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(...) Deep Space One, among others, but that was of course only the testbed in 1999-2000. Isn't the service life only about six months on the units being sent up now? (I know one has run longer, but the expected life is only about 150-180 days.) (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Hey Tony, I do almost all my stuff in POV-RAY... so here is my Brickshelf... (URL) this helps. Rick Hallman "Where the heck are those reinforcments!?" (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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Hi my name is Tony. I’ve recently turned to train/town building. I have always loved to build space stuff. So I want to talk about ships or bases done in povray. I want an awesome ship to put on my desktop for my computer. I have a cool Blacktron (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Sorry about that Richie - I've actually been half-expecting someone from the loc.au to pop up and complain about cluttering up the newsgroup with such nonsense (as opposed to the serious discussions about LEGO toys that we usually have here on (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space)
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(...) The ">" is extraneous, probably introduced by someones news / mail client when replying. If you go back to the first post with this link ((URL) it's correct. Note that ">" is invalid in any URL. ROSCO (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) .html Kyle - or for that matter anyone with HTML knowledge - why won't that URL: be recognised or resolve to a proper URL: for my browser? IE5.5 brings back a 'page cannot be found' error when I try cutting and pasting that in. -- Cheers ... (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh please. Drag calculations are only approximations for something immersed in a fluid. You're not going to get conventional boundary layer effects when you only bump into a single gas molecule every few meters. You could consider molecular (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And now for a shameless plug :D Here's another angle of my bike. Thanks to Jon for rendering it for me. (My slow POS computer would have taken forever :) Enjoy. (URL) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad.ray)
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In lugnet.space, Greg Perry writes a detailed response to Jesse Alan Long: <snip> (...) Please, please don't take this discussion away from loc.au! We're loving it! (Well, I am anyway.) Cheers Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick-Morpork (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space)
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I wouldn't mind having a look at it. Is it still on the net somewhere?? If its something I am interested in I might want to do something with it. Gary Nathan Falslev <nfalslev@netscape.net> wrote in message news:GFAxKu.LHo@lugnet.com... (...) you (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) No I'm not familiar with that motion picture. That's keen that they featured an Asteroid Cave-Mouth Monster in a movie. I just hope that it wasn't a comedy because the danger posed by these creatures to space ships is very real and no laughing (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space) !
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(...) What about the helmets? Would new-style helmets be acceptable? --DaveL (Bring on the classic astronauts in GREEN!!) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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Wrong! Ion rockets are in use now, and have been for 30 years. They're just not big enough to for sub-orbital work. See (URL) Drew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kyle D. Jackson" <flightdeck@sympatic...mblock.ca> To: <lugnet.space@lugnet.com>; (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Are you sure about this? I believe there are ion drives in use on some research sats already. They are extremely low thrust mercury based but have, again, been shown to work for stationkeeping, unless my memory is completely fried. I want to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Ion drives will not be in use in 2003. The only form of space engines that are currently in production are rockets. There are liquid-fuelled rockets, which can be turned on and off ("throttled"), and there are solid-fuel rockets which cannot (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I doubt this. The Legoland Space series was introduced in 1978. It was the first space-themed series of LEGO toys that made use of the poseable "minifig", which was also introduced in 1978. "Legoland" was the name given the the line of sets (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Don't forget that the biggest problem isn't the lack of visors, it's the ripping off of the head to get the airtanks on! :-) Cheers Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick-Morpork (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jesse Alan Long" <joyous4god2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GFALvp.8nK@lugnet.com... (...) Then it wouldn't be true to classic space now, would it? -Tim (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) To clarify: the centrifuge technique is more of a gravity simulator, rather than the sort of gravity generator that is imagined for Star Trek or such. --Bill. (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'm getting this image of a gargatuan space ship, rapidly approaching and decelerating. As it draws near, the large tachyon pulse antenna switchblades out from the port side... Steve (24 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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