“They want us to build Dream Park!”
“Have there been extirpations?”
“Do you know how much tim-”
“Have. There Been. Extirpations?”
“Well, no.”
“Are they still signing the budgets we give them?”
“…Yes.”
“Then shaddap.”
No extirpations and they get to field test the rides for free. Sounds like a good deal to me. (Probably light years better than some previous assignments.)
I can’t remember, is Asig a private company working as a govt contractor or is it an actual govt agency… cause if it’s the latter then it’s never going away.
They are a private contractor working for the government. Hence their claim to be “shadow government”. And yes, somewhere in the archives, there is actual confirmation that they are a private contractor working for the government. I just don’t have any free time during the next few days to hunt it down.
But if their board of directors is the Five Daves, they’re never going away anyway.
Heck, that’s how Soyuz started. The Soviets have Korolev an unlimited budget to build an ICBM. So he built a space rocket instead. Heck, they’re still using its descendents. Probably the most successful scam in history.
And for his reward? Soviet medicine managed to kill him by accident. No-one is entirely sure what happened or what he was in for. May have been hemroids, or it might have been a gallbladder problem. Apparently after the botch, everyone involved obfustrocated vigorously.
The only difference between a space rocket and an ICBM is what you put on top of it. Anything capable of boosting a satellite into orbit is automatically capable of dropping a bomb on the other side of the world, and vice versa.
That’s true the same way that anything with wings and a large internal volume plus lift capacity can be a bomber, but it doesn’t mean a DC-3 is the same thing as an A-20.
All rockets of the 50’s and 60’s were ICBM’s First. The Redstone rocket that put Shepard in space and Glenn in orbit were used as ICBM’s carrying the W-39 warhead. The Atlas that did the prep research and the lunar orbiters was an ICBM. Right down the line with all of them.
The US rockets were, yes, but if you look at the R-7 design it was not.
He was contracted to deliver an ICBM, and it can be an ICBM, same as the Space Shuttle could be, but it is a terrible ICBM. It was, and still is, and excellent space rocket, with relatively little modification.
Stalin tossed Korolev in the gulag in the late 1930’s, and he was “rehabilitated” when they needed good engineers. But the damage to his health eventually caught up with him.
Khruschev liked a good show so he could show off in front of the world. Also they announced they’d send up a satellite or two for the International Geophysical Year, but nobody paid attention.
(Also Von Braun could’a done it earlier than Sputnik, back as far as 1955, I think. It was reported later he had one loaded and ready to go when he got shut down.)
Prosaic explanation: Anasigma has pilots. Non-prosaic explantion: the helicopter is sentient, but Tip is too distracted by his wardrobe catastrophe to pull a Groom Lake with it.
Soooo… they’re gonna be there for fifty years, then?
That’s what I’m thinking. Can’t be worse than what IRA did with all that power.
“They want us to build Dream Park!”
“Have there been extirpations?”
“Do you know how much tim-”
“Have. There Been. Extirpations?”
“Well, no.”
“Are they still signing the budgets we give them?”
“…Yes.”
“Then shaddap.”
No extirpations and they get to field test the rides for free. Sounds like a good deal to me. (Probably light years better than some previous assignments.)
I wonder how long Mr. Green was trying to bring down A-sig?
Working at Skin Horse as Ira, molding the team, shepherding careers,
It’s more likely than Skin Horse just happened.
With Mell, mallets just happen. With Tip, outfit changes just happen. With Mr. Green, Skin Horses just happen.
I can’t remember, is Asig a private company working as a govt contractor or is it an actual govt agency… cause if it’s the latter then it’s never going away.
They are a private contractor working for the government. Hence their claim to be “shadow government”. And yes, somewhere in the archives, there is actual confirmation that they are a private contractor working for the government. I just don’t have any free time during the next few days to hunt it down.
But if their board of directors is the Five Daves, they’re never going away anyway.
If they want legendary incompetence and graft they’d be hard pressed to beat the Russian Confederation. Just sayin’.
Heck, that’s how Soyuz started. The Soviets have Korolev an unlimited budget to build an ICBM. So he built a space rocket instead. Heck, they’re still using its descendents. Probably the most successful scam in history.
And for his reward? Soviet medicine managed to kill him by accident. No-one is entirely sure what happened or what he was in for. May have been hemroids, or it might have been a gallbladder problem. Apparently after the botch, everyone involved obfustrocated vigorously.
The only difference between a space rocket and an ICBM is what you put on top of it. Anything capable of boosting a satellite into orbit is automatically capable of dropping a bomb on the other side of the world, and vice versa.
That’s true the same way that anything with wings and a large internal volume plus lift capacity can be a bomber, but it doesn’t mean a DC-3 is the same thing as an A-20.
All rockets of the 50’s and 60’s were ICBM’s First. The Redstone rocket that put Shepard in space and Glenn in orbit were used as ICBM’s carrying the W-39 warhead. The Atlas that did the prep research and the lunar orbiters was an ICBM. Right down the line with all of them.
The US rockets were, yes, but if you look at the R-7 design it was not.
He was contracted to deliver an ICBM, and it can be an ICBM, same as the Space Shuttle could be, but it is a terrible ICBM. It was, and still is, and excellent space rocket, with relatively little modification.
Alien historians: “The evidence suggests that Earthling nations competed for mating rights with a display of impractically large ballistic missiles”
Re: skulltroll: till you get to the Saturn series, though their existence derives from the earlier ICBMs.
Stalin tossed Korolev in the gulag in the late 1930’s, and he was “rehabilitated” when they needed good engineers. But the damage to his health eventually caught up with him.
Khruschev liked a good show so he could show off in front of the world. Also they announced they’d send up a satellite or two for the International Geophysical Year, but nobody paid attention.
(Also Von Braun could’a done it earlier than Sputnik, back as far as 1955, I think. It was reported later he had one loaded and ready to go when he got shut down.)
And Soyuz I, and the Party’s insistence that ready or not, it must fly on Lenin’s birthday, killed Komarov.
Looks like Tip is *still* wearing his prison garb!
I wonder if Dr. Engelbright is their pilot?
Well, I don’t think Mell brought him anything but tennis shoes.
I’m sure Tip could MAKE it work!
If he were motivated, yes. I believe he currently lacks motivation to mojo.
(1) Who’s flying the helicopter? and (2) where are they going?
I predict Dr. Engelbright with Ari Green as copilot.
It’s a different model than the one the two of them flew off in.
I was thinking…well, remember Trinity? Maybe the Whirligig project got another copter and another brain in a jar to run it.
Maybe Nick could get upset that the three of them were taking copter from someone else.
Prosaic explanation: Anasigma has pilots. Non-prosaic explantion: the helicopter is sentient, but Tip is too distracted by his wardrobe catastrophe to pull a Groom Lake with it.
It’s only a matter of time, till Chris will be proven sub-prime. With moon meetings planned, he’s sure to be panned. It’s the newest A-Sig paradigm.