kalleth posted:

I got baited into watching Elite Air Force (asylum B movie) tonight. It's on prime.

I'm about 15 minutes in and the cockpit gibberish is hilarious. I've already moved on from shouting "that's not how planes work" at the screen. It's worse than trek levels of gibberish.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Warbird posted:

My understanding was less that it's not "cold" than there isn't much of anything to be cold or warmed up. Meaning you have to straight up radiate out the energy into the void vs the usually much faster and efficient method of dumping that energy into a transitionary material like water or air or so on to let the energy spread out there before entropy takes hold.

It was one of the more interesting little points of the Mass Effect games. Your "ammo" is infinite, but you have thermal clips of some sci fi material that sucks up the waste heat/energy of your weapons that needs replacing once it hits capacity. Functionally it's the same thing from gameplay functionality but it's a neat in universe way of covering their asses.

n0tqu1tesane posted:

In the novel Saturn Run they solve the heat problem by extruding giant ribbons of liquid metal into space, guiding it electrostatically as it radiated heat and solidified into a metal foil, which is then gathered back up and heated again to repeat the process. I thought that was an interesting way to shift the heat.

Cojawfee posted:

Does this elite air force movie not exist in the US? I can't even get anything to show up on google.

kalleth posted:

"Top Gunner: Danger Zone"

Cactus Ghost posted:

did they make Airplane Vs Volcano? that was a good one. the airplane gets trapped in a volcano

goatsestretchgoals posted:

I’m not a pilot but I feel like flying a plane into a volcano isn’t the best plan.

C/D?

goatsestretchgoals posted:

I’m not a pilot but I feel like flying a plane into a volcano isn’t the best plan.

C/D?

PainterofCrap posted:

How else will you get to your secret lair to plan world domination

Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:

/Xenu has entered the chat

quote:

Hubbard wrote that Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy 75 million years ago, which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as "Teegeeack". The planets were overpopulated, containing an average population of 178 billion. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.

Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of psychiatrists, he gathered billions of his citizens under the pretense of income tax inspections, then paralyzed them and froze them in a mixture of alcohol and glycol to capture their souls. The kidnapped populace was loaded into spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The appearance of these spacecraft would later be subconsciously expressed in the design of the Douglas DC-8, the only difference being that "the DC8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't". When they had reached Teegeeack, the paralyzed citizens were off-loaded, and placed around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously, killing all but a few aliens.

shame on an IGA posted:

drat I'm having flashbacks to when Arnie Lerma used to post here

e: hoooooly poo poo did not hear how badly that ended wtf bro

Cactus Ghost posted:

well, share with the class what you learned

Bass Ackwards posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnie_Lerma#Death_and_legacy

Far out. I was messaging him back when the Anonymous protests were happening.

Did not see that coming.

illectro posted:

Relevant to thread title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7MP3SQWZDc

(probably faked but who knows?)

Powered Descent posted:

Why are they on parallel courses with only a thousand foot altitude difference? I've heard of odd numbers (of thousands of feet) being for eastbound, and even numbers for west, or possibly vice-versa.

meltie posted:

it could maybe maybe be a thing if both people were on the same sort of VPN that they'd setup beforehand for the bit, running it over the passenger satellite connection...

...yeah, it's faked (but it's fun tho)

Arson Daily posted:

Non radar tracks across oceans will lots of times have airplanes going the same direction at 1000 foot intervals depending on the location

Cojawfee posted:

The planes should all fly in formation like a bunch of B-17s. Then passengers can wave to each other.

Two Kings posted:

It’s been proposed as a way to save fuel.