April 17Apr 17 Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
April 17Apr 17 The accessory here may look like a "space helmet" about 1330 A.D. A armored knight would not wear a large round head piece like this, because it is too restrictive for head movement during a hand to hand fight. He is firing a iron arrow shaped projectile called a garrot from an iron gun shaped like a pot (pot-de-fer). But I think it is to deflect arrows coming down on him from the walls. And I do believe many of the so called "space helmet" men in some ancient drawings are arrow deflectors. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
April 18Apr 18 Author "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
April 18Apr 18 9 hours ago, LHookins said: "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers Hook I dunno. I'd consider an unreliable weapon to be a dangerous weapon. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
April 18Apr 18 14 hours ago, LHookins said: "There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers Not exactly. An F-35 is a dangerous weapon. The B-2 bomber is a dangerous weapon. A .38 caliber pistol is a dangerous weapon. But they are dangerous only in the hands of dangerous people. At Tahkli RTAFB in Thailand I once slept off a hangover on a stack of 750 pound bombs. They were not dangerous to me at the time. But once fused and loaded onto an F-105 they became extremely dangerous. But if dropped in a safe mode with the arming wires still in place they were not dangerous. When I was a Marine EOD tech in Japan we used to sweep the artillery range once a month or so looking for unexploded rounds. They were dangerous until we exploded them. Semantics. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
April 18Apr 18 If you want a helmet to deflect arrows, then big round one is the best. The big radius is ideal to change the arrow's direction of flight. But it is so large that it is cumbersome for when you are moving around fast. Perfect for when standing still. So when Erich Van Daniken et. al. began showing drawings of ancient helmets, those helmets were not for breathing strange air. But for protection from flying arrows. 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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