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Re: Brisbane Moonbase
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lugnet.loc.au
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Mon, 28 Oct 2002 21:10:53 GMT
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> At our recent BUGS meeting at Mel's place (which nobody has written up as our
> regular scribe Aaron could not make it), we talked making our next BUGS • meeting
> a "moonbase" theme in which everyone (who feels like it) builds a moonbase
> module which we will then interconnect into a vast moonbase (the vastness • being
> in direct proportion to the number of people who build a module) at the
> meeting.
> http://www.classic-space.com/moonbase/start/
How are we doing, Brisbane moonbasers? Are moon base modules under
construction, even as we speak?
My own little module has just passed the proof-of-concept milestone. I have
established a viable design, but have only built parts of it. The next step is
to build the whole thing now that I have my design figured out.
Just one comment though about the interconnection module. In the URL above, it
says the docking port has to be 8 bricks above the ground. However, looking at
the picture (the one showing a tower of bricks/plates beside it for comparison)
shows something slightly different, specifically that the height of the *floor
plate* of the corridor is 8 bricks above the ground. Since the "portal" of the
docking port has one layer of bricks under the corridor floor plate at the
point of interconnection, it is therefore only 7 bricks above the ground.
So, can those of you interested in moonbases take a look at the URL above again
and tell me if we all understand the same thing, since clearly our modules will
not interconnect if there is a brick height difference between the docking
ports. Or to put it another way, in terms of the brick with the holes (where a
pin will connect the modules together), my module currently has a distance of
10 bricks and 1 plate between the baseplate and the bottom of the bricks with
the holes (as shown in the diagram). Is that what everyone else understands it
to be?
Kerry
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| (...) Moonbase?... Moonbase! <looks around furtively> ummmm... still waiting for inspiration... However, I may be able to provide a suspiciously gorilla-like mech to scale the tallest one (if I can scratch together enough black hinge plates). How (...) (22 years ago, 29-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| At our recent BUGS meeting at Mel's place (which nobody has written up as our regular scribe Aaron could not make it), we talked making our next BUGS meeting a "moonbase" theme in which everyone (who feels like it) builds a moonbase module which we (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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