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(...) WOW! all of the PCS qualities in an otherwise 'utilitarian' vehicle. Even if the bus scedule IS hard to figure out, I wanna ride, man. Excellent work all over; forms colors, greeblicious! Jeff Space slacker, no class (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Christian, Nice work, I loved that show, before I knew enough physics. Does it come apart the right way, I couldn't tell from the images. Thanks, George (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Well these new civilian space suits come with their own onboard "facilities". You just learn to download in your seat and the suit micropumps and processors do the rest. All with a minty freshness. (...) Thanks man. That shape just kinda (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) We only serve spacenuts that were cut off live Denbulans. In the hill country of planet Rednekus they call em "Moon Mountain Oysters". (...) Thank ya. The "schooldesk" as you call em is the latest Gameboy 9000 series. They released the first (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Wow, that's quite a bit more complicated than I assumed... (...) Yup, I had those in mind for vehicles which actually travel through atmosphere. (...) No thank YOU, George, for clearing some things up. What about this, taken from the SF novel (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.space, Mark Sandlin wrote: shnipage (...) I've always wondered about this. Although particles would have no atmosphere to be whisked around the shape with, wouldn't a particle hitting a 45 degree angle transfer only part if it's energy to (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) True, of course. However, I was wondering about the most efficient design to make that large ammount of energy used effeciently! (...) In mine the situation is similar.. (...) Thanx! Love, Sylvi (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I thought that when they would develop near lightspeed capabilities, they would develop shields, too! What if you just put water all over the hull? It would instantly turn to very hard ice and that would shield the ship against (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Pretty right on your first point. Aerodynamics works where there is an atmosphere. A ship that is capable of nearlight speed would be have to have some type of deflector for those few in-vacuum molecules, because as you point out, they would (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I think the biggest problem for a ship accelerating towards light speed is not particles, but energy consuption. remember, the faster you go, the more energy you need to propell yourself, and this increases exponentially. essentially, (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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