>>to be honest, I personally had a lot more trouble with the beamriding
>>part of it, as my brain seems to keep insisting that the beam was
>>actually providing more steering than just "hold the signal at bearing
>>x azimuth y". Most likely assuming facts not actually in evidence
>>there.
>
>Well, no, it seems like your brain was probably right. The real
>Knickebein was just a navigational aid, providing information
>that the aircraft's pilot would then act upon, but in this
>implementation it's doing rather more. There will be a much more
>detailed analysis of how Operation Grass-Snake worked (and what it was
>meant to accomplish) in episode 07, next week.
>
eh... problem there has my subconcous screaming "they didnt have the computing power back then to pull something like that off".

>>From her appearance last week, and on to now. I have to
>>wonder if shes a DC of one (or more) of Martin "PC Hammmer" Rose's
>>ancestors.
>
>You do realize his name isn't actually Hammer, right? :)

*points at line G quoted* :p ;D

>
>Anyway, no, she's not (as far as one knows) related to either of them;
>she's the local equivalent of Hans von Hammer from the old Enemy
>Ace feature in DC's Our Army at War comics, and she looks
>like Me 109 from Fly Girls because the animators were having a
>little joke. :)
>
hmm. Yes, I think I saw something to that effect somewhere. :p guess its just the way you write her, especially here, really channels the way Marty wrote Eiko back when he was an active memeber of the collective. Could also be that I must semi shamefully admit that Marty's stories and appearances were the ones I liked best, especially the handfull of Thunderforce stories; and that fact is skewing my perceptions.