Season 8, Episode 6: Nothing Valued is Here (Patreon)

This week on the podcast: Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory Episode 6: フォン・ブラウンの戦士 (Warrior of Von Braun). Thom thought he wouldn't have much to say this week. The runtime showed that to be a lie. We discuss the difference between pride and vanity, the importance of a soldier's feelings, reconstruction as a motif, who gets to decide who pilots the Gundam, and much more!

Show Notes

• AMBAC was originally described in the book 宇宙翔ける戦士達 GUNDAM CENTURY, aka Gundam Century. Ed. by Matsuzaki Kenichi. Minori Shobo, Sept. 22, 1981.
• Japanese Wikipedia page for AMBAC.
• Kino Hitoshi, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Fukuoka Institute of Technology, explains the math of how AMBAC works in a series of two blog posts: モビルスーツの力学と制御 －AMBACシステム、ガンダムハンマーの制御を分析－（前編）(Mobile Suit Dynamics and Control - Analysis of AMBAC System and Gundam Hammer Control). Archive of part 1 and archive of part 2.
• Japanese-language research paper by Iwata Toshiaki referencing AMBAC systems for controlling space robots:
  
  岩田 敏彰 (Iwata Toshiaki), AMBAC [Active Mass Balance Auto Control (System)] -手足の運動を利用した方向制御機能-, 計測と制御, 2004, 43 巻, 1 号, p. 8-9, 公開日 2009/11/26, Online ISSN 1883-8170, Print ISSN 0453-4662, https://doi.org/10.11499/sicejl1962.43.8, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sicejl1962/43/1/43_1_8/_article/-char/ja.
  
• English language paper also by Iwata Toshiaki discussing an AMBAC-like system for controlling space robot arms:
  
  Experiments on Space Robot Arm Path Planning Using the Sensors Database, Toshiaki Iwata, Kenzo Kodama, Fumio Numajiri, and Hiroshi Murakami, Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 1999 22:4, 573-578.
  
• Kawamori Shoji discusses what his "mechanical styling" credit for 0083 means in this Japanese language interview.
• Jeremy Rehm, Why Beetles Fly Like Superman, Scientific American, Nov. 16, 2017. Available at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-beetles-fly-like-superman/. 

The recap music is “80's Synth Rock (Guitar Improvisation)” by Zombie-Fish.

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