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What you also have to bear in mind sometimes is that *this* is
the only way to get things done. When the Allies stormed Normandy
Beach, they knew that German bunkers and machine nests and fortified
positions were right there on the beach waiting for them. But they
stormed out, onto the beach, and the first lines were cut down, one
after another after another, hundreds, literally thousands of soldiers.
But those behind were able to get through, take up position as best
they could. Some of them clung to the edges of cliffs as Germans above
laughed and threw down grenades into their midst.

Sometimes there's no other way. But you do it because those who
command you have the moral authority to say "You probably will not come
back, but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary."

Thus do we go off to die.

jms

Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
> With the station rotating for the simulation of gravity, and the
> breaching pod attaching to to outside of the station: Should the
> opening the pod mad have been in the floor instead of the wall?

Yes and no. They came through the "floor" which would be the
outer hull. Like any good ship, the station has two hulls for
protection, an inner hull and an outer hull. Once breaching the outer
hull, they moved into the inner hull, then angled up for a wall they
could blow out.

I figured this would make more tactical sense because if they
just blew through the floor, they'd have to *crawl* out one or two at a
time, whereas if they angled in safely and then came in through a wall,
they could pour in more quickly, en masse, and be less vulnerable.

jms

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Thanks...

jms

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Yeah, the ships kinda turned fast there, but we were just out of
time in the episode, and had to move it along.

In any event...thanks for the great comments.

jms