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Re: Space stations?
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lugnet.space
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Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:12:41 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Duane Hess writes:
> In lugnet.space, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
> > Duane:
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> > > One idea, although I am not the person to head this up, would be to create
> > > a Datville for each major theme. Say a Spaceport where ship and vehicle
> > > designs could be shared, or a Kingdom where castle designs are shared.
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> > Cool idea.
Absolutely!
> > I am all for a space station. Who delivers a starting module
> > with docking options for other modules.
Wow. You mean establishing a docking standard so that our MOC's could actually
link/dock assuming we ever meet IRL? That's cool and worth a few pictures when
it ever happens.
> > This probably demands a bit more integration of the designs
> > if we don't want the station to loose pressure immediately.
heh
> My vision would be to start out with a bunch of landing plates, similar
> to Datsville. That would allow ground vehicles, robots, mechs and ships
> to all be on the same starting point. The sticking point is creations
> which aren't quite so terrestrial. How would we integrate something,
> for example, like Tom's modular space station?
But the M3 modules are very terrestrial. I'm not maintaining that they have to
be the spacestation itself, but there's no reason why they couldn't part of
one or even a separate outpost. Since the modules are re-entry capable, they
are useful for all things planetary for everything from terraforming to just
maintaining a presence.
We need a cool name for the space equivalent of "Datsville", maybe something
stupid like "Datlink", "Datcom" or "Datbase".
-Tom McD.
when replying, Beowulf actually killed Grendel with spamcake.
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| Tom McDonald: (...) I must admit that I consider Steve's docking ports[1] _the_ standard, but yes. I would probably build my modules with more than one kind of docking port, just to make sure a connection is possible. (...) What about "Duniverse"? (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Do we have to have dat in the name? How about something like space station alpha 2 or something futuristic sounding like that. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Assuming there could end up being several "neighborhoods", allow some generally description for the start of the name: "Station", "Planetary Outpost", "Free Trade Installation". Then put an ID code on the end, "LD-x", where the x is a number (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) My vision would be to start out with a bunch of landing plates, similar to Datsville. That would allow ground vehicles, robots, mechs and ships to all be on the same starting point. The sticking point is creations which aren't quite so (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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