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Another Birmingham newspaper article (this one in Birmingham, Alabama) has a much friendlier writeup about LEGO (middle of this webpage): (URL) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch) !
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| | Re: Paging Ondrew Hartigan...
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thank you. i will be shure to share what i come up with. also i would like to thank your club for a great weekend, even if i was sick. i really did enjoy myself and i got some great ideas. thanks ondrew (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc)
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| | Paging Ondrew Hartigan...
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Ondrew, I can't get an e-mail to you, so just wanted to let you know the .dat file for my tank car frame is up. I tried the NILTC site, and haven't seen a single post of yours, but thought posting here was worth a shot. LMK when you retrieve the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains.org.niltc)
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| | Re: OT Brick Testament CONSPIRACY??!!
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(...) Legal jurisdiction, they'd just assinate you. I got no doubt the CIA is our secret police. BTW, if I dissapear tomorrow, it's the CIA... (...) What do these guys do anyway? They're the Illuminati's strong arm, aren't they? Mark (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 2x4 Dark Gray Bricks Discontinued??
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"Adrian Egli" <aegli@san.rr.com> wrote in message news:H7yI7C.2pD@lugnet.com... (...) me (...) They are still available with "ship to country" set to Germany. HTH. -- Cheers Carlo LUGNET #24 (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Roll Call! Anybody else?
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(...) Hi Tony, I think that was done already... cannot recall who did it, but some while ago when the Guarded Inn was re-issued there was a space version of it - it was pretty cool. If I'm not mistaken, it is somewhere on Brickshelf. Cheers, Pedro (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: New MOC: Micro Mech
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To explain the double post, I didn't think it'd take 24 hours to post my first attempt message. Oh well : ) (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: 4-6-4 Hudson Yellowbelly
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I saw this a couple days ago as I was browsing brickshelf. Very nice. I like the use of the stunt stick/backpack attachment thingy on the small headlights. Are those drivers lego parts from the old car sets? Or are they another manufacturer? (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Roll Call! Anybody else?
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(...) Ooh, ooh....ME TOO....I love both .castle and .space!! (OOOOHHH, how 'bout a Space Castle??) Peace and Long Life, Tony Alexander (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | My impressions of the Imperial Star Destroyer Model ( some "spoilers")
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During the week of Christmas I had a 9-day vacation from work. Along with spending time with my family, and playing a good chunk of Metroid Prime, I wanted to use the time to build my Star Destroyer. I decided that instead of trying to build it all (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | ISD 6:30 (was 6:45)
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leonard hoffman <glencaer@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H77u12.Bu2@lugnet.com... (...) I've just managed to beat that by a few minutes! (...) Try page 154, step 9. (...) An incredible build, especialy against the clock. You just gotta stay (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers
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(...) Perhaps the authentication process adds it? James (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | 2x4 Dark Gray Bricks Discontinued??
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I just came back from a little vacation and decided it was a good time to get building again. I'm going through my bricks and discover I'm short of 2x4 dark gray. The SAH site says "sold out" but as a just-in-case, I call up just to make sure. OK, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: New MOC: Micro Mech
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(...) Wassssup, -snip- (...) Looks great Matt. Never saw a Mini Mech before. Good gun too. Seriously this time, How Long Did It Take You to make a mini version like that? I may start making small mechs instead of big ones. Hasta la Vista, Sean (23 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
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(...) That's the point exactly. Brendan has been scrupulous not to manufacture anything that you can't find right there in the verses he cites for each image. Like Kyle said... is this person anti Bible? (...) I would agree with the sentiment, Eric, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!
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(...) Yeah, the whole thing blows. I really hope they don't jump on the Rev. for this. Nobody deserves to get stomped for harmless fun. I mean, I can see how, maybe, you could get ticked at someone for a few of the things on the site, but is it (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Going Podracing!
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Check out our latest diorama from our homepage, Going Podracing!; (URL) Boonta Eve Classic podrace day has finally arrived and the slave quarters' residents bid their neighbor Anakin good luck on his quest to win the big race to help out his newly (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | Re: Himoda Temple
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Ohhh yes! This is great. Really, I can say no more. (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers
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(...) [...] So I'm #8? Whoopee, I think. I post the majority of messages through NNTP, but I do post the occasional one through the web interface (such as this one). But I know I didn't post 867 through the web interface, so I think you may have (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!
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(...) I wonder if this falls under the "no such thing as bad publicity" banner. I can't wait to see the Reverend's reaction... --Bill. (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!
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What is most disturbing about this story is the blatant attempt to link the Brick Testament and child pornography. This article claims that this gentleman was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, then proceeds to give the example (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: the perfect way to sell lego trains
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lots of snipage here: (...) I think so too, Thomas starters run from $25 (basic circle w/1 engine no cars) its $40 (basic figure 8 w/1 engine 2 cars) they go way up from there (...) yep (...) I think some options here would be good... 9v train motor (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
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Exactly! That is an excellent point Steve. I would think that all the positive reations and media attention Brendon's work has recv'd will stand on it own. Too bad the actions of one perv make other peoples names/work get dragged thru the mud. e (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
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I would also add that a review of the 20 Questions article on BimP would shed a whole "lotta" light on the Reverend's view of the bible and it's message. Sheesh...don't journalist do their research anymore? This is simply nuts. Steven (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Jamocklaquat - The waters are still - a brief pause and analysis -
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(...) The AI will come from the programming ultimatly. (...) The Super Mech-Bot has a Dual Vision Command set up. (URL)If you wanted it more advanced, you (...) The Super Mech-Bot has touch sensors in the hands. (URL) nice about Vision Command is (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pipe Racers Demo Videos
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(...) We looked at 22.5 deg joints but it's not so much the angle (well, 22.5 vs 90 yes, but...) as the sudden increase in outer diameter due to the joint. Once you build some flexibility for the increase in diamater due to the fitting, most of the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.space)
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| | ldraw viewer 0.4 observations
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I uninstalled Fruit Menu to see if it was the source of my crashes, but now after using contextual menu to change color of a brick, mouse clicks register about 30 pixels to low. When I click on a brick, I wind up selecting the brick two bricks down, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Rheingold Express in 8-wide
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(...) Wow! I really like this one...is the lettering that says "Rheingold" SNOT or is it a sticker of some kind? (My question may be answered when folder becomes public, oh well.) (...) Very nice. (...) The train station is incredible! Sounds like (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Pipe Racers Demo Videos
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This is so cool! I really look forward to see how this is developed. I imagine it will be quite a trick to get this across the joints. Have you thought about a less extreme joint? 30 deg maybe? (If they make those) I'm including .space in this (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering with MegaPov 0.7 (long post)
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(...) Well, you shouldn't actually replace the definitions but place them after line 16 (#declare BUMPNORMAL = normal { bumps 0.01 scale 20 } and before the line saying: # declare 07071 = sqrt(0.5);. Remove the lines #declare AMB = 0.4; and #declare (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Bricks West 2003 Area Hotels Booking up fast!
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Folks, I just arranged a flat to stay at during BW2003. From what I understand, the area Hotels are booking up fast. The Grand Pallisades is booked as are a coupple of other nearby resorts. Super 8 @ Legoland still has rooms. This is by no means a (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest)
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| | JET - SPACE TRANSPORT - TAXI STATION - VILLA & MORE....NO RESERVE
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hello Here are some train, technic and old set for sale.... (ending on January 6th ) good luck and a happy New Year Pietro Peterbol follow the link: (URL) Lego train 12 V#7858#7859 RemoteControl Point Lego train 12V #7864 transformer MISB Lego (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering with MegaPov 0.7 (long post)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Well, I rendered a model by James Mathis (ICE train) with radiosity and camera-blur and Mega-Pov + POV-Ray 3.1 was SEVEN TIMES FASTER than POV-Ray 3.5! I also liked the overal picture rendered by MegaPov better, a bit softer if (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: 4-6-4 Hudson Yellowbelly
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(...) Thanks! (...) The drive wheels are only connected to the chassis by couplings, the top is "pressed on" the chassis by 2 springed wheels holders (the red ones). Over curves and switches, they puch up slightly higher, and therefore don't run. On (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New SW set sightings in COS
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Thanks for the heads-up. I'm up in the Fort Collins area, and I was just starting to think that I'd never see the MINI sets in CO. I haven't seen them yet at the Target in Fort Collins (I was there this morning, looking.), but maybe it's time to go (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.us.co.cos)
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| | New SW set sightings in COS
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I recently located several of the new SW sets here in Colorado Springs, at the new "super Target" on Powers. The following sets were available: 4475 Jabba's Message 4476 Jabba's Prize 4477 T-16 Skyhopper 4484 X-Wing and TIE Advance (MINI) 4485 (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.us.co.cos, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Review of 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer
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(...) Agreed wholeheartedly, as I opened the box and removed the instructions I found that just travelling to my house had caused a severe rip in the spine. There was a rip on the front cover in the bottom left hand corner. However, after assembly, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Nice new Catalog!
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I just found a new catalog in the mail this afternoon. Hey good job! Lots of new stuff and surprises everywhere. Thank you. Eric Sophie www.mylegomaster.com (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Rheingold Express in 8-wide
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(...) Wow, amazing stuff! (...) I considered going, but the (ICE) traintrip would take 4 hours from Amsterdam and the Dutch Railways wouldn't give a quote on the price for a ticket on the website :-( Maybe next year I'll come for a whole weekend and (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Rheingold Express in 8-wide
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(...) <snip> (...) Only one comment: Ghaaaa... :-O *drool* Amazing creations, Ben. Congrats for the success of this meeting!! :-) Pedro (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Review of 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer
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One other point I forgot to mention in my original review ... The massive instruction book (228 A3 pages) is too heavy for its style of binding and the covers quickly detached from the rest of the book as I started to turn through the pages. And (...) (23 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: New Poll: Why do you buy LEGO?
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(...) Some other reasons I have bought LEGO: - to see how LEGO tackled a design problem - to acquire parts for trade - to collect the set - because the set is beautiful - because the price was too cheap to pass up - to acquire more tubs for storage (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8475 -- a good buy
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(...) Who said anything about racing? :) I think Chris has this Battlebots esque tanks with big hammers thing in mind... Calum (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | auguri
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Tantissimi auguri a tutti e che il 2003 vi porti un mare di Lego:-)))))) -- Fabio LUGNET member n.340 (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Pipe Racers Demo Videos
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(...) It's really quite fun--part of it is because it's in 3D vs the usual 2D building we do (ie, wheeled/tracked floor based vehicle) and at that, you have to work at any angle (because the pipe is 1D, but you can approach the joint at 360 (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
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(...) I agree completely, I'm no authority but I would suppose that what's in the BT is no more so that in the Bible. That reference was ment to discredit that person in question and the BT was used to paint a futher despicable picture on the back (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers
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Welcome clansmen! I bid you greetings from the ‘Circle of 18 Richards!’ We are a numerous bunch, and soon we will be poised to rule over these fair lands once more. Our high-commander, Richard Marchetti, shall be saluted as ‘post-master’ 1 of 18 (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community)
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| | Re: 8475 -- a good buy
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(...) This reminds me of a go-cart race I was involved in once. 9 or 10 of us rented the place, and it turns out one person was a maniac - always smashing into people. Hyperaggressive when passing. Annoyed a lot of us. So inevitably, he'd end up (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Help defend the artist! (was Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!)
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I would encourage people disgusted by Fionnula Bourke's article to email their grievance at: icFeedback@mrn.co.uk my response: In your article "Councillor in child porn probe" Dec 29 2002, by Fionnula Bourke, you report the Brick Testament as a site (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Alien Fighter+a variation on a theme by Jon Palmer
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"John Henry Kruer" <jhkruer@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H7uwx5.Jqo@lugnet.com... (...) (URL) some reason, but I like it from all the others, especially this one: (URL) probably that I like the back of the wings better than the front of them. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Float and int
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(...) For most brick projects I can think of, it is. If you want to travel your robot around, you will have to deal with sin, cos, tan and square root. First thing you can do is working with tables to avoid "on the fly" sin calculation. Second, you (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | 7418 Gold Shield
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Does anyone have a good picture of the new shield that comes in this set? I believe it is a gold and black ovoid shield. Thanks, Aaron (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Cool Site Of The Week
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It's a wonderful site. I was more than happy to vote for it. Congratulations! -Aaron "Denix" <denix@multiversalis.com> wrote in message news:H7KC5r.F2w@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The XR20 Tadpole.
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Looks good Tim Tam. I'm not a fan of black on white but it worked pretty well here. And that's a GREAT name. [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) Shipyard - (URL) Moonbase - (URL) Store - (URL) Deering" <deering@direct.ca> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: cool site for .space ideas
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Paul Hartzog, inspirato hook-up. (You're still not getting Painted Space though ;-) [ j o n ] -- | Lego - (URL) Shipyard - (URL) Moonbase - (URL) Store - (URL) Hartzog" <panarchy23@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:H7uxw0.LJ5@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers
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(...) I'm using the 'post figures' as -points-earned!- ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ ~Once you reach 10,000 points y’get a free trip to LegoLand!!! (I'm sure TLC will honor this…) ;p Mr. #31, --==Richard==-- P.S. !!!Go rtlToronto!!! We’ve got the highest number of (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: My Porta-Botty
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"Tony Alexander" <tw0nst3r@startrek.net> wrote in message news:H7x5Hn.Gq7@lugnet.com... (...) hours. (...) No prob! I know what you mean about it taking time to put it together. I can't wait to see some pics of your bots. Have fun! [ j o n ] -- | (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| | Rheingold Express in 8-wide
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Hi all, Frank 'Pudie' Abel, a co-Afol of the FGLTC has built a really beautiful Rheingold-Express train. That was shown yesterday at the FGLTC end-of-year-show in Hattersheim. It might appear as an ISCC II gallery as well ( (URL) ), but I think it (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Creating the .space Crash Course
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I've always thought this was pretty cool along the "interesting mathematical sculpture" lines, but to be honest it's never really done anything for me. It would be cool if you built a new station sometime that had a unified color scheme. Maybe (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Brick Testament site linked with child porn case??!!
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(...) How true. It always amuses me at how our society "shuns" those parts of the Bible that aren't all holy and pure. Guess what people? You have to deal with the bad AND the good because the original writers are trying to TELL you something (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ropes, Flex Tubes, Rubber Bands, et. al.
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(...) This page has a spreadsheet for modeling curved nets. Perhaps that might help with modeling string since the real nets are made of string? (URL) always have trouble finding that page because a google search for ldraw and net doesn't pick it (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering with MegaPov 0.7 (long post)
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Hi Jeroen - This looks great! I plugged it into MegaPOV and replaced my color definitions in a POV file with your code. MegaPOV is having a hard time understanding your statements: #if (BUMPS) normal { BUMPNORMAL } #end Any tips? Thanks!! -Tim (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers
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(...) Wow... the number of my posts has halved in the last year. In 2001, I posted 1150 times. -Tim (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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| | Re: Excellent rendering with MegaPov 0.7 (long post)
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Hej Jeroen, a BIG thanks to you for this extensive and clear post about how to get 'excelent rendering results' (ERR...) with MegaPov 0.7 but(yes), me is one of those lazy guys... so, how about a comparison between Povray3.5 and MegaPov 0.7 in both (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Ropes, Flex Tubes, Rubber Bands, et. al.
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(...) And the missing link is: (URL) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Ropes, Flex Tubes, Rubber Bands, et. al.
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(...) Here's a page with some tools for modeling rubber band belts. (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Wipeout Fans! I bring you the new and improved feisar AG-craft!!!!
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(...) Actually, it doesn't. *sniff* But I suppose, if I have nothing better to do, I can modify it so that it does have an interior and an opening hatch. :-) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New primitive box3-2.dat (was Re: What's up with box3#8.dat?)
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(...) I have moved the box3#8p.dat currently on the Parts Tracker to box3u8p.dat and the new primitive is available to review at (URL) ~Moved to file will need special attention by Steve and I as it is not accessible through the review machanism, (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Pipe Racers Demo Videos
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Looks cool! One question: Where's the RCX? :) I think it will be a real challenge lugging around an RCX while still being able to traverse joints. Speaking of joints, do you think there will be any T's, or just elbows. Getting a device to drive (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Black Falcon minifigure sculpture
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(...) Because I'm thinking of the wrong wench: the wolf pack wench. My bad. No inside pirate's joke I'm aware of. -Anne -- There may be 50 ways to leave your (\`--/') _ _______ .-r-. leave your lover, but there are >.~.\ `` ` `,`,`. ,'_'~`. only 4 (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Monorail Freight Destinations
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| | FA(ebay): LEGO 6666 + 6525 MISB (Ambulance & Blaze Commander)
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Hello all, I have the following Lego town set for auction on ebay: LEGO 6666 + 6525 MISB (Ambulance & Blaze Commander). Both sets are in its sealed boxes, never opened! Sets are from the years 1994 & 1995. (URL) status at the moment: US$ 16.50.- (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | FA(ebay): LEGO 6639 + 6546 MISB (Raven Racer & Slick Racer)
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Hello all, I have the following Lego town set for auction on ebay: LEGO 6639 + 6546 MISB (Raven Racer & Slick Racer): Both sets are in its sealed boxes, never opened! Sets are from the years 1995 & 1996. (URL) has just started. US$ 1.00.- Please (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | FA(ebay): LEGO 8440 Formula Indy Racer - MISB
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Hello all, I have the following set for auction on ebay: LEGO 8440 Formula Indy Racer - MISB ! (URL) status at the moment: US$ 10.50.-, check it out. Best regards, Guenther Leitner (23 years ago, 27-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Why would you do a silly thing like that? The basic pirate wench torso is red, white, black, and yellow. Or is there some crazy pirate injoke here that I'm not getting? Adrian (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Very cool. The spear looks like it's solid. Is it pretty heavy? Nice job on the Black Falcon logo. :) I like the castle that shows the scale. -Anne (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) I think I'll make one of the classic space guys and castle knights. :) Question about the wench: wouldn't you need to make it with "peach" or "flesh" coloured bricks? I don't have any in those colours, nor do I know if LEGO produces any bricks (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Fw: 8475 until a little while ago was seemed to be lacking.....
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(...) January 10th at Mel's on Bloor and Bathurst. The latest event list is always listed on the rtlToronto home page. Calum (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There are none left in Ontario at TRS. Very short supply, if any, everywhere. Angelo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Fw: 8475 until a little while ago was seemed to be lacking.....
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 From: "Calum Tsang" snip Subject: Re: 8475 until a little while ago was seemed to be lacking..... (...) ? BTW, when is the next dinner? Angelo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Displacement Tonnage for Spaceships?
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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 (...) (23 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 (23 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) (23 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.trains)
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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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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) (23 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 (...) (23 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 (23 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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 (...) (23 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. (23 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 (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: Top 1000 noisemakers
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(...) Yeah! I'm # 16. Good for my first 11 months. Off to make more noise. *Noise*...*noise*...*noise*... -JHK (23 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 (...) (23 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. (23 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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