Command & Conquer coded in HTML5
January 24, 2012 – 9:57 pm | No Comment

Remember the classic RTS known as Command & Conquer? Well, an enterprising coder, Aditya Ravi Shankar, actually recreated the strategy game using nothing but HTML5, where it runs on 69k of Javascript. Why did he set out on such an adventure? For starters, Shankar’s attempt was a self-mandated undertaking in order to improve his coding skills, where he gave himself a one month window to rebuild the game in the browser, and had to comb through the original game’s files in order to obtain all the right sprites, sounds and specs. According to Shankar, “In hindsight, I might have wanted to take smaller steps and make a tower defense game instead of jumping directly into an RTS. Trying to do the whole thing in under a month all by myself wasn’t the smartest idea.” As part of Shankar’s recreation of Command & Conquer, it included buildings, terrain, combat, tiberium harvesting and regrowth, in addition to the ability to sell and repair buildings. You want fog of war? It has that, too, in addition to a pannable map, different cursors, …

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Underpants bomb not enough to take down a 747?

Submitted by admin on March 8, 2010 – 3:34 pmNo Comment

What if that underwear bomb nestled between that loathsome terrorist’s legs would’ve exploded? According to the BBC, it would not have taken down a Boeing 747. Notice the remarkable flexibility of the aircraft frame, absorbing the impact without losing its integrity. From this video, it appears that the airplane would still have been able to land safely.

However, the passengers within might not fare so well. The plane in this test wasn’t sealed up and pressurized. Although the Christmas-bombed plane was at a low altitude at the time of the incident, those poor passengers sitting inside the sealed-up tin can might have suffered greatly from the sudden surge in pressure. We’re thinking broken eardrums, at least. Perhaps they could have survived if they were wearing a Hurt Locker bomb suit.

Too bad the daily theater that is airport security wasn’t impermeable enough to stop this miscreant. And what are they doing differently now? What did we learn from this? Nothing. Just keep cooperating and being afraid, and the terrorists win.

Via Gizmodo

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