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Happens to the best. An interesting poast at the Market Ticker forum in a thread on this story. Ishmael:: And a whole B-52 crew. Sleeping Through an ORI by Lt. Col. Peter Katsufrakis:: Only the best! Although these guys worked LONG hours (days and days really) so every nap in the pit was well earned.

Is that shot in space, under surface ocean, or deep inside planet liquid core? I do see a few stars in one nice looking shot near the bottom right. Ships look great though. I love the ST universe, just not that visual implementation of it here. I guess you can turn it off or better; reduce it alot, and turn on the stars. One thing I credit Old Star Wars movie, and the old Star Trek series, for is the black starry starfields without the post-modern "computer game" overcooked nebula theme.

Good read Dave. If you think it wise, send him a BIG NO on this, or a caution. Charles:: I've heard some can still "profit" from home buying but it takes being there full time and knowing the currently rigged markets, or so I've gathered. If you think its a good idea, suggest the average guy rent and try to save money for family back home, or stay with relatives and save money for now. Bad time to sign into debt. Major family stressor. I think, when he finds where he would love to live for a few decades, and raise a family there, then buy, but never for "profit." thanks!!

Its really a Catch 22. Maybe most every bombing raid took guts or "balls" ... Dave you set this one up badly hehe!! I like to think of Midway, and the Army and Marine fellas based on the island keeping going and going like Duracell Bunny one at a time against the Japanese fleet, then the Navy Devastator pilots, with no fighter cover at all, who did almost NO damage they could *see* -- except pulling down the fleet's Zero cover to sea level before the Dauntless Party started: something the earlier striking aircrew did NOT wish to do haha. But that's how it worked out later. And then the non-kamikaze Japanese aircrew who flew essentially suicide missions against worsening odds as the Pacific war progressed. According to Saburo, all the Japanese pilots on Iwo fully expected to die there. I think most did. Not sure. Most interesting bombing raid to me was Soviet bombing of Newbie pilot Saburo's airfield in China sometime 1938 or -39, or so, by roundabout a dozen DB3. Saburo took off solo in his Ki-27 (edit...A5M, apologies to Saburo) during the ammo explosions and burning aircraft but could not catch the, at the time, high performance Soviet bombers flying away at 8km altitude. Airfield commander was executed.

Yikes. Just wow. I didn't know Bpao well at all, but have always used his works. I only poasted a few times with him waaay back but I could feel he was a major force in the sim from long ago.

Yeaps he lost. Did he complain before the loss?

Bulloney. Historically, the Ussian Democrat Party was the War Party. Welfare and Warfare go hand-in-hand like banks and debt.

ANOTHER BONE PARTY THREAD Works here in SF 2006. Its even flyable "out of box" with A-4 cockpit at least in KMD hand sculpted missions. Which Bone folder did you copy or install into your Aircraft folder?

Ya one big downer is, from ground level, seeing say 400km distant fireballs showing through the bottom of a hill that is only 21km away. I use DMS=10 right now. I have old AMD SemprOn 1800 or something...and ATI-9200 still so I can't ramp much from there...although with my system, I could ramp DMS in SF 2008 which successfully used TE terrains having 8km (!) tile size. That's another thing... DMS also depends on terrain tile, or maybe heightfield, size. Smaller tile/hfd size, greater framerate hit. ie...more terrain detail to calculate for cutting off grafix. Well, you know, more lumps.

If you want to mess around with this... Its in FlightEngine ~> DetailMeshSize= DMS for short. Well at least in Olde SF. Double the number defined is the distance in km that terrain blocks cirrus, or similar tga effects like nuc fireballs and such. The higher the number, the greater the framerate hit. I think its cpu not grafix card related...unless those numbers are crunched on the gpu. I dunno. Try ramping the number a bit until you see frame hits. Test in lumpy terrain where you have lumps ( ) of varying distances from camera position.

woh, good to hear. I'm back at SF 2006 and don't spend much time with that right now. FC....Among the cirrus methods, I never made the original 1-ship-1-tga available with the update. It sets up one very large cirrus layer for one ship, and is the best for hand made missions if you want solid control over the positioning of the cloud details (no randomness). And there is no overlap ping clouds (just one tga layer but very large). If you think you could have use for that, I can make that available. **haah I just now found two pics I thought I lost. These show the 3D nature of cirrus, mare's tails falling like snow storm. With 2D layer images, I can't do this unfortunately. 306th BW Deployment-1955, see bottom two pics~> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/bzam/B-47.htm

*oops* I meant at the beginning of WW2, it was said, correctly, that nuc weapons were not possible at least for any large scale use because there was no way to make enough weapons grade U. Of course that situation didn't last long. Same with anti-matter maybe?

Ah...here...back in 1938... Eddington:: hehe

True, but there was a time long ago when some said nucs were not possible because of inability to produce enough. HiGGs....Arthur Eddington I think, half jokingly said that he was certain the neutrino did not exist, but had no doubt physicists would be able to make them. I think he was kinda referencing the idea about quantum theory that observation creates results, or something like that. Pretty funny anyways.

zmatt you beat me to it, was thinking the same thing about radioactivity and burst height. LHC...so much conspiracy comedy with that one, causing a black hole to end the world and stuff. The final lepisode of Canadian LEXX, the TV series, had the Earth being destroyed by an experimental device to find the HiGGs boson. It worked but the device shrank the Earth to the size of a pea. Nuc bunker busters: I first heard Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator during the last Bush admin. Whoever made that name, they had to be LEXX fans.

Good to see you Mike. The way I see it, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were airbursts at good altitude, I think to maximize blast over widest area, so fireball not close to ground, and so relatively little radiation was injected into the cities below. Now the rising dusty stem cloud mixes into the post-fireball radiation but is spread down wind. I wonder what the fallout was some 100km or so from the cities. Never heard anything about that...cos I never looked duh. I take it the Pacific islands suffered bad from ground tests in the crumbly coral. Very interesting nuc site that take issue with some of Glasstone's stuff. Some good vids of high altitude tests, but ~very~ painfully slow fully loading since so much over time is poasted on one page. ~> http://glasstone.blogspot.com/ Not sure about Iran anymore especially after the missing WMD disaster and then all the "contained to subprime" baloney we were spoonfed. Stumbled on this... US intel confirms Iran not developing nukes (Fnebuary 2009)

*oops* can't delete poast, only edit.... Its perfectualistic! SUPER metal skin. AwSim Thanks. I prefer classical metal.

The old TV series...I never set out to watch it when it was on re-runs, but everytime I caught a kepisode airing, I watched it to the end. I liked the slow pace of the stories. Same with Canadian LEXX (won't let Canadians "forget" they made that ).

Yeah my fave always was those white or tan triangle ships....imperial cruisers I think. Man its been awhile. In the 2nd and 3rd movies...that big blue Darth Vader super-triangle ship. Those were a bit too much perhaps. I liked the raw basic Imperial cruiser idea. Yeah imperial cruisers are made to be shot down. Yeah yea I know all that but so what??

There is no other way. The monetary system is designed to exponentially increase both .gov and private debt, and it can't do that forever. If you like, google "exter pyramid" or "exter's pyramid" and bone up on John Exter; an old timer central banker who devised an interesting inverted pyramid model of monetary equivalents. Page 1 (liverpool echo)::

Sounds about right. Your battlefield scenario calls for multiple small nucs, not larger yields. Small nucs, like artillery for battlefield use or SAMs for anti-aircraft use, target military units "on the move." Big Nucs were made for well behind the lines, which would include civil but also rear military targets....say...big bomber bases or ICBM sites for example.

Major HUGE fan of original StarWars as a straight up simple tale done like never before, and to a lesser extent the first sequel with mmm forgot...right Yoda. **butt** I never bothered going to see any of the New Star Wars, and I never saw them on the tele/DVD/tape either. I could sense there was something not right about them. So, what happened to Lucas? What went down there?

Gepard:: Civil targets are what Nucs were made for, but were nothing more than a slight step up from the original sins of Guernica and Dresden, and a buttload of conventionally flattened civilian towns in every country (well except in Ussia/Canada).

haha In that first pic, the preserved DC-9 sits on pedestal. Nice!!