Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: The Electrician
I've seen lots of footage of the 50's A-bomb and H-bomb tests, which are awesome, and even beautiful, but not gut-wrenching, whereas the nuke scenes here are truly visceral...

I'll second that. Very eerie how plausible it looked.

Technical notes that pleasantly surprised me for a space opera:
1.) Maneuvering in space is done by blatant and realistic thrust vectoring. No Star Wars spaceship syndrome here.
2.) Guided missiles hardly ever miss and missile intercept is the best defense. Like with modern AIM missiles, the probability of kill is in the 80+% range. It annoys me when I watch shows that use 1950s era Soviet missile guidance systems a hundred years in the future. Puh-lease.

Heh.

170 posted on 12/08/2003 9:57:54 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 151 | View Replies ]


To: tortoise
heres something i always wanted to know...if they were robots why did they have lifesupport systems in their ships.........hell why robot piloted ships, I could understand some kinda of transport ship to carry them(more than 3) from place to place.
171 posted on 12/08/2003 10:08:56 PM PST by Kewlhand`tek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 170 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson