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Re: MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
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Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:53:06 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:

>    http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lfbraun/TAU.html
> 
>    In effect, it's a little probe and payload I
>    slapped atop the drive section that will be on
>    the actual ship (though there it will be held out
>    pretty far aft).  No, there are no teasers of
>    HMS Experiment just yet...but give me a few days,
>    and you may have a few.  ;)
> 
>    Let me know what you think!

Looks good.  It's definitely a very interesting idea.  For some reason it
reminds me of V'Ger.  I really like the midsection with the tanks.

Now if there was just more time in the day to explore ideas with legos.  </me
contemplates organic ships.>

--
       David "Scooter" Lukens  O-  dml6@po.cwru.edu   KC8AGZ - Technician
   Remember to always look up at the sky, you never know what may be up there.
          Home page: "http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~lukens"  ICQ#1670736
     We don't understand the software, and sometimes we don't understand the
               hardware, but we can *see* the blinking lights.



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  Re: MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
 
(...) Thanks! The actual Daedalus had big ol' fuel globes around the middle. I've sort of mingled and mangled my TAU and Daedalus references--they're different things, and Daedalus actually dates from the mid-1970s--but you can see the ship in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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  MOC: Thousand Astronomical Unit Probe (NEF)
 
Hi everyone, I've been working off and on since Brickfest with my latest project, a "NEF" (Near-Earth-Future, an odd-sounding but standard term) extrasolar survey ship. I'm operating in the relatively unpopular grey zone that a few of us like, the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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