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Paul, That looks even cooler with the bigger pictures! I really like the articulated head and tail. I also like how the animals are posed alongside the model. Great work! Paul Hartzog <panarchy23@yahoo.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) We talked about a similar trip to Mars awhile ago (it was 40 hours, I think). (...) Actually, Proxima is 4.22. But we'd be more interested in Alpha Centauri A and B, which are 4.35 ly distant. (...) d(A&B) = 4.35 ly = 4e16 m (...) sqrt(4e16 / (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) BWAHAHAHAHA...uh... ok ok...at least you get the picture of what I'm trying to do there. It goes: clickity-click, barba-trick! Voila! New configuration. ;^) ~Trev Astro Lift Co. (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Aaaahhhhhh-ha! I withdraw my previous guess. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Alien Resurrection? (...) Heh... cool. :^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) This rocks. Its lines *almost* resemble those of the Thunderbolt model Starfury from Babylon 5... Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) My figures (hasn't this been done in off-topic already?) note: 3e8 is 3 * 10^8 or 300,000,000 Proxima Centauri - about 9 ly away 1 year = 31557600 seconds, or 3e7 s c = 3e8 m/s (speed of light) 1 ly = 3e7 s * c d = Proxima Centauri = about (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Cool! (...) True true :-D --Kyle (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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You could probably squeeze 10 or 12 troops in the transport. The 6 troops in the last image can line up on either side of the ramp inside the ship. The sides narrow from the ramp area to the cockpit. Also, there is a entrance hatch to the cockpit. (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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Pretty cool! THe transprt looks cool, but how much interior/cargo space does it have? And wouldn't the Spiffy get some damage when it wrecks? :-P (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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I'm going to chime in, and hopefully not get smacked down to hard. I read a book a whole bunch of years ago called The Forever War. I believe that the military was placing troopers in special suits and putting them all in basically giant vats of (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.space, Damraska wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] Here's another problem: with the conventional approach of acceleration via some propulsion, artificial gravity is not your problem. The real problem is shedding the excessive G's. My numbers could (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Would it be possible to make a Bussard scoop out of some kind of projected magnetic field? Two basic questions here: 1. do hydrogen atoms react to magnetic fields and 2. could such a field be constructed/projected? Unfortunately, I don't have (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Heh, thanks Mladen... you beat me to the punch. But I was going to address another point in the original posting: About big spherical fuel tanks: If you study space flight and chemical propulsion systems, you'll find that using any technology (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(URL) F3 Transport -Nice angles. Guess where this is from. :) UPDATED: Spiffy -Better images + Spiff crashes and encounters a zart! Taxi -Better images + interior. Tell me what you think! Elliot ehyde@mac.com (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I looked it up earlier, but it appears to be broken. He did post a DAT file of it in the CAD groups, though... eric (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, here's my rendition of Dave Schuler's model. (URL) someone has Dave's link handy? ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Anyone who doesn't know what ED-209 is should go rent Robocop. :^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, *that's* a relief. A stationary module wouldn't work very well, would it? ;^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) How gracious of the Grand Admiral. :*) Man, just when we get SEALUG to orient away from space, someone comes up with a contest. Seriously, though, I like the premise as well as the scoring categories. To take an example that won't be entered, (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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