Mouretsu Pirates Episode 4 Discussion

Sebulon said:
I wish they would get into action soon, because I'm getting tired of the endless "blahblahblah mehmehmeh blaablablaaaa", just make her the captain of the damn Bentenmaru and start the pew-pew against aliens and evil people.

midgemage said:
Distance scales in the hundreds of of thousands of km, approaching the 7th digit, and you people are still expecting pewpew laser fights as a mainstay of the series? Haha.

Well, at least the preview has lasers, so the people who have no idea what sort of series they're watching might be satisfied with the next episode. And then they'll get angry because it'll be back to the perfect space drama pacing we've had the past few episodes.

midgemage said:
And then they'll get angry because it'll be back to the perfect space drama pacing we've had the past few episodes.

Sebulon said:
Finally someone made this topic. I was too scared to do it myself, I've never done a topic like this ~uguu~

But yeah, it was an ok episode, I wish they would get into action soon, because I'm getting tired of the endless "blahblahblah mehmehmeh blaablablaaaa", just make her the captain of the damn Bentenmaru and start the pew-pew against aliens and evil people.

kisami said:
this all feels like a recruitment process. like to find her potential crew or something. in any case this should be fun to watch.

piperz said:
It was an good episode and it is getting more interesting. However, they always leave us hanging right at the end of every episode whenever things gets serious which also pisses me off. And no, it doesn't give that "cliffhanger" feeling. It's like this feeling you get whenever you are talking to someone on phone and your phone dies in the middle of your conversation. I't can't be helped, i'll just have to wait to see whats gonna happen next.

Lol the class president knew Marika's true identity which was something i didn't expect anyone in that club knows about except for a few people. There's something fishy about that ghost ship. They said it was a small ship so probably only one person is on board that ship. I wonder how the battle between the 2 ships is going to be cause im totally lost about what that electronic warfare thing is.

piperz said:
They said it was a small ship so probably only one person is on board that ship.

piperz said:
I wonder how the battle between the 2 ships is going to be cause im totally lost about what that electronic warfare thing is.

Cratex said:


Actually, the stated it was less than one meter and unmanned. It's a remote drone being used by some other ship at a much greater distance away. Being small, it's expected that it would be very easy to hide. It was found because the girls who make up the crew include some very talented individuals, and their ship, being much more than an ordinary club yacht, has some fancy equipment for them to use.



Do some research then - modern warfare is all about electronics.

I'm eating this stuff up. But, then, I've been a tech geek all my life.

Sir_Lexa said:
If you mean perfect space drama pacing = boring dialogue about things that no one who isn't a complete computer geek understands for the whole episode. Then I'd agree.

I'm not only interested in laser fights. I WANT SOMETHING just something to happen.

Xtc said:

From what you saying, sounds like Misa-sensei is control this unmanned remote controlled ship.

bastek66 said:
My face during every episode

Shit is sooooo boring.

Vforvendetta said:
I dont want to be rude but I couldnt find anything interesting about the show,

Yumekichi11 said:
I don't know about anyone but can someone explain this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect
more simple. How the heck is the compensation of that is able to fool out radar readings exactly?

Cratex said:


Well, for starters, it's only part of how the probe is setting up an electronic signature to fake what it looks like. The doppler effect can be used to determine much more than just relative speed. Even if the probe was perfectly stationary, as the Oddet itself moves the aspect of the probe would change, meaning that parts of it would be moving closer and parts farther away. Do this -- next time you are in a car spot a truck with a trailer you are passing (or being passed by) and notice details just as you pass it. Assume you are approaching from behind the trailer. Since it is long, the back end will be receding from you while the front is still getting closer. Using this information and how fast you are moving, you can get an idea of the size and shape of the truck. Using the doppler effect, you can use radar to do just this. In space, nothing is motionless with respect to other things. There will always be slight rotation, apparent motion, and even, if it is close to a heat source, changes in size due to thermal expansion and contraction (since the parts facing the heat source will expand and thus change shape relative to the parts that are not facing the heat source). Dopplar can detect these sort of things (though our current technology is far to primitive to do what they are doing, we can actually use this to study things like this in a lab setting, as that wiki page describes, or very large space objects like stars and such).

So, essentially, what the writer was implying with that simple "Mix in something to compensate for the Doppler effect" was a lot of detail regarding hiding the probe's true physical nature so that the faked signature of a battleship didn't have to compete with true signals that would contradict its fake size, shape and apparent motion, while at the same time probably giving fake doppler effect details to the fake battleship to help make it look real.

Aversa said:
Yes but from what i was reading not all radars use the Doppler effect.

Aversa said:
So you should be able to tell where he is and what shape he has with a different radar unless the satellite has a form of stealth.

Aversa said:
And maybe they could also be using a Inverse Doppler effect since there technology is much more advanced as ours it also means that there knowledge is more advanced to ours.