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Re: Air lock and ship docking discussion
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:08:57 GMT
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In article <Fq9xDr.DD5@lugnet.com>,
John J. Ladasky Jr. <ladasky@my-deja.com> wrote:
> 1) Your spacecraft design has room to spare. The walls are thick, and there are
> two doors.
> 2) There's a reason to want an airlock that accomodates a *standing* minifig.
> In other words, you're working in an environment that has artificial gravity.
> 3) You consider it important to preserve cabin pressure under all circumstances.
> In other words, you want a double-door airlock.
It makes a few other assumptions:
1) No critters in your universe will ever be larger than mini-fig scale.
2) You'll never want to use an airlock for transfer of objects larger than
minifigs.
That last one is the annoying one. It hit me that I can't design a single
airlock model that will solve even just my own needs! It would be nice to be
able to drive a small forkliftish vehicle between the airlocks on a cargo
ship and its loader, but that's mass that would better be taken up by engines
on a zippy scout ship.
Being a Lego universe, it would stand to reason that the Lego ships ought
to fit in with any specs we design-- but none of them have airlocks.
Ugh.
So I got to thinking: If folks have an airlock standard, they should post
'em.
If you need an airlock, and one of the ones posted will work for you, use
it.
Then we wind up with a "de-facto" standard of whichever airlock of the
ones posted is the most useful for the most people. Kinda like the way it
would happen in a "real" universe...
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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| (...) Indeed. I'm not sure that the idea was Pat's, however. Tom McDonald proposed his airlock as a standard design back in this message: (URL) a very nice design (the use of pegs and beams is well thought-out, and I'm likely to steal that part of (...) (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.space)
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