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(...) Me sorry (...) Holy cow, dude! I'd have to buy two seats on the airplane! :^) (...) Hmmmm, is there a way it could be done virtually? (...) Eventually, from the flames of Gibralter shall rise another insane creation, you have my word. I was (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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(sob) Yeah, gotta do it soon, man. We need to set up the extra room for the baby and that ship is so big I can't really put it anywhere else in the apartment. But I intend to keep it together until I can get better pics of the whole ship again. This (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) We know it's true, since we have our nice and handy fluid mechanics calculations. The drag experienced by a vehicle depends on a number of factors, including surface area, drag coefficient, viscosity and density of fluid, and the velocity of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) :) Yes. People should buy much more economical atmospheric craft if they're not going into outer space. Just think of the extra fuel used by dragging those hyperspace drives around with your atmospheric thrusters. Sure, you can see over the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) those (...) that (...) for (...) And what happens if you need to detect that undetectable tachyon pulse signature and you've left off the tachyon pulse antenna?! It makes me sick the way that spaceships have got so fashionable now that (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I think there's a lot of uncertainty surrounding their function. ;) XFUT -> o-t.pun (uhhh, o-t.geek.pun? :) ) LFB (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I just figured the Heisenberg Compensators worked by dampening inertia. Dave! (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) DAN! Say it isn't so .... I was hoping that someday, before you dismantled your carrier, you'd fly out to the Northeast and we'd all get together and play a stunning Space-Pirate Brikwars game in your ship! Or Alien invasion ... either one, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) That may be true, but I don't think anyone knows for sure, because we haven't tried going that fast yet. My spacecraft follow a very "hard SF" policy - no FTL travel, no artificial gravity, etc. But that's not to say that it's the only way... (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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NOOO...OOOoooooooo, say it isn't so!!!! Must you!!!!! I guess you made the decsion for a reason. Gi-mongus Carriers are hard to come by. I almost regret taking apart my Hexapod Armature, but I knew that the Robot could be so much more and it was (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) (and even if you're not), I bow to your talent. I can only dream that one day I might construct something one-hundredth as impressive as that. (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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Thanks. As for using USC, the only excuse I can offer is that I have lived 90 minutes away for the University of South Carolina (USC) for the past 20 years. UCS just doesn't stick in my mind. I got the letter arrangement wrong in the brickshelf (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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Hee, thats cool! But it's UCS! :-P (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Platapus platypus, whats the difference? We'll see, we'll see... --Kyle (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Oddly enough, there is hatch/airlock on the rear ventral area of the ship that comes equipped with a roundish white matenince craft! Maybe when I was building it I was subcontiously making it look like a platypus. Weird... --Kyle (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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I thought the quote was asking how the Heisenberg Compensators work? Oh well... same sentiment. ;^) ~Mark "Web Interface, now with 50% more fat!" Sandlin (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) My spacecraft have wings if they're intended to enter the atmosphere, such as my Sparrow, (URL) . If they are strictly space (no atmospheric travel), they won't have wings, but they will have things that look like wings, but are field vanes. I (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks, Michael! Yes, the turret is fully functional. It rotates, the bubble dome opens, the guns go up and down. To get the turret to rotate, I use a 4 X 4 turntable inside the ship. I put one tall half-cylinder piece (like the ones for the (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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Thanks dude! Enjoy it while you can, the Gibraltar's days are numbered. Dan (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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Thanks, Mladen! Yeah, topping my current big starship is going to be a challenge. I'm thinking of something non-military this time, maybe a deep space exploration starship. I would like to make another story too, we'll see. Dan (24 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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