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  1. And again we confuse fission with fusion. Fusion's output depends on the input, but can be as simple as helium gas. In the real world, Helium3 fusion(yes, the Gundam reaction) is rather promising because it releases a lot of energy and puts off NO neutrons. At all. He3 combines with He3 to generate 2 protons, an He4(which is a more stable helium isotope), a heck of a lot of energy, and if you happen to live in the Gundam universe you get some minovsky particles. On the downside, it's a royal pain to get the reaction started. Not that I think helium gas is a great propellant, but it's there for the usage.
  2. Personally, I think the colored heatshields look very ugly. So given the disturbing lack of continuity present, I choose black heatshields as "correct".
  3. I propse that all the cast be rewritten as female.
  4. The NES version of Metal Gear is a pale shadow of the original MSX version. Snake's Revenge is NOT Metal Gear 2. It was made without Hideo Kojima, and has been disavowed by Konami. The true Metal Gear 2 is Solid Snake on the MSX computer, and was japanese only. Pick an emulator here... http://www.zophar.net/msx.html Metal Gear can be found anywhere. Same for untranslated Solid Snake. Personally, I tend to use http://www.planetemu.net/ just because they have lots of stuff. The translated ROM image for Solid Snake is here... http://www.msxnet.org/gtinter/mgear2us.htm Note that you have to look at the MSX TWO ROM/Disk image sets for both games. the Metal Gear series were MSX2 games.
  5. JB0

    Toy ID

    I HAD THAT ONE AS A KID! ... Gods, but I hated it. That stupid shoulder chain gave me no end of trouble. I could never get it to move during transformation, and somehow managed to get it to pop out of the track several times. And the fact that I really wanted the motorbike instead of the jet(this is how a child thinks of a MOSPEADA and Legioss) certainly didn't help.
  6. Only for fission. Fusion cares not for half-lives. It doesn't even need radioactive substances.
  7. Regarding your edit note: You forgot they were FORCED to Mars. They intended to go straight to Earth and the Zentradi attacks forced them off-track. ... Ah, forget it. I wasn't following things right.
  8. I think your thinking of fission reactors. Fusion engines would produce no radioactive waste. That's why every one wants them so badly. Depends on the fusables. Fusion CAN create radioactive byproducts, though not as many. The main advantages to fusion reactors are A. You get FAR more power for a given fuel mass, because fusion releases far more energy than fission. and B. Hydrogen, the most easy fuel to fuse, is cheap. It's present in some 70% of the Earth's surface, and seperating it from the oxygen atoms it's bound too is a very simple process. Indeed, most fusable materials are cheap. Unlike the very large atoms needed for fission, the small atoms used for fusion are quite stable and very common.
  9. Presumably hydrogen. It's cheap, easy to find(especially in space), and easily fusible. On the downside, it's not very massive. And spraying beactor byproducts out the back is a really bad idea in an atmosphere(if you thought anti-nuke protestors were bad now...). Hence the need for a seperate propellant that can be heated by the reactor and expelled out the back.
  10. The legal issues may HAVE reared their ugly head at the last minute. As for resolving them, a lot's happened since '99-2k. As I understand it, since then it's been established in court that Tatsunoko only holds rights to the original TV series animation. So logically Harmony Gold can't play the license infringement card anymore since their licensor only holds rights to the original series animation(and just the animation, not the characters or mechs present in that animation). ... Of course, they may've played the trademark card too. That's still on the table.
  11. Looks like a storyboard-type thing.
  12. Well, they DID skip large amounts of the trip. Everything between Pluto and Saturn, and Saturn and Mars was ignored. Though it was stated that they'd been under pretty regular attack between Saturn and Mars, which may have prvented a stopover at Jupiter. And they were likely too busy setting up a counter-offensive at Saturn to refuel. Unless they were scooping particles out of the rings, but I'd think the scoop would've been on the bow of the ship, which was pointing upwards during the Saturn operation, if I'm not mistaken. And as the Macross wasn't originally designed to be a long-range vessel, I have doubts as to whether a bussard scoop was there to begin with. But Uranus and Neptune were untouched. If they were capable of refueling from gas giants, that's where they'd've done it.
  13. I think they used XviD, but I'm not sure. BTW, Shin Getter VS Neo Getter 1 jitters horribly. ... Not that it's stopped me from starting a download of 2...
  14. The one with a coherent story. You lose. And I believe your evaluation to be somewhat misguided.
  15. That seems backwards. ... Unless you got an ultra-cheap USB adapter. There's a wide range of USB adapters, and the really cheap ones are known to have problems(like visible lag).
  16. What goat walked over your bridge?
  17. Oh. A damaged overtech cloaking circuit?
  18. Stop spreading lies. The Gravis Gamepad Pro has an abysmally bad d-pad, making it near-worthless as a game controller. Favorite boss... TOP MAN! Killing Wily in one hit using an utterly worthless weapon was worth everything else. ... Megaman 3 has some really stupid bosses, come to think of it.
  19. Maybe he got shot down between the battle on South Ataria and the beginning of the movie?
  20. BTW... As your bank account's lawyer, it is my duty to inform you that your bank account has just filed for divorce.
  21. I will never accept Megatron as a tank. Megatron is not a tank. He's a politically incorrect handgun.
  22. If you have a TV card, you can get the images in that way.
  23. JB0

    Whats worth getting?

    I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure the pilot doesn't set the legs on a table while his jet folds up, then reattach them later. (and yes, I realize this only applies to the 1/60s)
  24. I thought he was a hypchondriac. He did it because he was worried about losing his memory, despite the lack of evidence. Anyways, a possible story reason for Exedol to look like DYRL's is that DYRL Exedol was styled after modern Exedol instead of Space War Exedol. People who'd seen Exedol recently will go "What the hell? That's not Exedol! He's supposed to be green! And lumpy!" Their perception of reality is more important than actual reality. And they precieve Exedol as always being like the Macross 7 Exedol.
  25. One would assume submarine crew get the squirts too.
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