At least when we look back at the smoking hole left where the Internet was when AI tech finally broke free and achieved Skynet levels of user satisfaction, I’ll be able to look back fondly on these times from whatever cell I’ve been relegated to with the knowledge that I finally earned one of those participation awards I kept hearing about.
In which I select a Star Wars vehicle I want to write about and compare it to a not quite randomly selected real world equivalent vehicle I assign at random from things I may or may not know anything about. I find these ‘entertaining’. It may also be accurate to describe them as ‘appealing to an insufferably specific personality type’.
Excerpt from a recently written letter, copied to this blog. Star Wars: A/SF-01 B-Wing starfighter This was harder to do than I thought it would be. What to compare it to? Part of the B-Wing lore is that they are notoriously hard to fly due to the odd gyroscopic nature of the thing – … Read more
Copied from the original letter this was written for… Real Ship(s): “The Caspian Sea Monster” The lesson here is “Just because the engineering is cool, doesn’t make it useful”. The “Ekranoplan” or “Caspian Sea Monster” was a (now long abandoned) attempt by Russia to exploit something called the ‘Wing In Ground” effect. Basically, as a … Read more
I started writing these ‘real vs. star wars’ as a way to fill out my otherwise kinda boring letters to my daughter who is in the Navy. I enjoyed it enough that I decided to post them elsewhere which led to setting this blog up. This was the first of those. Real: Mercy Class Hospital … Read more