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The LEGO company must have been waiting untill one of us found the mars sets. It looks like a mission log. Pretty cool. it has some real space photos, but so far it is only one page. Check it out! (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.announce)
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(...) so (...) should do a little more research before posting stories like this for worldwide consumption. The story talks about looking out of a porthole and seeing millions of stars and planets...not likely. From what I understand, you would see (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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It's also interesting to note that it is only your speed(17,000mph) that you orbit the earth that makes you weightless, you see, you're constantly falling. You have to go far beyond Mars to feel truly weightless. (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) However, in between, you'll feel almost entirely weightless -- microgravity. (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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Thomas Main <main@appstate.edu> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: G4FG92.ABu@lugnet.com... (...) This is exactly what I thought when I read the last issue of the German Lego magazine and the 2000 catalog: LEGO announced a dino building competition and (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.general)
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(...) Par for the course, unfortunately. Take a look at the Space Port product info, the splash page says that a large "meteor" is heading for earth. Bzzt. A chunk of rock isn't a meteor until it enters the atmosphere, at which time there is no time (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) why not look in an encyclopedia? The story itself is cheap, "Maybe we'll find life on Mars!". There are a few problems with it, for instance stars do not twinkle in space, and there is no room for a T3-Trike to fit in the ship. Also, why would (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) You can always assemble your vehicles on sites... Anyway, there's no room for life support, fuel, etc on the ship either. (...) It's quite a bit more than that. IIRC, every shuttle mission costs approx. $1 billion. But who said NASA was (...) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) Thats interesting, I could change the text size easily with IE, Ctrl + mouse scroll wheel or veiw>textsize>your choice. But anyway, I thought the text was a fine size, but maybe thats because I'm at 600x800... --Kyle (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) It's called a "meteoroid" until it enters the atmosphere (the difference from asteroids is subtle--meteroids tend to be smaller and without a solar orbit). Then it's a meteor in the air, and when it hits the ground, it's a meteorite. (so (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) When we look at the story we thik that "winning the space lottery" and " going into space (or something like that)" are in the subject of "a lot going on", but "going into space" may be in the subject of "winning the spacelottery". This COULD (...) (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) That part I don't mind -- it's just imagination. The rest, though, Lego really should fix. (24 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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Thomas Main wrote in message ... (...) worldwide (...) would Since the whole thing is called "*LIFE* on Mars" and there are cute little blue aliens running around, I suppose it doesn't matter that none of the rest of it is accurate either. Kevin (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) I disagree. The best sci-fi/fantasy takes a few premises different from what we know, but keeps the rest as accurate, self-consistent, etc., as possible. While I know Lego's not exactly aspiring for that level of writing, it wouldn't kill them (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) Indeed so - it's an illusion due to the different wavelengths passing through the atmosphere. The stars would not be twinkling in outer space. It was in fact the first thing that struck me while reading the story (before reading this post). (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) I have to agree with you, Matthew. Good science fiction (and even good fantasy, for that matter) may change a few premises, but it's internally consistent. Unless we're assuming aether, there isn't anything to make stars twinkle... Nothing (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) what (...) possible. True, but normally sci-fi (as opposed to fantasy) takes its different premises from things where we are not sure yet, not things we already know are untrue (e.g. blue aliens on Mars). (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) Actually, until we send humans to mars we won't know what life is ther or was there in the past. It is entirely possible that humanoid life forms are living in small colonies on/under the suface of mars. After all, if we could do it, why (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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There are about 5000 stars (3000 in the northern hemisphere and 2000 in the southern hemisphere) visible to the naked eye from Earth. The number would of course be higher in outer space, with more lower-magnitude stars revealed from the lack of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) *Especially* from a big, reputable, known-for-its-educational-toys company. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) You mean to *be* truly weightless. There are several means of *feeling* weightless even on the earth such as reachng neutral buoyancy under water. John #388 (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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(...) I essentially agree with all the technical criticisms made of this story but I want to play Devil's advocate for a second. This story is written in the form of a letter from a presumably average person, not a rocket scientist or trained (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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