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Yeah, it gets deposited there by solar winds. Our atmosphere keeps us from obtaining any useful amount of it.

Highly unlikely. Fusion is a lot more clean than fissions, and doesn't have the propensity for chain reactions. Although it is certainly possible, it is just not likely. After all a pure fusion bomb is well sought after (possible defenition of reaction weapons, but they are more likely pair annihilation). Thing is if you fuse a bunch of hydrogen together all at one you get a big fusion reaction (like stars get), but if you fuse smaller amounts you don't get heavy reactions, just what you need in power. The idea for energy using fusion is to start up the fusion by heating hydrogen so it will fuse by some method (could be tormac, laser induced, or any number of ways), after the first fusion heat from the generation energy is used to fuse more hydrogen, creating sustained fusion. Sustained fusion is what we have yet to perfect. It seems the most efficient way to create sustained fusion in by compression hydrogen or whatever element in a sphere really densely so it heat up and fuses. This is exactly what stars do. However it isn't easy to compact things into a sphere, stars have gravity doing that and we cannot control gravity (maybe someday long in future, but not now). I think the only way to have a VF engine go critical like that would be to remove all fail safes and cause all the material in the engines to fuse at once creating a massive reaction. Like I said, supposedly it could happen with damage, but I don't see it being something that happens often. I have been using hydrogen throughout this post just because that is at the moment the easiest element to fuse, but there are other options. Truthfully deuterium seems easier for us to work with than pure hydrogen, I can't remember why though. Pure hydrogen is what is fused in stars though. Another element which is promising is helium-3. This element fuses easily and does throw away neutrons like deuterium so there is even less radiation than from hydrogen fusion (as if there was that much to begin with, fusion by comparison to fission practically has no radiation, though it is there). Problem is helium-3 is scare on Earth. It is abundant however, on our very own Moon. Which is why I am an advocate for future lunar mining.

Hmm, I looked there for the game before you gave me a copy but I never found it. Strange, I must have missed it. I wouldn't call myself hardcore, I just had a lot of time on my hands. Even though I beat those missions fast they weren't of good rankings in the first go at them. Having had a weeks worth of time to go back and do other missions I have chalked up a large number of S ranks, some easily, some out of pure luck. I got my VF-1J Max, I even have Max's VF-1S (DYRL of course). However I need two more S ranks to get Roy's VF-1S which is the hardest to attain. The last two levels I need are on the DYRL story and they are the Meltran gun destroyer and Boddolza himself... which I have never gotten better than a D before (if I survived at all). So this will take time. I seem to be very good at learning the valkyries moves and knowing when the right time to switch modes is. Also strangely my performance went way up after I was able to use the VF-1J Max, perhaps some psychological thing since that is my favorite VF-1, or it could just be a genius's ability rubbing off the paint scheme. The funny thing is my 1/48 VF-1J Max is sitting next to my TV as I play it so maybe that is adding to its ability to kick ass.

Good to know, like I said I didn't think I'd actually try that. The game is well worth all the work to do the mod. It goes by fast but it is entertaining enough that I can see myself replaying stages for higher ranks a lot (especially since I'm not a big gamer so higher ranks don't come easily). It will also be my personal mission to get Max VF-1J paint scheme (I know what I have to do, so it will take a while). I beat the TV version of the story (with only one S rank out of the 12 missions, so that will take work) and I have done 3 of the Movie story missions with no S ranks yet... will continue there soon. I already tried doing the Pineapple Salad level again to get S rank for Max's VF-1A paint but Milia blew too much of my health away, I just have to learn to dodge her attacks more efficiently.

Update on the PS2 story. I have after some work finally got around to getting the PS2 and have no successfully modded it, and it plays SDF Macross perfectly as well. Unfortunately my copy of ARMAX did not include max media player so I had to use a PS1 exploit to install FMCB but I was able to do with without too much trouble. I actually had to buy a slim because all the used fat PS2s were sold out, but luckily I had a friend with a fat PS2 I could use to install the mod on my memory card so now I can just play it all off my slim. I just have to make sure not to delete the mod or anything since I won't have access to that fat PS2 forever or I'll have to find a different install method. That brings me to a question, a hypothetical one really. Since the PS2 can play PS1 games, if I were to patch up a copy of VF-X2 with a dummy file to expand it to 1.4GB and patch it with memento would the ESR program be able to play that as well? I don't know if I'd actually do that since I can play VF-X2 fine on my computer with a PS1 emulator (and I have) but I am just curious.

If you really must know (prepare face palm demotivators, lol). Then it is a reference to Team America World Police, specifically one song called 'Freedom isn't Free' in which the song says freedom costs a buck o' five. If you remember freedom from the topic is for what I was talking about paying $1.05. Enjoy face palms.

I must have missed the macross design, but that was funny regardless.

I just looked at the episode, the GG subs just say Cosmo Nature, November 2047 edition. Klan's computer screen didn't give any more on the date either unless it was mentioned in Japanese text, though I doubt it.

That is what he says in the subs I watched. I like it better than the one you saw truthfully. Thanks for the fix Vostok 7, I just copied and pasted that from another page with the quotes, I knew the line but not word for word.

"Wonderful. Bust, 83 cm. Will expand when unwrapped." - Max Jenius, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross ep.24.

Though a lot refer to the VF-25 as being feminine due to it's skinny-ness, despite it's cod piece and all the talk about it. It is tradition to refer to vehicles and ships as she, but I know what you are saying, battroid features aside some seem very manly.

My roommate makes me wonder if anything in Macross has cannon boobs... we have laser boobs which is close but I don't know if that qualifies for a cannon. Apparently Gundam has done cannon boobs before. This is going to be one of those infamous topics where the conversation shifted from something specific to a talk that in the end is another boob-related discussion. Macross World really is a charmed place.

Well.. you might be able to say the SDF-1 has rocket boobs. The main vertical thrusters for cruiser mode are on the chest in attacker mode. Hey I think it is better than hanger bay boobs as the original concept was, as well as the Breast Fighters, lol.

Heheheh... that's pretty good. I never thought of it looking like they were at a shooting range before.

Yeah, it is apparent that some of the designers in Shinsei (I know they do the VF-11 and various derivatives, I don't know if Shinsei did the VF-14 though) loved putting random objects for valkyrie boobs, I would seriously bet they were inside jokes from the engineering teams that designed them (in real life it was probably an inside joke from our dear friend with the floating head). Funnily enough my friend, who isn't really a fan of Macross but he knows enough about it thanks to me talking of it nonstop, likes to joke that my VF-25S model has a uni-boob (referring to the pointed chest). He has also made jokes about the VF-1's nosecone position in battroid mode, but we all know those jokes have probably been made before.

Ah... that is so true, the captain can want it to look however he wants, but it is the project lead that gets it his way in the end. Of course the middle man engineer gets to have fun finding ways to make the system better while making sure it ends up with its requisite beefy hands. The chest lasers... probably an inside joke from the engineering team.

Very nice, I've heard the glass one before, I have a list of a bunch of engineering an science jokes. Also I can pretty much assure that you would face palm if I told you the reference, but it is a funny one. Yeah, as for the quote, it really did come to me just as I was waking up once (I don't remember much of my actual dreams so that counts as coming to me in a dream there) and I didn't want to let that go because it sounded perfect. I am an aerospace engineering student by the way (focusing on astronautical engineering, spacecraft that is). Can you guess what got me interested in Macross?

I'm not sure if you got the reference or not, nonetheless I think I'll wait for the opportune moment.

"That'll do pig, that'll do."

Actually I was taking the PD from another dimension as meaning another realm or such, not the standard definition of dimension that you listed (that being the whole 1D, 2D, etc. one). Other than that I don't know much more than you, I can't tell what anyone is trying to say anymore.. just offering my insight and two cents. Perhaps I should just offer up $1.05 and buy my freedom from the whole confusion, heheh .

This is an intriguing thought, maybe there is a future for the Lucifer in fleets like Macross 5 that are mostly Zentradi.

I've tried a couple poses with the 2 valkyries that I have but I don't have much to brag about. However I will post a few pictures anyway of my 1/48 VF-1J Max, and my 1/72 VF-25S Ozma Valks, some which can be humorous with the right captions. Yes the backdrops on these images are kind of sucky, I have been going through different ones, found one that works but these pics came before that. I just really like this one, picturesque... in a geeky sort of way, but that is why we are here after all. If anyone is curious the VF-1J is new, I just got it. I had the VF-25 since December. Also for the 25 it is just stickers and panel lining only, I'm not a huge modeler, just enough to make it look decent. In this one the VF-25S realizes how wrong his height is compared to his new friend: VF-25S: "It is good to have to on the team 1, I'll call you J actually. Now that Masterpiece Starscream this guy owns can't brag about how good he looks compared to you. Us Valks have to stick together, but I should be in charge since I'm newer and bigger.... wait... your bigger.... that can't be right.." VF-1J: "It is called 1/48 scale my friend... didn't they tell you?" 25S: "No... guess I'm back to being the little model yet again." 1J: "Don't feel bad, at least your not the 1/60 version, have you seen those things?" 25S: "Good point." And this one I just did because it seemed funny at the time: VF25S: "So then she says I transform too fast.. can you believe that?" VF-1J: "That's rough man..." 25S: "Does that Red Valk you hang around ever say such mean things like that?" 1J: "Heheh... um.. lets not get into that." Anyway that is all I have on this, maybe I'll try something different later. I am thinking about getting some of those flexi-display stands for the 1J though, they look very good.

Different dimensions is a term thrown around in science fiction an awful lot that is so often used incorrectly... in this case though it isn't that bad especially since they don't really elaborate on what they mean by 'came from a different dimension' at all. In most cased in SF if it is said that something came from an alternate dimension they mean like another realm, plain of existence, or even possibly an alternate universe. Since the scientific definition of dimension means something different than these it makes no sense to use the word... However dimension is just such a good word for that and it sounds right so it is used often to mean other things, so it really is not a bad thing, just gets confused especially when you know what it really means to say alternate dimension. In the case of Macross I'd say the Protodeviln are from an alternate realm or plain of existence as the term is used to describe. As for the Vajra, I don't remember them saying they were from a different dimension, so I assume they just lived in this galaxy too and we never noticed them before... they could be extragalactic though, I don't remember hearing that but their fold capability is pretty good, they could cross those distances well enough I bet. In the case of calling Vajra Super Dimensional Life Forms, that just means they are capable of fold travel I bet since folds utilize extra dimensions (in the correct sense of the word... well as correct as you can get with FTL) to travel at superluminal speeds. Much like how the Macross could travel by fold, therefor it is a Super Dimensional Fortress.

It is a good possibility. I'd even believe that Megaroad 13 just wanted the 14 to have bigger hands, but that is just me (lol ). I can easily believe that any colony can modify and redesign valkyries to their liking or for specific purposes.

I don't know much about Farscape, but wormholes in general were first theorized by Einstein and most scientists today believe they can be naturally occurring, but it is not likely one could safely traverse one and live. Wormholes are not unlike the Type A FTL mentioned before, they are just naturally forming, and usually very random in most science fiction (it is theorized they'd be pretty random and unstable). Some theories put a connection between black holes and wormholes but generally they are treated as two very different things. Wormholes are held open by negative energy (also known as exotic energy) which is the direct opposite of positive energy. Positive energy includes pretty much any type of energy we know to exist or use (this is different from the concept of antimatter, that is just reversed charges) negative energy has yet to be officially documented.