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The reason for specialization is that it's usually actually cheaper to produce specialized craft, rather than generalized craft (contingent on all sorts of variables, like manpower, time, and technology). The reason is that the specialized craft can do a given job more effectively, freeing up...

What's the last carrier you saw in real life that had a battleship turret on it? Probably the only ships that follow this design philosophy are in the Soviet/Russian navy; they have a number of designs that integrate a short flight deck with a bunch of missile launchers or heavy gun turrets...

Well, everyone knows that the Freespace series was originally supposed to be a trilogy; the ending of the 2nd game clearly implied a 3rd game. However, FS2 sales and the general market mood apparently didn't justify FS3, and the development studio moved on to Red Faction; that's about as far as...

Actually, I'd still be happy if they just re-released like a budget CDs-only KS. After all, it might be hard for them to justify creating a new compilation, seeing how they're ignoring the WC series as a whole. Then again, it probably wouldn't be that hard. They could even stick it on a few...

My first computer was a 286 clone running MS-DOS 3.something. The very first program I ever ran on a computer was gwbasic, in order to play games. I got somewhat frustrated with just typing in rote command lines without understanding what they did, so the first time I really used DOS was in...

But then you kinda lose the game, so it's not really worth it, no? *edit* BTW, that bit about the liquid-filled Sky Lab was really, really cool. I'd never heard about that before. Thanks, LOAF.

Oh no, you brought up politics! You jinxed it! Anyway, this link popped up on /. today, with some stuff about the possible military role in the new space plan: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040118/pl_nm/space_weapons_dc It's actually a Reuters wire story, but still...

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I'm going to vote for Ralph Nader! More seriously, though, this has the tone of a troll. First off, the $1.5 billion in benefits aren't in the form of more tax breaks, but in a combination of funding for services like marriage counseling and the like. Second, the fact that married...

Yeah, why would you want a DVD version of WC4 just to avoid disc swapping? Isn't the whole point supposed to be the lucious MPEG-2 + Dolby Digital FMV? You can watch that perfectly easily with any DVD player (that supports playing .VOB files, in any event).

Just not to be completely irrelevant, the dead man's poker hand consists of two pairs of black aces and eights. Now, for a quick digression. The issue I had with the whole Kilrah ramming dealie was that a similar mechanism was used to end the war with the destruction of Kilrah (and a large...

Actually, I think most gamers have heard about John Carmack and his Armadillo Aerospace adventure, at least in the beginning. I haven't been following it much, because I'm just waiting to see who makes the dramatic first gesture. Besides, yeah, my money is on the Rutans. As for space...

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Well, these dollar figures are just starting funding. One of two things will happen. Either this whole idea will be quietly dropped come November 10, 2004, or else we'll make so much progress that Congress will throw more money at it, like they do for all those other projects that never come...

I thought it was a good speech, but the devil's in the execution. For one thing, Bush stills wants to finish the ISS, so that tarnishes some of the credibility of the "master plan" to me. If he were really so serious about real exploration, it seems to me he'd ditch that boondoggle and focus...

That's all well and good, until you decide to make a head-on pass.

Apologies, I wasn't sure when to qualify a thread as dead. 3 weeks didn't seem that long to me, especially considering the intervening holidays. I had meant to reply earlier, but, meh.

So, what do people think of President Bush's space plan speech? (Since this is the first post, I won't prejudice it by inserting my own opinions yet.)

I make it a rule not to explain myself on this thread (since it tends to disrupt the content-free nature of the word game), but I was referring to the Aesop's fable about the ass and the thistle, or something like that. ("Ass" is another word for a donkey. Great way to confuse/offend people.)

2% an hour? Are you sure the shield generators weren't damaged? I'm not really sure of the context, perhaps it just means that the shields are really, really thick. In Action Stations, the idea behind phase shields was explained as capital ships being able to carry generators so powerful...