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gotta love the 1992 looking laptop


Laptop? I thought he was playing Battleship.

Ahh yes, giant battleships with enormous guns in space.

As with most of this stuff I watched as a kid (Astro Boy, Voltron etc.) the animation really is shite... let's move as LITTLE as we can... come on... just a tinsy, tiny bit people... there we go, that was 10 minutes of screen time in just 5 minutes of work... keep it up!

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There is so many thing to say about this game. I've tried a great number of MMO (or so-called MMO), and this one is part of the few games that deserve the title of MMO Game. Well, I won't start to tell me felling about it, 'cause I won't stop

For information, all the scenes you can see in this video are in-game. It's not pre-rendered. The camera movement can be the same in-game too.

I've played this game when it was beta, and then, for the first year and an half. There wasn't the 1/10th of features that it has now.

And so, with the trinity patch, I think i'll make another run with my old battleship pilot

I have some questions...

1. Did they sink their battleship?

2. Can I have one?

3. Would security get mad if I try to take it on the plane with me?

4. What's the correct answer to this question?

5. Where's the g-spot?

7. What happened to question #6?

8. Have you ever tried to fire a dud straight up and catch the round in the tube?

it sank my battleship!!

A lil histroy from Wikipedia:

The Iowa-class battleships served in every major U.S. war of the latter half of the 20th century. In World War II, they defended aircraft carriers and shelled Japanese positions before being placed in reserve at the end of the war. Recalled for action during the Korean War, the battleships provided artillery support for UN forces fighting against North Korea. In 1968, New Jersey was recalled for action in the Vietnam War and shelled Communist targets for U.S. forces near the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone. All four were reactivated and armed with missiles during the Cold War as part of the 600-ship Navy. In 1991, Missouri and Wisconsin fired missiles and 16-inch guns at Iraqi targets during the Gulf War. All four battleships were decommissioned in the early 1990s, and were removed from the Naval Vessel Register in 2006.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Uss_iowa_bb-61_pr.jpg

The primary armament of an Iowa-class battleship is nine 16 inch (406 mm) / 50-caliber Mark 7 naval guns, which are housed in three 3-gun turrets: two forward and one aft in a configuration known as "2-A-1". The guns are 66 feet (20 m) long (50 times their 16 inch bore, or 50 calibers, from breechface to muzzle). About 43 feet (13 m) protrudes from the gun house. Each gun weighs about 239,000 pounds (108 000 kg) without the breech, or 267,900 pounds with the breech. They fire projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 pounds (850 to 1,200 kg) at a maximum speed of 2,690 ft/s (820 m/s) up to 24 nautical miles (39 km). At maximum range the projectile spends almost 1½ minutes in flight.

Each gun rests within an armored turret, but only the top of the turret protrudes above the main deck. The turret extends either four decks (Turrets 1 and 3) or five decks (Turret 2) down. The lower spaces contain rooms for handling the projectiles and storing the powder bags used to fire them. Each turret required a crew of 94 men to operate. The turrets are not actually attached to the ship, but sit on rollers, which means that if the ship were to capsize the turrets would fall out. Each turret costs US $1.4 million, but this number does not take into account the cost of the guns themselves.

The turrets are "three-gun," not "triple", because each barrel can be elevated independently; they can also be fired independently. The ship could fire any combination of its guns, including a broadside of all nine. Contrary to myth, the ships do not move noticeably sideways when a broadside is fired.

The guns can be elevated from −5° to +45°, moving at up to 12° per second. The turrets can be rotated about 300° at about four degrees per second and can even be fired back beyond the beam, which is sometimes called "over the shoulder." The guns are never fired directly forward (in the 1980s refit, a satellite up-link antenna was mounted at the bow).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship#Main_battery

Tags changed from "hashima, battleship, island, japanese" to "hashima, battleship, island, japan" by gold star member choggie.

Last Exile is a steampunk anime series produced in 2003 and created by Gonzo Digimation.

The story revolves around Claus Valca and Lavie Head, a young courier pilot and his navigator, and their adventures in the floating world of Prester. In this romantic sky world based on stylized Victorian fashion and society, two countries, Anatole and Dysis (sometimes phonetically rendered as Anatoray and Disith), are engaged in a long and bloody war under the supervision of the mysterious Guild. Claus and Lavie, piloting their vanship (a small wingless airplane-like machine) find themselves involved in a plot surrounding a mysterious little girl named Alvis Hamilton, whom they must deliver as "cargo" to the much-feared neutral battleship Silvana.

The animation features a combination of 2-D and 3-D CGI sequences; several key staff members such as the character designer Range Murata and Gonzo veteran Mahiro Maeda had previously worked on the production of Blue Submarine No. 6 which was done in a similar style. The series is also notable for having much of the text in English but written with Greek letters, with all numbers given in Roman numerals.

For me this is my second love after Trigun. Must be because of the Dunesque influence of Frank Herbert. The song is "Cloud Age Symphony" by Shuntaro Okino.

- More @ Wikipedia

In the front were 8 engines, each capable of 10 ton lifting capability, most of the power was mostly needed for the initial take off. 2 similar engines in the back were located in the keel, enough to keep the tail up.

The Caspian Sea Monster trails started in 1966, at Caspian Sea. The first flight lasted 55 minutes, with a height of 4 meters off the water and a speed of 400-450 km/h. While the flight looks smooth, there were problems, the body of the plane was built for flying and started to weaving like a snake under pressure. The solution was simplicity itself, to strengthen the body of the plane with metal sheets 20mm thick. But the Caspian Sea Monster did its assigned part convincing officials and earning Alexis a contract to develop more Ekranoplans called the A-90 Orlyonok.

The Orlyonok, launched in 1977, combined everything that has been learnt from the Caspian Sea Monster trails. The Orlyonok showed good results, with liftoff off the water at low speed, high lifting capability, and high speed in flight made this apparatus unique in its use and application.

"This is a marine transport Ekranoplan, capable of transferring 140 marines, or 2 APCs with troops. For load up, these locks are unlocked and the entire front side opens like a large gate."

Orlyonok could take up to a maximum up to 200 troops or 2 water based tanks, it could take off from 2 meter wave seas, and in several hours carry the troops a distance over 1500 KM. The speed of the Ekranoplan was 450 Km/H, no mines or bombs would pose it threat, it offered excellent maneuverability and control. Its low flying height of 2 m and high speed meant it was invisible to radar.

*The following part talks about how difficult it was to control for new pilots, once crashing it and tearing off the entire wings off. Once the engines failed catastrophically, but the pilots managed to make it glide to a stop into the coast*

5 Orlyonoks were built, one for static display, and 4 for flights. 2 were lost, in one of them a pilot died, leading the project to stop for a while.

One last derivative of the Caspian Sea Monster (KM ) was the armed Lun, work started on it in early 70s. The Lun-class was 8 M longer and 3 M higher then the KM. It was armed with 6 3M80 Mosquit rockets, capable of destroying any modern battleship. In 1971, the Lun passed firing exercises for it's weapons with flying colors.

"The Ekranoplan Lun-class was the killer of the seas, for this it has 6 rockets, in its time it performed marvelously. But it was not really accepted and 14 years later still awaits its fate in this dry dock"

The Lun was the best (most practical) of the Ekranoplan that Alexis had completed before his death; it could fly in Level 6 to 7 storms the original Caspian Sea Monster could only fly in Level 3 storms. The speed and armaments of the Lun transport, made it 3 times cheaper then the conventional battleship. However it was not built for the replacement of the battleship, but for support of sea based forces in enclosed seas such as the Baltic, Black or the Mediterranean seas.

"In 1993 they showed the flight of this plane, the one right behind me, to American delegates and after that the flights were basically stopped."

It was a strange occurrence, the Americans always wanted to see the Ekranoplan. They saw it, were marveled and left. And the Ekranoplan faded into obscurity. The USSR collapsed, and not one new version of the plane has been developed. The hard character of its developer, the difficulties in its constructions and the catastrophes of the trails while no military technology came without its difficulties, the Ekranoplan has had far worse fate. What is the fate of this Russian wonder? Seeing as NATO is experimenting with similar technologies, maybe it's not long before in Russia they will remember the work of Rastislav Evegniy Alexisy.

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You sunk my battleship!

Louis D. Giannetti’s Understanding Movies:

. . . A famous sequence from Potemkin shows three shots of stone lions, one asleep, a second aroused and on the verge of rising, and a third on its feet and ready to spring. Eisentein considered the sequence an embodiment of a metaphor: “The very stones roar.” . . .

4-14a-hhh, A portion of the Odessa Steps sequence from Potemkin. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Perhaps the most famous instance of editing virtuosity of the silent cinema, the celebrated Odessa Steps sequence is a brilliant illustration of Eiesentein’s theory of collision montage in practice. The director contrasted lights and darks, vertical lines, with horizontals, lengthy shots with brief ones, close-ups with long shots, static set-ups with traveling shots, and so on.



Netflix’s description of the whole movie:

Propaganda notwithstanding, director Sergei M. Eisenstein's masterwork remains a cinematic landmark, charting events that ultimately led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Fed up with the ship's officers' brutalities and with maggot-infested rations, the crew of the battleship Prince Potemkin revolts. The rebellion ignites an uprising by the citizens of Odessa, resulting in czarist troops' infamous, systematic slaughter of insurgents and bystanders.


Compare the baby carriage scene (beginning around 5:00) to what Brian De Palma did with a baby carriage in this clip:

...The Untouchables: Train Station Shoot-out (9:04)

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=15817

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Need to throw the Enterprise in there for the ultimate "pick your universe" showdown. I sort of feel the Enterprise would get wasted though. It's not really a battleship.

Or a lovely battleship grey Antec case like mine... oh, how I love my case. Time to play Company of Heroes!