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Subject: 
Couldn't resist
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lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au
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lugnet.space
Date: 
Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:44:15 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
Almost every builder has millions of attennas and tons of
bulky areas on these ships and none of these people realize that there is
friction in outer

what the flipping space monster burgers are
you talking about?

friction in space?

NOT, noway, nohow

wings are useless in space, dude.
i'm an astrophysicist, i know whereof i speak.

(i'm sure this has been said elsewhere
but hey i don't have time to look it up)

-paul



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  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) No! Surely not! I had always thought all that space suit rubbish was about protecting soft and squidgy spacedudes from the howling radioactive solar wind, encountered near suns. So if its not to protect them from the wind, why do spacedudes (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) Not if it's a small ship that can also fly in a planet's atmosphere. Someone else who replyed to this said you can overload the wings with weapons, but if you suddenly get near a planet's gravity, *snap* *snap*, and someones car gets hit by 89 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) Not if it's a small ship that can also fly in a planet's atmosphere. Someone else who replyed to this said you can overload the wings with weapons, but if you suddenly get near a planet's gravity, *snap* *snap*, and someones car gets hit by 89 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Couldn't resist
 
(...) Does your title of an astrophysicist amuse me? Have you worked with such people as Carl Sagan or Issac Asimov? I have not worked with these people but then again, neither have you so I think I will become skeptical of every aspect of outer (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)

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  Re: Building big
 
(...) real picture available of your ship and not a picture drawn on the computer? The second question is where are the wings on your space craft? I apologize for not being able to appreciate some of the larger space craft but I was one of those (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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