Much hot air has been expended over the “crossguard lightsaber” that’ll be in the next Star Wars flick. But just imagine what other configurations are possible…
As one commenter HERE noted…
Yes, the crossguard lightsaber is an absolutely ridiculous design for a laser sword wielded by a space wizard.
Cute, but I suspect it’s kinda preachin’ to the choir.
A nice writeup of some of my Orion drafting & scribbling here:
Some of my Orion diagrams:
I suppose I really do need to finish that book some day. Having the publisher vanish on me kinda sucked the joy out of it, though. You’d think I’d be used to that sort of thing by now… I guess that there just might not be a maximum level of disappointment. You can always be more disappointed.
I guess they know what they’re doing, but this seems of somewhat dubious worth:
It looks like this:
It appears to be made from Kevlar helmet material, and provides protection for the forward hemisphere. That’s nice, I suppose, but it seems to really only armor the wearers forehead. Better than nothing, but it’s still a pretty small area. Plus, the armor plate would seem to be *real* close to the head, so impact energy would be transferred pretty sharply, I should think.
IMO, if’n yer gonna go with a less-than-full-helmet, there’s really only one choice:
The claim is that an underground research facility has been located near the Austrian town of St. Georgen an der Gusen, site of the Mathausen-Gusen concentration camp. Further, the claim is made that a big concrete slab is a cover to a V-2 launch silo.
Well… maybe.
The Austrian government has shut down the dig for bureaucratic reasons. Insert Conspiracy Theory HERE.
An illustration from the 1980’s, publicized fairly widely by Lockheed to illustrate their thinking for an Advanced Tactical Fighter (which led to the F-22). This almost certainly did *not* represent actual design work on Lockheeds part, but instead pure artistry. This particular version of the artwork depicts a rather apocalyptic color scheme; other versions were rather cheerier.
