Just think about all those MALPs which they have lost, each one must cost in the millions.Star-Blighter wrote:I loved the comment Oneil made regarding that:
"Do you know much it cost to keep this thing on?"
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Re: SF Modern Defense Forces?
Anything less then a full scale military mobilization to counter threats like that is being recklessly incompetent with the future of humanity.Nephtys wrote:
Which would be from your perspective, more suited for protecting us from the most possible danger? Be it Goa'uld, Sectoid, Borg or the Visitors or whatever? A small group utilizing foot travel through transtellar portals and negotiation with alien powers, or a more militant organization utilizing conventional weapons to defeat and then capture advanced equipment?
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Actually, I'd disagree. Anybody with an adequate degree in robotics could cobble one together without too much trouble; hundreds of thousands, perhaps, but millions? Nope. The biggest cost would be the sensor and scientific equipment, as well as the camera and the robot arm; the engines would be pretty cheap, actually. Hell, if they can build a more or less fully functional one for filming, I think they wouldn't be particularly expensive... of course, they don't exactly have all the bells and whistles as the in-universe MALP doesggs wrote:Just think about all those MALPs which they have lost, each one must cost in the millions.Star-Blighter wrote:I loved the comment Oneil made regarding that:
"Do you know much it cost to keep this thing on?"
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