2008-10-10, 16:01 | Link #22 |
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IIRC there was some kind of nuclear disaster that made people ban the use of the technology, of course is was (partly?) monitored by CB, along the lines of Aeolia's plan, to favor the Solar Energy System.
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2008-10-10, 16:47 | Link #23 | |
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Well yes and no. We have the technology necessary to develop a working elevator but we don't have the technology to produce the tether that the elevator needs in order to actually go up or down. What we have right now (as far as tether material goes) is something darn close (carbon nanotubes), but we have no method for rapidly producing them in sufficient quantity and in the appropriate configuration (nice, incredibly long strands) so it's still something just on the drawing board. As our facility with nanotechnology improves, we will hopefully be able to actually make nice ropes out of the carbon nanotubes. Then we can begin taking them up into orbit and essentially dropping them down to the ground. After that you start constructing the actual elevator on the tether. |
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2008-10-10, 22:43 | Link #24 | |
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On that note, the Tieren Katars are made of carbon too. Metal swords simply won't do.
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2008-10-11, 00:53 | Link #25 | |
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Nuclear power seems to be something they locked into the desert and threw the keys away. |
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2008-10-11, 03:41 | Link #28 |
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Watch MSG, Victory and Turn A then you'll know
Basically, if you are not skilled enough to blow up a MS by shooting or cutting the right parts you'll get a nuclear explosion in your face
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2008-10-11, 10:06 | Link #30 | ||
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But the real question shouldn't be about the reactors, but rather, why do any of these mobile suits have legs? 00 seems to skip over the whole walking mech thing, and go straight to the flying robot thing right from the start. Most of the other gundam series have a slow progression from walking mechs to flying mechs, but right from the start, 00 had flying gundams. *shrugs* To confound things, their flying device, the gn drive, is mounted on the back (or the shoulders). No need for thrusters in the legs at all. The legs just seem to be dead weights as far as I concerned. |
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2008-10-11, 12:13 | Link #32 | |
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-humanoid robots are superior to conventional weapon: if it weren't for this trope, most Mecha-Anime wouldn't exist... -vehicles are explosives, especially when powered with a power source including that includes in its description the word "nuclear". -nukes are like very powerfull dynamite sticks: remember in Turn-A when Spoiler for spoiler:
-and numerous other... If you don't accept these and start nitpicking details as if it was hard science fiction, you'll spoil yourself the entertainment, as I did myself when Wing was airing 10 years ago in my country (WTF! beam-SCYTHES!!!!!! That's way too far unrealistic!!! )
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Therefore, changing the magnetic field to form a scythe blade instead of a saber blade wouldn't be that hard to imagine--it can be done for virtually any kind of melee weapon.
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2008-10-11, 14:49 | Link #38 |
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Pilot and payload, yes. Rasiel also has the same color scheme as 00 Gundam. But I meant design wise. Rasiel first has 2 GN Verniers and the GN Sefer looks much more like O Riser than GN Arms. The other 3 Gundams were built to be improvements of their predecessors but Exia wasn't around to have a direct successor.
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