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Scene: February, 2001. A hotel room in the suburbs of Chicago. Spread out on the bed: the parts from two copies of set 7180, the Star Wars B-Wing Fighter at Rebel Control Center. With nothing to do in a strange town, an odd thought crosses our (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) 6.022 x 10^23. Get computin'! ;) (...) Bwaaa! I know how that goes. As long as the money is coming, why finish it? ;) (...) An electric ladder or an electric monkey? (...) Sometimes it tries to pass through. If nothing else it would, I'd (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hmmm, this is pretty interesting (in an aero-geek way). I can't remember Avogadro's number so I won't work out the numbers, either. I suspect this would become a whole different branch of "fluid" dynamics compared to what we deal with today. (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) A) saying something based on assumption, and B) venturing out of atmospherics ;] In retrospect though, JAL seemed to imply that these things were going to be installed on the Shuttle or something in 2003 and I said "no way". When I think space (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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Where'd u get the that ? It sounds cool ! Xanthra47 "Tony Hedglen" <ahedglen@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GFC3oC.Is@lugnet.com... (...) computer. (...) there (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Bu-bu-but, Greg, if you toss a grenade into the barrel, can you still eat the fish? I prefer to use a high-powered rifle my own self, or sometimes a blunt wooden stick. Wham! Wham! What fun. And if nothing else, .loc.au loves the posts because (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space)
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(...) I really don't think you confused him. Maybe I'm giving it away, but it was all well crafted sarcasm. (...) AMAZING! Those movies sound pretty neat. I wonder why I haven't seen those before, being a space nut and all. Are they in theatres or (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jesse Alan Long" <joyous4god2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:GFCMtz.7w1@lugnet.com... (...) will (...) Really??? <sarcasm> I've only been collecting these plastic pieces since I was a wee one, I never realized that </sarcasm> (...) What the heck (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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Hi. I can't remember the density of space off the top of my head, but let's say it's somewhere near the 1 molecule per 3m^3 like you suggest. If a vehicle is travelling near the speed of light (3*10^8 m/s), then the ship is hitting in the vicinity (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That's what they said about the (non-)rescue scene in _Mission to Mars_. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (24 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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