You make space elevators sound so easy, BFK! It's true that finding a strong material is the single greatest hurdle in making a space elevator possible in the first place, but you've significantly undersold the applicable parameters. Geostationary orbit (GEO) is at an "altitude" of 35,786 ...

C.E. saw explosively rapid advancements in MS technology, going from dakka-dakka battery-powered GINNs to HiMAT/Dragoon-spamming nuclear-powered Gundams and fleet-slaying Meteors in just four years, followed by a period of proliferation of those once-niche technologies and the further development of...

(also Please don't speak as if you know me its quite insulting, thank you very much) To risk sounding nitpicky... plus I do relate to him because (getting a little personal here) I've lost my younger brother to heart cancer so for me it wasn't forced or unearned, but everything else I agree with. :...

I've lost my younger brother to heart cancer so for me it wasn't forced or unearned, but everything else I agree with. :) It sounds like whatever emotion you felt wasn't something set up by the show, but rather you re-experiencing your own emotional baggage; you did the work of setting up the emoti...

They probably went with "M" because it's an incredibly common first letter for female characters' prominent names in Macross, intentionally obfuscating efforts to identify the person if it's even someone we already know in the first place. Minmay, Misa, Milia, Myung, Mao, and half of the J...

So they did not say if this will be a manga or something of the light novel category, but they will have a spin-off title where the Tekkadan will be mice and the Gjallarhorn will be cats it seems. Serialization is confirmed on this month's Animage on July 10th and they will release more info later....

You missed one detail... Major Arad implies that it's politically difficult to deploy the federal New UN Forces in a conflict between emigrant worlds. It's not hard to see why, given that the government's relationship to its member states went from being an almost abusively powerful federation to b...

(There's a LOT of Norse mythological references kicking around in Macross 30 and Macross Delta ... usually connecting the Protoculture to Norse deities, and almost all of which are given fairly meaningful in-story significance. Seems a safe bet Windermere is the same way... they're in the role of F...

Given what we're told of Var syndrome in the series, the job Kaos had been contracted to do was to suppress mass outbreaks of a highly dangerous ailment that causes mob violence and had a rather nasty tendency to affect military personnel. If it'd stayed that way, Kaos would be off the hook for hav...

I assumed that they did the whole "Why would the same little trick work twice?" and didn't bother. That would be a pretty immature approach to warfare. To help put it in perspective, American aircraft carriers currently carry ~75 aircraft (including helicopters and transport planes) as th...

So a question has occurred to me, and its answer could either be mundane or very significant for future events in Delta. In Ep 4, Walkure's multidrones and fold wave amplifiers are jammed by the Aerial Knights. In Ep 5, Makina and Reina can be briefly seen making modifications to the multidrones. Fr...

I have a theory for the series moving forward. I believe Mikumo will be killed, or more likely, will join the enemy. She doesn't appear to connect with anyone in her group, I can't point to a single friendly relationship, or even moment with them. A rivet between her and Freja seems clear. Secondly...

I know tradition dictates that Mirage win the triangle, but honestly at this point I can't see her winning without some sort of asspull. They have consistently shown that Hayate and Freyja are only at their best when they're together. You mean like that same kind of asspull that just let Hayate def...

(Now that they've basically screwed up so royally the entire cluster is in enemy hands, they will likely have a hard time finding customers...) To be fair, from their perspective they were treating (and minimizing damage from) micro-outbreaks of an unknown space virus, only for it to turn out the a...

That approach ... is essentially the standard one... going all the way back to ... the earliest FAST packs. Is it? I'm no expert on the matter and would need to do some research before making any definitive claims, but I could have sworn most FAST packs utilized the diagonal/VLS approach, similar t...

[*] Internal micro-missile launchers (6, mounted on the engine nacelles) Specifically, from Ep 10 it seems there are two launchers on the outboard side of each nacelle, one on each inboard side, and that each launcher fires two missiles per salvo. It appears that they truly are launchers, firing on...

In other news, the official Macross site has revealed preview images for the next episode and... oh ho? Is that a new member of Delta Squad after all? Maybe. He does appear to be wearing a pilot uniform, something that was unique to the, well, pilots, when we saw everyone* gathered in the briefing ...

I think Bogue is either going to die or join Delta Platoon after learning the error of his ways. It just seems likely since red head managed to beat him in a duel of words. Is this the embarrassment that came before he said, without any brainwash-breaking confliction, "Cease this filthy song&q...

Either way, just goes to show how precise Keith's aim is. I wouldn't mind if he aimed for Bogue's heart next. :P Actually, the heart itself is present in the center of your body. Granted, some of the heart does lie along the center of the chest, but I still feel like such a theoretically impressive...

Keith aimed that final shot straight into Messer's heart. Savage. I'm no expert regarding the Japanese language, but isn't the word they use closer to "center" or "core" than "heart"? If they did mean the organ, the damage to the seat looks pretty centered, so was Mess...