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Fell Fire posted:But, wouldn't virtually anything else be even more rare? Beer/spirits would need to be shipped in, unless those monks also brewed some, and that process would use up a lot of water. Fruit juices would be similar, given that arable land is so limited they can't even grow coffee legally. CainFortea posted:They're talking about ordering fresh bottled water, not the recycled water. At least, that's the impression I always got. Yeah the bottled water. Like, $19,99 per cup of whiskey in a bar with a 0.5l bottle of water being priced the same. Recycled
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DrBouvenstein posted:3) A commander on the first contact ship that was known to be bad in first contact situations (uhhh...so how many wars with other races were the humans involved with thanks to this guy?) I thought The Omega Incident that Lefcourt refers to was the incident that brought Earth into the Dilgar War.
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V-Men posted:I thought The Omega Incident that Lefcourt refers to was the incident that brought Earth into the Dilgar War. I'm not sure if it's a trope exactly, but I really love it when writers try to let us know that a not-yet-introduced character is a loose cannon by having a superior interrupt an objection with "the military tribunal cleared him/her of any wrongdoing in the Omega Incident, dammit" without going into any detail about what the thing was. It's sort of unintentionally hilarious, like did he knock over someone's coffee? Or did he nuke an orphanage? Did he blow up the galaxy and we all had to move to a new one and we just don't talk about it?
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Got a new startup idea, looking for some Vorlon investors.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Got a new startup idea, looking for some Vorlon investors. What amount do you want?
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Midjack posted:What amount do you want?  Who are you, again?
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Midjack posted:What amount do you want? NEVER ask that question. Vorlons among us.
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Dirty posted:Proof, if it was needed, that the greatness of B5's CGI was not in the quality of the assets, but how they were shot. Yeah, the models need more polygons, and the textures are of woefully low resolution, but the animation is rock solid.
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Dirty posted:Proof, if it was needed, that the greatness of B5's CGI was not in the quality of the assets, but how they were shot. It's such an ingenious launch method too when you realize they're just releasing clamps and using centrifugal force to fling them out.
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FISHMANPET posted:Wouldn't they still be "rotating" around the station at the same speed as the station rotates, at least while they're launching? That's what thrusters are for. It's like the drop zone for an air drop out a plane; Wait until it's in the right range and release so they'll wind up coming out over where they need to actually be.
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The vectors would be radial, intersecting at the station"s axis of rotation. There ought to be either a simultaneous drop, or a series of maneuvers to get the group into formation. Edit: Radial is actually a completely wrong statement. WTF, tired me? Zorak of Michigan fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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Zorak of Michigan posted:The vectors would be radial, intersecting at the station"s axis of rotation. There ought to be either a simultaneous drop, or a series of maneuvers to get the group into formation. You frequently see the series of manoeuvres, so that's OK.
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AntherUslessPoster posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force I always wondered if every other alien race thought Earthers were batshit crazy for having spinning sections for gravity. No other race that we see does that, right? In fact...is it implied that of the races we see, humans are the only ones that DON'T have artificial gravity (at least until season 5-ish, when the Minbari give it to Earth in exchange for joining the Alliance and not jailing Sheridan?) I guess we never really see what a Drazi or Breen or Brakiri ship is like, so maybe they all float in there like every Earthforce ship that isn't an Omega-class?
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The Narn Heavy Cruisers are zero-g, that's why they're strapped in. Other than that, I don't recall seeing another race that lacked artificial gravity.
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Q_res posted:The Narn Heavy Cruisers are zero-g, that's why they're strapped in. Other than that, I don't recall seeing another race that lacked artificial gravity. Did we even see inside a Centauri ship?
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Jedit posted:Did we even see inside a Centauri ship? Yes, during the war against the Narns, especifically Refa bring Londo with him to watch the bombardment of the Narn homeworld.
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I thought it was fairly established that the Minbari and Centari were the only two of the younger races to have fully developed artificial grav, with the Mindbari having much more advanced versions.. That's what the long sweeping fins in their ship desigm does versus the massive engines on everyone else's. I recall reading that some of the other races orient their decks vertically and use ship acceleration and deceleration to mimic gravity as well.
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Soylent Pudding posted:I thought it was fairly established that the Minbari and Centari were the only two of the younger races to have fully developed artificial grav, with the Mindbari having much more advanced versions.. That's what the long sweeping fins in their ship desigm does versus the massive engines on everyone else's. I recall reading that some of the other races orient their decks vertically and use ship acceleration and deceleration to mimic gravity as well. Which makes it odd that the Narn don't have artificial gravity, as it's explicit that they got spaceflight technology from the Centauri.
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Jedit posted:Which makes it odd that the Narn don't have artificial gravity, as it's explicit that they got spaceflight technology from the Centauri. It doesn't necessarily mean they got ALL the technology from the Centauri. Also they had more limited resources, it's possible that they just focused on weapons technology.
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My half remembered knowledge is that the Primus battlecruiser was their first attempt and they never quite got artificial gravity working right on them. The Vorchan is newer and it works much better on those but it's still a generation or three behind what the Minbari are fielding. The Vorchan still has thrusters supplementing the gravity drive while Minbari ships are purely gravitic. It also makes sense even if the Narn learned about modern space engineering from captured Centauri tech since Narn was probably more about resource extraction than skilled industry. It's one things to have the plans for a gravity generator but it's something else to have the industrial base to build one.
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Jedit posted:Which makes it odd that the Narn don't have artificial gravity, as it's explicit that they got spaceflight technology from the Centauri. Gravity tech seems to be heavily controlled (isn't sharing it one of the big things the IA does?) so I doubt the Narn had access to much of it. Whereas there were probably rocket engines and stuff being built on Narn with slave labour.
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Take the complete blueprints of an F-14 back to WWII and no one would actually know how to build it despite the instructions. There are generations of the build the tool to build the tool cycle that Narn would have to go through to match Centauri tech. It's honestly impressive that Narn and to a lesser extent Earth developed such powerful militaries in so short s time span even with booth getting boosts from the Centauri. On that note I've wondered if the Centauri had found Earth a few centuries earlier if Earth would also have gotten the Narn treatment? My read of the situation was that by the time they found us they were already in decline and preferred developing and cultivating a friendly regional power to stabilize their flank rather than expansion and conquest.
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