for them to pay taxes, meaning they’re rich enough to never go to prison. Us plebes though would burn through whatever cash we have and end up in prison on day 2.

It’s small enough that I can post a comment on something, and my girlfriend will independently run across my comment. Though she doesn’t read the usernames, so she doesn’t know it was me. Then I’ll mention it and she’ll say “oh yeah, I saw that comment.”

Yes, there are men named Carol, or alternative spellings thereof.

Carroll Shelby is the biggest name that comes to mind.

“Carol” as a male name seems to largely be a Romanian thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_(given_name)#Male

This doesn’t make sense to me. The iris doesn’t collect light for vision. The pupil expands or contracts to vary the amount of light that reaches the retina. Iris color should have nothing to do with it.

Ahh yes, dropping nuclear weapons right next door, risking fallout in your own territory and pissing off every country around you, as well as all your allies. Why not?