The Big One

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2004-10-11 12:54am

darthdavid wrote:
Zor wrote:Do the Yanks in TBOverse have bases/Hotels/colonies on the moon and in orbit by about 2004? There Space Program is far more developed, Arrowspace Fighters and Bombers, reusable spacecraft in the sixties and a bunch of other things.
Wtf... Arrowspace?

I think he means Aerospace

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-10-11 01:03am

Alex Moon wrote:
darthdavid wrote:
Zor wrote:Do the Yanks in TBOverse have bases/Hotels/colonies on the moon and in orbit by about 2004? There Space Program is far more developed, Arrowspace Fighters and Bombers, reusable spacecraft in the sixties and a bunch of other things.
Wtf... Arrowspace?
I think he means Aerospace

Zor can't spell or read or write. Also has trouble with his capitalization.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-11 08:01pm

The High Ground, Chapter 1

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-10-11 08:17pm

Kanga roo... Awsome...

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-11 08:22pm

darthdavid wrote:Kanga roo... Awsome...

Bah. Commence Primary Ignition

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-10-11 08:29pm

What, calling it the DEATH STAR is a bad thing is SAC? Boo!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-11 08:31pm

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What, calling it the DEATH STAR is a bad thing in SAC? Boo!

I bet calling SDI "Star Wars" was a bad thing too for SDIO

But even in-universe the name fits so well

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-10-11 08:37pm

phongn wrote:
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What, calling it the DEATH STAR is a bad thing in SAC? Boo!
I bet calling SDI "Star Wars" was a bad thing too for SDIO

And yet Big Ugly Fat Fucker is said affectionately. Funny world we live in.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-10-11 09:20pm

I'd really like to see what the MOWS looks like.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-10-11 11:02pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:I'd really like to see what the MOWS looks like.

Probably the ISS on steroids.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-11 11:15pm

They might also look like some of the early Freedom proposals which dwarfed the ISS (what with that huge rectangular truss and all)

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-10-12 02:27am

phongn wrote:The High Ground, Chapter 1

YUM YUM I WANT MORE!

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-10-12 04:21pm

I think we need to start taking bets on who will get bombed and/or nuked.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-10-12 04:41pm

aerius wrote:I think we need to start taking bets on who will get bombed and/or nuked.

My bet is: No one. I recall Stuart posting that he was tired of nuking stuff, and wanted to do something other than a strictly war story. Hence the jump to The High Ground, instead of Ride of the Valkyrie.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-10-12 04:45pm

aerius wrote:I think we need to start taking bets on who will get bombed and/or nuked.

This isn't really a bombing story.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-12 05:32pm

IIRC, this is also sort of a prelude to another story set much further into the future.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2004-10-15 05:29pm

Captain Sheppard's MOWS-1 blueprint

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-10-15 05:40pm

MKSheppard wrote:Captain Sheppard's MOWS-1 blueprint

commence primary ignition

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-10-15 05:51pm

High Frontier Two

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-10-15 06:45pm

Ahhh... Kalugina. I hope this doesn't turn into SW with everyone's kids saving the day

I like the station design, but Shep, if you could number the nodes that would be good.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-15 07:07pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Ahhh... Kalugina. I hope this doesn't turn into SW with everyone's kids saving the day

I like the station design, but Shep, if you could number the nodes that would be good.

Psst: the Prince of Darkness designed it, not Shep

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-10-16 12:15am

/me sighs.

ISS will cost over $100 billion dollars when it is finally finished.

Freedom (dual-keel) was projected to cost $14.4 billion FY1987 dollars with completion in 1994.

MOWS-1 cost about the same amount as Freedom and excepting the hanger is almost done in 1986.

technomage · Post by **technomage** » 2004-10-17 04:27pm

Shouldn't it be Kalugin instead of Kalugina? Russians generally add an "a" onto the end to create the female form of a name. Last names as well as patronymics.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-10-17 10:12pm

technomage wrote:Shouldn't it be Kalugin instead of Kalugina? Russians generally add an "a" onto the end to create the female form of a name. Last names as well as patronymics.

Might be a function of the name having to be registered in the US. The boy's father was American, so maybe they had to directly assign the mother's name.

technomage · Post by **technomage** » 2004-10-18 01:27pm

As closely allied as the two countries are, you'd expect USA to understand how Russian naming coventions work and allow for them.