I don't see how that means they don't know how pregnancy works. Yeah, you could track it, or you could just cover all possibilities.

China's government is actually pretty good at getting things done

Those conjectures aren't just equally plausible, they're the same thing.

I think the difference is world building. In the stories you listed there's a sense that you're only seeing a tiny fragment of everything notable going on. History is being made by everyone concurrently.

In Avatar, you see everything notable. We don't care what's going on on Earth (they never hint anything), we don't care what's going on outside this one tribe, the only thing happening right now is the conflict on screen.

Flesh, Blob, Square, Pants!

It's shell a program that spawns another running copy of itself, then they both spawn another copy of themselves each, then all 4 spawn another copy, ...

But in the end, clown carton of eggs x in Z^+ | x = 0 mod 2 gas liquid solid

I thought that was a joke while I was learning Rust, but then it actually happened to me :3

Is the period part of the quote?

Is 31° positive or negative?

There's no protocol-level support, but all the communication happens over a socket and shared buffers, so that can be serialized. I believe Waypipe does this.

You might not have a choice if they all decide to do it. Companies are actually kinda good at that kind of collective actions sometimes.