Re: Proposal: "Full Thrust: ANIME" (Was Re: Macross)

"Mark A. Siefert", INTERNET:cthulhu@csd.uwm.edu wrote:
>(I could never figure out the practical purpose of transformable mecha
like
Macross' Valkerye 
>in space combat. What advantage would a space fighter gain by
transforming into
a fifty
>foot tall robot?).

Well, I always thought it could use the limbs to shift its orientation
around
its center of mass, allowing it to alter facing without expending
vernier fuel.

Ray Forsythe