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  1. JB0
    I'm reasonably sure Fox doesn't care. I suspect they made this one not because they thought it'd be the next big thing, but because they were going to lose the rights if they didn't do something soon. Same reason we got the original Casino Royale movie.
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    Said it was Fox's fault actually.
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    This is always the best answer.
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    Don't forget the unplanned atmospheric re-entry(that led to him raiding Alaska Base to rescue Misa). He was probably not coming in at an optimal angle for that, and was missing a good chunk of the underbody due to the arms exploding earlier. His plane DEFINITELY needed a good thorough looking-over after that, and he's lucky he didn't turn into a loosely-affiliated cloud of plasma on the way down. That's what an OVERTECH Sidewinder looks like, thank you very much!
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    Do we actually know it's still Roy's old VF-1 instead of a new-production 1S badged with the old 001 paintjob? Because by the end of the war it HAD seen an awful lot of abuse. I mean, Skull 1 is the only one that's ever CARRYING a number, so it doesn't seem to be a serial number so much as a designation of leadership. Not to say I don't want to believe it's still Roy's, but...
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    Though apparently Konami isn't refusing to pay out bonuses and mocking people that ask about it.
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    They would've if he could reach the pedals.
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    They actually call out in SDF that they're putting people in planes and promoting people faster than they really ought to be. Right from the start, the Macross is trapped behind enemy lines with a massive shortage of pilots and a lot of uncrewed planes(with roughly half of their Valkyrie complement having come from the not-airtight Prometheus). They need butts in seats faster than they can train them.
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    Hey, it's not MY fault they're clumsy barbarians that don't know how to handle quality merchandise! Jerks were probably throwing it at the wall like a bunch of three-year-olds.
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    I love Isamu.
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    Okay, that's kinda awesome.
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    It gives me an idea! I shall start my own toy company! Our products may not be as good as the others, owing to a lack of engineering skill and budget for quality manufacturing, but I'll make it up by mounting lead weights in the torso!
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    Trufax: When I watched that movie with family the other day, my mother sang along with, I believe, every song on the soundtrack.
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    All but the first stage of the mighty Saturn V were H/O engines. Which was novel at the time, if I recall.
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    If it happens and if Capcom manages to not QBert it up beyond all recognition.
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    Yeah. Windows strongly believes that it is the only operating system on a computer, so it blows away any existing bootloaders during install.
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    Also to sell toys. Much harder. In the atmosphere, you can dump a lot of heat into the air around you. In space, the only wayss to get heat out are infrared radiation and ejection of heated mass. Conduction and convection cease to be viable cooling mechanisms.
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    Because BOMBA! ... Or possibly he has a CRAZY tobacco addiction.
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    It's interesting that you call kerosene horrible stuff while hoping for a rocket fueled with hydrogen peroxide or hydrazine, as both are horrible fuels to deal with. That hydrazine is the fuel used in most attitude thrusters says far less about how nice it is than it does about how terrible the rest of the monopropellants are, because hydrazine is nasty stuff. I mean, I suppose hydrogen peroxide has the advantages of being relatively non-toxic and clean-burning, but it also has the disadvantage of being WILDLY unstable. In that it breaks down exothermically(releasing heat), and breaking down with heat(among many, many other things). Which results in a vicious chain reaction as it begins to break down, heats itself up, breaks down faster because of the heat, heating itself more, in a race to the combustion point. And since it's a monopropellant, it's fuel AND oxidizer. So when it reaches that combustion point, the entire mass bursts into flame all at once. Bad in a spill, worse in a tank. That said... we Americans use liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen for our main engines these days. If you can find a copy, I strongly recommend reading John Clark's "Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants". It is both hilarious and educational, and written to be accessible to non-physics majors.
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    Man, and I thought Tatooine was a poor place to call home. I pity any child that grows up on Pluto.
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    ALL of us are moving there.
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    Don't know yet. You do have a year to consider this, so I'd wait a few months and see what the consensus is after the launch sh!tstorm and inevitable growing pains have died down.
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    I think I ranted during Frontier about their explaining why there's a time difference between the folks inside a space fold and the folks outside it. (I still maintain that it was dumb and inconsistent.)
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    It's what NASA's New Horizons team wants, but official names are subject to IAU approval. So unless the IAU hates fun, those are "real".
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    I throw it in every now and then. It's a sort of pretty-but-dumb that I find very enjoyable.
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