B-52 GUNNER

I used to play this game back in 1998-99 called BATTLEZONE.

It was a remake of the 1981 Arcade game of the same name.

I recently found out that there are new servers up and running for online play.

B-52 GUNNER

BATTLEZONE for the SONY PSP Petition

People say it took too long for the National Guard to get in there.

For one, there isn't a HUGE warehouse full of preloaded semi trailers full of food and supplies.

Also, the National Guard isn't just sitting there in barracks waiting for a disaster.

They had to get the people mobilized and then load a multitude of Semi trailers full of supplies and then make it through tons of debris to get to the stricken areas.

I feel they got in there in an appropriate amount of time.

Take tons of detail pics of the SUPER HORNET.

I'm sure there will be a Academy 1/32 scale kit coming out soon.

R2-D2

R2 Periscope

Master Chief

This is probably old news but I thought I would at least post an update on the release of the US 2.00 update.

Although the 2.00 update was scheduled for the 12th it has now been postponed till the week of the 15th.

So I guess there are going to be 1000's of PSP owners waiting on the US Playstation web site or checking their Network update all week long.

Why people don't just update to the Japan release if they are that impatient is beyond me.

Scot

I've sat in the one my friend had and it's tight on the sides but has plenty of leg room.

I will give it this, it's a lot better than the toys, or the Ertl kits.. but still.. you realize if you sat down in that thing, your feet would probably come out the torp tubes. Plus I love the way they added that hydraulic ram to raise the canopy.. right in the middle of the window.

Lucas had a company in Germany make them for the THX release of Star Wars, so I would say that he gave the thumbs up on building them after he saw the prototype.

As for the Ausi one.

I think it's in Sidney in a Private Collection.

I helped pack it in a shipping container and it was a B*t*h.

After we packed it a exterminator had to come and bomb it.

He said that if the first person to open it didn't have a resparator on they would either die or get cancer.

Heck for all I know it may still be on the ship headed over there because it had to go through the Panama Canal.

My Buddy Ron had one that he bought for $13,200 and sold it to a guy in Australia for $24,000.

It's more like 90% Scale

35 feet long and about 2400 lbs

They only made 9 but one was lost in a accident.

The one you saw was at CIII last April.

Scot

He said eraser turds

nasa summed up in a quick point.

(i think i got this from someone one this board, if not then neato)

nasa realizes that pens don't work in space, spend assloads of cash and resources (in the millions-i think)and we get the wonder nasa pen, a wonderfully great little piece of stationary that can even write underwater - it was an issue on an episode of seinfeld-

neat huh.

the russian space agency (forget the name) encounters the same thing and they use a pencil. which can be purchased in packs of 10 for a little over a dollar- and unexplicably have the same abilities of the nasa pen but also could be easily erased...

Actually, the pen was freely developed by an independent company.

And was developed to solve major problems with penccil shavings and eraser turds in a 0G environment.

Rather than staying in teh sharpener, or falling politely to the floor, they drift through the air, until they A. are inhaled, B. get stuck in someone's sye, or C. drift into electrical parts and cause a short.

That's why Russia and NASA BOTH bought space pens once they were available.

the bigger ticket item does not make it the best for the job.

The average item often doesn't work in space.

a fork is a fork. if you were to purchase a fork from a thrift store and then another fork from say a fork specailty shop dealing with only the world's finest forks that cost in excess of $500 a pop, you will still be able to eat with both of them as they are used for the same purpose and contain the same design principle and function the same. you get to eat your spagetti.

Except only one fork is properly equipped to keep the spagetthi from floating off it between your plate and mouth.

For that matter, only one plate is properly equipped to keep spagetthi on it.

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Actually, I think spaghetti in and of itself is not available in space.

too many brains overthinking a situation results in completely overengineered and impractical solution, that has a near endless supply of variables that escalate and result in disaster.

And underthinking it results in a lot of problems because you neglect to consider that things don't alway swork the same once you remove gravity.

if the space shuttle computer is less powerful than my gameboy or home game entertainment center then there is a SERIOUS PROBLEM.

Has your GameBoy undergone a decade of testing to ensure long-term reliability in extreme environments including, but not limited to, rapid temperature shifts and irradiation?

Is your home theater system quadruple-redundant so that if there's a catastrophic failure it continues to function normally?

Is EITHER device something you would trust with your life?

If you cannot answer yes to all three of the above, than the shuttle computer is superior to whatever it's being compared to for the task at hand.

Furthermore, the shuttle computer has more than enough power to do EVERYTHING IT NEEDS TO DO.

You do not upgrade a computer merely because you can. You upgrade because you NEED MORE POWER THAN YOU HAVE.

Could they be running quad dual-core Opterons with the latest and greatest 64-bit OS in the shuttle?

Sure.

Would they use even a fraction of the available power?

Not a chance.

Are the odds good that the system could fail during a mission, leaving the crew up the proverbial creek?

You bet your ass they are.

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The sad thing about the Enterprise is that NASA used parts of its wings leading edge to test the foam theory.

Besides, they would have to disassemble it and rebuild it in order for it to be flight worthy.

It's been sitting on the ground WAY TOO LONG.

Also; Rockwell International and McDonald Douglas were bought by Boeing and Fairchild Republic went belly up.

Who knows how many other companies are gone that were involved in the shuttle program.

Good analogy with the pen/pencil thing. 

Bad analogy with the computer thing.  Can you gameboy and/or entertainment system take extreme environmental change, including radiation?  The reason they use dinky computers in the Shuttles isn't by chance.  Not that they couldn't be using something better...

Budgetary considerations are VERY much a factor as has been proven with the procurement of every weapon system the US DoD uses... and has been proven with the defeat of many weapon systems the DoD wanted but were denied.

The Shuttle?  Another one should be built as a temporary replacement.  Enterprise conversion possibly as long it's to spec.  Possibly with incremental and peripheral upgrades on the fundamental platform/paradigm.  Begin the permanent replacement program now (X-33 derivative).  I definitely thing we should bring back the Saturn Rocket in a next generation as well as finish the ISS (and our own US only stations) and get an increased permanent presence in space, including an eyeball to the moon.

At the cost saved by the elimination of the tree-hugging programs no less.

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Who is the guy who makes modified photos in this group.

He needs to turn a photo of the Shuttle into a bomber.

If you absolutely, positively have to bomb a country from orbit NASA is for you.

Actually the idea of a US-built Energia isn't a bad one.  In fact, we could build a second-generation Shuttle using the same general size and airframe design, but simplified by eliminating the main engines and using the Energia and its side boosters to provide all the thrust--that's exactly what the Russians did with Buran (which also had conventional jet engines for controlled atmospheric flight, rather than a controlled fall/glide...  they did design the thing partially to be a bomber, cuz that's what they thought the Shuttle was at the time).  Results:  Weight savings for missions that require a heavier payload, or, extra fuel for orbital maneuvering on maintenance/repair/recovery missions.  Could even use that weight and space savings for more powerful orbital maneuvering engines, allowing for greater orbital altitude. 

As for the reentry problem, I believe that problem has been licked.  Just slow down enough before you enter the atmosphere and you won't build up the heat.  Works for Rutan.

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All it does is print more of these green things we call dollars and gives it to someone who thinks these pieces of paper are cool and they like it that they can take those green things and buy stuff. (Sorry for the run on sentence.)

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You do know how inflation works, right?

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Yes I do, by printing more money it causes inflation.

My point was that there isn't a bank account that the govt. uses.

They can set the amount the dollar is worth, make more money if need be, and if they so choose can forgive debt that other countries owe us.

There was an individual on the radio talking about what the national debt is and also mentioned how much time it takes for the govt. to spend a given amount of money.

Let's say the govt. was $10,000,000,000 over budget.

It takes less than a day for the govt. to spend that much money.

My point is mainly that we have the ability as a nation to do what ever we want.

Money isn't a issue if the govt. is serious about a goal.

I'm still wondering why the hell doesn't Boeing or Lockheed just take a licence for building Energiya, improve it, and present it as an EELV - the concept behind it was pretty much similar, a core module that can be adapted to a variety of missions just using plugins.

This is a great idea, just like how we are using Russian Rocket Engines on out Titans right now.

I like how Duce and a half's work.

They run on Alcohol, Propane, gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene

The only bad thing about alcohol is that it causes rust.

(ok guys.....let's knock off the political stuff before it gets nasty)

anyhow,  If y'all want alternative fuel for cars, here's the answer: RUN 'EM ON ALCOHOL!!! (it's a hell of a lot cheaper to make with less emissions too)

EDIT: my spelling REALLY sucks...

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Nighthawk,

Good comeback, I enjoyed your view point.

Yes I am a Republican but no, I was basing my point on my years of both being a Military Brat and a NASA enthusiast.

Like I said in my original post about this:

Sorry Nighthawk, this was not directed at you, just the bleeping BEAN COUNTERS!!!!

No matter what side of the isle they are on.

We can have a Strong Military and Space Program as well as have all these special interests.

It's all Public Perception (With a little Political spin) that keeps things like this from advancing.

I wish that the public would realize that space exploration isn't safe and the astronauts know this. Otherwise we wouldn't have a space program because no one would take the risk.

Space exploration should not be based on Public Opinion, We should just do it.

Scot

PS. No offense taken

The only obstacle is money. And, if we weren't wasting money torturing Iraqis and getting our soldiers killed by suicide bombers, we'd have money to spend.

Every time the subjects of Military or Nasa programs come up someone has to talk about budget.

Money is irrelevant.

The Government doesn't pay its bills like the average citizen.

All it does is print more of these green things we call dollars and gives it to someone who thinks these pieces of paper are cool and they like it that they can take those green things and buy stuff. (Sorry for the run on sentence.)

If the US Govt. wanted to go to Mars we could. If they wanted a new Shuttle it would be built as soon as they wanted it.

The problem is that you have these democratic bean counters that cry to the public that the Govt. is spending too much money on these things and that they need to spend more on the poor or other liberal tree hugging programs. (Which reminds me, the foam issue is because of the environmentalists.)

If we said HECK with the environmentalists and just use the original foam we wouldn't be in the boat we are in.

Sorry Nighthawk, this was not directed at you, just the bleeping BEAN COUNTERS!!!!

Scot

PS. If it wasn't for our Peanut President we would have had the Shuttle sooner and still have been in the lead on the Space Station with Skylab.

Wow! I just got my first wi-fi router and this PSP is blazing fast.

I'm posting this from it right now.

WOW, I wasn't the only one who thought about this.

I haven't received a reply yet but this is the e-mail I sent to the public inquiries office at NASA.

5/29/2005 3:46am

To: 'public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov'

To whom it may concern,

While witnessing the launch and following reports that the foam insulation on the external tank still detaches I had a thought.

At the beginning of the Shuttle Program the first few launches had an External Tank which was painted white.

In order to save weight and monetary resources this practice was abandoned.

Did the foam from the external tank come off on those first flights or could the paint that was applied to the External Tank have acted as a sealant which could have prevented the foam from being torn from the tank?

Sincerely,

Scot Washburn

I think they updated the wi-fi to accept a newer type, WPA-PSK (TKIP) as well as WEP.

I like the Theme selection and the ability to add wallpaper.

I really like how you can send photos between PSP's as well.

Scot

THE JAPANESE VERSION OF THE 2.00 UPDATE WORKS ON THE US PSP!!!

WOW!!

Web Browser, Wall Paper, Themes and IMAGE TRANSFERING BETWEEN PSP'S!!!!

They should have added Afghanistan and Iraq as well as Iran and the ability to fly C.A.P. missions over the USA

I would have thought that the next Sim would be at least FALCON 4.1 or 5.0