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Subject: 
Re: Couldn't resist
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au
Date: 
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 00:07:39 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Hartzog writes:
In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
Almost every builder has millions of attennas and tons of
bulky areas on these ships and none of these people realize that there is
friction in outer

what the flipping space monster burgers are
you talking about?

friction in space?

NOT, noway, nohow

wings are useless in space, dude.
i'm an astrophysicist, i know whereof i speak.

No!  Surely not!

I had always thought all that space suit rubbish was about protecting soft
and squidgy spacedudes from the howling radioactive solar wind, encountered
near suns.

So if its not to protect them from the wind, why do spacedudes muck about
with space suits, or is that just Hollywood making everything unnecessarily
dramatic (like the guy falling onto the propeller in Titanic)?

Richard
Still baldly going...
(while being quietly comprehensively flabbergasted at what goes on in .space)

(and if any of the many builders who have millions of attennas is about, I'd
like to know what attennas are, and whether you could spare a couple of
hundred thou - I've never encountered a Lego piece I couldn't use for
something...)



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
its for vaccum and sun. sun is lethal out in space without ozone to protect you from ulkmate sunburn and blindness. gonna need air up there too heh -- And they said 'Computers will never be in general use' "Richard Parsons" (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) Oh stop. You guys are just trying to drive the postcount of loc.au up because the whinging poms might stay ahead of you, or something. :-) Next you'll be asking why the sky is blue over in lugnet.town, then you can ask if you have to hold (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
  I could resist but I won't (was: Couldn't resist)
 
(...) You know, Like the one in some movie or other that nearly eats that spaceship after they've landed in a cave on an asteroid which isn't a cave but still has bat-things in it and an atmosphere of sorts and really squishy ground and when they (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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  Couldn't resist
 
(...) what the flipping space monster burgers are you talking about? friction in space? NOT, noway, nohow wings are useless in space, dude. i'm an astrophysicist, i know whereof i speak. (i'm sure this has been said elsewhere but hey i don't have (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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