JediMaster

Give me Genesis!!!!

Kirk to Enterprise, beam Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, and Stephen Hackett here immediately. You want Ant Phillips too, Kruge?

Are you sure that's not after mission success/fail called? In theory all planes not currently engaged should RTB when that happens (even though IRL the enemies wouldn't know and wouldn't leave just because you blew up that fuel tank).

Except if they're a murderer, would you like to be their next target?

There were plenty of adults in the 70s who never cared for the original trilogy either.

The issue of frequency deconfliction is very complicated and, of course, classified. The last thing you want an enemy to know is how much trouble your countermeasures cause to yourself!

When was the last time we faced anyone with the ability to even match our numbers, let alone have a majority?

Sure, on paper some countries have more planes, but they're never able to get them all in the air where they need to be. What good is having X number of planes if half aren't mission capable between problems with engines, radar, weapons, etc?

The very idea that we'd have like 3 F-35s facing 20 Flankers is absurd. We don't get into those situations.

Iceland will come with F-14.

I suppose that would depend on the size of the, ahem, "attributes" of those participating...

This strikes me to be like the field mods ROF has.

By the time he gets to some of these releases, our smartphones may be powerful enough to run SFP1!

I had pretty much all of them that came out up thru late 85, the end of the first run of ROTJ toys. After that, I never got any more.

Depends on the weather and the boat I would think! Besides, if people can get car sick, they can get sick on anything in the water.

Polar launches aren't very useful for most things. I think the populations of CA and NV would also object to boosters being dropped on them.

Due to the Earth's rotation, it's most useful to launch to the east, over water. The ideal location is on the equator, and that's what Sea Launch does, sailing out to the middle of the Pacific at 0 latitude to launch rockets and get max payload for the minimum thrust.

As for storm damage, not much. It's all built to take hurricanes, so only tornados do anything. There have been numerous delays due to weather, but more due to over-cautiousness than anything else.

If the shuttle had to abort back to KSC (something that was considered highly dangerous if necessary), the winds at the SLF couldn't be past a certain amount cross-wind (I don't recall the number). If a rocket explodes at low altitude (a few thousand feet) when the wind off the ocean is blowing a certain way and colliding with wind blowing from the west overland (which causes the storms on the east coast regularly, oddly it doesn't really happen on the west coast) there is risk of a cloud of deadly chemicals blowing over Merritt Island and killing thousands.

On the flip side, I'd hate to see an earthquake hit as a launch was just prepping when all the gantries have swung back!

Well, he did it because he said that's the way it was SUPPOSED to be, but due to technical limitations (ie the squibs going off near Ford's head would be too dangerous) it was dropped. When the SE came out, it could be done digitally, so it was. Same with making Han step on Jabba's tail, since originally Jabba was supposed to be bipedal, but the redesign for Jedi made Han's motion pass thru the tail.

The first film was a defining moment in my life, as was getting the first toys (R2 and C3PO).

I did that with a B-1 at low level in Korea. It was just slicks, not JDAMs, so the destruction was in a line, but it was very impressive nonetheless.

I never got to play much of that one as the default FOV was bugged and would result in CTDs galore. I gave up on it and only years later found out changing the FOV by as little as 1 degree fixed that tendency. Sigh...

They still call it NCC where you are? Here it's now SIMC. Don't ask me what that one stands for, I can't remember.

It's a more a reboot of the final Planet film, the one had that the ape revolution.

Since Tomcat is the next in development along with some other 70s planes, I'm thinking that won't be any time soon. Especially if he gets to making that Korean War sim he's talked about.

Why would they get in that thing??

That's because unlike the weather, we have really NO idea how that smoke-and-mirrors show works!

Except that as much as I disliked renaming Storm of War to "Il-2" (when CloD has no Il-2s or even any Russian planes in it), I think World of Planes is the stupidest name ever. Should've gone with World of Flight at least.

World of Tanks is a stupid name, too, and I think 2 "World of" MMOs is enough, we don't need a 3rd.

Oh, you'll only vacation there?

As long as the alternatives are more expensive, less portable, or require expensive infrastructure upgrades that increase the cost indirectly, there will be resistance.

In fact, the reason oil is lasting this long is because the overall cost has increased to the point where things like shale and sands are now cost-effective, along with new drilling techniques getting at previously unreachable fields or getting it out of unreachable parts of existing fields.

Oil at $90/b has proven to be sustainable and while sub-$50/b oil is probably long gone, we'll have $90+ oil for quite some time yet.

When oil's price becomes too high THEN we will get the other sources made affordable, if only by comparison if not absolutely.

I can't wait for the day when we get another 24 hrs NEWS channel, like CNN was 25 years ago.