Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote:
I expect some guys would be fighting MSs with Ball or downright a machine gun... again, it's the decisive war of Zeon. If they ended up throwing rocks just to hold a corridor, let them be!
Ahh you see. Tomino is totally psychic. He anticipated your 2006 expectation, so in 1980 he animated all these scenes to prove you right: Balls (check, by the hundreds) machine guns (check, both Feds and Zeon) rocks (half a check, I hope in your view a broken helmet counts as a rock?) He also pre-animated all these other scenes in case someone else might develop novel expectations: Prototype MA (check, twice) half-finished MS (check) kamakazi attack (check, once in G-Armor, once in Core Booster) Doomsday laser (check) mirror weapon (check) missile boats even more backward then Zaku I (check) swords (check) hand granades (check) hand-held bazooka (check) He had already make a comprehensive survey of the big battles. He had already put on cellulose all these desperate tooth-and-nail weapons. He showed us the mighty Big Zam, he showed us the lowly machine guns. He did not show us Zaku I. He did not show us Gouf and Acguy. (We know both are there from the retreat from Odessa, and Acguy at least, can put up a better fight than Zaku I inside ABQ where there's gravity and air)
Speaking to your scientific mind here: you can draw 10 black balls straight in a bag of 50 black/50 white balls; the representation of probability 0.5 means a
Oh great, let's talk science. Let's say from the text approved by Mark, you'd say... hmm let's say less than 5% of 800 are left, make it 30 Zaku I's. Now you read "stood along side ... Gelgoogs" you may say... at least 3 Zaku I to every 100 Gelgoogs? Now put 30 blue balls (Zaku I) and 1000 grey balls (Gelgoogs) in your bag. Now let's say Tomino is in a coma so you make the animation based on pure chance. Whenever you want to put a Gelgoog/Zaku I on screen you draw a ball to decide which one. Now combining the Solomon/ABQ footage from TV/movie, you get what? ~100 Gelgoogs to 0 Zaku I. So draw 100 balls sequentially from the bag and see what's the chance you miss Zaku I every time and get Gelgoog 100 times in a row? The chance is (1-30/1000)^100 = 4.76%. If like you said put equal number of white and black balls in there (totally reasonable according to the text "Zaku I stood along side Gelgoog") then your chance drop from 4.76% down to 0.00000000000000000000000000008%. So with greater than 95% confidence (pretty standard in science/statistics) I can conclude that there are fewer then 30 Zaku I per 1000 Gelgoogs at ABQ. And I strongly doubt that Zeon fielded 1000 Gelgoogs at ABQ. And I further argue that Tomino wasn't in a coma and didn't animate scenes by pure chance, if something is visually interesting he put a camera on it. If it's just puer chance, we could argue that the number of hand granades to Gelgoog is more than 1%, but it's not pure chance, hand granades may make no impact on the war, but it's visual, and visceral, so Tomino takes the camera there. If you accept that there were fewer than 30 Zaku I's at Solomon/ABQ (assuming you put 1000 Gelgoogs out there), then I declare our discussion concluded in happy agreement.
Of course, it doesn't mattter, the Zaku I is retconned into the battle... the focus is
If every SW fan takes your "it doesn't matter" attitude, we wouldn't be seeing "Han shot first" getting unretoconned. I may find SW fanboys amusing, but respect that their kicking and screaming WORKED. They held Mr. Lucas his Holyness accountable and he blinked. Zaku I at ABQ can be, and should be, unretoconned. Gundam fans, take a lesson from SW fanboys! -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
