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Re: Alien and gravity
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Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:25:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> "We're looking for a few good men and women, and we *do* mean a few."
Ha Ha :-)
> Not bad, and not inconsistent with most of what we see. Would there have
> been sufficient gravity, then, for the alien and Ripley to fall into the
> airlock? That would imply that the generator (or projector) is very thin
> (as thin as the outer hatch) or that the projector need not be directly
> beneath the area in which gravity is to be simulated. Hmm...
Your assuming that space ship gravity is a pulling force, it would work just
as well as a pushing force. A central gravity core could send out 'reverse
gravity' pushing everything outwards toward the hull.
> > > It's a battleship, I imagine, so it could house massive weapons and
> > > propulsion systems, but these weren't needed
> >
> > I'd say the propulsion systems WE'RE needed.
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> Oops! My error. The movie would have been a lot shorter if the ship
> couldn't go anywhere! 8^) I meant the massive and presumably ship-to-ship
> weapons systems.
Ha Ha again, one to me.
> > > (and, I would suggest, there was no clear reason to think they
> > > *might* have been needed, since there was no indication of an invading,
> > > largescale alien force, or they would have sent more than a dozen grunts!)
> >
> > Perhaps the ship is multipurpose and designed to fight it's way into a
> > heavily defended area in order to drop in a small group of commadoes.
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> Interesting. I wouldn't be too confident in leaving my ship undefended
> except for the two stay-behind grunts aboard, though. I'd still like a full
> complement of at least artificial people.
Bugs don't have there own space ships so fumigating the dropship should have
worked :-) only joking.
Interesting idea though. The ship probably had enough auto defences to take
care of an attack by fighters.
Assult forces are normally assembled with the enamy strenght in mind any way.
Steve
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| (...) Did you guys read the link I posted? I gave a rather long description of the Sulaco's role, its armaments, and what level of automation it contains. :^P ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) "We're looking for a few good men and women, and we *do* mean a few." (...) Not bad, and not inconsistent with most of what we see. Would there have been sufficient gravity, then, for the alien and Ripley to fall into the airlock? That would (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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