Ah, but if you apply technocracy to its...fullest extent, there is no money, only energy credits, therefore no buying off. Not through conventional means anyway. Picture the Federation from Star Trek, but not as cloying and hypocritical.
It's called Technocracy. No elections at all. The best in their fields run the government, not the best looking or those best able to manipulate the shallow, fickle voting public. /elitist
I read an article a few months ago about how the gravitational influence of other planets orbiting a red dwarf might be enough to stabilize the axial tilt of an Earth-like planet.
Is it bad that the first thing I noticed was the glaring inaccuracy of his organic legs? They clearly should be prosthetic because they were cut off during his duel with Obi-Wan! *goes somewhere to die*
Does anyone remember a show about NASA astronauts (who flew in the space shuttle), but it was a drama? Sex, marital acrimony, all that kind of stuff. This aired perhaps in the late 90s. I swear I watched this show but can find no evidence that it existed.