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Gah! The poll was meant to say M1A2. I slipped up. corrected

And I can't fix it either; the ability to edit poll options has been removed.

Hameru wrote:For a land of ice, it sure has a ton of grass

It's funny you know... I once heard it said that whoever named Greenland and Iceland must have been dyslexic or something. Because Greenland is ice and Iceland is green...

An every-man-for-himself style tank battle. The battleground is a 20 mile x 20 mile (32 km x 32km) square of countryside somewhere in France. It is mostly gently rolling country, grassy fields interspersed with small patches of forest. There are no large water features, though a few small shallow st...

How can you call Punisher crap?

He almost killed Wolverine.

Nice to see that the Japs have finally found their balls again. You know less than a percent of their GNP goes to the military... yet because Japan is so fabulously wealthy, it's still $40 billion. That's more than the Brits spend ($35 bil or so) and the Brit military budget is at least 2-3% of thei...

And when they made it into a movie, CHT's Shang Tsung was the most badass (in terms of "evilness") by far. The character exuded evil. He was certainly far more sinister and chilling than Shao Khan in the crap sequel (named "MK: Annhialation"), despite the fact that Khan was suppo...

How about the classic Dodge charger... (AKA the Blademobile). There's also one with a huge air intake appears in the movie The Fast & The Furious... guy floors the gas and the thing rears up like a wild beast, front wheels in the air. I wonder if it could actually do that... I mean it could just...

SWPIGWANG wrote:They have a complete lack of AA capacity, so their unconceable heavy vehicles is toast.

The rest, well, ppl have GUNZ in the country :p

How effective is airpower going to be against ground targets in streets lined with buildings that are almost all at least 50 stories tall?

Let's say that Iraq, anticipating an invasion, prepared a means to strike back at the heart of the enemy: Loading up a large merchant cargo vessel with large numbers of soldiers (several thousand) complete with AK-47s, grenade launchers, mortars, some MBT's etc. and sent them towards the atlantic as...

Are you dumbfucks incapable of reading?

Maybe you should re-check the first line of my original post:

don't mean in-story, I mean who designed it IRL? Was it Lucas himself or someone else?

I don't mean in-story, I mean who designed it IRL? Was it Lucas himself or someone else? Just wondering, because it's often been pointed out that the daggerform of the Star Destroyer would actually be an ideal shape for a space battleship (optimizing weapons arc covereage in the most useful way). So...

And now, I present:

The Bismark

http://www.geocities.com/accaircraft/bismark2.txt

[In-line image removed and replaced with link because of Nazi swastika; please change it to a pre-Nazi German emblem- DW]

Birds can be captured and tamed - trained, and will obey the commands of their master. Have you never heard of falconry? The reason birds can't be ridden is that they are not big enough to carry a human. It's not because they're too stupid to be domesticated and trained. The largest Pterosaur, Quetz...

By modern I don't nescesarily mean the 21st century, but just the relatively modern age in which Homo Sapiens Sapiens has existed. The last 10,000-20,000 years. Could they have been tamed and controlled? And the more pressing question: Could they have been ridden? Did they have enough lifting power ...

Lets say the person is thrown a distance of 40 feet and describes a proper physics-obeying parabolic arc as they go through the air. When they hit the wall, they're about three feet from the ground.

Then use that as a basis.

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When Ghengis Khan died, the Mongol Empire which had reached and taken over the eastern fringes of Europe, defeating several central European armies in the process, suddenly just... left, to return to Mongolia to decide on the successor.

However, what if he had lived on for many more years?

Well, the gods won't be kind enough towards England to send a kamikaze or two onto the Mongol fleet, would they. No, but the Channel storms can be pretty rough. Which didn't stop the Romans. Or the Normans. The invasion of Japan failed not because the Mongols sucked at amphibeous assault, but becau...

Let's see... they should do a new trek series where the German captain is compentent, aggressive... even warmongering. And the ship is called something like Bismark or Graf Spee or Scharnhorst or Reichlieu . And is an ultimate warship, first of a new class far eclipsing even the Sovereign-class in i...

In order to counter the anti-SUV donkeyrapists, we should use: http://www.ibistek.com/security_vehicle.html (check out the videos....heeeehehehehehe)

I wonder how the following would go: Bar brawl. Setting: Quark's Bar, Promenade, Deep Space Nine/Terok Nor. Klingons: Generic off-duty BoP crewers Vulcans: Since Vulcans would not involve themselves in a bar fight, we'll use Romulans instead (biologically the same, but with a diferent ethos). Typica...

Well, it probably comes from the idea in the scriptwriters minds that if you jam a huge overload of power (whether it be plasma or electricity) into a device, it sometimes goes up. Ever seen what a television does when the power lines feeding it get struck by lightning? The only problem is that such...

Will the 'EDIT' button be kept? Or will it disapper, like in the SW/ST and PSW forums? Why oh WHY have you said this? If you'd just kept quiet they (aka the mods, Wong etc.) might never have noticed (that the edit button had been left on in this forum). But now that you've drawn it to their attenti...

I mean, if photon torpedoes use M/AM as they are supposed to, then why do they only yield 64MT? Such a yeild would result from only 2-3 pounds or so of AM and an equal quantity of M, IIRC. A 6 foot torpedo should have room for dozens of pounds of AM in warhead space. I mean how much of the torpedo's...

Woman should be allowed into combat roles such as air force pilots (already are) ship crew/officers (already are) etc. But I do NOT want to see them in frontline infantry. There's just something about the idea of pretty girls running into a SPR-esqe opposed landing hell and getting their guts pasted...