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- From: wggray@rodan.acs.syr.edu (William G. Gray)
- Subject: Re: Ramblings about X-WING...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.091752.26969@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
- References: <Erick_Bergquist.03p9@equinox.Kenosha.WI.US> <1992Dec9.120122.9180@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <1992Dec9.135212.6907@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 09:17:51 EST
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- In article <1992Dec9.135212.6907@athena.mit.edu> dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec9.120122.9180@opal.comlab.ox.ac.uk>, as@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Andrew Stevens) writes:
- >|> >ROBERT YUNG (ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu) wrote:
- >|> >:
- >
- >There were plenty of guns in the trench as well. I can't believe that a beam
- >weapon couldn't hit a target coming at it in a straight line in a confined space.
- If you noticed in the movie, people -were- dying in the trenches.
- But you also have to take into account that an object travelling
- as fast as an X-Wing is tough to line up a shot on.
- >I also think that it would have been very easy for the empire to stop Luke.
- >How... Throw up a net with mines attached in the middle of the trench. Anything
- >flying down it runs into the net and blows up, and you then deploy another.
- >Cheap, effective, and ruinous to the plot.
- >
- It's not like the empire thought that mere -fighters- would ever
- try a head-on attack like the rebels did. And besides, why heavily
- arm maintenance trenches when you have all that other stuff around?
- And it's not as if the Empire was expecting the rebels to go into
- the trenches, so where would they get the idea to mine them, hmm?
- >Another complaint: The Alliance should have gotten their money back on those
- >targeting computers: They couldn't hit a stationary target from a platform
- >moving at constant velocity. Give me a piece of paper and a pencil, and I'll
- >compute the trajectory. (not in real-time :)
- >
- They weren't aiming for an object, they were aiming for a -hole-!
- A 2-meter hole, with walls on either side of the ship, and
- beam weapons flying alla round them. Not to mention the speed they
- were flying at would make things considerably difficult. Plus,
- the missiles had to fly -straight down- the hole, and get a lock
- on the core in order to head to it. I don't think I can see
- anyone computing that with ease--there are too many variables
- involved.
- >Daniel Silevitch dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
- >Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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