About g-force reduction technology, Not sure if this applies to g-forces or not, but in 00, the GN Drive can reduce the mass of the machine, this might also be able to affect the g-forces sustained by the pilot because it is essentially controlling gravity. Similar applies to SUMO, Turn A and Turn X...

Again and again Newtype (and X-Rounder too) pilots have shown the ability to sense and react to threats split seconds before they actually happen. Do you think that this is ability is telepathic or precognitive in nature? It's the difference between "I can sense this guy over there has intenti...

Thanks for that, although that's more of a ball park that no idea at all, and I think it gives us a fair bit to work with. The Freedom has over 4 times the power of the Strike. That's established in cannon. The question is though, does that apply to speed and in which form. If it applies to speed, ...

Eh... that may be true in strictly relative terms, but the official setting materials make it pretty clear that both of 'em are kind of airborne garbage that any competent designer would've laughed out of town. Neither of them can actually fly using aerodynamic lift. The Dopp is basically a manned ...

The even incomprehensible thing is that in MSV-R, the Principality had this giant machine that basically worked like their version of the AGE System, automatically design, calibrate, and produce components. That means 0070s-era computers had more than enough computing power to do whatever we can no...

Also, I wonder if you can see much in the MSG designs the "vestitude" of the Mobile Infantry. I have only read the translated version of Starship Trooper with illustrations. Did Henlein even leave any sketch telling how Mobile Infantrymen look like? AFAIK, Heinlein never produced any sket...

Speaking of sea faring ships, would ZAFT's scale system-equipped land ships work float on water? They are propelled by scale system propulsion, and we know that scale system work on water since Blue Frame's aquatic combat equipment use scale system for propulsion. It's been a long time since I read...

yazi88 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 10:56 pm Although Zaft never had any regular Sea faring ships outside of Submarines. Minerva was used on the water too.
Earth Alliance and Orb had a number of different sea faring ships.

At least they have the cute patrol boat: https://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/seed- ... t-zaft.htm

I know what a mechanical designer in anime is for, but how much control do they have over the final design? Do they formulate the complete design of the unit: or do they get the basics of what the unit is desired to look like from the director/writer/sponsor/whoever, and then turn it a viable final...

I am pretty sure ZAFT had more experience in both aircraft and ship building before the war. Out of the 12 cities, Martius City(the 3rd one if you are not tipped off by the naming convention) is focused on aerodynamics and shipbuilding and Maius City does Applied mechanical engineering, so their lan...

A "change the story" concept I can think of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zillion_(TV_series) In the original plot given in the early episodes, it is basically impossible to alter their guns(black box artefacts they obtained), but Sega's involvement made them changed their guns to match...

Rule of drama, for the most part. Depending on the application, real world safety glass is either: Transparent thermoplastic, and therefore not actually glass at all. Laminated, actually being multiple layers of glass joined by layers of transparent plastic. I have always wondered about these. Ther...

Thanks , I was wondering how the separate timelines worked. Patlabour is more of a slice of life type of story with only a few longer arcs. You are fine reading them as separate stories and do not really need to care what comes first. I don't recall anything that changed the world too much between ...

Just how tied to continuity is the Patlabor series? Do you need to watch the tv/OVA series to understand the movies? and do the movies need to be watched in order or are they stand alone? The TV and OVAs are retelling of the stories, and you can pretty much understand the story without problem even...

Spacecraft in sci-fi tend to skip realistic design and just make canopies, windows, and helmet visors out of a super-alloy or advanced composite that is transparent and usually far stronger than any modern equivalent. The only difference I can think of is, modern glass used in places requiring prot...

So I listened to a podcast which they mentioned in passing about glasses in sci-fi. So basically glasses use in shuttes have to be extremely strong and have a high melting temprature to withstand the differences in heat and pressure of atmospheric entry. That is why they make these glasses from qua...

Is it ever stated where the Gau is manufactured? Zeon came from space; and the earth based mecha could be carried down on the ships, but what about the earthbound aircraft? Are they manufactured on earth after Zeon starts capturing factories? Or are they built in space and sent through the atmosphe...

... wrote a long, detailed response analyzing how the lore for the Gaw and Dopp has changed over the years to try to establish when it was published. Then I noticed that there was a clearly legible artist signature and date on this art, which the publisher of the article unhelpfully put text direct...

https://twitter.com/1970Chione/status/1334011088187265027?s=20 From an old magazine with very dubious claims that the Gaw is a space attack carrier. With an overall length of 147.7m, and speed of Mach 7.4(no idea why you get a speed in space, but if in atmosphere, that speed is just superbly ridicul...

Alot of your arguments rely on assumptions about information we either simply do not know or is contradicted by the show. For starters, we don't know the pay model of the game. We can be sure that players are paying money to buy/rent the kits they use in-game and the probably pay a fee to use the G...