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| (...) And if one needs any object lesson on how little wings matter on a real spacecraft, one need only look at the fastest craft ever created by mankind--Voyager 2. Wow, that's one streamlined space dragster, isn't it? It didn't even come close to (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
| |  | | Re: Building big
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| <snip> (...) <snip> (...) I'll leave the real world technical discussion to the remainder of the thread but I think it's worth mentioning that you can't criticize the lack of wings in a Star Wars design without recognizing the frame of reference (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
| |  | | Re: Building big
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| (...) Ouch! They'd have a generally tough time of it without knees or elbows too, and without shoulders that can move the arm in front of the body. I suppose they can eat with appropriately long utensils but how do they dress or tie their shoes? (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
| |  | | Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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| (...) I've got 3 words for you, buddy: Commodore-64! (...) He-he ;] That was pretty good! KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
| |  | | Re: LEGO® Trademark usage (was: Wings )
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| (...) [SNIP] (...) Hehe, I think you missed subtle point of my post. If you have been following the thread at all, you too probably busted a gut laughing when you read the "exhausting" statement above... ;] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
| |  | | Re: On to other news....
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| (...) Good catch! Missed that. In my defense, it was in the wee hours of the morning and I had just finished building my copy of Kevin Wilson's schoolhouse kit. An exhausting but impressive build! Man that kit comes with a lot of pieces. ++Lar (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
| |  | | Re: On to other news....
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| (...) There's a simpler answer than that - the frame in question is: (URL) original URL got split, then quoted, adding a ">" into the URL between "futuron-" and "timeline.html". If you look at Kyle's original message, the URL is correct -- Tom (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
| |  | | Re: Detail Black Robot Pix, Made from Blacktron sets
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| Yeah, all my nifty little robot dudes are violent, specifically because they have to protect the town, and well yeah, they gotta protect the town from all my other toys, such as Transformers and stuff, so yeah.... my robots kick arse..... and RANDOM (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
| |  | | Re: Couldn't resist
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| (...) Not if it's a small ship that can also fly in a planet's atmosphere. Someone else who replyed to this said you can overload the wings with weapons, but if you suddenly get near a planet's gravity, *snap* *snap*, and someones car gets hit by 89 (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
| |  | | Re: I could resist but I won't (was: Couldn't resist)
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| (...) Being the geek I am I wondered how many 2x4s that would be. Not having any to hand (or a scientific scale) I looked it up. It's amazing, everything geeky I could think of asking has already been thought, asked and answered. Anyway from (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
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