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Concerning nuclear weapons, I had a previous discussion on their viability in space combat. When a nuclear device is detonated on Earth, the energy released from the impact and free-flying atoms have things to "bump into" - friction from the air is what forms the big booms. In space, however...

Yes, but you can assume scenarios such as a prolonged space race (if the Soviet Union didn't collapse, and there was still a race going on, I'm sure by now we'd have colonies on the moon, or at least stations in space that are more permanent and viable). In that kind of situation, you would...

Hey, cool project. What fighter are you modeling, anyhow? And what scale are the blueprints? I'm guessing either 1:34 or 1:42... or somewhere about there...

There must be a lotta dumb people out there then. Eh. Well, as was said, it's not exactly good form to go threatening customers that you've pissed off. Even if the guys at Gunsnet are in violation of a copyright law, I would have been a little softer about the cease and desist - and make...

Wow. "Hey, shut the fuck up about our being culturally offensive or we'll sue you." How very uncouth. The image itself doesn't make much sense either. Russian soldiers holding SOCOM boxes? Aside from screwing the pooch by doing something like that, what the hell were they thinking?

... and one hell of a long title. This doesn't quite have to do with Wing Commander specifically, so I put it here. So, down to business. If humanity manages to make it to the stars before self-destructing in nuclear war, or some sort of natural disaster, we will most likely have military...

What's this option I see about "Yeah, since they did use bioweapons against us?" I don't recall any of the games mentioning a bioweapons attack on Confed. Then again, I haven't played most of the games ... If they DID use bioweapons, I dunno - perhaps we should give them a virus. After all...

Oh, er, whoops. My apologies, then. Heheh. Yeah, I can't believe how many conspiracies they managed to cram into the game and make it all make sense.

Dunno how many of you guys got Lightwave or 3DSMax, or something similar; though with the number of modders around here... If you got it, it's even easier to figure out an exact length if you import a mesh of the craft in question, then scale it so that its in-program length is at the correct...

Er... okay? I didn't make this thread for postcount++ reasons, if that's what you're insinuating. I thought this bit of stuff was funny in the Joshua context.

Seems like the Joshua craze is simmering down, but I found this in Deus Ex and thought it humorous in the context of "Mr. George Washington Doesn't Approve of Confed" Joshua - <P><JC><B>The Reluctant Dictators</B> <P><JC>by Travis Crockett <P> <P><JC>Introduction <P> <P>Organized at the...

(Heard this joke from "Memphis Belle," but I changed this one to a more WC theme because I don't wanna offend some of the people here.) A Terran fighter pilot bails out of his ship and is captured by the Kilrathi. He's badly injured, so they have to amputate one of his legs. The pilot says...

*puts LOAF on a stool so he doesn't have to see their asses 24/7* Payback. ;D As far as the armor repair bit goes, that's possible, Kalfor - having it as a gel or paste rather than a spray would make work areas a bit safer, I'd think. Armor caulk? I mean, any kind of armor that is...

I Shall Add More Logs To The Fire. :( Hey, just because a game series makes a transition from EGA to live action video, or from 2-D to 3-D, doesn't mean that a radical change in design is necessary. There's several franchises which have not done drastic overhauls like the jump from WC2 to...

Yeah, this as probably been argued over to death (and it already seems to have been discussed to a point on the Carrier Landing thread), but I wanted to hear what you guys think of it in full - How does one explain the extreme jump in design of vehicles on both sides of the war, from WC 1...

I'm surprised no one made a Joshua joke about super polymer armor paint in a can. :P I don't think armor spray would make factory ships *entirely* useless, Psych - after all, you can't spray yourself a new wing if one's been blown off (unless you're, like, Bob Page with your own UC or...

Yeah, I really want to see self supporting colonies on either the moon or Mars. If Earth is ever wiped out by nuclear war or a meteorite strike (the latter seems more likely nowadays), humanity would still live on... And maybe, if these colonies were completely self-capable, they could send...

Yank? YANK?! I'll show YOU Yank! >( *yanks Lynx's leg off* Yoink! :D Back to the tissues at hand, did they find out why Beagle isn't working? I never got any news on that. Hopefully Spirit finds clues about Martian wataaaa. Anyone think Opportunity will make it safe, too? (More joke...

Well, there's a difference between selling instruments of war to another nation and selling them to a person. De-fanged military vehicles DO get sold to private owners, though usually it's older stuff. There was one rare incident a few years back where an F-18, demilitarized, got out on the...

Yeah, I think they did, after the kamikaze attacks began. I think the British were the first ones with the stuff though. And Worf: There's that bit at the bottom of this mentioning that EBay can provide inspections before the exchange is complete, so in case it IS a hoax... Other than that...