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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

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.

Kanga roo... Awsome...

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

Bah. Commence Primary Ignition

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

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

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.

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

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

Probably the ISS on steroids.

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

phongn wrote:The High Ground, Chapter 1

YUM YUM I WANT MORE!

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

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.

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.

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

Captain Sheppard's MOWS-1 blueprint

MKSheppard wrote:Captain Sheppard's MOWS-1 blueprint

commence primary ignition

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.

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

/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.

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.

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.

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