Master Dex

I agree that military are probably looking into mech systems for practical use and someday we may see mechs. I certainly can see a valkyrie style mech usable, the gerwalk for the VTOL function you mentioned, the battroid still needs more reason, but some of the stuff that article said makes sense. Although the stuff in that article makes sense, and I think mech experimentation and research may exist and we may one day have stuff like that, I think that picture at the top and that the military is that far on anything is probably fake. I doubt we would have anything that can be photographed on picture, and that photo looks like of CG, just fuzzied up in attempt to look real.

If you think the recoil hurt the ship, if it fired just floating in space it would have been launched back quite violently. I don't think the KM has the thruster power to stay stationary in space while firing all that, enough to move in space of course, but that is a lot of reactionary force to overcome.

Well Valkyries in the shows are powered by thermonuclear reactors as well. The engines in their legs are basically compact nuclear reactors (which heat up air/gas to a plasma state and thrust it out for propellant). A monster probably would need/has in the show a bigger reactor or reactors.

I see, very well then, I didn't know there was an official explanation, but that actually makes sense, and probably is simpler than my idea. Thanks for the info.

Nice Mr March, I've always liked this site, keep up the good work.

Yeah it wasn't my favorite episode plot-wise, I think the animation looked so bad because I was watching it on keyhole, maybe it's better in it's HD raw form. I'll download it anyway though, then I can apply the gattai .ass file when it comes out, and it's still part of the show, so I'll even get the Shinsen sub when that comes (which will probably be a while from now, but they can take all the time they need for subbing of that quality).

That looks like you drew it, is that true? If so amazing job, same even if it is computer rendered, certainly something I can't do. Can you do other things like VF-25 with the super packs instead of armor, maybe some pics in gerwalk and battroid too? Do as you wish of course, I just think it would be cool to see those.

Well the back piece and wings are sort of like a backpack. There is definetly some type of booster in there because you can see exaust from that area in gerwalk in episode 2 after Alto saves Ranka (the shot that infamously shows the VF-25 with arms after they were blown off).

It's not for everyone, but science is everywhere in my life and I love it. I'm not any aspiring scientist though, I am an aerospace engineering student (hence the engineering quote in the sig) so you can imagine this kind of stuff is just right up my ally, big space ships, small ones, even the valkyries are just amazing works of engineering I think. Besides of lack of technology I think the only thing that'd keep a valkyrie from existing in real life is that there really isn't a good reason for a battroid... unless we meet some giant aliens sometime soon. However that doesn't mean I can't dream... and draw up rough design sketches that I may someday use .

Most likely, for ep.7 we didn't get a good raw until Friday (USA time) after the episode was re-aired. So we may have to wait till tomorrow to get a good copy.

I agree that the FTL methods are similar, but I think I can find the differences (this is what I do, I get to the bottom of how things work in Sci-fi ). The way I see it, the hyperspace jumps in Galactica are basically the same as a space fold, but in Galactica they seem instantaneous whereas in Macross they seem to take time fold from one location to another (giving off the appearance of a tunnel like hyperspace or wormholes). The fact of the matter is though, wormholes is exactly what it is, because that is all wormholes are, folding space. So I see the 'Jump' technology of Galactica and the fold space technology of Macross to be artificially folding space which is just basically temporary wormholes. As for the reason as to why the jumps are instantaneous in Galactica and take travel time in Macross, there are two possible reasons. - The first, and IMO most likely, is that in Galactica they don't have the power to do long distance jumps so they do short jumps. These jumps are short enough that you wouldn't see the tunnel effect and the jump/fold would be almost instantaneous, but still technically a wormhole of some type (I'm not sure if these sci-fi space folds would constitute an Einstein Rosenbridge, which is a type of theoretical wormhole). In Macross perhaps because of overtechnology they have the power to do longer folds so you see them in a sense of taking time and traveling within the tunnel. - The second reason I can think of is kind of the opposite of above, which is assuming Galactica doesn't have power for long jumps but in Macross they do. Supposedly if you are going to travel say 20 lightyears you can do that taking more time with the tunnel and the traveling, or with more power you can make the fold tighter, as in the entrance and exit points are closer together so the fold would be quick and seem instantaneous. So perhaps in Macross they don't have the power to do instantaneous long range jumps, so they do long distance folding that takes a while to pass through the tunnel. Both theories can actually be true, it depends on if Galactica is doing short or long jumps, and I assumed in Macross they do longer range as the get to places near the center of the Galaxy which is quite far from Earth. Another possibility is that the long tunnel-like fold in Macross is composed of many jump-like folds in Galactica linked in a chain, which would fit well with the first theory actually. There is my sci-fi examination of the day, I do this kind of thinking all the time so feel free to ask me stuff that I might have thought about. And yes, Galactica should have Bridge Bunnies .

People like to nitpick about things like that (especially me), but that doesn't mean that the line doesn't work. Is that the offical explanation of the Nuclear Reaction Engines? That's not the idea I had about them. What gases then do the engines heat up for thrust when in space then, some type of hydrogen or something the valkyrie has on board? My theory on it, and this is just the idea I got in my mind, is that since they are nuclear reaction engines I thought it was something like hydrogen* (stored on board somewhere I figured) was fused (I figure they would have good fusion capabilities then and wouldn't be using fission anyway) into helium and the resulting energy from the reaction not only powered the craft but was 'somehow' channeled into thrust (perhaps as well with the resultant helium) in the form of some type of plasma. Granted that idea of mine relies on that 'somehow' to get the immense energy/plasma from a fusion reaction to be propelled out of the engine, but it made sense in my mind. If any of that method sounds familiar it's because that is how impulse engines in Star Trek create thrust, it is the plasma directed from fusion reactions in the impulse fusion generators on the ship (whereas the warp core/matter-antimatter reaction assembly powers most of the ship as well as the nacelles for warp). *Although Hydrogen is the most likely element to be used in a fusion reactor, helium-3 is also a likely candidate as it is believed easier to fuse, but there isn't much of that on Earth but the Moon has a ton of it.

Yes... that sounds like a good compromise indeed.

Perhaps we should steer the conversation into talking about the next episode preview . Then we avoid hearing why the animation wasn't very good this time.

This episode was pretty much a filler, but I can let it go. It did show us that

Found it on Keyhole, am watching now, thanks Morpheus. EDIT: Thanks to Wolfx too, I forgot you provided the program, I'm getting people mixed up, lol.

Both, those the destroids may be later model Cheyenne, it's hard to tell.

Like I said, there should be versions for both so everyone has something they can enjoy, and screen shots from the PS3 version can be used for non Playstation owners like me to goggle at, lol.

I would imagine if you found it you would have remembered which one it was .

I am currently downloading all the subs from Shinsen for the past Macross Frontier episodes. Shinsen has always had the best subs IMO. I think what I'll do now is just download raws when they come out, get the Gattai .ass files to see the subs quicker since they tend to come out earlier than others, then when Shinsen rolls their version out I will download them to replace the Gattai .ass files, and then I'll keep the raws around for posterity and screen capping (which I do mainly as a hobby and mech/engineering lover). I'm thinking of burning DVDs with the Shinsen subs as well, they are definitely worth it, can anyone tell me do most DVD players play burned DVDs well or is there a way to check to make sure mine can? Also is DVD-R or DVD-RW better?

I agree with you on the CG, but most likely if from Japan, it will be either PS3 or Wii as they are made by Japanese companies (Sony and Nintendo respectively), but Xbox 360 is from Microsoft. However to tell you the truth I think they could do well with a Wii game. Wii has done very well and its control innovations have made game play radically different and interesting. A system where you pilot a valkyrie with the Wiimote and Nunchuck as if they were the flight controls might be kind of cool. I've seen in the show transforming the VF seems to be done by toggling the throttle stick into either an upright or sideways position depending on what mode your going to, that motion with a button combination (so your not accidentally transforming when moving the controller sideways without noticing) would be be interesting I think. Granted any game on the PS3 will have the advantage of better graphics, so much like is the case with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed each version has it's high points, good graphics for PS3 and innovative but fun control system for Wii. Now my reasoning for thinking of a good way to make a game for the Wii is a bit biased as I am indeed a Wii user. It totally rocks.