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In lugnet.space, Sylvia Tresto wrote: > Okay, just something I thought of while fiddling with my LEGO: An aerodynamic > desigh is only handy in atmosphere and not necessary in space, right? I remember > it from physics lessons and some posts in this (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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Brad, Thanks for the compliments! That's from a Duplo egg which came out a couple years ago. I've also used a red one for another MOC. (URL) Regards, ACPin & Sons (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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(...) Faultless as always. Great overall form, sweet sweet greebling, and a cunning acronym. Just what we've come to expect. And that's the thing. Are you really puching the envelope with each new craft, or is it all more of the same. Don't get me (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Eesh. Star Trek script writers tend to accept hypothetical physics as gospel truth (with the result that much of Star Trek physics has since been disproven), and a lot of hard-core Trekkies do the same thing with any physics presented on Star (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I wouldn't say that. Star Wars was intentionally written with cinematic effect in mind. And which is worse, the show that intentionally ignores physics, or the show that tries to obey physics and fails? (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Sorry for the very delayed reply : ( I just uploaded that file to brickshelf : ) (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) It does behave more like a fluid at extremely high speeds. However, have you seen what happens to an airplane when it hits water at mach speeds? It's not pretty, and that's essentially what you'd have to be dealing with in a near vacuum. By (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Not really. When you're dealing with individual particles hitting other individual particles, there really isn't any such thing as a 45 degree angled surface. It's more like billiard balls, where the relative angle of impact is determined by (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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"George Haberberger" <George.Haberberger@...xerox.com> wrote in message news:HGxpLH.IxI@lugnet.com... (...) he'll (...) support, (...) future (...) it up (...) one (...) I'm having some website problems. I use Internet Explorer 6, sp1 (which I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) That's essentially correct. Two cars hitting each other head-on at 30MPH is effectively the same as one car hitting a stationary vehicle at 60MPH. Obviously the two accidents would not be perfect mirror images of each other, but the level of (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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That looks great. Can anyone tell me where these new clear domes are coming from. I would really like some. Are they new Bionicle cases? Thanks "ACPin" <ACPin@Comcast.net> wrote in message news:HGxr51.tI8@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) actually (...) (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.aquazone)
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(...) Ack! Heresy! Stone him with light grey BURPS! ;^D Trev (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) That's exactly what I use for all STAMPs now, for all my sets that have them, and it does such a PERFECT job that I hardly complain about STAMPs anymore. Exacto ROCKS (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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Nice to have you back. I did something you're gonna hate me for... Take care, Soren (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) ERg. <choke> Blatch. You're kidding, right? The only one offhand that I can think of which is worse is Star Wars. (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Along those lines, you might as well just simply make your ship with the dimensions of a pencil, to minimize cross-section. The degree of electromagnetic radiation reflected back to a transmitter (radar) by an aircraft is primarily based upon (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) If I understand physics correctly, it doesn't make a difference whether it is the ship traveling at .9 c or the hydrogen atom. The energy released is the same. Thus, that atom is effectively dealing far, far more energy than 1.5E-10 watts. Not (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Well, in the space-ish situation, the number of particles you're hitting will only come down to size; regardless of its shape, a ship shaped like a perfect lozenge will hit the same number of particles as a ship shaped like a cube, if their (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I think this point is dead on! Even though these ships are aerodynamic, they aren't SO aerodynamic that they deflect photons! and while photons are much smaller than your average particle out there, the particles that are present in a vacuum (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) i think because of all the major scifi shows out there, Star Trek paid the most attention to actual physics and in making their technologies plausible. maybe not probable, but who knows what the future will hold? -Jr.Mar.Hoffman (URL) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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