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View Poll Results: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - Episode 04 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 17 | 12.32% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 28 | 20.29% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 48 | 34.78% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 27 | 19.57% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 8 | 5.80% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 2 | 1.45% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 2 | 1.45% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 6 | 4.35% | |
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2007-10-31, 15:31 | Link #281 |
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I tought it was interesting how Celestial Being declared their intention to the world in the first place. It's like they anouncing they be playing the devil to change the world. And in contrast it was kinda similiar with KIRA concept from Death Note. Get rid of all the bad elements in society to create an utopia.
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2007-10-31, 15:34 | Link #282 | |
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The United Kingdom comprises England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. England is the hegemon obviously. I dought England would allow Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales to secede. The Russian Federation comprises 85 federal subjects with Russia as the hegamon. Russia has shown it will not allow Chechnya or other states to secede. The United States of America did not allow the Southern States to secede during the American Civil War. The Northeastern Shoreline holds most of the political power in the country. The state of Texas still has a right secession written into its constitution, but I dought Washington D.C. would allow it without a fight. Most federations do not allow secession. I think the Union of Federalist States is a better term than the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations in this case. This is just speculation, I haven’t seen any concrete evidence on how the power structure of any of the three Blocs actually works. Last edited by lubczyk; 2007-10-31 at 18:35. |
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2007-10-31, 17:54 | Link #283 | |
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They wouldn't be so expensive and resource intensive if they didn't include all the bells and whistles like a cargo lift for both freight and people, a train station-like complex at the base and party rooms at the top of the elevator. A bare-bones solar energy power cord structure should be buildable at only a fraction of the cost of the current monstrosities. But it wouldn't look as cool. |
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2007-10-31, 18:01 | Link #284 | |
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Like I said before, the Union is most likely an entity that is practically unprecedented based on the way it is formulated in the first place. After all, the biggest project in the history of mankind and the lifeline to which billions of people depend on would create alliances that are much closer than any we've seen before. So unless we get a deeper idea of how the Union actually works, I don't think you can use contemporary definitions to discount anything.
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2007-10-31, 18:13 | Link #286 | |
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Pipes should radiate from the Elevator to each sponsor nation of the structure. Japan and Australia probably partially share the same pipe across the Pacific ocean in order to save money. These pipes are probably the major cause for concern. The elevators are protected by the military 24/7. But the pipes take up too much surface area to be guarded all the time.
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2007-10-31, 18:31 | Link #287 |
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Yeah I was wondering about that. I don't see how feasible it'd be for Austrlia and Japan to have energy pipes leading ALL THE WAY across the pacific. They'd be better off using the energy sources by HRA.
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2007-10-31, 18:35 | Link #288 | ||
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For all we know, they have some way of dropping it from space in neat little containers... |
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2007-10-31, 18:44 | Link #291 | |
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2007-10-31, 18:56 | Link #292 |
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No it won't. The elevator is difficult and expensive, but relatively practical. While constantly sending enough energy to power a third of the Earth's cities in a giant beam of death without insulation = looking for trouble.
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2007-10-31, 19:07 | Link #294 | |
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Or it may even be a combination. Some areas are beamed with energy while areas that are close by don't even need the energy beamed to them. In bubble gum crisis I believe they supplied energy from the elevator by a train that drops off energy containers. |
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2007-10-31, 19:10 | Link #295 | ||||
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To put things into perspective, the tallest tower of the World Trade Center had dimensions of 417m x 63m x 63m, for a total volume of 1.66E6 m^3. The Gundam 00 elevators seem to have a diameter of around 500m, and if we assumed that they're 150km tall, the total volume would be around 1.47E10 m^3, or 8800 times as big. Even if we assume that they have the same density (which wouldn't make sense at all), the elevator would require 8800 times as much material, and probably over 30,000 times the resources (and about a million times the effort) to construct. By their nature, there's no way to build a "pared down" version of an orbital elevator (and if there was, the AEU probably would have done it that way). Quote:
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2007-10-31, 19:19 | Link #296 | |
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And anyway, the elevator also functions as a cheap form of space transport for building materials. They couldn't have built all the solar panels and everything else in space big enough to wrap around the EARTH, using just rockets and shuttles, especially NOT during a fuel shortage.
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2007-10-31, 19:32 | Link #297 | ||
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2007-10-31, 19:41 | Link #299 | ||
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I hadn't seen that article before. Thx for the link. Quote:
I don't know. I don't think it's unreasonable to think our tech is going to be much more efficient 300 years in the future, especially for our solar cells. |
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2007-10-31, 19:58 | Link #300 | |
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I hope that Celestial Being isn't powerful enough to destroy whole armies like the Wing Zero or Strike Freedom and Infinite Justice. |
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