Irritated about the Apollo Program

[johnmcd]

Originally posted by sparkyal
...which comes from your knowledge of lfight.

Rocket propelled flight perhaps.

[JackRudd]

Originally posted by sparkyal
Having the Apollo Program before you can fly is just plain silly (IMHO). I would just like to see it moved.
sparky

Then move it! That's what your XML files are for.

[Dis]

read the back of the civ4 manual.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Will9

Also, you should need Steam Power as a pre-requisite for the Pyramids, not Masonary, there is no other way to shift that sort of mass of stone, those things are man made mountains!

The Pyramids were built without the wheel and you say we need Steam Power.

I'll third this. What the heck.

I think he was being sarcastic.

[Blake]

I really like how you can chop spaceship parts. It gives me no end of amusement. Building all those props for the spaceship victory hoax.

[ElConejo]

Originally posted by Blake
I really like how you can chop spaceship parts. It gives me no end of amusement. Building all those props for the spaceship victory hoax.

Awesome!

[johnmcd]

Originally posted by Blake
I really like how you can chop spaceship parts. It gives me no end of amusement. Building all those props for the spaceship victory hoax.

Chopped space ships have won me more than one game. Never thought of the props, just how many flagpoles do they need though?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Dis
I think he was being sarcastic.

I love how three people needed to be told this

[Cort Haus]

johnmcd

[Xorbon]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I love how three people needed to be told this

Well, he didn't use any smileys to indicate he was being sarcastic. And he used an exclamation mark, which means he really was being serious!

[Blaupanzer]

Rocketry development did not require the development of internal combustion engines or the corresponding engines associated with "Flight" as conceived of in our tech tree. We did develop the process in that order, but we did not have to. We do not have a tech called "Aerodynamics" or a separate tech for jet engines. These other techs could be embodied In developing "Rocketry" itself rather than in "Flight," in some alternate timeline. We are developing an alternate timeline every time we play the game.

With the exception of some modern electronics, rockets do not have a lot in common with airplanes other than the part of the three dimensional earth in which the two systems operate.

[Dis]

And I'm not sure about this, but I'll mention it anyways. I don't think the Apollo capsules "flew". I think they just went straight down and parachuted into the ocean, and navy ships picked them up.

The space shuttle doesn't actually "fly" either, it glides.

[Xorbon]

I agree with everyone who says rocketry does not require flight. In rocketry, the 'lift' for the rocket comes from an expulsion of gases, while the 'lift' for planes and helicopters comes from their wings.

[shmily_dana]

Supersonic aerodynamics is needed to design a re-entry vehicle, such as the Apollo command module. I don't see how you can have Apollo without an understanding of supersonic flight.

[johnmcd]

Originally posted by shmily_dana
Supersonic aerodynamics is needed to design a re-entry vehicle, such as the Apollo command module. I don't see how you can have Apollo without an understanding of supersonic flight.

I don't understand why that understanding can only come from jet or prop flight and not rocket flight.