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House Kareth photographed Pics of House Kareth have been added to the minifig section of Et in Arcadia Lego @ (URL) much -paul (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| | Contest Info and IP Address change
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howD all, my site Et in Arcadia Lego has changed to (URL) update your bookmarks also, info about my contest as well as the original post i posted to lugnet have been added to the "News" page thx much -paul (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.space, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.underground)
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| | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from?
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(...) Who said anything about interstellar? I've been thinking only in terms of tooling around the Solar System... I don't think Lego is up to the task of a hard SF interstellar ship, but an interplanetary ship is a realistic goal. --Bill. (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) station he designed; a raytrace image can be seen at this URL: (URL) that space station supposed to spin around, creating artificial gravity? I had always assumed that its "down" was the pointy part at the bottom of the image. (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I was referring not to a rotating disc/ring but to a pair of pods connected by a shaft, rotating about the center of that shaft. The gyroscope effect would be generated to some degree but it would be a lopsided one. My understanding about (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Where's all that gravity coming from?
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(...) I usually assume Velcro, which is what real astronauts today use. (...) Trouble is, gravity radiates out in all directions from a single point (the center of mass). Unless your ship is spherical, it doesn't make much sense - at the extreme (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Moller M400 Skycar Anyone?
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(...) It's even come up on Lugnet before... (URL) love the Moller Skycar. I remember first hearing about it on CNN a couple years ago... eric (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Moller M400 Skycar Anyone?
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(...) Yeah, this is really cool. I remember when Popular Mechanics ran an article about this back in the 80's :^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Moller M400 Skycar Anyone?
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Gee, seems like only a couple of months ago I was having fun tossing together the Supersucker 9000 model for the Classic Space contest. Today on AO-helL they were featuring the real thing! Check out: (URL) Hop-Frog (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ooooh, tethers. I like that idea. Though I dunno how to build it in Lego. :) In fact, one could do something like this where both sides are habitation modules, and have an "elevator" that climbs and descends the tethers should minifigs need to (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.space)
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