On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote: > It wasn't a toy. The Space Cruiser Yamato in _Star Blazers_, in addition to its gun >turrets and fighter bays, was essentially a giant cannon reverse-engineered from >alien star drive technology. They could blow up entire planets, although, IIRC it >disabled the ship for some time and was not 100% reliable. > > In other words, all I needed after school was cable. :)
Cable? UHF, baby, UHF. The ONLY technology for badly-translated anime! :-) Wasn't the wave motion gun basically a matter of taking the ship's main drive - the wave motion engine - reversing and focusing its output on a target? Speakng of unreliable mega weapons, does anybody have fond memories of the staple of early space-exploration computer games, the E-ray? Or Experimental Ray, or something along those lines? It was always the super weapon whose consequences one could never predict...except that it would probably $*&! you up almost at much as the bad guys. Marvin Long Austin, Texas "Two bits, four bits, six bits, a peso. If you're for Zorro, stand up and say so!" _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
