Master Dex

I see Fold faults as like dead space areas, meaning an area of realspace we can travel through in sublight, but SD space doesn't exist there, so you can't create a fold. I was assuming Super Dimensional space to not be a realm like hyperspace but just a name of sorts to the dimension or dimensions being used to create a wormhole, as the theoretical real life wormholes supposedly only exist because of extra dimensions (for the record I subscribe to M Theory which postulates at least 11 dimensions, so I do believe in more than the known 4 dimensions). However as Mr March said, apparently there is an offical explanation for space fold from the Compendium, I didn't know that. I rather like the idea of folding space more, but if that is the official in universe explanation, then so be it.

You should be ashamed at yourself for saying you hate Trek Mr March, such blasphemy. I've met your misconception far too often. You have misread how warp drive in Star Trek works. You just explained Alcubierre drive, which was a theory Mexican scientist Miguel Alcubierre came up with as a possible way of how warp drive works in Star Trek. The In-universe explanation, while no more achievable by todays standards is very different than Alcubierre's theory. If you want me to explain how the in universe warp drive works in Star Trek (as designed by Michael Okuda), I will, but I have a feeling not everyone cares to read that (I'm not getting out of it, if you want to hear it I'll list it out, in that excruciating way I do sometimes). Subspace is more important in the in-universe theory than the Alcubierre drive which doesn't necessarily mention subspace at all, just stretching space around the ship, but in Star Trek subspace doesn't really follow your idea of 'convenient space' although I agree with you that the hyperdrive in Star Wars and B5 does utilize your idea of 'convenient space.' Actually Alcubierre drive doesn't really use convenient space as you describe it, just the ship riding in between the forward space being contracted and the behind space expanded which acts like a spatial rubber band the ship is riding on, hence it is space moving and not the ship, therefor bypassing special relativity supposedly (it is important to remember it is theory). The way I was understanding your meaning of convenient space is that other dimensional space where light conveniently travels at a faster rate so you can also go faster there, or as in B5 the universe is conveniently smaller in this space so you can again go farther. While Alcubierre requires you to manipulate space which probably uses other dimension stuff to do so, I don't believe you are in another space. The in universe warp drive however does put you in subspace, but not in the same way I believe as it is explained how the ship moves, but this post is long enough as it is, so if you wish me to go over how Michael Okuda explains warp drive in Star Trek, I will, but I'm going to cut this post off now.

Macross Frontier takes place after everything else. It is listed as a sequel to Macross 7, but not necessarily related to it.

I would think the mystery behind space folding isn't so grandiose. We have to remember that the term 'space fold' isn't something Macross made up, it is an actual term used to describe how a wormhole works in modern physics. I believe all a space fold is is simple... folding space, and then a tunnel is made breaching through that folded space to the other side, hence the gate affect in Frontier, and the tunnel effect whilst in fold. Think of space as a flat plain, like a piece of paper. If you were to walk from once side of the paper to the other, the length is simply the same as the length of the paper. If you fold the paper a number of times (using an accordion like folding or just folding in half), then the distance to walk from one side to the other is shorter. So there is two parts I believe, the actual folding of space then getting across the fold itself, which is much faster than just flying through the long abyss of space. Like I've said in other threads such as the sci-fi in Macross thread where I talked about folding there as well (and nuclear engines), this is the kind of thing I do, I get to the bottom of how things work in sci-fi because I want to know what may be possible, even if it is all theoretical now. Often it will seem like these things are simply plot magic just to tell a story, but you'd be surprised how much work that writers put into trying to make the science work, even if it ends up only as theory. I can't say for fact the writers for Macross have done this though, but it sounds like it. There are so many ideas for FTL in Sci-fi from Warp drive, to Hyperspace, to space folding a.k.a. artificially generated wormholes. All of them rely on the existance of extra dimensions we can't perceive, but many theories like String and M theory say there are other dimensions we don't see, and Einstein's work has postulated the existance of natural wormholes (however random and un-travelable those ones are). However I believe that apart form warp drive from Star Trek, the idea of space folding from Macross seems one of the more plausible ideas of Space Travel that humanity might one day have (in contrast to the hyperdrive of Babylon 5 and Star Wars, which are different but operate on similar principles). As to why how the entering and exiting of the fold appears different in each series, well it shouldn't matter, but I'd say animators prerogative.

Technically (for U.S. peoples like me anyway) it airs tomorrow morning, which is Thursday night/Early Friday morning for Japan. As for Macross, I actually know there are a lot of differences, but I just haven't gotten around to seeing the "true version."

Well I don't want everything, but if you'll be having a library of all the stuff I can choose from I'm sure it will be worth the wait. Mostly what I want is DYRL since I still have yet to see it, and Macross Plus Movie edition (I've seen Plus many times, but not the movie version). I might also look into watching the original SDFM since I still have only seen the Robotech version of Macross (aside from some obvious differences it seems to live up to it fairly well from what I've seen). However I know places where I can watch SDFM w/o downloading (such as SurfTheChannel), but having a copy may be good.

Out of curiosity, the iMacross thread only links to rapidshare right, or does it have links to torrent downloads too? I only ask because it looks like it's only rapidshare and I want to make sure.

I too am put off by Rapidshare, I don't want to have to buy an account to be able to download something quickly, but the alternative isn't very useful, especially when something is split into that many parts. That's why I like torrents, but they can be difficult to find on sites that you can trust (like the anime torrent sites we use to get Macross Frontier currently that are linked to in the episode discussion threads). I got the idea by the description that rapget just makes it easier to do the downloads, but not necessarily bypassing the limit if you don't have a paid account. I could be wrong, and if so then I'll try it out, but until I know I am just using rapidshare for smaller things since I'm not going to buy an account.

Actually I can believe easily that he may turn out to be related to Ranka and be a survivor of the 117th research fleet. However that doesn't necessarily mean she knows him.

I believe that is where the band then got their name. As for the Ranka knowing Brera, I'm sticking to the idea she doesn't and her saying "You.." was something like "You... know that song??"

Well, the only plot forwarding was the Brera scene, but I don't think Ranka necessarily knew him already. To me it seemed more like "Hey, that guy is playing the song only I know, what the deculture is up with that??"

I think that is only because Leon got the show pulled, and just used the Sheryl special as a cover. Leon seems to have a real problem with Ranka, first he stops her from winning Miss Macross, and now this. I'll bet it has to do with the circumstances of the attack on the 117th Research fleet, and Brera may reveal more info as well.

In that case you did very well with that cleanup process, it looks like a new image rather than an existing one. Very nice.

Continuing the chain on quoting you. Both the other two are technically right. Plasma is the fourth state of matter after Solid, Liquid, and Gas. You heat Solid, it goes to liquid, more heat, you get gas, even more heat, you get plasma. Technically fire is a type of plasma. Thermonuclear is a word used to describe a certain type of nuclear reactor, specifically one which not only fissions but fuses material (though in the future we should have pure fusion without fission, which is a lot safer and gives more power). The reactor most likely fuses hydrogen into helium or something to that extent and the resulting fusion creates immense energy which powers the valk. At the same time the heat from the reaction heats up air that is collected inside the valks engines. By super heating the air, which is in a gas state, the particles will move faster and will become what is known as plasma. The plasma will then be thrust out the back of the engine by path of least resistance most likely, plasma is very energetic, it needs somewhere to go and in a close engine the best way to go is out the exhaust port, same thing on any conventional rocket. As for refueling, in an atmosphere the valkyrie will always have air it can suck it, heat up and thrust out for propulsion, so it doesn't run out of "engine fuel" technically. However it can run out of reactor fuel which is the afore mentioned hydrogen or whatever element that is being fused in the reactor to create the energy/heat that is turning the air into plasma in the first place, and also what is powering the valkyrie. This really isn't that much of a problem though, you can get a lot of energy and heat from fusing small amounts of hydrogen, and you can carry a large enough supply on board the reactors probably to last you a good long while, so you could probably fly the valk in an atmosphere for a very long time. In space, things are different. The Reactor fuel bit is the same, with the hydrogen or some such fusible material. However you can't suck in air for propellant as there is none. In this case valks probably have an extra on board supply of some type of inert gas that can be heated up into plasma to be used for propulsion. The difference between this system and conventional jet engines is one of energy, power, and safety. Nuclear reactors provide so much more energy (in the common form of electricity) than burning fossil fuels like gas, and that means more power. It is also cleaner for the most part. The only unclean part is the byproduct of radiation which is abundant from nuclear fission, but in fusion there is very little to no noticeable radiation as a result. The downside is even nuclear reactors can't be fool proof. Instead of sitting on a gas fueled turbine that could malfunction and explode in a big cloud, you are now sitting on a nuclear furnace that if malfunctions, could result in what we know as a nuclear bomb. The chance of the nuclear reactor malfunctioning and causing a chain reaction resulting in a nuke is not much, and is much more highly unlikely with fusion that fission but it is possible, however still much safer that the current jet engines. Anyway, there is my short version of how a supposed thermonuclear reaction engine works... yes, that's the short version. Remember kids, science is fun.

Er... Wow.... I'm not quite sure what to think of that.

Everything I've heard says 26 episodes.

Isn't Mikhale's sister supposed to be alive, I thought it was said we were see her in the show.. unless that meant we see her in a flashback showing how she died... well I guess we'll find out in a week.

I would assume that is standard uniform for female NUNS officers, perhaps whoever Mikhale is visiting at that gravestone was in the military, and we were seeing a flashback or something. Just speculation of course.

Wow... why are people getting so worked up, its just a frakking prototype image, it's not like there is something on the page saying "That's it, all we need to do is color it and it's ready to go!" Maybe I'm biased since I think like an engineer but it looks fine to me, for a prototype. I've seen things where the picture guy mis-transforms something all the time, especially in the case of the pictures on a Transformers toy box when it really transforms fine and according to instructions, but the person taking the photo didn't follow instructions and just winged it. You know Bandai may actually be listening to what we were saying, before these pics showed up everyone was talking about how they wanted so badly to see pics of a VF-25 toy, even in production. Well it seems Bandai has decided to show you an early pic indeed, even though it's not done. I bet if they waited to show anything until they were done with the design and sculpting of the figure and had a full colored mass production model then it would look fine, and despite the fact there is always someone who will be unhappy I bet there would be a lot less complaining. I've seen endless cases, and not just with toys but tv shows too, of things were in the beginning it looked iffy and people shouted out negative things saying it was going to be the worst thing ever and then the finished product comes out and it turns out to be very decent if not very good and all the nay sayers either admit they were jumping the gun or they just don't say anything anymore. Give Bandai a chance guys, let them finish the damn figure before you go saying it's the worst thing you've ever seen and you'll never buy it. Even that hinge is probably due to being an early prototype, they put a simple hinge design for the prototype while they make sure the figure works then they make a better less obtrusive cockpit mechanism for the final product, simple as that. Now of course I don't know for fact that the finished 1/60 DX VF-25 will turn out good, maybe it will maybe it will not, but until I see the final product that is going to be on the shelves I will not judge it. However if I were to give an unofficial opinion based on that picture, my opinion of the prototype is... that's not bad.. for a prototype. That's my word for now, I'll give my official opinion on it when it's done.

Hahaha, no you are the first in this topic to catch that reference. Good Job, for when you notice the references of others, others will be more likely to reference you. I couldn't resist.

On that note, even though the Wii is region locked they tend to release 'adapters' for the Wii remote to connect to for different playability. So the same could be done.... however the Wii and Nunchuck combination can easily work for that situation so there wouldn't be much point, except maybe to add more buttons. As for the region locked problem for the Wii I'm sure someone will find a way around in, like the Freeloader program for the Gamecube. Basically you insert the Freeloader disc into your American or non Japanese region coded Gamecube first, it tells you to then insert the other region game and it will play it fine, and you didn't have to modify the Gamecube at all. Granted you had to insert the freeloader disc everytime you played a game that was different region encoded, but you could do it is the point. I can imagine a similar program could be made for Wii, perhaps the company that made Freeloader can do it as well (I still have my GC Freeloader disc, I should find the manufacturer and see if they are planning this).

Good, I was actually wondering where in that area the booster is, that makes sense, I'll go back and check it out sometime. I knew it was there of course as I've said, I just didn't know where exactly. Your right that is kind of small, but then again none of the 'backpack' areas have really had large engines or anything (excluding fast pack usage).

My computers do in fact have names, and I am not ashamed of that. My parents old 5 year old Dell was named Hal (no there wasn't a lot of imagination put into it), so that prompted it's sister computer, my desktop, which is also a close to 5 year old Dell to be named Sal (since it was mirroring the other computer, it seems a little more imaginative). Hal is no longer active, it just got replaced by a new computer, but it was old anyway and had some problems. Sal is running in good condition surprisingly (now that I think about it that is oddly similar to the Hal and Sal of the Odyssey stories) and runs XP. I also have a relatively new laptop that runs Vista Home Premium that I named Vector Sigma after the Cybertronian mega computer that can grant life to Transformers through its connection to the Allspark. As far as I know my laptop cannot do that though. I sometimes call my laptop Vic though, which normally stands for Victor, my reasoning comes from that Victor and Vector sound similar. I don't usually name my TVs for whatever reason, but I named my Wii Jarvis inspired mostly by the AI in the 2008 Ironman movie which itself was inspired by Edwin Jarvis, Tony Starks butler in the original Ironman comics.

The opening narration was just talking about Wait... no one else names their machines? That isn't normal....?