Lexx_Luthor

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!!

I've read MiG-19 was prematurely rejected by the Sovs in favour of the "flashy" MiG-21. But the Chinese stuck with developing it over time. The major thing that cutting edge aircraft need is time. In a "vietnam" style combat enviro, a decade after -19 first flew, I'd prefer the -19 over -17 and -21, at least that's what I'm thinking right now anyways.

University courses are generally Politically Correct, with some remnant PC leaking through to Phys and Teh Maths. Nucs are the ultimate or end limit of XtreeM non-PC.

PAPPY NO!!!! Man/Manette pappy why didn't you back up? I know we are no longer a nation of savers, but still. I love the work you did. AwSim!

Wow. Hope she sees this thread. Had no idea something like this went down. Funny I met a girl recently and I real quick I blurted out ( ) she has to be a European biker chick. Turned out half right. She used to ride bike years back until a car accident, but she's not Euro. Well quarter right there. She loved it.

MiG-17? Very interesting streak. Yea the typos kill that interview. So Ham Drill was a typo for Have Drill? And I see Have Drill is mentioned as well. DOh I was surprised at Waltman's poor opinion of the MiG armament. MiG-17 instead of -19 would shed light on that. Also just noticed this... One afterburner....check. So I can't use this again for MiG-19 threads. Dam it. Thanks alot pal!!!

Yep. You go with either Jesus or the occult stuff. Be careful out there fellas/fellattes. UFO's ...? Maybe maybe not. I've always been a sky watcher since I was a little squish. I always pay attention to the sky. I did see a few strange things.... (1) I was out variable star observing and noticed a roughly 4th magnitude flashing "star" in southern Pisces. It quickly flashed visible about once a minute. Otherwise it was invisible. I saw it again in almost the same location (a few degrees off) exactly one year plus one day later. I eventually talked to the author of a book about anti-satellite weapons, and he told me it was a chemical powered visual test/tracking device on a geosynchronous satellite. That made sense as southern Pisces is right at the equator. (2) I saw the most weird thing: I was out variable star observing (again) and a roughly 3rd magnitude tiny "star" was crossing the sky (~0.5 degree/sec) and had a near 1 degree long misty or nebulous tail hanging down from it -- almost like an expanding exhaust. The tail curved backwards -- think of dragging a towel along the ground...it drops straight down from your hand but curves backwards along the ground. I went to weather service and they showed me the wind charts. No wind matched direction and apparent angular speed at any altitude, so it wasn't floating in the wind. I never figured this one out but eventually read an article on satellites/boosters that were used in ion tests. The description matched. Come to think, the apparent angular speed of the star/tail across the sky matched that of a low orbiting satellite. On the other hand, alot of pilots and radar people talked about UFOs and they are worth listening to. I hear the .gov made severe penalties if they -- military pilots and civvie airline pilots I hear -- talked to the press about their sightings. I dunno but if so then yes something is going on. Also, UFOs are a big subject over in Russia and their Cold War air defense.

A good topic. Some of you fellas/fellattes may wish to read this. ANG F-86 pilot flies tests against USMC pilot in MiG-19. As always, only the best are allowed to fly MiGs. WE INTERVIEW LES WALTMAN ~> http://sabre-pilots.org/classics/v23les.htm If ThunderFlap is making you sad and depress, try some F-100 data ini work to mythically extend RF-100A to tactical or "thirdwire" use. Before U-2, a few RF-100A flew strategic afterburning recon over USSR. 4 tanks. North American RF-100A Slick Chick ~> http://www.spyflight.co.uk/f100.htm

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