SiegeTank wrote:
The Wiki told me differently... Have I been misdirected? If so, I invoke the right of Story Purposes (again ).
IIRC, Range (snorkel) is calculated for a sub that is running underwater on diesels all the time, which is less efficient than moving on batteries and snorkelling to charge them once a day due to the fact the snorkels stick above the water and push around their own bow wave.
SiegeTank wrote:A fair point, and one which captain Mohammad will surely remember next time .
Yeah, I guess nearly dying has this sort of effect
For fun, you can think what would've happened if the chopper simply lobbed a Sea Skua at them...
Oh, and Shroom: the Mig-105 is pretty much a space fighter, this is why it's a separate design. We could all co-operate on the Tu-2000, though?
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Sure! We need joint cooperation to kick the MSA's ass - and Shroomania doesn't like losing in manly competitions to measure mens manhoods! I am sure you can all agree with Shroomania, Fuck Yeah on this one!
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
Shroom Man 777 wrote:Sure! We need joint cooperation to kick the MSA's ass - and Shroomania doesn't like losing in manly competitions to measure mens manhoods! I am sure you can all agree with Shroomania, Fuck Yeah on this one!
Building huge penis-shaped objects that SPIT FIRE is right in Shroomania's alley, I think
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Yeah! Our mad scientists can draft up all sorts of plans for the rest of you to laugh at, but occasionally implement when we sometimes figure out something truly awesome.
Like Monster Truck Moon Rovers!
EDIT:
WITH GATLING GUNS! They will be instrumental in saving us from doomsday asteroids when a manly bunch of Shroomanian oil rig drillers become humanity's last hope!
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"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
Ah Shroom.... It's against Byzantine law to do that sort of thing....
Could you arrange it to be done like .. in Alexandria?
STGOD: Byzantine Empire Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
Okay. I suck in the geography of that place. Sure.
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
Shroom Man 777 wrote:
And maybe FASTA could have Shroomania develop launch facilities on Comona as well. We bought some Silver Streaks from San Dorado. Call them... Dyna-Shrooms!
IIRC, I made a post about it a while ago. Or didn't I?
Either way, we'll need another launch center in the near future, to handle superheavy loads necessary to support a Moon base and a Mars outpost
Silly FASTA folks, there is a reason why the MSA's non X-Plane facilities are located in essentially an un-inhabited tract of land with both Northward and Eastward downrange clearence. Right now the biggest challenge is getting supplies down there (though a triple tracked dedicated spur line helps) for construction. The X-Plane project obviously has all the space it needs what with Shepistan becoming a barren wasteland.
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Armourer of the WARWOLVES
ASVS Vet's Association (Class of 2000)
Former C.S. Strowbridge Gold Ego Award Winner MEMBER of the Anti-PETA Anti-Facist LEAGUE
"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. "
-Kingdom of Heaven
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source) shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN! Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people - PeZook Shroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
1) Unmanned docking is actually harder to do than manned, which is why FASTA higher ups wanted to do it "in style" and on the first orbit.
2) FASTA does have two pads for Saturn/Energia class boosters under construction at Jerusalem (I made posts about it). Comona is just the mission control facility, much like Houston vs. KSC.
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Nuclear rockets are bad for the local environment.
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
Beowulf wrote:Nuclear rockets are bad for the local environment.
Since when has Tonkin really cared?
Well, if it's outside Tonkin proper, then it's a bit harder to maintain security.
"preemptive killing of cops might not be such a bad idea from a personal saftey[sic] standpoint..." --Keevan Colton
"There's a word for bias you can't see: Yours." -- William Saletan
Military notes: over the last various years, most of my older aircraft have been phased out in favor of replacements (Navalized Gripen-NG, Steve's Super-Hornet analogue, and a limited number of those joint Japanistani-Tonkin very heavy interceptor). Naval procurement was mostly to replace older ships with newer and more capable ones. Overall aircraft numbers have begun to decline as much more capable aircraft begin replacing them. Maintenance costs have also dropped as newer birds are much more reliable.
Space development, well ... I've been quiet, but I have plans
So...looks like we'll need that military space station soon
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
You should totally let Siege play with his FIST OF ALLAH thing for a little while, man. It's totally awesome.
(awesomer than shinto vikings and gyrojets anyway)
Unfortunately Zor's more interested in finding ways to claim quick victory than in having fun little stories.
”A Radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism." - Sir Winston L. S. Churchill, Princips Britannia
American Conservatism is about the exercise of personal responsibility without state interference in the lives of the citizenry..... unless, of course, it involves using the bludgeon of state power to suppress things Conservatives do not like.
DONALD J. TRUMP IS A SEDITIOUS TRAITOR AND MUST BE IMPEACHED
1) Unmanned docking is actually harder to do than manned, which is why FASTA higher ups wanted to do it "in style" and on the first orbit.
2) FASTA does have two pads for Saturn/Energia class boosters under construction at Jerusalem (I made posts about it). Comona is just the mission control facility, much like Houston vs. KSC.
My bad to the later and one of the points of the overall "hearing" was that basically we are testing all of our automated systems. I'm currently running a 20% failure chance for each major fully automated test and I came up clean for the unmanned docking. I am totally expecting that at least one of my LEM tests or orbital re-positioning burns is going to go drastically wrong but until I roll a failure my systems pass . Actually what is likely going to happen will be that on one of the rendevous, dock, and burn exercises one of the three operations will fail with automated systems at which poitn we do a failure effects model and the astronauts learn how to compensate (unless I roll 1s in which case I get millions of tiny bits of space debris).
So yeah sorry about missing the posts about the Jerusalem construction.
SDNet World Nation: Wilkonia
Armourer of the WARWOLVES
ASVS Vet's Association (Class of 2000)
Former C.S. Strowbridge Gold Ego Award Winner MEMBER of the Anti-PETA Anti-Facist LEAGUE
"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of god. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. "
-Kingdom of Heaven
( Tonkin has been doing considerable aerodynamic testing of lifting-body designs and whatnot, even if Project 46L never made it to the development phase. I still regard us as the world leader in solid rockets, and we'll have some tests to make sure we know how to have people breathe in space, though I suspect that we can get that design work on the ground as well. )
Hey Shady, when I mentioned my own research into enhanced soldiers (much less ambitious than your super soldier wankery ) Beowulf mentioned that Marina said any such research into the virus would take at least ten years to produce results and such.
So since you've only been at it for two years and, let's face it, have less money to throw at the problem than I do (I'll totally find a way to draw in MESS funds if you try to play the SNC card on me ), expect things to go horribly, horribly wrong for your Black Hand "volunteers".
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
RogueIce wrote:Hey Shady, when I mentioned my own research into enhanced soldiers (much less ambitious than your super soldier wankery ) Beowulf mentioned that Marina said any such research into the virus would take at least ten years to produce results and such.
So since you've only been at it for two years and, let's face it, have less money to throw at the problem than I do (I'll totally find a way to draw in MESS funds if you try to play the SNC card on me ), expect things to go horribly, horribly wrong for your Black Hand "volunteers".
10 Years? That's a long time. Still it might be worth it. The Volunteers? They died in service to their glorious motherland.
Anyway Comrade, there is no need for the SNC card to be played. I have found another source of funding.
Besides it's just something I thought might be fun.
DarthShady wrote:Anyway Comrade, there is no need for the SNC card to be played. I have found another source of funding.
Wow. That's dedication. But doesn't your bottom get sore after the first few?
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
RogueIce wrote:Hey Shady, when I mentioned my own research into enhanced soldiers (much less ambitious than your super soldier wankery ) Beowulf mentioned that Marina said any such research into the virus would take at least ten years to produce results and such.
You guys bug me about submersible aircraft carriers and land battleships, and then talk about super-soldiers?
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