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Re: Deciding on a large ship acronym
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Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:36:11 GMT
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Funny...concise...definitive....I like it!
I think it's a good mix of all the suggestions and relatively
self-explanatory enough for common usuage.
My vote is 'yay'.
Now I just have to build one :)
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.space, Jon Palmer writes:
> Many good ideas were thrown around when we last discussed this. After
> thinking about it for a long while I've decided that SHIP is a cool term.
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> James Brown, who proposed the term, said it stood for Seriously Huge
> Interstellar Plastic.
> I added that it might be a Seriously Huge Investment in Parts.
> I think both of these are cool and maybe even others could be funny.
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> (Some How I Phinished ;-)
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> It was also proposed that we develop a Roman numeral system to measure ship
> size.
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> http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=16958
> http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=16998
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> Why not combine the two? For example from now on anything that is larger
> than 100 studs (aside from it's function) would be a C1 SHIP. 200 up would
> be a C2 SHIP etc..
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> Anything less than 100 studs would just be a ship.
> Makes sense to me. :-)
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> What ya think?
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> -Jon
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