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Which we also saw in action during ep.7. It was doing crazy quick turns but there was a Vajra hedgehog ship firing at everything that moved and it avoided everything unlike Alto who lost a wing before getting into the ship (where he proceeded to lose everything else).

Hydrogen can be liquid or gas but it heats to plasma faster as gas. Don't forget those cars don't work the same way as nuclear engines. It isn't like we are heating hydrogen to plasma to power those cars. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are powered by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, which produces water and electricity which the latter is use to power an electric traction motor. Although it is possible to use hydrogen in a car like gasoline, that is to burn it. However the common idea for hydrogen cars is to go with the fuel cell concept because it is clean and the aforementioned water is your only exhaust, plus your fuel efficiency (at least in Honda's new FCX Clarity) is equivalent to a gas powered car getting 78 mpg which is very high and unusual for a gas car. Good stuff.

That was brought up in the show if you watch the first episode where it transforms. Global said they didn't have any spare conduit to connect the two pieces to transfer power to the gun. The only option the engineer had for him was to move the blocks together so the could be connected, and the only way to do this was to reorganize the block structure of the ship. I also always got that vibe that the fact it looked like a humanoid was mere coincidence and they didn't intend that. However I can see how that sounds fishy.

Yeah that is probably a good point, pressurized gives you more propellant to burn (or in this case heat).

Though I would imagine the classic trackball system has been replace with a touchscreen allow them to point and click where to put the barrier now.

I doubt it is any heavier than the VF-25. However I have wondered if it loses life because of the big engines in the middle of the wings. In the 27's case it is making up for lack of vertical stabilizers with the 3D thrust vectoring. I think the 27 does have canards (4 of them it seems) though so that shouldn't be a problem. However we do have to remember the VF-27 seems more designed for anti-ship and search and destroy missions rather than air/space superiority like the VF-25 so it may not fare as well as it seems (unless Brera and his mental interface can compensate).

I bet it is a pretty good dogfighter with those 3D thrust vectors and beam weapons.

The transforming ability of the Macross was sort of an accident really. It came about because the Macross was built on a modular block system which may or may not have been the same on the ASS-1, but it doesn't seem so when you look at the original Supervision Army design. So it is probably how it was refitted that gave it that modular system. The only reason the SDF-1 transformed was to fill a gap in it's system keeping the main gun from firing due to a missing fold drive that vanished after that infamous botched jump. I don't think that humanity ever planned the SDF-1 to be a transforming battleship, however they must have liked the idea as they purposefully designed the New Macross class with a Storm Attacker mode for battle purposes, and even further with the Macross Quarter.

Because Supervision Army Gunships didn't transform or have ARMD carriers attached to them. The whole transforming and attaching other ships was something the SDF-1 did after it was refitted from the ASS-1.

No one's perfect.

I've never heard it called the Imperial system, sounds like something the British would say, and they should use inches and stuff still I would think unless they took the time to convert unlike lazy America (I really do prefer metric).

I would preorder Ozma's but I don't have the funds at the moment. However I know BBTS is a good store to get it from. I still also want to knot if Ozma will get regular Fast packs as that is what I want the most. I'll decide if I want an armor pack later, but if Ozma only gets armor and not super then I'll go with Alto.

Off topic.. off topic... off topic... jk, but we should probably be getting back to the ep.12 discussions.

Not really as the turbines for sucking in air still wouldn't work because while there is gas in a nebula it is still gas in a vacuum. It would have to be densely packed with the pressure of an atmosphere to be able to be collected by the VF's engines. There is a chance it could catch some gas but I wouldn't bet on it. Now if it had another way of collecting the gas like a ram scoop or something then they could at least refuel their internal reserves. Basically they fly into the gas and the ram scoop tries to collect what it can magnetically. However the main problem with this is a ram scoop is intended for hydrogen by Bussard's theory (hence the name Bussard Ram Scoop) and if the nebula is something else it might be harder to heat up for plasma than hydrogen. Anything can be heated to plasma but not everything can be done as easily as hydrogen. The Nitrogen/Oxygen combination in our atmosphere doesn't take much more energy to heat than hydrogen so that is why that works so well but if you try collecting something that takes longer to heat you basically lose fuel efficiency. Other problems with ram scoops include the fact that it's size would need to be near 600 km in diameters and the buildup of particles might slow it down. So it is highly unlikely you'd put this mechanism on a Valkyrie. Like I mentioned before what they most likely use for their internal propellant is probably hydrogen as it is easiest to heat to plasma (hence why NASA is thinking hydrogen for its nuclear rockets). While the air of our atmosphere works as well, I don't know if mixing it with the hydrogen reserves is useful at all. However if the VF's don't even use hydrogen and just stuff their tanks with air (that is mostly Nitrogen and Oxygen) then I don't see why they can't just take what they suck in and forward it to their tanks instead of propelling it. It would make for easy refilling. However I still think pure hydrogen is probably used when in space as it is easiest and hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, it is very unlikely to ever be in short supply.

Standard measurement is the name for what America uses instead of Metric I thought, maybe I'm wrong and it is called something else. Well you should be able to tell what I mean, in metric it is 21.65 centimeters and in the American measurement system it is 8.52 inches. While I'm American I actually prefer Metric as it makes more sense to me. However I gave both as I know not everyone may know how big that is.

Indeed.

Don't give any of them any ideas in case they are the kind of people that actually read fan comments on the internet for ideas. Of course the likelihood of Japanese show writers getting ideas from an American hosted message board presented in English is unlikely.

007 is indeed Alto's number, even though he's been called Skull 4 his valk has always had that number on it.

Ah, not even Macross at all. Well that is why I didn't know who it was. I have watched other animes of course, but I am not really a person who has watched a lot of animes in my lifetime. Lets just say I can count on two hands the number of animes I've watched in my lifetime probably (I'm not going to actually count them though). Anyway thanks for the information.

Ah, if that is a character from Mac7 then that is why I don't know who it is. If from something else, I guess I just forgot.

What was Nene's day, getting stuck with a paint round by Alto?

No, it is best to ignore it. I have heard of people getting a hold of prototypes and selling them to customers who would bother (this actually happens a lot with Transformers toys), but if you want the full finished product and not a prototype then don't bother. Also we can't be sure it is even that, it could just as easily be a hoax or scam.

While entirely possible, I think Luca endeavors to be more than the rich kid getting a fun ride. Although you have to admit he hasn't been doing much, mostly sitting there and getting in trouble while others bail him out.

Wow, good find Kronnang, that is very nice. The engineer in me is gushing out like that bunch of Zentradi when Ranka came a' singing.

I agree on Masterpiece Starscream, one of the best things in my collection, and of course Kawamori himself designed that one, so I'm glad to say (as a person who currently doesn't actually own any valks) that I do own at least one thing designed by Kawamori. Also agreed that Bandai seems to be doing excellent so far, my faith never waned. While armored pack doesn't interest me as much, I will want to see how it looks as well.