Nations at War - Closing Time!

[Mikoyan]

Bm-30s are beginning to be loaded up.

Mexicani citizens get a treat in seeing 1 of 2 Belsnian An-225s land to get fuel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJx_CZI_27c

[Ad Bot]

[Gojira]

Vierte says, "Holy Jesus, a crew of 30? Do you realize the food requirements and the weight that would add? That'd make space travel veeeery difficult."

Vierte's population explodes in number.

[morningstar]

Since it's tied between Zeus and Thor, and one guy said it would be a tie, I guess the one guy is right.  Freaky. 

[Plethora]

The TBSP begins preparation for a hangar on the moon.  Thew idea is to have a place that spacecraft can take off from that isn't Earth.  This will make it very useful as a resupply station.

The TBSP sends an unmanned probe to orbit Mars and send some pictures back.

The AC congratulates itself for resolving the Yaslovakian Artillery CrCIA.  Crowds gather in Bath'al celebrating the peaceful resolution engineered by the government.  The Grand Sheikh makes a public address televised from his Plexian hotel room.  The gist of the speech is that not only the AC, but the cooperation of all the nations made this possible, and that not only the Grand Sheikh, but also the ACHC is to be credited for the plan.  +5 nationalism.

That poll stands until I'm proven right.

[Muslim]

Vierte says, "Holy Jesus, a crew of 30? Do you realize the food requirements and the weight that would add? That'd make space travel veeeery difficult."

Vierte's population explodes in number.

It is an expanded version and will include a small lower deck to accommodate extra crews for feeding and maintenance and the lower deck will also include a hold for food and cargo which will be almost filled to the brim - most people in the crew (22, 8 will be working for cargo and maintenance and feeding) will have their own tiny cargo hold outside of their resting area. A manufactured edition will come soon.

[Gojira]

It is an expanded version and will include a small lower deck to accommodate extra crews for feeding and maintenance and the lower deck will also include a hold for food and cargo which will be almost filled to the brim - most people in the crew (22, 8 will be working for cargo and maintenance and feeding) will have their own tiny cargo hold outside of their resting area. A manufactured edition will come soon.

How are you going to lift it? It would have to be massive to store food and water for THIRTY loving PEOPLE.

v = v_e ln(m_i/m_f)
You need the exhaust velocity, the mass when full of cargo but out of fuel (read up on the weight of fuels), and the mass when it's full of fuel and cargo. Tyranny of the fundamental rocketry equation. Oh, and by the way, it takes 9km/s give or take to get into Low Earth Orbit. Do the math, accounting for crew weight, food and water weight, fuel weight, and craft weight.
Talk to me when you're done.
I don't forget around when it comes to space science.

[SirLancelot7]

Utah continues advances to stay as the medicinal capitol of the world.  We continue to ship vaccinations worldwide for common diseases, and research is constantly taking place for more preventive care.

[blazerblock2]

Askari makes his way to the confederation to attend the arranged conference before the families that lost members in the Mediterranean trade incident.  He apologizes sincerely, admitting it was a rash decision that was a result of a long line of warlords in his own family.  He expresses his wishes to once again fight alongside his long time brethren of Belsnia and become allies again with the confederation.  His apology is cut short by an attempted assassination, and he returns immediately after the assassin is turned over to confederate law enforcement.

Meanwhile, a scouting party in Abdullahi is reported being missin after sent to explore northern Oregon.  Their last known location was a waterfall at the gorge; the canyon like formation that separates Washington and Oregon.

[Plethora]

Goodness.  The AC government makes an apology over the attempted assassination.  The assassin is imprisoned for the rest of his life living on bread and water two meals a day, somewhere between starvation rations and regular servings.

[morningstar]

Plexia discovers the cure to the common cold

A Plexian expedition is sent to Antarctica to do research on penguins. 
A rich Plexian man requests 2 live giraffes from the AC for a price of 2 billion dessen. 

[Plethora]

The AC accepts.

[blazerblock2]

A scouting party consisting of Erinamese security agents and Abdullahian fighters is sent after the other party that had disappeared.  After locating them, they were all dead from gun wounds.  The Abdullahians suspect local resistance.

[Rockinboy2000]

A major cold front is seen on radar moving closer to the southern coast, there is expected to be a major amount of snow in and around the capital and many people are stocking up on food and water

another weapon is being planned for production in the future.

[Muslim]

Old Irrklaandic Weather Basing (OIWB) has designed a device that can modify clouds. This is in anticipation to test its effects on hurricanes, where one (dubbed William), a category 4 hurricane, has been tracked and is heading north from South Mexica up to Central Mexica.

In other major news, the conquest to claim Greenland is over.

(The land has actually been discovered and the natives have been cleared; we're just waiting until the right time to take it. We're going to do it on Christmas - call it operation MCM [Merry Christmas, Motherforgeter.])

[Mikoyan]

Surveyors from Siberia return with a lot of valuable information about the land.

All the BM-30s have been transported Atsinian Mexico and await the next cargo liner.

Belsnian test pilot Feodor Galerkin who supposedly was the first human to fly over Mach 1 in 1947 has passed away. A flyover of his hometown near Muscovgrad is arranged.