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This is great - it's cool to see some of the things I dug up on this, and even cooler to see the things I missed. I had long since forgotten the court-martial and some of the other goofier happenings of our little corner of lugnet. Fun browse. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) At an SF convention when I was in college, one fellow gave his theory of what first contact would be like: A large rock hurtling towards Earth at relativistic speeds. Boom! Flash! His theory was that once you develop the capability to easily (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) ---...--- Submit an entry If you would like to add a date to the timeline please submit an entry in the following format: * Link: (URL) Date: September 18 1999 * Text: A brief description of the event ( I might alter this slightly) ---...--- (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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This is fun stuff! I never knew about GAMH earlier court marital. How seedy. Cheers, -G (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) True, somewhat. This is exactly what battleships and dreadnoughts can provide: off-shore bombardment. This is the purpose of the CIG (Celestial Impact Generator) on my own Armegeddon Class battleships (it is essentially a non-explosive rocket (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I would add that this ability to digitally store images of our MOCs also makes it less painful to dismantle them. Once a MOC has been well documented, the builder can feel more inclined to use its pieces for a newer design, because the first (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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You can now click on "Crash Course" in the .space sidebar. This will take you to an index that has a link to the Timeline. This is far from done but I thought it was good enough to show. If you find any errors let me know, I'm sure there are more. (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I would not call it a revolution as an evolution. Instead of thinking just "classic" space, people are now in the mentallity of "sci-fi". The concept of collecting a few moon rocks compared to galaxy conquest does not even compare. (...) Not (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Probably not, actually. Fighters/bombers are expensive peices of equipment and getting them into (and out of) an atmosphere is a problem. If you want to bomb a territory, just drop rocks on it. Cheap, easy, accurate, utterly devastating, and (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) You are forgiven. :-) (...) Actually, I'm ashamed to say I never owned a classic space set when I was a child. I was one of those castle people then, ya know. :-) (...) This is where it's strange (or maybe not so?) for me. I bought the sets (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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