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(...) At an SF convention when I was in college, one fellow gave his theory of what first contact would be like: A large rock hurtling towards Earth at relativistic speeds. Boom! Flash! His theory was that once you develop the capability to easily (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) ---...--- Submit an entry If you would like to add a date to the timeline please submit an entry in the following format: * Link: (URL) Date: September 18 1999 * Text: A brief description of the event ( I might alter this slightly) ---...--- (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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This is fun stuff! I never knew about GAMH earlier court marital. How seedy. Cheers, -G (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) True, somewhat. This is exactly what battleships and dreadnoughts can provide: off-shore bombardment. This is the purpose of the CIG (Celestial Impact Generator) on my own Armegeddon Class battleships (it is essentially a non-explosive rocket (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I would add that this ability to digitally store images of our MOCs also makes it less painful to dismantle them. Once a MOC has been well documented, the builder can feel more inclined to use its pieces for a newer design, because the first (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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You can now click on "Crash Course" in the .space sidebar. This will take you to an index that has a link to the Timeline. This is far from done but I thought it was good enough to show. If you find any errors let me know, I'm sure there are more. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I would not call it a revolution as an evolution. Instead of thinking just "classic" space, people are now in the mentallity of "sci-fi". The concept of collecting a few moon rocks compared to galaxy conquest does not even compare. (...) Not (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Probably not, actually. Fighters/bombers are expensive peices of equipment and getting them into (and out of) an atmosphere is a problem. If you want to bomb a territory, just drop rocks on it. Cheap, easy, accurate, utterly devastating, and (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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(...) You are forgiven. :-) (...) Actually, I'm ashamed to say I never owned a classic space set when I was a child. I was one of those castle people then, ya know. :-) (...) This is where it's strange (or maybe not so?) for me. I bought the sets (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.space, Gil Shaw writes: <snip some good comments> (...) Yes indeed. More specifically I think that building techniques shared by AFOLs have developed. Each of us had one or two techniques the others might not have thought of, and the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.space)
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