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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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Like Jon Palmer already kindly asked, could you please separate your LONG
paragraphs.
You do this by pressing a button on your keyboard called _ENTER_ or _RETURN_.
Hope you understand and use this advice.
Mladen Pejic, over and out!
http://members.attcanada.ca/~milovan/index.htm
In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
> In lugnet.space, Dave Low writes:
> > In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
> > > I am sorry that I confused you on the motion picture Star Wars but if you
> > > wish to know more about Star Wars, there is a seperate discussion board on
> > > Lugnet for Star Wars Lego sets and if that does not satisfy your interests,
> > > then go to http://www.starwars.com . The following sentence that you
> > > snipped was a comparison between two monsters in two different movies of
> > > this trilogy. The Star Wars Trilogy consists of the motion pictures Star
> > > Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. These motion
> > > pictures are commonly referred to as Episode IV, Episode V, and Episode VI.
> >
> > I believe there is also an Episode I: The Phantom Menace (recently
> > released), and there may also be sequels to Episode I, called Episode II and
> > Episode III, forming a prequel trilogy. Who knows what types of Freudian
> > Symbol Monsters might appear in those movies?
> >
> > > I apologize for also confusing you about my weaponry on my space craft. I
> > > will rephrase my information about my space craft.
> > > The Gaea Federation Galaxy Destroyer is seventy three Lego studs long or, in
> > > the case of human measurements, about twenty one and three quarter inches in
> > > length. The size of this vessel is almost the same size as the Galactic
> > > Mediator, which is a Space Police II vessel and the largest Space Police II
> > > vessel.
> >
> > Jesse, do you think that LEGO people are really that small in their own
> > universe? In other words, when we build a LEGO model is it 1:1 scale or 1:36
> > scale (or something else)?
> >
> > > I counted the weapons on my vessel again and I discovered that I
> > > had closer to eighty guns on my vessel if I included my support ships and
> > > defense robot. I said in this response that I do not need to poke the
> > > monster, I need to make some nice space monster burgers and space monster
> > > steaks and with the many weapons I have on my space craft (which could also
> > > destroy some of the big two hundred and three hundred stud long capital
> > > ships), accomplishing such a task would be very easy for my space craft.
> >
> > Why do you need to make space monster burgers and/or steaks? Do they taste
> > nice? And is it ethical to cook space monsterss when there are so many
> > delightful soy products in the universe? I generally think it's a bad idea
> > to "poke the monster" anyway -- some people grow hair on the palms of their
> > hands...
> >
> > Concerning 200-300 stud long capital ships. If they were as heavily armed as
> > your space craft they might have at least 120, maybe as many as 360, exhaust
> > weapons which would be a lot more than the 40-80 wepaons on your space ship.
> > Again this is ethically dubious, in my opinion. I am also interested in the
> > defense robot you have. Is it armed?
> >
> > > You also said that some of the guns are shot through the exhaust pipe and
> > > the answer is that some of the guns are indeed shot through the exhaust pipe
> > > and they are also shot through the front as well, at least on my wing
> > > guns/auxillary engines and intergalactic ballistic missiles/auxillary
> > > engines.
> >
> > Is this dangerous at all? What if you want to move and fire your weapons at
> > the same time?
> >
> > > I only have a collection of about eight to ten thousand Lego
> > > pieces so I can not build an acceptable capital class cruiser at this time,
> > > Greg. I named this vessel the Gaea Federation Galaxy Destroyer because this
> > > vessel is made for the Gaea Federation, a story I have built for around six
> > > years using my Legos. The other side of my conflict is known as the Nomadic
> > > Empire, or, more simply, the Nomads.
> >
> > They are LEGO blocks, not Legos, Jesse, please see my post here:
> > http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=29565
> >
> > I am interested in the names of your factions. Is Gaea a name for the Earth
> > based faction? Does it relect the Mother Earth? Is it peaceful and nurturing
> > or patriarchal and menacing? Is it a Federation like the US or a Federation
> > like the EU? Are Aliens allowed in the Federation? Is it a democracy like
> > the US or a democracy like Iraq?
> >
> > Are the Nomads nomads, ie do they travel around with no fixed settlements?
> > Or does the whole Empire travel around to different planets? Are they good
> > or evil? Do they have an Emperor? Are they Humans or Aliens? I hope you can
> > help with my questions, Jesse.
> >
> > > The question of my space craft encouraging violence, terrorism, and threats
> > > is false because it is used to discourage such actions from occuring in the
> > > patrolled region of space and when a space craft such as the Voyager enters
> > > unknown or hostile space, are they invading that part of space or are they
> > > exploring space? The only way that my space craft could be considered an
> > > invading space craft is that my space craft commits an unprovoked attack on
> > > the native forces of that region of space.
> >
> > To take a contemporary example: What about the US spy plane that was
> > disabled in _contested_ airspace near China, and landed in China? Was it on
> > patrol, or invading? What if the "native forces" consider the mere presence
> > of your space craft an attack?
> >
> > Anyway, I'm interested in hearing more about your creations Jesse. Thanks.
> > --DaveL
> I believe that your comment about those monsters in Episode II and Episode
> III of the new Star Wars Trilogy. The monsters near the city of Otoh Gunga
> were scary enough for me. The comment about the stud length is a generally
> accepted standard for Lego Space builders with their space craft. The stud
> is a bump on a Lego brick or plate that is measured in the amount of these
> studs long and wide on a space craft. The height of space craft is
> generally measured by Lego brick height, that is how many Lego bricks equal
> the height of the space craft. The opinion that I share with you about the
> scale of the space craft is that Lego space craft are measured in stud
> length and that there does not exist, as far as my limited knowledge of Lego
> building is concerned, a general standard for the scale of these space ships
> but that the scale is determined by the individual Lego builder of space
> craft. There will probably exist replies to the contrary to this comment
> but as I stated earlier, I do not know if there is a standard measurement of
> scale for Lego space craft and if I am wrong with my statement, please
> inform me with your information to my comment.
> The comment about soy that you present to me presents to my mind that you
> perceive me as evil for eating meat. The Orkin man fumigates insects yet
> certain bugs are acceptable to eat under Levitical standards. The problems
> with the fumigated bugs, however, would present a problem to my mind. The
> first problem to my mind is that I hate insects and especially eating
> insects and the second problem is that the insects are poisoned and would
> most likely cause me to die and so I could not build any space craft or any
> other Lego creations. There was a man named Pat Robertson who says on that
> 700 Club all of the benefits of soy in our bodies and I can not afford to
> buy soy and products that are made from soy because they are too expensive
> and I think I may be allergic to soy and soy products so I do not buy soy
> and soy products because I may have allergies or I may die from the soy.
> Space monster burgers and space monster steaks actually taste nice,
> depending on what you usually put on those foods. I prefer to use ketchup,
> or to some people, catsup, on my space monster burgers while I prefer some
> K.C. Masterpiece, Lea and Perrins, Heinz 57 Steak Sauce, or A-1 Steak Sauce
> on my space monster steaks.
> The defense robot that you mentioned in response to my post is indeed armed,
> and quite heavily as well so if my defense robot was not armed then why
> would I refer to my robot as a defense robot? The robot that I have on my
> space craft has 12 guns that mastly point in a upward direction and they
> serve as wings for the robot. The arms have two huge cannons as well as two
> huge claws that once held magnets to a long destroyed M-Tron vehicle, a
> Celestial Forager if my memory is correct in this letter. The head of the
> robot has a gun and so does the tail of my robot and my robot vaguely
> resembles a scorpion in the structure of the body. The intake valves on my
> engines can always fire but my exhaust valves have to stop in order to fire
> but since I have plenty of guns to fire on the enemy without the exhaust
> valves, it is not a problem with my space craft. I also not that my space
> craft is constructed of both bricks and plates, as is the usual standard of
> Lego space craft and so it becomes exhausting to say Lego bricks and plates
> in every sentence so I simply say Legos to indicate that I am meaning Lego
> bricks and plates but I do appreciate the effort of your response to my • letter.
> The construction of the Gaea Federation is similar to a intergalactic
> European Union but without the antisemetic overtones that are rampant in
> that organization. The organization was led by what we refer to as the
> planet Earth but other members are also a part of this organization. This
> organization is an open organization so the individual members have to
> comply with certain standards in order to belong to the Gaea Federation. I
> do not, however, have a certain political structure for my Gaea Federation
> but the Nomadic Empire is certainly similar to a hybrid of the Muslim
> Federation in the Middle East, Africa, and into Central Asia and the
> Galactic Empire.
> The last three questions I will answer to you now, Dave. The first question
> is about poking the monster causing hair to grow on the palms of your hands.
> I think that question should be answered in another place, like the romance
> rooms and the adults only rooms on Yahoo, that is, if you are talking about
> some subject that originates from those rooms and thankfully I do stay away
> from those rooms. The second question that I will answer is let the
> photgraphs tell the story to you, Dave. I am not lying about the numerous
> guns on my space craft and the photographs will prove the truth about the
> space craft, Dave. The third question that I will answer is I do not know
> who is right, the United States of America of Communist China. I do believe
> that it was wrong for China to let that pilot disable that plane but if
> China is right, there should have been a different way of telling the
> American forces that they were in violation of Chinese air space and the
> Americans should have complied with the Chinese government but if the
> American government ignored the Chinese government, then it was the fault of
> the American government. I, personally, do not know the truth about that
> situation so I have tried to answer as many of your questions as humanly
> possible and if there are any question you feel a need to ask, then ask me,
> Dave.
> Jesse Long
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