TV shows with really cool space battles: which are best?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Monday, October 25, 2010 02:36
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Re: Hullscraping.
Yeah, despite it not being realistic, this does add a lot of the "holy crap!" factor during space battles, in particular USS Reliant's near miss of USS Enterprise in Wrath of Khan, come on, who DIDN'T go "Whoa!" on that one, eh ?
Of course, that's several times funnier if you know enough about Trek to realize that during battle stations there's some poor sodder stationed up in the top of the saucer section where the emergency transmitter is located - I bet THAT poor schlep needed a change of pants after the battle.
Re: BSI.
Generally fighter pilots tend to die like flies in any major/protracted air warfare, so your 5's there are the cannon fodder - there's this hard break between them and the next level of it, the whole "If you survive X days, you'll be around a while", and those guys are your 7-8's as a rule...
And then you got your Yaegers, your Richtofens, pilots with "The Gift", something no amount of training or experience has much affect on, you either got it, or you don't.
Those guys, no matter how "good" a machine is, no matter how perfect it's programming, they will consistently beat the ever living crap out of it in practice, no matter what your simulation says, not one time, or ten times, but EVERY time, because whatever it is that gives them "The Gift" is a wholly human thing, forever beyond the reach of machines, so far as we know of.
This is well touched on in both a physical (Frank Marcus) and a spiritual (Johann Karlson) sense in Fred Saberhagens Berserker series of books.
Quote:
“Under this burden some men became like brutes, and the minds of others grew as terrible and implacable as the machines they fought against. But I have touched a few rare human minds, the jewels of life, who rise to meet the greatest challenges by becoming supremely men.”
-Third Historian
So long as the essential spark, the Ka, or whatever you call it, is beyond the reach of machines, so too will be the ability to effectively compete with humanity - and if it ever is, what then would not make THEM "human", simply in another form ?
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Or, as XKCD puts it:
{{title text: The moment their arms spun freely in our air, they were doomed -- for Man has earned his right to hold this planet against all comers, by virtue of occasionally producing someone totally batshit insane.}}
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