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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] So far there's no clear indication of what happened to England. There was the Churchill transmission, which is addressed to the youth of Britain, but its meaning is inconclusive. Other matters: 1. The AAA gunners of San Francisco were kicking major ass that day. Well, okay, they didn't actually shoot anything down, but one of their first shots was almost a direct hit on the shuttlepod, no more than a couple of meters off the starboard fuselage. A Japanese Zero, at 9m long and 11m wide, would've been half-again longer and way wider. Going by German flak cannons (though, granted, they had more opportunity to perfect theirs), the aircraft kill zone would've been on the order of 10-20m, with significant damage possible at 30m. Even the small Flakvierling was a relatively tough cookie for lower-flying targets. Given that proximity fusing was possible at the time, I can only assume that was the method employed. Normal altitude-fusing seems like it couldn't have produced the close strikes we saw. 2. The shuttlepod took the flak without much incident. Mayweather mentions the starboard injector which was presumably damaged in some way, but the starboard engine was still operational. The only confusing thing is that Tucker mentions pulling 3 .50-cal bullets out of the hull of the shuttlepod. But, given how many hits were made on the shuttle, one thus wonders what vulnerable, not-quite-bulletproof part of the hull was hit thrice. Tucker also later mentions that an EPS assembly got fried. However, no bulletholes or other indications of damage were evident in the hull of the shuttle. 3. Mayweather saw P-51's at an airshow. Assuming they were in flight, that would mean that after 200 years the birds could still take wing. That's a pretty sweet idea. 4. "Another item on our list of things to ponder." Best line ever. 5. The explosion of the shuttlepod was awfully tiny. Given their performance on other occasions . . . flying into a gas giant, surviving a phase cannonade, surviving an atmosphere's detonation, and so on . . . I'd have expected something in the hundreds-of-tons range, at least. What we saw was more like a small gasoline bomb. The flaming explosion, despite looking a little like a firestorm for a second, was just tiny. But, given that the pod had been (very accurately) tagged by starship weapons and then survived re-entry and a crash, I suppose we could grant that it was not in the best shape. 6. We once again get the "Hollywood flesh wound". Archer was shot through the arm by a bullet that missed the bone (implying it came reasonably close), but besides a brief knockdown, a manly wince, and a small bandage, he was fine for the rest of the episode. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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