gravy
22nd Sep 2002, 13:59
I couldn't get sensible answers to this elsewhere so trying here.
I was watching phantom menace the other day and I happened to take particular note of queen amidala's spaceship (amongst her other assets). Now this machine is silver, very stream-lined and has two massive donks down the back which are impressively large ("so's my johnson") and obviously capable of propelling the thing and everyone in it at skid-mark-loosening speeds.
So what, you ask? Well, if I may, I would like to point out that both of these monster donks face AFT.
NOW, the keen observer may notice that on, not one, not two but a COUPLE of occasions the ship is seen performing what we in the industry refer to as A VERTICAL TAKE-OFF. How is it so? And... if it's that easy, why don't we do it??
I re-played the scenes and see NO sign of any other powerplants underneath the thing.
Also, during the VERTICAL TAKE-OFF in the sand, you'd expect to see piles of DUST, sand, house bricks, stray cats and sh!t flying everywhere just like in blackhawk down --- but there's nothing. Anti-gravity? Good point, BUT why have that just for take-off and not for the rest of the flight, as in that saucer-shaped thing klaatu turned up here in, years ago?
Also, bare-metal finish? Do they know how many man-hours are involved in polishing? Ask American, they'll tell you. I had to polish one during my brief time in GA and it is not a pleasant task. It was a bonanza and it weren't capable of VERTICAL TAKE-OFFs, neither.
I have applied reason, logic, brainwork, navel-gazing, meditation, deliberation, estimation, cerebration, contemplation, rumination, mass-tuhbation, introspection, outrospection, scrutiny, study, and solicitude but I can't find anything in the books that explains this. Am I missing something? I DID sleep a lot during my aerodynamics classes, and I "taught" myself BGT so that could explain SOME of it. But still...
I was watching phantom menace the other day and I happened to take particular note of queen amidala's spaceship (amongst her other assets). Now this machine is silver, very stream-lined and has two massive donks down the back which are impressively large ("so's my johnson") and obviously capable of propelling the thing and everyone in it at skid-mark-loosening speeds.
So what, you ask? Well, if I may, I would like to point out that both of these monster donks face AFT.
NOW, the keen observer may notice that on, not one, not two but a COUPLE of occasions the ship is seen performing what we in the industry refer to as A VERTICAL TAKE-OFF. How is it so? And... if it's that easy, why don't we do it??
I re-played the scenes and see NO sign of any other powerplants underneath the thing.
Also, during the VERTICAL TAKE-OFF in the sand, you'd expect to see piles of DUST, sand, house bricks, stray cats and sh!t flying everywhere just like in blackhawk down --- but there's nothing. Anti-gravity? Good point, BUT why have that just for take-off and not for the rest of the flight, as in that saucer-shaped thing klaatu turned up here in, years ago?
Also, bare-metal finish? Do they know how many man-hours are involved in polishing? Ask American, they'll tell you. I had to polish one during my brief time in GA and it is not a pleasant task. It was a bonanza and it weren't capable of VERTICAL TAKE-OFFs, neither.
I have applied reason, logic, brainwork, navel-gazing, meditation, deliberation, estimation, cerebration, contemplation, rumination, mass-tuhbation, introspection, outrospection, scrutiny, study, and solicitude but I can't find anything in the books that explains this. Am I missing something? I DID sleep a lot during my aerodynamics classes, and I "taught" myself BGT so that could explain SOME of it. But still...