Chess, that is one game I would love to learn how to play along with Poker. --Lavender
From: Keith Johnson Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:05 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek Ha-ha! Love that game! There's nothing like the anticipation of seeing if plans you lay out come to fruition. I need to get back into chess, but I never really learned to play it well, and it's been about fifteen years ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@lycos.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 8:01:41 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek Keith, now I KNOW I should've been hanging out with you back then. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek Date : Wed, 13 May 2009 02:27:36 +0000 (UTC) From : Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Not being a drinking man, and never having gone the strip club route, you know what I did the night before my wedding? Stayed up til 5 am laughing and joking with buddies, making milkshakes (my only weakness on Earth), and...playing Risk for hours! Of course I won every game. :) We used to modify Risk in ways to make it fun. We always entered into alliances, forming unions of nations wherein the members avoided attacking each other, promising to gang up on weaker countries, etc. The fun part was the inevitable moment when someone would yell "The Alliance is broken!" and then start attacking his former friend. A friend of mine who was in the Navy said they added an option to Risk called "Nuclear Flash": if you managed to roll three sixes at once as the attacker, the country you're attacking is instantly wiped out by a high megaton thermonuclear strike! Then you just mosey on end and take over. Now I think of it, I guess if you can immediately occupy the country, the bomb had to be a neutron bomb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 6:05:38 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek As do I, Fate. Once I dove into the piece, I went full-immersion, and worked every scenario as a real-time combat sitch. Danger of being a long-time Risk player. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : Re: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek Date : Tue, 12 May 2009 07:21:56 -0700 (PDT) From : Augustus Augustus To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com but Martin, i give the author credit on some of his points. the rumsfeld comment and the dhs were priceless! Fate. --- On Tue, 5/12/09, Martin Baxter wrote: From: Martin Baxter Subject: [RE][scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 7:56 AM Looks like a somewhat sound analysis. One problem that the author fails to take into account, though. The Romulan ship is from the future. Its tech, ergo, is going to be head-and-shoulders above anything Starfleet can throw at it (unless the timeline alteration also handed them a massive upgrade int hat department, that is). It would probably take a concerted effort by everything 'Fleet had to throw at it. It's the only way they were able to stave off the Borg, the Dominion and the Breen until they were able to gain a technological advantage. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]---------- Subject : [scifinoir2] topic: A military analysis of Star Trek Date : Mon, 11 May 2009 21:58:17 -0700 From : "Mr. Worf" To : scifino...@yahoogro ups.com This is a pretty interesting look at the movie. What do you think? http://www.wired. com/dangerroom/ 2009/05/star- trek-a-military- analysis/ http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds People may lie, but the evidence rarely does.