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I just tried the nighstar again myself and the PTA didnt work again I even tried the sweetspots korg pointed out and nothing and YES the PTA system was turned on so thats not the problem

quote: There are vectors in each turret which indicate where the shots come from - otherwise the engine won't know (e.g. it could very well fire from a missile launcher). The vector itself has nothing to do with the PTA system. That vector is only a seeding point and from there, the arc calculations determine the direction of fire. In your asciigram above, that turret would not fire backwards (into the ship) or at any angle which would cause it to actually hit itself. And if you grabbed a protractor and checked the degrees, you will be able to determine the coverage of that turret based on the target's orientation. ok so are your saying that as long as there is a straight line of sight between the turret iself and the target then it should be able to shoot it?

I think my problem is that I dont really know how the turrets work (in the sense of where the laser actually comes from) lets say the vertical lines below represent the side of a ship and the slashes represent the turret and dashes represent the lasers | | | -----------> (laser) / | | | from the way i see it this is how i think they work since theres a circles at the apex of the dome i figured that is where the laser comes from. Is this the case or do they come from the sides of the turret? Or is it more of, "if you can see it it can shoot you" kind of thing?

i tested the nightstar myself just now and according to my understanding of how the pta system works, the turrets should be most effective to anything directly above or below the nightstar(although all 8 turrets cannot hit the same target at any time due to their positions) however when i got in a fight with a violen, i had to resort to useing my main guns to destroy it because my PTAs werent fireing... I was also at a distance of 11.00-12.00 from my target I tested my theory but I didnt see the energy bar for the PTA guns move so eaither i was wrong or it isnt working for me eaither

they are all true

I have this ninja sword that can cut through bricks undamaged... tough little bugger that one I dont really like guns as much as swords because I hate the fact that eventually im not gonna be able to kill anymore with a gun but man with a sword you can just hack and slash all day long lol jk jk i wouldnt kill anyone ill just block their bullets with my sword

is there any point to democrats anymore? Havent they done enough damage already? or is it just that people cant have a good thing without turning it into some perverse abomination?

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I bought the book last night it is really good but i think the movie is gonna be a mixture of more than one book in the robot series

quote: Sorry, I'm not Jewish, so we will leave it at that. Oh, and Jesus NEVR claimed to be the ACTUAL son of God. and I will leave it at that as well. He actually stated MANY times that he was the son of man.... We'll leave it that as well. Sorry Jaguar, I somehow got your name mixed up with the quote in SC's post quote: Oh, and Jesus NEVR claimed to be the ACTUAL son of God. and I will leave it at that as well. He actually stated MANY times that he was the son of man.... We'll leave it that as well. Matthew 26:63,64 Mark 14:61,62 Luke 22:70 Yes he said he was the son of man but he also agrees to being the son of God. quote:I am as close to certain as I can be when it comes to historical study, but it's Not my job to convince you, if you want the truth, I can point you in the direction, but it is NOT up to me to convince you that I am right, because it really doesn't matter all that much to me. I dont need to pay you to know if I want the truth, I wouldnt waste my time with something I didnt think was real because that would just be stupid quote:You are hardcore, aren't you? Why would I want to take your faith from you? I do know the truth, or as close to the truth that is possible to know, with what has survived the ages. You have the bible, and that's great, but I have far more, and every time I have questioned, the answer is there, in cold hard factual information, no faith necassary. History is a wonderful teacher, if you are open minded enough to read it for what it says, and not pervert it to what you want it to say. I seek the truth in all things, even when it hurts... And there is more to life than just facts, if you cant see that then you are only seeing half of whats out there. You have to look closely because it is very subtle and easy to miss if you arent paying close attention. quote:I was born and raised a Roman Catholic, was converted to a Born again Christian, looked at the whole situation with an open mind and went, "WTF". Then I studied, and studied, and studied, and found the answers that I was looking for. I see... I take that means you started off Catholic but then you realized that was wrong and became Protestant or whatever? Then after that it didnt make sense anymore? so you found something you thought made sense and stuck with that. If that isnt what you mean than please explain quote: I look at facts, and if you decide to look at them as well, more power to you, but it is NOT up to me to lead you down the primrose path, nor is it up to me to take your religious faith away from you. As a matter of fact to hit you with all this information I have, and destroy what you obviously so desperately need to bring balance to your life, is one of the biggest sins that I could ever commit. It is never right to take religious faith from a person, it is up to them to find the truth as they need to. With power comes responsibility. Knowledge is power and since you claim to have knowledge that ultimently makes you part of someone else's journey to the truth

Jaguar, how can you say Jesus is a good man if you are Jewish? To a Jew Jesus would eaither be a liar or an evil man because he says he is the son of God and Jews dont belive this to be true otherwise they would all be Christians.(read a book called "More Than A Carpenter" by Josh McDowell, He tried to disprove Christianity but in the end he became one) Also you must not be 100% certain about the information you are talking about, otherwise you would be compelled to tell us. Keeping information hidden that could otherwise save people makes you evil. (Thats just like if you saw somone that couldnt breath and you didnt give them CPR even though you knew how to do it.) You know what else troubles me ? That you never explained how you looked into the possibility that the information that turned you from God is false, some lie, some hoax... If you loved someone and another person told you all these bad things about the person you loved wouldnt you search for the truth? And if questioned about it, provide the truth? But maybe you never really loved Jesus in the first place otherwise you probably never would have turned your back to him. I remember seeing a verse in the bible, but i dont remember the exact verse but it was God saying something to the effect of "If you knew me and then turned on me then you will wish that you were never even born" (keep in mind that Jesus is God)

quote: Jack finally killed Nina. Jack is a surly as ever. And yes, his daughter is as annoying (and talentless) as he is surly. I was hoping someone - anyone - would have killed her by now. [/QB]ROFL! Would you be supprized if she came back to life in a later episode? seems like the trend now days (u die, go make a movie then come back and get ressurected somehow) haha good stuff

I MUST have one!!! lol those look kind of like the robots I draw, man i got robbed again but one day... ONE DAY!

People could always just read the bible to see the whole story of Jesus(new testament) I saw the movie last night and it is hard not to cry durring it because if something I created did that to me I would be pretty sad

AvP-movie looks like its gonna be goood although i wonder how they explain aliens being on earth

i remember they had attempted it before but it got canned kinda wonder if it would have been better then or now

the other night when i was at the movies and i looked at the movie posters for the upcoming movies.... thats when i saw it AVP THE MOVIE !!!!

quote: i was told once (no source or anything ) that during the cold war the military developped anti-missile rail guns satellites concepts. i think your referring to starwars

holy crap the bid is up to $117k now !

quote:Check the Admin logs for any consistant errors, report what you find. you mean the stuff in administration tools right? i looked at the event log and there seems to be several system errors every day but I think those are the ones I get when something crashes to desktop like a game or the internet browser (all errors happen within the time span of a second) there are also security audit failures every day for a policy change... i dont have any idea what that means though

They need to stop messing around and make those flying cars they promised before I go crasy and decide to build my own

nope its the CDs that came with the comp but then again you gotta realize that it had to happen before I reformatted the first time so i dont think its the recovery disk

you know they laughed at the guy who invented the time machine too but... then...... ummm no wait just try and forget what I just said

just think... what if the moon transformed into a giant robot( a robot in disquise) and punched earth lol no but seriously i think this will be great for he space program and now would be an ideal time to become an astronaught... in theory at least

quote: LOL< Public education system, what a joke. Government doesn't want people to be smart. They only want you to be smart enough to do the job required to turn the economy over and make some $ to pay the taxes, but not smart enough to realize what's really going on and rebel. Basically they want you to be content, just at the point where it would be more trouble for you to mutiny than to stay put and take all their @#$%@#. Hence the dumbing of the average citizen, the dumber you are, the happier you are, ignorance is bliss remember even if that is true, there is still one thing ppl seem to miss... The second you first stepped into a school, you had all the power you needed to be as smart as you ever wanted to be(unless your brain is deformed and you cant think) parents should teach their kids to take advantage of their resources at an early age...