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(...) That has nothing to do with the confusion between short (US) tons and long (imperial) tons, which was what led us here. (...) ROFL!! I had hoped you'd realise I was being humourous, or maybe you did and decided to bite anyway, in which case (...) (15 years ago, 8-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, you'd think the ten fingers things would have been hint enough... (...) Huh. What real world are you working in? In my professional life, which I suspect uses actual weights and measures a bit, English units are just something we joke (...) (15 years ago, 8-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) You mean the bit where it's stated that if God intended for us to use Metric, he would have seen to it that Jesus had 10 disciples? (...) No we're not. And it's telling that no country in the world has voluntarily undergone the metrication (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Yeah that's just a bit more confusion that imperial measures brought us. It's all explained (URL). Good think all the sensible countries are moving to metric ;) ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) A US ton is 2000 lbs. Jeff (15 years ago, 4-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Actually I'm pretty sure an imperial ton is 2240lbs, but it's still a remarkable MOC. ROSCO (15 years ago, 4-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis, well, it weighs a lot :-) In fact, it's something about 850 to 900 kilograms. The metric ton is 1000kg, but if I'm right, the imperial unit "ton" should be a little bit more than 900kg (2000lbs). I built many parts of the (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) All I can say is, wow! When you say "a ton of LEGO bricks", do you mean that literally? (The word "ton" is frequently used as a figure of speech in English to simply mean that something weighs a lot. I don't think that's what you mean, but I'm (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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LLL, in case you're interested in seeing how to stack a ton of LEGO bricks to build a 21-feet-long cruise liner, please see this video: (2 URLs) May be the Keel King with you! -René (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) Nop, I have seen it. I will try to get more information about it. (15 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) due to who's catalog arrived at my house first. They look almost identical in functionality except the LabQuest has a stylus and more memory, while the XplorerGLX has I2C sensors (or seomthing like them; it seems they transmit digital (...) (15 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) I would be interested, but I have no audio equipment (apart from a function generator) Very interesting data BTW! Philo (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Excellent suggestion!!! We'll open one sensor and try once again. (...) (URL) else interested in repeating the experiment? Philo? Claude P.S. I added a graph to the page, where the sound pressure is maintained constant. (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Since I was doing this all manually, it was by far the easiest. I realized that a better way would be to vary the signal generator level at each frequency, but often when trying that I simple "maxed out" the reported level from the sound (...) (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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Thanks Brian (...) Your excellent graph shows that you tried to maintain the sound pressure constant. We did the inverse in the last graphs, where we tried to draw the curve for a constant NXT sensor value. We also repeated the experiment, and this (...) (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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I am pleased to announce my newest MOC The RTS Zavala Steamship-of-War (URL) This vessel is a side-paddle-wheel sailing steamship. The model is almost 4 1/2 feet long (1.36 meters) and it uses 13 hull center sections. Although called a schooner, the (...) (16 years ago, 16-Dec-08, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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(...) Speaking of which... I didn't have time to build it, but I was thinking about attaching this: (URL) my boat; modifying the tires to be some type of paddle-wheel type of construction. :) Alas, I had other building I needed to get done for our (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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"Brian Davis" <brdavis@iusb.edu> wrote in message news:KAC4K5.8yI@lugnet.com... (...) I was thinking... "More Power!! ungh ungh ugnh" (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Fair enough... you mean one where you can use modified bricks for water-tight enclosures? I really would love to move into the even riskier option of true submarines... Or do you mean the modified *combat* class, that allows (nay, encourages!) (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) I'll patiently wait for the modified class... *evil grin* -Rob www.brickmodder.net (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Thanks - like you said, simple sometimes tends to be a good approach, and while I only had the red hulls there wasn't a lot of mass budget to "overbuild". (...) That I *completely* understand. I just haven't had the luxury of a warm pool to (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Cool. Although since the festival takes place at Downtown Disney, I think you really should have had a race across the entire lake. Serenity could handle it: (URL) I've got the 2.0 version (using two blue hulls... and mounting a camera that (...) (16 years ago, 14-Nov-08, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.robotics)
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During Festival of the Masters, GFLUG held it's first annual LEGO Powered Boat Race. What is that, you may ask? To give you a little background, the theme that GFLUG members were to build MOCs according to was "Transportation: Past, Present & (...) (16 years ago, 12-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, FTX) !
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| | MOC: Microscale Disney Magic
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I'm not one for announcing my MOCs, but I've been working on this one for awhile now & thought it deserved to be talked about. Introducing the Disney Magic Cruise boat in micro-scale: (URL) (photo by Joe Meno) (URL) (photo by Todd Thuma) (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats, FTX) !
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The Tenacious Class Guided Missile Boat complements the earlier Courageous Class in that it provides long-range fire in comparison to its short-range torpedo boat counterpart. Full details: (URL) Page 1.> (URL) Page 2.> (URL) Page 3.> (URL) Here we (...) (16 years ago, 6-Sep-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Very nice. It's ironic that the LEGO crab piece is almost too small to be in scale to the size of the minifig, as compared to some of the giant crabs they catch on the show. David (16 years ago, 18-Jul-08, to lugnet.town, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Wow. We have a lugnet.boats? Guess I should look at the various newsgroup names more. I don't think I've ever seen a post to lugnet.boats before. I learn something new everyday. Thanks! -Dave ToT-LUG (16 years ago, 18-Jul-08, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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The Courageous Class Patrol Vessel is a high-speed attack craft designed to engage and destroy or cripple enemy capital ships and defend the shores of Tabletown. It's secondary roles include coastguard duties, anti-piracy, and tracking down drug (...) (16 years ago, 24-Jun-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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Hi all, I haven't posted any MOCs recently, but I have been building a number of new things, which I hope to post over the next week or two. To start off here are two riverine/coastal type patrol vessels. These are my first boats in the military (...) (17 years ago, 5-Oct-07, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats) !!
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Hey All, I just got an email about this and thought some you might be interested. "Norwegian Cruise Line and the LEGO Group are teaming on NCL’s LEGO Cruise Ship Building Challenge, exclusively for LEGO Club members. Young builders are invited to (...) (17 years ago, 16-Sep-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | The return of floating boats!
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When I was a kid I never got any of the LEGO town sets that had floating boats, but now LEGO has new ones! (URL) third one has been out for a while, but it's not quite the same thing) (17 years ago, 23-May-07, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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(...) Oh yeah- Atomic Pirates! (17 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) As soon as I looked at this creation I thought of the Disney 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Maybe the colour scheme, I don't know but I expect the paddlewheels to be powered by a small nuclear reactor. (17 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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Very nice! One of my faviourite ships for ages... I like the menacing narrow silhouette and even the red colour scheme works surprisingly well. Great work and God Bless, Nathan (URL) (17 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) SteamPirates. PiratePunk. (17 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) This is a very elegant looking dual-powered vessel. Is the thin smokestack accurate to the era? I find the bley an excellent choice for the metal. I hope your recent spate of posting is a promise of more of your excellent sea-going vessels. (...) (17 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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Ahoy all, A little advanced technology from the shipwrights of Port Brique, the Guerre de Roue: (URL) More pics (URL) here>, post moderation. The Guerre de Roue was built out of parts on hand, and you can probably tell a few areas where I was (...) (17 years ago, 14-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Corsair 'Adroit Main'
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Ahoy! Another vessel from the current shipbuilding frenzy at Port Brique shipyards, the lateen rigged Adroit Main: (URL) (More pics (URL) here> post moderation). The Adroit Main is an experiment in using the ten-wide bow pieces, an exotic rig on a (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: HMS Inevitable
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(...) Yeah, I've been out of the loop, but I do get the impression that my old lugnet haunts get a lot less traffic these days, now that theme-focused forums are on other sites too. (I personally still like it here; maybe it's a generation gap (...) (17 years ago, 8-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Holy moley--five months without a comment?!? Outrageous! I'm always impressed by Pirate-era MOCs, in large part because I have close to zero skill when it comes to building boats. The Inevitable is a fine looking vessel with a lot of (...) (17 years ago, 7-May-07, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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