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(...) Perhaps I was referring to the fact that they may have been trying to build larger ion engines for space travel? I know that these engines are a defininte possibility and I apologize for my error, David. Jesse Long (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I am sorry that I confused you on the motion picture Star Wars but if you wish to know more about Star Wars, there is a seperate discussion board on Lugnet for Star Wars Lego sets and if that does not satisfy your interests, then go to (URL) . (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) How many posts have resulted since my comment about wings in space? My calculations say that there have been about fourty or fifty posts since my comment about wings in space. My space craft is generally wedge shaped, Jason, if you want to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) This was a discussion about Legos, well at least it WAS a discussion about Legos, before all of this technical talk that has confused my poor mind. I was simply tired of the way that most large space craft were built and so all of these (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space)
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Hi everyone. For my latest project I need the following parts: -space suit piece used in sets such as the 6457 astronaut -the scorpion element from the adventurers lines - the arms used as dragon arms from the castle lines - 1x3 plate - 2x1 tile (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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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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