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Now we know what she was worrying about…Daddy! He does have his wife with him, so maybe he’s telling the truth.
To be honest, I haven’t thought he could do much damage with just one space coup. Although he does have all those Moon people powers.
Me. Ah don’t trust him. There’s troops on that ship. And Chet draws the Governor like he’s always scowling…
Ah, Moon Maid… *sigh*
In the final panel, Moon Maid is so pleased she BLASTS THE AIR WITH LIGHTNING
DeanneM writes: “To be honest, I haven’t thought he could do much damage with just one space coup.”
Well, it’s approaching at over 300,000 MPH, which is over 134,000 m/s. Let’s call it 135,000 m/s. From the looks of it, it’s similar in size to a bus, maybe bigger, so let’s call it 15,000 kg. Its kinetic energy would therefore be (15000)x(135000^2) = 2.7×10^14 joules, which is equivalent to 65 kilotons, more than four times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. So if it were on a kamikaze mission, it could destroy a major city.
Hey, look what I found while seeking info on the Space Coupe:
http://www.modelingmadness.com/scotts/misc/scifi/scoupe.htm
Chris, that model is awesome!
Yeah, I’m with Diet. I wouldn’t trust that Moon Governor as far as I could throw him. He’s come all smiles before only to not have the best intentions.
To quote a particular engineer, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”
Chris, that model does look like fun, and I may just have to pick one of those up! If I only had space for putting one together…I’ll have to work on that!
What I meant by not doing much damage is that I assume he’s not going to kill himself and his wife, so He would be limited to his small landing party. But, as I mentioned, they have strange powers that we don’t know the limits of. I’ll just have to wait and see!!
Wow, nobody told me Dick Tracy had space battles!
#6: “What I meant by not doing much damage is that I assume he’s not going to kill himself and his wife, so He would be limited to his small landing party. But, as I mentioned, they have strange powers that we don’t know the limits of. I’ll just have to wait and see!!”
True, but then there’s Jon’s Law: “Any space drive powerful enough to be interesting is automatically a weapon of mass destruction.” Even if he doesn’t make the space coupe into a missile, its engines must be extremely powerful to get up to those speeds. (It’s travelling at over 300,000 MPH and the Moon is only 240,000 miles away on average, meaning a travel time of less than an hour. It took the Apollo astronauts three days.) Those cup-shaped “emitters” could be used as devastating weapons if directed at a city or at a squadron of military aircraft, say.