A great place to feel this is the USS Hornet in Alameda. This actual ship that you are on, made of steel and loaded with analog electronics, sailed to the far side of the Pacific and back. So much metal, steel, hydraulics, and electrical systems. It made it out and back. Not all the ships did. Mighty ships just like this one, with people like you, did not make it back.
You could also try HMS Victory in the UK or the Vasa in Sweden (other really old ships are available and some are still sailing).
You might also note that the inhabitants of Hawaii had to have got there somehow and its 2000 odd miles to what is now the US mainland and still quite a long way from anywhere else, eg Tahiti.
Hawaii natives are Polynesians! They came the same way New Zealanders did by island hopping in the Pacific. We can only imagine but I guess most of those who tried it died in the middle of nowhere, only a few must have made it, but that’s enough.
As a consumer, I feel that consolidation is wonderful because it is one less account and password and charge on my credit card that I have to think about.
Our family loved Disney+ from the outset and then to see consolidation into the service was amazing. I can watch Aliens and Avengers in the same place? Now I’m just waiting for somebody to fold Paramount into either Netflix or Disney+ so I’ll have Star Trek as well.
I believe that the full weight of the nations resources should come into play whenever there are missing or abducted people.
CIA, NSA, satellites, all of it.
I can’t fathom while we don’t do that already. But absent of that, Flock is the next best thing. Mainly because it reduces the friction to get this information in the hands of local law-enforcement officers.
I have zero tolerance for crimes against children and fully support capital punishment for such.
The vast, vast majority of child abduction cases are either a domestic dispute between parents, or someone the child knows (also usually a family member). This scaremongering needs to stop, especially when it's used to justify the rapid erosion of our liberties at the hands of an authoritarian government.
You guys really need to come up with at least ONE other reason to push every single policy besides "think of the children"; Just one to break it up a bit.
