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MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
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Wed, 8 Aug 2001 06:08:14 GMT
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Hi everyone,
I've been working off and on since Brickfest
with my latest project, a "NEF" (Near-Earth-Future,
an odd-sounding but standard term) extrasolar survey
ship. I'm operating in the relatively unpopular
grey zone that a few of us like, the near-future
"technically possible today" zone.
TAU (Thousand Astronomical Unit) was a real mission
proposed in the 1960s, and a vehicle even got into
the early stages of design. I've ressurected it
for a universe of about seventy years hence, after
humanity has just discovered a feasible stardrive
with only one catch--you've got to get to the helio-
pause to use it, because stellar gravity wells
distort the effect in a rather unpleasant manner.
Go take a look at this very odd, but very functional
idea at:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lfbraun/TAU.html
In effect, it's a little probe and payload I
slapped atop the drive section that will be on
the actual ship (though there it will be held out
pretty far aft). No, there are no teasers of
HMS Experiment just yet...but give me a few days,
and you may have a few. ;)
Let me know what you think!
best
LFB
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Message has 6 Replies:
 | | Re: MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
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| (...) You knew that you would get my attention with this one, right? I'm working in this same time frame, the near future. I hope to give you some company soon. Nice model, faithful to the Daedalus concept. Those saucer sections are becoming more (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | Re: MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
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| (...) Cool, somebody's building something real! <G> I must confess, I really enjoyed the page, but I didn't look at the MOC so much as reading all the cool text. I eventually ended up hopping to some other sites to learn about the Heliosphere :] (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | Re: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
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| I tell ya Lindsay, no one can make a better tech description then you. Of course a lot of the info for this moc is real science so you're not really making it up but you throw it together well. This is not my strong point. : ) I also really like the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
| | | Re: MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
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| (...) Lindsay, Wow, this is great, and I think it's a lot of fun to try and make an MOC with technical limitations. It makes me wish I had bought some cheap saucer parts, I knew UFO would be good for something. In a perfect world, I'd have a bunch (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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