4) Real Life UbuntuNot the same but based around the same basic principals, if I got the team's comments right.
I may be wrong but is Ubuntu in Universe the same/based on the real life concept?
Some of the explosion effects were Dabrain's from BtRL.
Dune was a definite influence for some parts of AoA.
There is of course the "fleet all alone on the way home" story that AoA has in common with BSG.... but then the greeks did it long before BSG with the saga of Odysseus, only that it wasn't a whole fleet there.BSG spoiler:
The re-envisioned one maybe, but there was another BSG series decatdes before, allthough they didn't find Earth in ruins.
The re-envisioned one maybe, but there was another BSG series decatdes before, allthough they didn't find Earth in ruins.
Please. New BSG is so much better than the one with Lorne Greene. ;7Wether you like it more or less than the new BSG series, doesn't change the fact that it exists.... and did so even long before there ever was Descent 1, much less an FS2 mod called Blue Planet.
The covenant isn't really about beamspam. Their main weapon are plasma torpedoes and only their most elite ships use beams, at least in the four Halo books I have read.
I really don't remember anyone in Dune communicating with "higher" beings. And that's what the Nagari factor is really about - the ability to communicate with Vishnans and/or Shivans... maybe also among each other, but I havn't ready anything to that effect.
*The Bene Gesserit plan was for Paul to have been female and then wed to Feyd and their child would have been the KH. But we all know what happened instead.For those who have read Dune, ofc.
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It's been way too long since I saw the show and I almost completely forgot everything about the Chigs to make the other connections (except that water kills them, and you fly their ships by sticking your arms in holes, like giant cows).
:wtf:It's true! If you'd seen it, you'd know. And you'd never forget it.
:wtf:It's true! If you'd seen it, you'd know. And you'd never forget it.
I was actually thinking of the Stiletto and Longsword. They're kind of similar to the Karuna/Narayana pair in some respects, actually....No they aren't, the Longsword is just a Stiletto with some compartments and the rotating section removed, while the Karuna and Narayana aren't visually from the same basic hull design.
Was Firefly a minor influence in the development of WiH? A small thing I've noticed is a Fed frigate called Serenity in the big battle scenario. Also Steele's first name is Chiwetel, the same as the actor Chiwetel Ejiofor who played the Operative.
No one's mentioned the Banksian influences? I am disappointed.
But yes, a decent trend of Iain M Banks-style sci-fi (mostly the Culture) is clear in Blue Planet.
Keep in mind that it's far easier to manouver in atmosphere. Down here you just need flaps on the missiles so they can steer. In space you need manouvering thrusters and/or vectored thrust.
Besides, the Hellfire doesn't track at all... it's dumbfire.
I think...two of those traits are correct?
One influence I saw was more coincidence. The ship that rescues the Indus' crew, the Masyaf, is crewed by the Fedayeen, which was a relatively secret organization that conducted some assassinations and terrorist acts. In Assassin's Creed, Masyaf is the fortress that the assassins strike from, and the assassins were a secret organization that conducted assassinations.It has nothing to do with Assasins' Creed itself. AC was inspired by real, historical facts, and the citadel of Masyaf being an Assassin stronghold during the crusades is one of those facts. Both AC and BP using that reference is probably just a coincidence.
Keep in mind that it's far easier to manouver in atmosphere. Down here you just need flaps on the missiles so they can steer. In space you need manouvering thrusters and/or vectored thrust.
Besides, the Hellfire doesn't track at all... it's dumbfire.
It behooves he who accuses others of being morons to have at least some idea what the conversation into which he is interjecting himself is about.Keep in mind that it's far easier to manouver in atmosphere. Down here you just need flaps on the missiles so they can steer. In space you need manouvering thrusters and/or vectored thrust.
Besides, the Hellfire doesn't track at all... it's dumbfire.
The hellfire isn't dumbfire you moron.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire
Direct quote:
Guidance system:
Semi-active laser homing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guidance)
millimeter wave radar seeker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_radar_homing)
Keep in mind that it's far easier to manouver in atmosphere. Down here you just need flaps on the missiles so they can steer. In space you need manouvering thrusters and/or vectored thrust.
Besides, the Hellfire doesn't track at all... it's dumbfire.
The hellfire isn't dumbfire you moron.