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(...) Well, I guess it comes up from that I'd expect desert to go to Egypt and Outback maybe but I'd probably be surprised how mummies came up in a query on desert. Maybe if it told me that mummies came up indirectly through Egypt... (...) I'm (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Whoa -- yes -- good point! Star Wars is a lot more environments that just T.I.E. fighters and X-Wings blowing each other up! :-) --Todd (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) "s"), (...) perhaps a more useful and less confusing name for "space" (lower case) would be sci-fi(also lower case) Similarly castle(lc) could be renamed historical(lc) or somehting similar (medievil?) to (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) See, I'm not even sure about that. Three of the five currently-known sets are ground-transport and not space sets at all (not even in the sense of "designed for ground exploration of alien planets"). And I can definitely see Mos Eisley (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Wow! (...) Why would you not want mummies in the desert? Ok I can sort of see why, but they are related, (By about 80% :) The percentage cutoff would be useful here. If the cutoff is set to x% then once a subgroup falls below x% relative to the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) I feel much better now... Lets see. I would say that ideally, each of the following criteria could be treated as part of an equation (<>= (value), !(value), etc) - in other words, have them treatable as logical expressions. Set number set name (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) says (...) down, (...) Something like that, yes. I seem to be attacking this from an interface point of view, so I'll keep with that, for now. Scroll down for an example of some of my thoughts (...) enter (...) Yes! I knew I'd seen something (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Ah, but sometimes they do (anything in 6800-6999 :-). But I admit, it's possible that TLG may someday destroy the sacred 6800-6999 range as they destroyed the 6700-6799 range. 67xx used to be solely for Space minifigs and Space Light & Sound (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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Also sprach Todd Lehman: : To be more precise, Star Wars sets are certainly "space" sets (lowercase "s"), : but clearly not "Space" sets (uppercase "S" as in "LEGO[LAND] Space System") : because of their non-6[89]xx numbering. Ah, but as various (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) That's an interesting thought. :) The question, of course, was a trick question -- where the [de]capitalization of "space" is intended to illustrate the inherent controversy/confusion. To be more precise, Star Wars sets are certainly "space" (...) (26 years ago, 10-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.database)
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