26. Well-Shagged Needlenose with SpinisterSpinister was out cold. He had no endurance for love-making, and to satisfy himself, Needlenose had to wear the helicopter all the way out. Needlenose sighed and looked up at the ceiling. Spinister was learning, although Needlenose was impatient over his lover's slowness about it
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Hmm hmm hmm. Nice, but lacks a certain something in the resolution. Not sure what though. I see the Targetmasters continue to suffer, heh.
These are just minifics. If it was a proper story, there'd be more to it. The Targetmasters do indeed.
So, why is Spinister so lacking in endurance? Lack of experience, or something else?
There is that. There is also that Needlenose runs on a fusion reactor. He could make love for a million years and not get tired. Of course, he'd need a partner like Shockwave.
And a supply of fusable fuel, presumably. Gonna run out of fuel eventually, unless you have some sort of funky fission/fusion reactor that can recycle its own products, but even then the movement of energy out of the system will lead to the fuel declining into lower-energy states, etc etc.
... come to think of it, Megadeath's reactor was running for about 9 million years without any new material. *Damn* that is one efficient power source. I wonder why they don't use them more? Indeed, it was the new material that caused his reactor to blow up, which means there must be some carefully balanced reaction going on there.
Yes, the blades snap once they reach the speed of sound, don't they? Because of the reversal thing which I forget the name of ...
You can't run jet engines off it, for one thing. Maybe it's only compatible with a few people. Maybe it's hard to maintain.
You can get a blade rotating with the tip moving faster than the speed of sound. It just makes a horrible noise and, yes, will snap due to materials defects.
And they explode. That said, Megadeath was odd in having his with a transparent front, the nit. Odd combination of characters - Megadeath, Shockwave, Needlenose. Why should they have reactors and nobody else? :: ponders::
So possibly the TFs have overcome the materials problem and made rotorblades that don't snap? Or at least don't snap often enough to be useable?
Thunderwing worked for Megadeath. Needlenose worked for Thunderwing. Possibly reactors were a regional thing?
It's not just an issue of snapping. There are also noise and vibration issues. Possibly also issues with how much lift you can get. I don't know all the factors. They don't teach us helicopters. -_-
Megadeath *was* seriously nuclear explosions and so on, so it makes sense he'd have a funky reactor. Given that Megadeath worked in Stanix, which seems to have been the back of beyond even before he blew it up, it seems unlikely Needlenose would be there. Insufficiently metropolitian for him, yes.
Does Spinister have a reactor of some sort? He carries fusion bombs and a nuclear-powered flamethrower. Doublecross, Cindersaur and Dogfight all have similar fusion-powered flamethrowers ...
Noise issues would make life interesting for a stealthcopter, yes. Also make his Nebulans deaf.
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So, why is Spinister so lacking in endurance? Lack of experience, or something else?
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These are just minifics. If it was a proper story, there'd be more to it. The Targetmasters do indeed.
So, why is Spinister so lacking in endurance? Lack of experience, or something else?
There is that. There is also that Needlenose runs on a fusion reactor. He could make love for a million years and not get tired. Of course, he'd need a partner like Shockwave.
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And a supply of fusable fuel, presumably. Gonna run out of fuel eventually, unless you have some sort of funky fission/fusion reactor that can recycle its own products, but even then the movement of energy out of the system will lead to the fuel declining into lower-energy states, etc etc.
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Spinister, for example, breaks the laws of physics. He's more than twice as fast as a helicopter can physically be.
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Yes, the blades snap once they reach the speed of sound, don't they? Because of the reversal thing which I forget the name of ...
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You can get a blade rotating with the tip moving faster than the speed of sound. It just makes a horrible noise and, yes, will snap due to materials defects.
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So possibly the TFs have overcome the materials problem and made rotorblades that don't snap? Or at least don't snap often enough to be useable?
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It's not just an issue of snapping. There are also noise and vibration issues. Possibly also issues with how much lift you can get. I don't know all the factors. They don't teach us helicopters. -_-
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Does Spinister have a reactor of some sort? He carries fusion bombs and a nuclear-powered flamethrower. Doublecross, Cindersaur and Dogfight all have similar fusion-powered flamethrowers ...
Noise issues would make life interesting for a stealthcopter, yes. Also make his Nebulans deaf.
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Spinister isn't powered by a reactor, but man, his weapons glow in the dark. ;)
I'm assuming that Spinister is a magic helicopter. Or he uses antisound.
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Thereby making it easier for Needlenose to find him in the bedroom?
Or he has uberleet Cybertronian metalwork. Or it's something to do with the weird kinks in his rotors.
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No, no. Nothing to do with any of that. He just breaks the laws of physics.
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