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Jun 10, 2020 02:31
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Sure is: Babylon Chonk
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Jun 10, 2020 02:32
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Oops my mistake. It left my memory like it left its time.
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Jun 10, 2020 03:03
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TraderStav posted:Oops my mistake. It left my memory like it left its time. I believe the story was that Babylon 5 was constructed with incredibly tight budget restrictions, substantially smaller than Babylon 4, and largely funded by the Minbari on the condition they could choose the commanding officer.
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Jun 10, 2020 03:43
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Timby posted:I believe the story was that Babylon 5 was constructed with incredibly tight budget restrictions, substantially smaller than Babylon 4, and largely funded by the Minbari on the condition they could choose the commanding officer. I have to imagine by the point of B4 vanishing you had enough frustrated people plus Earth Firsters still convinced they could've beat the Minbari to just pack it in and ramp the military back up.
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Jun 10, 2020 04:01
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DrBouvenstein posted:Or just go nuts and cast this guy as Byron, or the Byron-analogue: drat right, I've been saying that for years. He's back from wherever he went after the underground railroad episode. And now he has followers. Don't change a line.
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Jun 10, 2020 05:09
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I have a vague feeling that was the original plan? And yeah it would have been much better.
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Jun 10, 2020 05:26
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Sure is: That was a plot point, was it not? B5 was the match of any younger races war ship after it got it's defense grid updates in GROPOS (I think?), but it took heavy damage in both the fight against the Centauri Cruiser, and the attack by EA ships in Severed Dreams. B4 in contrast was much bigger and better armed, and so was able to serve as a deep space station for the Minbari in the war against the Shadows.
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Jun 10, 2020 08:51
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Babylon Chonk Chonkylon 4 was right there
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Jun 10, 2020 13:28
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Large Adult Son lon 4
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Jun 10, 2020 13:34
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Timby posted:Chonkylon 4 was right there But it wasn't good. 
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Jun 10, 2020 14:23
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Stop fat shaming that space station.
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Jun 10, 2020 14:48
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BumbleB4
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Jun 10, 2020 14:54
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TraderStav posted:Oops my mistake. It left my memory like it left its time. There is a hole in your mind.
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Jun 10, 2020 15:10
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babylon chode
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Jun 10, 2020 16:02
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 I don't know what 2 and 3 are based on, IIRC we only see 1, 4, and 5 on screen but I haven't read all the RPG books or whatever.
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Jun 10, 2020 16:06
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Weird, my memory of B1 was a giant non-rotating structure that looked kind of like a squashed d8. Wonder what I am thinking of.
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Jun 10, 2020 16:07
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JMS says B1-4 were supposed to be the same design, so. B1 is briefly shown in In the Beginning and doesn't look like 4.
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Jun 10, 2020 16:12
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Grand Fromage posted:JMS says B1-4 were supposed to be the same design, so. I thought that B1-3 were the same design because they were all sabotaged before the superstructure was completed. For B4 they changed up the design to remove the Death Star exhaust port that some joker had slipped in and in the process made it bigger.
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Jun 10, 2020 16:16
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Something something power rangers
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Jun 10, 2020 17:18
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Doctor Zero posted:Something something power rangers They're the colours of the rainbow in order.
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Jun 10, 2020 17:26
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I want to see how people transfer between the counter-rotating parts of B1-4. The relative angular velocity has got to require some good timing
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Jun 10, 2020 18:03
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Elevator to central zero g tram, move over to next stop, elevator down. The rotational velocity is zeroed out slowly over the elevator ride.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:11
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CainFortea posted:Elevator to central zero g tram, move over to next stop, elevator down. The rotational velocity is zeroed out slowly over the elevator ride. That would only be possible at the two ends though, if at all. One is counter-rotating inside the other
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Jun 10, 2020 18:33
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The solar panels always confused me. I'm sure that solar panels in the future are much more efficient than today's, but are they REALLY needed when you have a god-drat fusion reactor stuffed in there?
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Jun 10, 2020 18:42
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Canonically those are heat radiators, not solar panels.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:48
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Jedit posted:They're the colours of the rainbow in order. There is a B6, but it's painted in ultraviolet so humans can't see it.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:51
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What kind of emergency power does B5 have in case the fusion reactor has to shut down? I would guess solar panels wouldn't be the worst idea, since those facing the sun are guaranteed to receive sunlight unless a ship is between the station and the sun. Or does the planet Babylon 5 is orbiting sometimes block the sun?
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Jun 10, 2020 18:52
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Tsaedje posted:That would only be possible at the two ends though, if at all. One is counter-rotating inside the other No, because you can have gaps in the inner hab where elevators from the outer hab pass through it so the inner hab is more like a series of cylinders instead of one contiguous unit. But even if you didn't want to do that, you could put elevators anywhere you want on the inner hab and have the outer hab elevators be at the end.
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Jun 10, 2020 18:59
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I just want to imagine a hole in the floor of the inner tube that you have to jump down at just the right time to land safely in the outer shell
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Jun 10, 2020 19:44
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DrBouvenstein posted:The solar panels always confused me. Current solar panels are around 20% efficient, you're not going to get orders of magnitude (or even an order of magnitude) more energy out of them. Torrannor posted:Or does the planet Babylon 5 is orbiting sometimes block the sun? Yes (and there's at least one time it's shown going into eclipse, and all the exterior lights on B5 turn on)
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Jun 10, 2020 19:53
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There's no way you'd power B5 off solar. It is confusing though because they're colored like solar panels, and the arrangement makes no sense for radiators. They'd be radiating heat right at each other and kill efficiency. The B4 version makes more sense, though again those are placed as if they're only radiating for the fusion reactor and not for the living spaces. Though you could have smaller radiator strips on the hull for that, it wouldn't need to be as heavy duty as the reactor. E: Also the B4 ones are radiating heat at the drum of the station which would warm it up. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jun 10, 2020 |
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Jun 10, 2020 21:42
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Maybe they couldn't afford to get radiators that work on both sides so they just got radiators that work one way.
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Jun 10, 2020 21:44
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Jedit posted:They're the colours of the rainbow in order. Yeah I know. Doesn’t stop me from thinking they are all going to transform into some kind of massive robot and fight giant monsters.
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Jun 10, 2020 21:53
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Doctor Zero posted:Yeah I know. Doesn’t stop me from thinking they are all going to transform into some kind of massive robot and fight giant monsters. if only JMS got 9 seasons...
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Jun 10, 2020 23:55
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Doctor Zero posted:Yeah I know. Doesn’t stop me from thinking they are all going to transform into some kind of massive robot and fight giant monsters. 
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Jun 11, 2020 00:13
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Grand Fromage posted:I don't know what 2 and 3 are based on, IIRC we only see 1, 4, and 5 on screen but I haven't read all the RPG books or whatever. Fan designs I believe. The same with that design for B1 I think, you barely see any of it in In The Beginning, and certainly not in a completed state.
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Jun 11, 2020 00:22
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Hahah what the gently caress this owns e: I mean technically the official Lego stuff that's based largely off of concept art is great but it sucks that it's all so US focused
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Jun 11, 2020 00:44
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Tighclops posted:Hahah what the gently caress this owns I rescued it from a local Asian gift shop when it hit the 50% off pile and I wish The Lego Group had the balls to do stuff like this.
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Jun 11, 2020 00:49
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Fan designs I believe. The same with that design for B1 I think, you barely see any of it in In The Beginning, and certainly not in a completed state. There is a canon illustration of the Babylon station available. It's pretty close to the design for Babylon 3 in that series of images, although it's not easy to pick out all the details because it's a three quarter profile from the front and against a starfield.
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