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(...) Cool stuff. If there is anything about LEGO that is guaranteed to catch my fancy, it's either reflective or transparent elements. Bingo. Can you give me the MLCAD file for one of these? I have an idea for raytracing a smooth version of those (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Hi all, As (URL) promised>, we are pleased to anounce the completion of our T'Kunce drives from Jeff Szklennik's (URL) blueprints>. We expect them to be most useful around the lab as well as for space vehicles. (2 URLs) A couple of slightly (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Ah, Mr Goldman, we meet again. Alas, the 'Baby-Blue Peace Ray' does not produce the level of death and destruction to which you've become accustomed; it only produces a peaceful, easy feeling.(1) Of course, if it got into the wrong hands... (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I made a few more. They're still mostly the same design though. The orange one is different enough to say it's from a different manufacturer, however. I guess the original yellow one could be as well. (URL) Click the pic for the individual (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) Actually, age seems to have little to do with it these days... Robert Rodriguez Directing Princess of Mars Source: The Hollywood Reporter Monday, March 1, 2004 Robert Rodriguez ("Spy Kids" series) is set to direct Edgar Rice Burroughs' science (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I s'pose you're right. Most of the time, though, that's what people do, slather tiles over a design until you've ruined the shape for the sake of studlessness. Now I will be sleeping, I have class tomorrow. Soren (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Using a lot of tiles is, in my view, sort of a cheat. True Studly-lessness is achieved because you're so SNOTed that there's no real top that needs tiling. For example the current (URL) MOC highlight...> (which bears raving about, it's tres (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Dare I answer? (...) Studlessness is overrated, all it really says is that you've got the cash for hundreds of tiles. Studs actually help break up the hard lines where plates overlap, smoothing out the shapes. Try it sometime, it's (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) I think you may have heard wrong. I first read Destination a long long time ago. I read CoMC about the same time and I've reread both of them several times since, and in my considered judgement, they're not at all alike. Not even close. Sure, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I don't know Ley, the thing on the nose looks suspiciously like a death ray. Coming from a Space Hippy like youreslf, this smacks of a military-industrial complex sell-out of some kind. Workin' for the Man now, eh Ley? Although I do like the fact (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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The question remains...can it manipulate itself?...not for pleasure I mean, just for self-maintenance. Soren the OMC is money, if fact you're money baby. Its almost studless, but the remaining studs actually work as a greeble I think. Great (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) (Ahem..) Alfred Bester's job was writing and editing Detective Comics through the 1940s. Batman worked for him. However, what I meant was, the movie version of Batman and Joker leap out of the pages of Bester's Tiger, Tiger. The momentum of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) That would be a bit difficult, since his story wasn't published until 1956, 17 years after Batman first graced the cover of Detective Comics #32, and 16 years after the Joker was introduced in Batman #1. Ironically enough, the first Joker (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) (snip lots of good reasons why the book is indeed, a top 10 on many lists, and why thiis movie would rock!) All I can figure is that it's too obscure... that or there is a fair bit of introspection on the part of Foyle (his motivation for (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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A novel which has, inexplicably, never been filmed, is Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. This is surely one of the top ten greatest Sf novels ever. It was written by a veteran radio and TV writer as an intensely paced male action hero (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It is way more fun. (...) Nice job Steve. I like little models done well, as fudging is almost impossible. I was actually thinking of selling my trike bodies .. now I can't! Gonna go build me one or two :) -Tom McD. (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I'm right there with you, man. I felt the same way about Hudson Hawk. It's so incredibly hokey it's good. Allister (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I read a script once of a proposed movie based upon Isaac Asimov's short stories that never got to filming. The explanation was that Asimov's stories are very adult, concerning deeper issues and themes than most Hollywood sci-fi. (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New discoveries on Mars
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(...) Excellent Captain John (or Mark.) I recognise you as a fellow sufferer of SITHS(1) You got all but one; one song was not quoted, but referred to by name. The Adrian Belew song was inadvertent, but still worth bonus points. If a song gets (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) My friend has it in DVD and I'll probably be seeing it very soon. I'm reading the books right now and I'm afraid of what the movie will be like. Considering the actors that are in it, I'm pretty sure it will be horribly bad. (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.general)
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