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(...) mass= gram or kilogram. (metric weight would be newtons, for standard it is pounds- both are used when describing force.. ie. 15 pounds of pressure, 20 newtons of pressure). In my own fake scifi world, I imagined that ships would be (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Lame Parts Entry - Strix
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(...) Thanks! I had fun working in the mantas. (...) The row boat is right above the landing skids, forming the bottom hull of the bird (It's barely visible in the 3/4 view). I'll see if I can get a better picture of it soon. (...) Reed (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Monorail Freight Destinations
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(...) construction of the awnings. This link comes up blank for me though: (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Ropes, Flex Tubes, Rubber Bands, et. al.
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Hi Shaun, I have written a program called lsynth, which does many bendable things like: flex-system hoses, pneumatic hoses, flexibe axles, ribbed hose, electric and fiber optic cables. The program is called LSynth and is available (URL) I'm also (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: 4-6-4 Hudson Yellowbelly
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Nice looking engine. I am interested about your drive wheels. How good do they run. I always had problems going over switches, and and with three drive wheels how will does it fit over curves. How are you connecting your drive wheel to your rods? I (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: Float and int
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(...) I'm doing a seminar at BricksWest on fixed point notation and simple algorithms for square root, trig, etc for BrickOS and pbForth users. The focus will be on the mechanics of the algorithms, the actual code implementation will be a "exercise (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers & Review
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Cool! I doubled what I did the previous year. Of course, I am a long way from Larry still. ...Waitaminute, the year isn't over yet. I still have 38 hours to post 2134 more times!! 8-P Anyway, how about a year-in-review, to see what all these posts (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)
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"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:H7x5J1.GvK@lugnet.com... (...) Me too Kevin. I'm happy to be in the top 50 :). -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm MS (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20021230055017....ron.com... (...) <snipped list> (...) Woo Hoo number 44! Wait a second, I've never posted from the web interface! Huh. I'm happy anyway. :) <snipped list> -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) well, somehow your posts got an X-Real-Life-Name header. Perhaps your newsreader was configured to add it? Dan (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Surprise bags at S@H
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(...) The french speacking lady is very nice! She told me the content, but she did not knew about the difference in price. SP01 and SP02 is the same: 3342 - SW sets #3 7308 - Double Hover 8507 - Electro 3945 - Drome key chain Well, I will not order (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Last year, when I called S@H in Canada, the lady told me what was in those bags. It was not very interesting. I wish it is not the same assortment this year. Please, if someone bought the one from this year, post the content. You are sure (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Ropes, Flex Tubes, Rubber Bands, et. al.
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Hi All, I've been working diligently on LDrawing my Hudson 4-6-4 Steam Engine ((URL) and am finally running up against the seemingly impossible: Is there a way to modify pieces so that they bend and curve? So far, I've replaced bent flex-tubing with (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Displacement Tonnage for Spaceships?
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(...) Yes, and it was this relatively convenient conversion that made me think this measurment might be useful for some of us who build in ABS. (...) Based on the other commentary I have seen, I would guess no. But I still feel it was worthy of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Light Gray Tiles in set #10041
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Hello, In set #10041, the LEGO Legends remake of #6390 - 'Main Street', it seems to me that for the rails of the building crane the original parts #812 - 'Train Level Crossing Center Rail Cap Insert' have been replaced by plates with tiles on top of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.general)
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(...) Haha! :) I hope someday that I can build a ludicrous big ship. Most of mine are sorta small, fairly small, and diminutively small. :) (The Terrorformer and the Armegeddon being two exceptions of course.) -H. (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Brickenplate After-Christmas Sale
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I have put up some great bargains in my Brickenplate shop. (URL) of hard-to-find and rare LEGO at really good prices, including: Classic TOWN (6380, 6382, 6561) - garage doors!! Original gray roadplates and gray roadplates with sidewalks '98 and '99 (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) Yeah! I'm # 16. Good for my first 11 months. Off to make more noise. *Noise*...*noise*...*noise*... -JHK (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Displacement Tonnage for Spaceships?
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(...) I would agree that it is not based on any true science. Rather, I suspect hydrogen displacement was chosen because of the potential "sounds cool factor", since it sounds like a nautical term. Some sci-fi's (not all) like to draw comparisons (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Float and int
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(...) Mabie Fixed Point is an answer. I dont know how it works but I have a book that suggests that a decent Fixed Point library can be faster than Floating Point if there isnt an FPU available. (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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