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Subject: Did the UNSC hire commanders out of elementary school?

You can call me Shank.

You must learn, as many others have, to bottle up your confusion and hide it in the deepest, darkest part of yourself for years until it explodes into an unfortunate incident at a Mcdonalds in South Carolina.

  • 11.08.2010 12:22 PM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

Posted by: Gamer Whale
Also, what is the distance when you have to start thinking "That ship was actually there few seconds ago, now it's really over there." And you couldn't know if it has already changed course.
Well, anything greater than maybe 1/10 lightseconds. Because the image you're viewing is a tenth of a second old, so even if you fire based on that image, correcting for movement, it will miss - by a distance of 0.1 lightseconds.

I don't think space combat is even feasible, there are too many variables to control for even the most advanced of Fire Control computers. Accounting for massive distance, for which the data from sensors will NOT be accurate. Motion. Reverse/Forward momentum factoring into the shot. Gravity minutely affecting weapon trajectories. 3 Dimensional evasive manoeuvres, high speeds, collateral damage...
A million reasons why it will simply not happen.

  • 11.08.2010 1:15 PM PDT

Am I supposed to write something funny here?


Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: Gamer Whale
Also, what is the distance when you have to start thinking "That ship was actually there few seconds ago, now it's really over there." And you couldn't know if it has already changed course.
Well, anything greater than maybe 1/10 lightseconds. Because the image you're viewing is a tenth of a second old, so even if you fire based on that image, correcting for movement, it will miss - by a distance of 0.1 lightseconds.

I don't think space combat is even feasible, there are too many variables to control for even the most advanced of Fire Control computers. Accounting for massive distance, for which the data from sensors will NOT be accurate. Motion. Reverse/Forward momentum factoring into the shot. Gravity minutely affecting weapon trajectories. 3 Dimensional evasive manoeuvres, high speeds, collateral damage...
A million reasons why it will simply not happen.

But how to counter bombardment that doesn't come from orbit?
(Planets course is pretty predictable)

  • 11.09.2010 5:29 AM PDT

If I don't believe in him...



why should he believe in me?

well i guess you could agree that they are like today's politicians :)

  • 11.09.2010 6:26 AM PDT


Posted by: Gottalovec4
ANY Captain of a UNSC Frigate or Destroyer

UNSC/ONI Testing and Logistics:
Hey, holy crap! Frigates and Destroyers don't have enough punch to penitrate a Covenant ship's shields! Lets keep building the EXACT SAME CLASSES OF SHIPS and don't even UPGRADE THEM.


This

  • 11.14.2010 11:20 AM PDT


Posted by: MC LOL88
well i guess you could agree that they are like today's politicians :)


I wonder what their politicians are like.

  • 11.14.2010 11:31 AM PDT
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Using a Nova bomb anywhere near a planet would have destroyed it an all its defenses. When you are trying to save a planet, that's kind of counterproductive.

  • 11.14.2010 11:31 AM PDT


Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob
Using a Nova bomb anywhere near a planet would have destroyed it an all its defenses. When you are trying to save a planet, that's kind of counterproductive.


The Covenant Fleet didn't jump right next to the planet, that would of been suicide. They jumped out of range of the ODP's, but right into a minefield.

  • 11.14.2010 11:33 AM PDT

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