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  1. JB0
    Tiny MP-2! Speaking of... Magnus armor on MP-2. You know you want it.
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    Drama like we haven't seen since MP Starscream.
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    Toys: serious business
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    You raise an excellent point. What if Kevin Bacon IS Luke Skywalker?!?!
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    It's totally Luke Skywalker. I mean, come on, it's OBVIOUS.
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    It does help! Given that one of the working hypotheses for why gravity is weaker, but farther reaching, than most of the basic forces is that gravitons wander through extra dimensions... Science nerd satisfied. ... Not that I would describe Macross as hard sci-fi yet(or ever). Oh, that's EXACTLY who you want to own a 20-gigaton bomb...
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    But he's STILL a better Magnus than the first MP Magnus was! Perhaps damning with faint praise, but...
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    That picture makes me so very sad. So I shall celebrate life with Nimoy driving cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs
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    Finally! A philips that won't cam out and destroy the driver and screwhead both! Awww, coulomb force would've been so much cooler. I do, however, grant that for an accessible science-fiction franchise, gravity is the more reasonable force to tap. The two words have a lot of overlap in weapons design. That's a LOT better than my proposed super-fission bomb. The only good thing about THAT was that everything involved decayed so rapidly. That makes a lot of sense. Not only do they not have a big wad of uranium or plutonium sitting in the middle of things taking up space(plus all teh elaborate parts that go into making a fission weapon work), they ALSO have a device confining the fusible material, so it isn't already being distributed by the shock wave before the fusion reaction starts. So much more of the fuel goes into the actual explosion(and depending on how long the GIC survives, possibly the next round of fusible components too). That's... a really big bomb, though.
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    YES! Two things: 1. I's nice to see the characters grow up. They're adults with actual jobs and crap when the third arc starts. 2. I personally consider that show's subtitle to be "And then things get worse". Just as fair warning.
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    No. I believe it to be an excellent tribute. May the great bird of the galaxy watch over you, good sir.
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    I had some trouble making a choice. The Super 1J and YF-21 gave the Q. Rau a hard fight. And the Stampede, but that really goes without saying. So did the VF-11 MAXL Mylene Custom, but that was my inner troll more than anything else.
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    Truly outrageous.
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    Oh, thank God. I was right, it was all parody of the industry!
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    I considered nominating the Macross Cannon, because overkill is underrated. But it just doesn't have the articulation I needed to call it a mech.
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    And in space, you start flying in a straight line on a constant speed from the moment your power cuts. And you're too hot to be mistaken for debris, so... can you say easy target? Which is WEIRD AS HELL. I just want to note that. I guess with overtechnology, they could have a field generator that dampens the coulomb force that make atomic nucleii repellant instead of any of the conventional ways to overcome that natural repulsion and FORCE a fusion reaction. That'd make "non-fuels" readily fusible, completely screw with the energy output equations that dictate practicality as a fuel... and makes as much sense as anything else. ... It'd also make for some interesting weaponry. Even if it's not a field which can be projected over a long range(an assumption I make for the simple reason that they HAVEN'T), you could stuff all sorts of heavy elements into the reactor, fuse them into super-heavy nucleii. To heck with U-235, you've just built a box full of crap like nobellium, darmstadtium, and the like, with half-lives typically measured in seconds if not picoseconds. All those ridiculously short-lived atoms held together by a single field generator that can be shut off oh... so... easily. The sudden restoration of normal atomic physics would result in a lot of violently unstable atomic nucleii in close proximity to each other(as if anything in this box NEEDS an incentive to fission). So just let nature take it's course, and you've got a super-fission bomb that's INCREDIBLY easy to make.
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    I too loved the terror that flaps in the night. Best dang show Disney ever made.
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    As long as life is still like a hurricane, and there's still race cars, lasers, and aeroplanes, I guess I have no complaints.
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    I care! I have nothing constructive to add, though. ... Not that it's stopped me before. I guess I just have nothing to add, period. But that's not the same as not caring! Those three ARE adorable.
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    Surely ecchi has far less penetration than hentai? ... What? Someone had to say it.
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    They should screw with everyone and do the next preview clip on April first.
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    Fifteen minutes to say "it's an M. Night Shamalama film"?
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    The Macross Quarter. C'mon, you know you wanted to say it too. Also the Q. Rau. I've got a long running affection for the thing.
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    Heat exchanger. Just like a modern fission power plant, that uses a heat exchanger to boil water and spin a turbine, the Valk uses a heat exchanger to pull heat out of the fusion reactor and superheat some form of reaction mass. I suppose electric heaters could also be used, but why? They aren't going near fast enough for a bussard scoop. And even if they were, the huge magnetic field needed would be a hazard to everyone in the area in a dogfight. You have to scour a LOT of space to get a meaningful amount of hydrogen. While I suppose you COULD use onboard hydrogen, it seems like there should be a better option. Like water. It's stable, readily available in large quantities, easy to handle in a broad range of temperatures, and dense. Boil it to steam and spray it out the back. If you do this with the verniers too, you avoid the traditionally nasty substances associated with them*. But I am not a rocket physicist. *Though simplicity dictates that the verniers are PROBABLY still using hydrazine or some overtech monopropellant. Verniers would have to be heated electrically, which will be less efficient than a heat exchanger. And they have to have their own fuel tanks separate from the main engines ANYWAYS, just due to the plumbing problems inherent to a variable fighter. So why rube goldberg it up when you can just fill a tank with hydrazine and spray it across a metal screen? There's something to be said for simplicity, even in a machine as overengineered as a Valkyrie.
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    In fairness, I actually LIKE that Robotech owned that particular animation error and canonized it. Pity they never embraced the Orguss Valk. I have an unhealthy love of that thing.
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