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Introducing T'Kunce drive-revolutionizing space travel was: Remembering Travis - His favorite piece
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Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:34:24 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin wrote:
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He once showed me a photo of his favorite LEGO part, the 1x1 with 5 studs. He
even had it tattooed.
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-Grand Admiral
.space Curator
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Yes Sir! Mr. Grand Admiral Sir!
Per your request, we here at Eridani SpaceTek would like to unveil our latest
achievement. We were hoping to be able to supply a radical new power
source/space drive system to Kane StarCrafters, in light of their innovative
space product line. We first were determined to use Kane StarCrafters’ CEO’s
favorite product element, the aforementioned part. Our result is astonishing;
we call it the “T’Kunce drive.” It is named for one of space’s most innovative
inventors, integral to the Kane StarCrafters company. This revolutuonary drive
system features multi axis symmetry, giving it an inherently stable, focused &
powerful energy field. The stable, even field is easily ‘sensored’ through for
ships to see where they’re going, but also easy enough to modulate to prevent
enemies from having an advantage. The energy stream is supplied at the base of
the unit & is channeled throught the conduits around a crystalline spamcell
core. The surrounding conduits collimate the energy, which is then focused &
directed at the spamcell core, which focuses it even more, & then sends the
power stream to the engines/energy distribution node, giving an extremely
powerful & efficient drive/power system, depending on what it’s hooked up to.
The resulting propulsion is an extremely efficient & blindingly fast slipstream
drive. Oddly, a side benefit was discovered in testing: the focused,
symmetrical resonance of the crystalline spamcells has the benefit of driving
away fleebnorks! The images:
initial 3D compact engine:
a cutaway view:
a compact 2D unit for the Kane StarCrafters smaller craft:
and finally a variation of the 3D & it’s cutaway view:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jeff-S/Misc-Ideas/TKunceDrive/tkuncedrivea.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jeff-S/Misc-Ideas/TKunceDrive/tkuncedriveb.jpg
Tek Eridani,
founder, Eridani SpaceTek
(Jeff)
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| Hi Everyone, I chatted with Travis online every day. We shared many online jokes that were known really to only a few of us. I tried to think of something people could wear, like a ribbon or T shirt or some such, to remember Travis. But those all (...) (20 years ago, 24-Dec-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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