User talk:Shane

2007-01-13T07:04:04Z

Destotelhorus: Thanks for the warm welcome

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== Ads at Hangarbay? ==
If you get a chance, I'd like to get the ads going at the hangarbay. I'm willing to do the gruntwork, but I'm not sure how it's accomplished. I found the adbrite javascript here at en, but it appears to be buried in javascript and I can't find a wiki page that it runs off of. I'd like to try adorning the hangarbay with all the different possible ad locations and orientations. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 15:17, 8 January 2007 (CST)
:Do you have FTP access? I belive it requires editing of the CSS. I could be wrong however so just have to wait for Shane to reply. --[[User:Mercifull|Mercifull]] <sup>([[User talk:Mercifull|Talk]]/[[Special:Contributions/Mercifull|Contribs]])</sup> 05:38, 11 January 2007 (CST)
::FTP is needed. The files to be needed to change are the skin templates. I have an <code>Adbrite.php</code> file created, but I need the new zone codes and need to add the switches in for the size of the ad. I'll do that this evening and then send you guys FTP access for the HB. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 06:23, 11 January 2007 (CST)

==JavaScript question==
Hi Shane. Thanks again for the userpage template. Now for my question ... I have a simple JavaScript to display a random quote, it's [[User:JubalHarshaw/bsgbook.js/quotes.js|here]]. Is there any way I can use it on my userpage, have my userpage "call" out to it and display the output (the quote) ? Thanks for any explanation and assistance you can give me. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 10:18, 11 January 2007 (CST)
:[[User:JubalHarshaw/bsgbook.js]] - needs to be created and then you gotta install some hooks. Check out my [[User:Shane/bsgbook.js|javascript]] files for some insight. default.js and tabs.js are your best bet. [[User:Shane|Shane]] <sup>([[User_Talk:Shane|T]] - [[Special:Contributions/Shane|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/Shane|E]])</sup> 13:47, 11 January 2007 (CST)
Thanks for the pointers. My programming skill is minimal, so it'll probably take me awhile to figure out. It was just something for my own amusement anyway. Cheers. [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 07:51, 12 January 2007 (CST)

== Thanks for the warm welcome ==

Just wanted to say thanks for the warm welcome ;) Though i really must say i envy you for that monitor of yours ;) --[[User:Destotelhorus|Destotelhorus]] 01:04, 13 January 2007 (CST)

Talk:Viper Mark II/Archive 1

2007-01-09T23:40:26Z

Destotelhorus: Steering a viper

==Powerplant==

It seems to me that the engine type should be a hybrid of rocket and jet engine. Rockets use a mix of two internal fuels, an actual propellant and an oxidizer. It appears maybe, to save fuel the Vipers' powerplants have intakes to grab oxidizer from the atmosphere when necessary. What's everyone else's opinion? - [[User:Panther|Panther]] 20:59, 17 August 2006 (CDT)
:Well one of the [[Naturalistic science fiction|Goals of the series]] is to not really worry about how the ships run. --[[User:The Merovingian|The Merovingian]] <sup>([[Special:Contributions/The Merovingian|C]] - [[Special:Editcount/The Merovingian|E]])</sup> 21:05, 17 August 2006 (CDT)
::No shit, eh? ;) Still one of the joys of being a sci-fi fan is to speculate on the tech. I gotta wonder though are those fans on the sides inside the engine nacelles intake fans? That would make it a jet. :D [[User:Panther|Panther]] 03:35, 18 August 2006 (CDT)
:::I agree with you completely, Panther. My joy is to make articles such as [[Computers]] to glean what we do know. The intakes, as we should properly guess, is a holdback from the original TOS Viper design. It just looks like a jet fighter. I do believe your idea of getting oxidizers whenever possible helps, although we know as well that it's more likely to maintain status quo on the excessive fuel use inside an atmosphere. In space, they may or may not need a real oxidizer, but then, that's the magic of [[tylium]]. We don't know WHAT the hell it really needs. :) --[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 15:43, 18 August 2006 (CDT)

== FTL in Vipers / the Blackbird ==

The Viper (RDM) articles say that the Vipers do not have FTL. However, it was seen several times in the miniseries that they do:
*Apollo links the shield generators onboard Colonial One with the FTL on his Viper to pull of the trick that makes it look like they are destroyed.
*Boomer jumps back to the fleet with the Tyllium refinery ship in tow.
There have also been several occasions in the series, I just can't think of them at the moment. Obviously, the Vipers do have some sort of short-range, limited-use FTL. What does everyone else think? --[[User:KenoSarawa|KenoSarawa]] 18:46, 12 November 2006 (CST)
:Umm, I don't remember Apollo doing, that. I'll go watch it again. Boomer is flying a [[Raptor]] which does have FTL. There has been no mention or showing that Vipers carry FTLs. Doubtless Apollo would be searching for ships like Boomer was if his did. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 19:41, 12 November 2006 (CST)
::Okay, went and watched it. He said he used the hyperdrive to manipulate it. If it was the Viper's FTL, it sticks out among the consistant non-FTL Vipers we've seen many times in the show. There are times when a short range FTL would've been used if it existed: the fighters running to Galactica in [[Act of Contrition]], Apollo's strike team in [[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]], etc. --[[User:Talos|Talos]] 19:54, 12 November 2006 (CST)

== Steering a viper ==

Two things seen or mentioned in the Episode ([[The Hand of God (RDM)|The Hand of God]]) are that,
firstly, Vipers have some kind of "Thruster pedal" (Adm. Adama sais so while speaking to Starbuck about her knee being the reason for letting her not participate) and secondly in the scene where Apollo flys through the shaft you can see in one scene that he sees an obstacle, pulls the joystick backwards, and in the next that some kind of reverse thrusters are fired without pulling up the ship's nose.
So one can think that forward thrust is on a pedal and reverse thrust on the "pitch" axis of the joystick?
That they use the same terms like normal fighterplanes is said by Starbuck while she was crawling in the Cylon-fighter on board the moon she stranded on. - [[User:Destotelhorus|Destotelhorus]] 17:40, 9 January 2007 (CST)

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