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- cquinnd, on 05/26/2008, -1/+61Not a problem until they start building the Gundam units.
- shodanx, on 05/26/2008, -0/+17a strapless wiimote _IS_ a missile
- whoreable, on 05/26/2008, -1/+11I'll believe it when I can launch missiles with my wiimote.
- Shadowgamers, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5Colony drops here we come.
- sfacets, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5Pfffft. Are you serious? Since when has the US upheld any contract it has signed?
- Swordman554, on 05/26/2008, -0/+5"It is the year 0079 of the Universal Century. A half-century has passed since earth began moving its burgeoning population into gigantic orbiting space colonies. Above the planet floats hundreds of enormous cylinders with artificial living environments so that people can live as though they were on earth..."
- sanman, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4They already do make them:
http://www.megavideo.com/?v=QC7IGIBL - inactive, on 05/26/2008, -0/+4I'd really like to go to space one day.
- gunbuster, on 05/26/2008, -1/+4Yamato cannon?
- Majjoodi, on 05/26/2008, -3/+6Particle Cannon will be real soon.
- BeefBaron, on 05/26/2008, -1/+4Damned warmonger.
- Ramble, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3So? You can't put weapons in space due to the Space Act, we're still safe for the time being.
- inactive, on 05/26/2008, -0/+3 god knows how many weapons are already there in space.
- Rabbittt, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Space: The Final Frontier.
- v1c1ous, on 05/26/2008, -4/+6Why do i get the feeling Japan and the US are being buddy-buddy more as of late and there's a hidden meaning to this sudden decision. We all know the US has agreed to defend Japan in case of an attack, but you have to wonder to what extent that partnership will evolve.
Maybe 30 years from now, Japanese defense army will get access to top US military equipment, or even (as seen in ghost of the shell) the diet from japan can basically order US troops for specific missions. - ZenMojo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Make your time.
- jgzman, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2Starting with the Native Americans, and continuing to the present day, the US government does not have a good record for these things.
- WombleSlayer, on 05/26/2008, -0/+2This sounds a lot like the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars" plan that was proposed by Reagan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Ini ... - DirtyRoboto, on 05/26/2008, -2/+3I think that as long as americans continue to rape Japanese school girls and kill its citizens that the relationship you mention will become less dependant on good grace.
The US military has already had to account for all of its personel on ferlow and has now allowed the Japanese police to arrest any US military AWOL. - johndi, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1That's crass, but there is truth to it. It's why we will be moving troops from Okinawa to Guam. I don't know what they will do with the troops in the rest of Japan as it seems like almost all of the problems are happening in Okinawa.
- sat0shi, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1It doesn't matter. The Japanese people would not support nor would they stand for any type of war-based activity from the Japanese government. Hell, even sending a small group of support troops to Iraq was met with fairly heavy resistance by the Japanese people. Trust me, nobody here wants to see another war for a long, long time.
- sat0shi, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Is that game fun? I'm always too scared to try it because I know I'm gonna get pwnt by everyone there. I've been playing 悠久の車輪 recently, though. Pretty cool game.
- sat0shi, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1I really wish people would stop trying to condemn Japan because of its textbooks. Have you looked at what's written in American textbooks recently? Let's just say they're not quite a bastion of truth. It's only natural that a country does not want to teach its citizens that it was a real bitch of a country back in the day... The last thing you want as a country is your youth to grow up hating their own country.
Despite the textbooks, MOST Japanese grow up to know basically the truth of what happened during those times, but even if they don't... what does it really hurt? Japan today cannot be compared to the Japan of 100 years ago... It's a completely different country, and Japanese youth are nothing like even their parents' generation.
I also wish that all these countries that still hold a grudge against Japan could get over the past. I know a lot of you will probably say that they shouldn't, considering all the terrible things Japan did to them. But, remember this. Most of you are probably the type of people who get upset when African Americans STILL get upset about slavery. This is exactly the same type of deal, and everyone needs to just move on. Times have changed, and we have much more important things to worry about now, both here in Japan and around the world. - AJayD, on 05/26/2008, -1/+2I think it means they got those gundam robots working.
- joeanon, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1You can project your national interest with economic pressure just as effectively if not more so.
I don't think any nations even have drone targeting fleets like we have, no less the accuracy of our sat network.
The Iraq war will have spurred a new generation of gadgets..like it or not.
The energy crisis will propel the US to the forefront of renewable energy.. in one massive spending burst, which no other nation can even remotely match.
It's all about money really and we still have twice as much as the closest competition... Japan.
It doesn't matter who develops the technology.
It matters who can afford it :P
The reality is our colleges are still top, we have more funding in more projects than any other nation.
If you just READ the breakthroughs happening every day, most of the big ones are American and many times we beat the competition to market... only they wind up selling to foreign buyers.
We have TONS AND TONS of innovation... but not very effective use of that technology. One problem is the GOP constantly putting power in private hands which we have less control over under the guise of being cost effective, which it's usually not. SO we spend more and we hand over control to investors.
Last I checked .. America makes most of the airplanes in the world and Airbus actually.. sucks.
Our space program is still far ahead of anything else out there, even with 30 years of setbacks via the failed space shuttle design.
We have the best high end colleges, so we get the best ideas... even if it's foreign kids coming here to learn.
we have the most spending so we also have the most failed projects.
It's not going to be Europe that kicks out the new generation of renewable energy and electric transport... it's the US.
We did the electric car 20 years ago... the fact is, it's not very practical without more advanced batteries.. which we have officially invented via.. where else... MIT.
Algae biofuel... what other nations have pioneered what is probably the new OIL.... none to any degree as we have. Including trials all the way back in the 70s.
Science is a foundation based industry. We can still take that lead we had from 30 years ago and call on that research... so long as Cheney didn't steal it from the national archives.
If you don't want this kind of thing to happen again...
We have put Bush in prison as an example of what the US population is willing to put up with and what it's not.
We have to break down corporate monopolies and unjust patent laws.
Beyond that, we have the money, we have the schools... we could use national education I think and some type of career management to help people find the jobs they want without becoming job councilors themselves.
We need to smack down health care costs and erect large scale algae farms for biofuel.
Then prices go down, academics go up, cost adjust to new domestic fuel supply and export and the world will be kissing our ass. At least until they can copy our technology.
Right now you have to consider.. military is not very cost effective with oil prices so high.
The US is moving toward more electric and computer based designs.. we just don't have the money to build them... plenty of technology though.
The solutions are fairly simple really, the hard part is getting people to understand that you can make oil from algae and the supply never has to run out. And that markets like the medical industry which have no real competition shouldn't be allowed to rob us blind and deny us coverage.
Our medical market costs should simply be competitive with the rest of the world.
It's true our military is aged and more used than Russia, but our GNP is far FAR greater than theirs and we can develop planes entirely domestically. The trick is fueling them.
I'm pretty sure we are the only nation with the tactical laser technology also, capable of advanced imaging and actually shooting down objects.
Russia has always been very good at building fighters and rockets. Metallurgy in general seems to be one of their specialties.
But why even bother flying a manned fighter... that's soo... 1980s.
As I see it... we have the ONLY modern military in the world.
China's military is literally a joke compared to ours. Plus. who cares... once we build a domestic oil supply.. ***** protecting the world. Japan needs to take it's 2nd richest nation self and buy it's own military.
We are fools to spend all this money and get used as the world police while being labeled as bullies and tortures.
If people want to be free... let them revolt and let the UN pay for it. The EU needs to pony up the costs.
We have the network of supplies and transports that no other nation has. They aren't ready for the level of mobility the US has or our total resources. No less they also don't have the food supplies.
The US can sit on North America and get fat, grow oil and laugh at the doom that will be Asia.
Come climate change... asia is a warzone and we are 10k miles away.
Who is going to try to cross the ocean and land here ?
Nobody.
We have the worlds most plush nation, the most easily defended continent, the best technology, the most money and the most powerful military.
You have to be a TOTAL PUSSY to be America and be scared of foreign powers.
Come climate change ... the US has more food potential that most of the rest of the world put together.
What will you do... bomb the food out of us ?
It's Europe, Asian and Africa where all hell will break loose if food supplies dwindle or war breaks out.
We'll sit back and build and mobilize like we do every time. But this time.. we'll start with the worlds most powerful military and just expand on that rather than playing catchup to Germany. - robbiemuffin, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1the best offense right now is hydrogen bombs. no, thank you, I think I'd rather not have the best offense. ... not anywhere near me at least :)
- wonderchemist, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1China 'self built' TOL fighter is the FC-4, which is basically a copy the US F-16. I have no doubt in 1-1 engagements the USAF will win 99.9% of engagements. However, we're not going to do anything overtly against a country with 100+ nuclear tipped ICBM and SLBM, or holds enough of out debt to really screw us over economically. What are we going to do? Threaten any country that trades US T-Bonds?
- NodOfficer, on 05/26/2008, -1/+2Ion Cannon!
- johndi, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1You can put weapons in space as long as they aren't nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction. The treaty (Moon Treaty) that bans any military use of space hasn't been signed and/or ratified by any country that is capable of it. In fact only 13 countries have ratified it
- DirtyRoboto, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1I just thought that my 500 yen went into Gundam-Kizuna and I played online. Now I am starting to wonder if I am funding the governmant while piloting some off world Gundam suit. That last power up I got is now starting to worry me.
- DarkJedi375, on 05/26/2008, -1/+2That's exactly the first thing that came to my mind...
- yergi, on 05/29/2008, -0/+1Negative. The wording of the constitution has not changed since it was enacted in 1947. There was a law passed by the Diet which allows international support- sending defense force troops to aid UN efforts and the like. The constitution remains unchanged.
- Enlefo, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Yeah right, the Japanese will make our current war machines look like tinker toys. Has no one seen that they revised there constitution a year ago? They can now have a military and they are not going about it with conventional tanks and planes.
I would find it surprising if the Japanese didn't create an ultra teched out military that is capable of dominating the 21st century battlefield. Look at the history of their culture. - yergi, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1For the record, the Japanese constitution forbids the use of military action to settle international disputes. Heck, they don't even have a military- only a defense force which doesn't even have have military law. The best they can do is build defensive capabilities under law. It only seems natural to want to defend yourself against countries like N. Korea who has flown missiles directly over populated Japanese cities within the past decade.
- Ryvenn, on 05/30/2008, -0/+1Fanciful thinking will not change the extreme population density and horrible indefensibility of Japan. Even if Japan were to successfully 'defend' itself, it would be at an absurd loss of civilian life. Ultimately repulsion of an invasion would result in the use of scorched earth tactics by the enemy. You would have to have a very loose definition of "victory".
Long ago Japan may have been defendable. No more. - sat0shi, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1さらば地球よ 旅立つ船は
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
宇宙の彼方 イスカンダルへ
運命背負い 今とび立つ
必ずここへ 帰って来ると
手をふる人に 笑顔で答え
銀河をはなれ イスカンダルへ
はるばるのぞむ 宇宙戦艦ヤマト
さらば地球よ 愛する人よ
宇宙戦艦ヤマト
地球を救う 使命を帯びて
戦う男 もえるロマン
誰かがこれを やらねばならぬ
期待の人が 俺たちならば
銀河をはなれ イスカンダルへ
はるばるのぞむ 宇宙戦艦ヤマト
Damn good song. - Enlefo, on 05/28/2008, -0/+1Actually... Japanese revised there constitution about a year ago allowing them to have a military. Look it up =)
- Zippo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Well, there goes Australia.
- Ryvenn, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1It's a purely symbolic gesture. Basically Japan saying to China and North Korea "I see what you've done there."
Japan is simply too small and too densely populated to be defendable in a modern conventional war. With nukes, incendiary bombs and hell, even conventional artillery, Japan could relatively easily be reduced to ashes no matter how hard their Self-Defence Force fought.
Early warning system? A nuke launched from China may give them them a few minutes warning, basically meaning anybody above the fourth floor of any building is guaranteed death.
Oh and the good old fashioned naval and aerial blockades would bring Japan to its knees pretty quickly. Too many people, not enough food, dramatically insufficient self-production capabilities. - dezman2003, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1If you're gonna do something you may as well be the best...
- DirtyRoboto, on 05/27/2008, -0/+1Gundam-Kizuna is an awesome game, you have to give it a try.
I got my first gold card on Eternal wheel last week, I have to play vs CPU though as I get wiped out online. - ZenMojo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Considering the PM is trying to remove Japan's ban on nuclear technology research, this may not go so well.
- ZenMojo, on 05/26/2008, -0/+1Except, China's fully capable of disabling our satellites from the ground, which has done more than enough to freak us the ***** out.
We managed to air it as a grievance despite the fact that we were spying on them in the first place. - drape, on 07/30/2008, -0/+0The difference between Japan's attitudes to Asia and Germany to Europe is that the present day Japanese President still visits a war shrine that exemplifies the atrocities of its soldiers in WWII. We all want to move on, more so for the Japanese, but these visits to the shrine has to stop.
Now then, by these actions, do you think the mentality is different? I think not because actions speak louder than words.
You agree to the belief that Japanese youth will hate the actions taken by their fore-fathers should they learn of the truth. And you too think that its best that they not know and the truth be covered up. So in my view, you agree with the education system of Japan that the atrocities should be covered-up or glossed over. How then can i expect japan to come to terms of what they are and be moving on from THAT point. To quote George Santayana, "Whoever forgets the past is doomed to repeat it." That should tell you what dangers lie in the Japanese youth not knowing what their grand-parents did.
Now, the difference between you whom i assume is a japanese because of the nick, and a german is that should WWII be put against a German, they accept it and shut-up. But you on the other hand, argue. So dont accuse me for pointing out the atrocities of WWII because its clear to me that yourself as a possible japanese(or lover of one) has yet to come to the terms of what that blood line has done. - idleminded, on 05/26/2008, -2/+2Gundam Fight all set! Ready? GO!!!!!!
- Scuzbucket, on 05/30/2008, -0/+0Pearl Harbor anyone?
- Rmstrjim, on 05/26/2008, -1/+1Thrust vectoring is next to useless.
We don't dogfight anymore, sorry.
China's fighters aren't "just a little bit behind" ours.
Do a bit more research plz. - yingjai, on 05/26/2008, -2/+2The best defense is the best offense. I bet it's not only going to be defense satellites going up into space.
- Chronoped, on 05/27/2008, -1/+1It would imply that we can't boss them around, not that they are conquerors of space. They won't push themselves on us, or they already would've done so, but outside of Earth, nobody is going to stand for our misconduct. Not that I expect your replies to make much sense, you clearly misinterpreted my comment and you're clearly a little dim.
- jeziah, on 05/27/2008, -0/+0You mean Japan doesn't have replicators? Ok, who missed the memo.
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