Yes it's a giant killer robot. No, it's not a carton of milk. Because that would be boring. Come on, when's the last time you got excited about pouring semi-skimmed onto your breakfast? Or even skimme
This is where the French army counter-attacks with first, tanks, and then massed flammenwerfers. Props to the studio for coming up with convincing St. Chamond tanks, which in real life were a bit rubbish thanks to being far too long for their tracks. Art! O stop whining and put some Sudocrem on it.
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I don't suppose that's any comfort to you if you've just been perforated by machine gun fire.
Ft 17s in South Canadian service, with puny humans for scale. Those flamethrowers you s
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<Conrad shakes head> - ah - no, RJ, it was simply an expression, no roasting required. The door is that way.
I shall stop blathering here or the whole blog will be about whether the tunic buttons were the right size or not, because wh
The plan was to hire a consultant used to dealing with Federal agencies, and file a 'Total Cost' claim, which was essentially a 'Desperate Plea' for more money. They ran it past OP, who pointed out that the private company they were dealing with was not a government agency and that the whole plan could backfire appallingly by enraging them with 'Attempted Extortion'.
He found out a couple of months afterward that the customer did indeed explode with rage, threaten to end the contract immediately and demanded exclusion from all claims since the start of the contract. The board capitulated immediately because they couldn't afford to pay $500,000 per week to their construction workers if the contract was ended.
Torrevechio shrugged his
shoulders fluidly and spouted a stream of Italian, mimicking an elephant with
one arm flapping against his face.
‘Quite,’
replied the Doctor, drily. ‘He says
belieiving Sarah and I come from the future is less difficult than believing in
column-like creatures who drain life.’
That
riposte stopped Roger dead in his rant.
Damn
it, they had to be lying! Except why
would they make up such a bizarre, not to mention insane, story and expect
people to believe it? Then there were
those coins. And the nose-goblins. So far, in fact, neither of the two had been
caught out in sabotage.
Albert
and Templeman were arguing with each other over whether time-travel was
possible in theory. Albert held that it
was, the Professor denied the slightest chance.
‘Suppose
we accept your story? What have you come
to the past to do, or see, or get?’
That
took a little explaining. The Doctor,
drawing on historical knowledge rarely needed and a bit rusty in the recall,
informed his audience that the Afrika Korps would be here by the beginning of
April. If the bio-vores were not dealt
with by then, the arrival of thousands of humans would simply provide the
aliens with thousands of victims. Nor
could they assume the bio-vores would be vulnerable in the future as they were
in the past. They might lack the wheel,
petroleum and aircraft, but they were still highly advanced; their recent
encounters would have been analysed and studied, with countermeasures devised.
It costs them $45 per barrel to extract Urals crude oil, and an additional $10 to $12 per barrel to transport it by tanker, so at the current price of $55 per barrel the Ruffians are actually losing money on oil exports. If they'd signed up to the EU's price cap they'd be making a few dollars profit per barrel, but Peter The Average won't do that as it makes him look weak, so weak he might suffer from fenestrophilia. Overall, according to the Prof, Russia is losing $500,000,000 PER DAY in it's sales of oil and gas. That's a $180 billion annual black hole that's not going to get fixed.
Here's one in running order. What impressed me was Sucho's reading off a salient fact about this equipment; the radar emits radiation in such amounts that it's unsafe to be within 600 yards of it. Presumably the crew are shielded by the hull, or this is where the Ruffian equivalent of the Fantastic Four comes from.
