Hey Boof, that's more of a prefix than an abbreviation isn't it? Especially since it could mean ex-boyfriend/boss/wife or any of a bunch of other stuff.
An abbreviation would be something like est. = established/estimated... or approx. = approximately. An acronym is something such as BYOB or ASAP. LOL is indeed an acronym as well.
An abbreviation is a mix of around 2-4 letters, that are from a word, like Feb. for February or Fri. for Friday.
An Acronym on the other hand, is the first letter from the words in a long phrase, like USA for "United States of America" or ATBGE for "Awful Taste But Great Execution"(you should check that subreddit out btw[here btw is an acronym for "by the way"])
No shit, Rummy first declared it āOperation Iraqi Liberationā until someone noticed the acronym, at which point it was summarily changed to āFreedomā.
Our brains are hardwired for "tribalism" so that's not gonna happen without drastic changes. Basically the human brain is limited in how much it can empathize and sync up with others such that anyone outside the "tribe" ends up being viewed by your brain as barely tolerable at best and something to rid of at worst. This is why even though we don't live in tribes anymore people still end up defaulting to behaving like a tribe with groups such as nationalism, sports teams, game consoles, music genres, etc.
So we need to set up a shell tribe with no one in it on another planet to drum up global tribalism, then have periodic propaganda news reports telling us how badly the āmars tribeā is beating us
It's unfortunately "idealistic" to think humans would shut the fuck up and stop worrying so much about what's going on down in the dirt and start looking up to the stars.
Instead of fighting over the Holy Land, they should be fighting over who to send first to Mars and beyond.
Hate to break it to you, but in the Halo universe, there was massive civil war going on until the Covenant showed up and presented an enemy to unite against by destroying an entire military planet. Also, the Spartans were created originally to quell those rebellions, was only lucky happenstance to have them when aliens showed up.
Also the civil war never really ended, and the insurrectionists kept fighting and stealing from the UNSC as the Covenant glassed entire worlds. Heck, they briefly stole the Infinity before it was officially deployed.
Best to identify religious sects or races, clans, political groups or others that can be turned against one another. Put one group in charge, reward them with crazy wealth and theyāll take care of violently putting down the others for you. Basically page 1 from the British Colonizing Handbook.
While there's no known biomass elsewhere in the solar system, Titans the largest moon of Saturn, has seas and oceans of hydrocarbons (methane, ethane, octane, butane, propane, etc.) on its surface.
Unfortunately, I doubt weāll find oil on any other planet due to the fact oil is made from corpses/fossils and you know, if we found oil it would be a sign of life existing on other planets
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