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| Reminds me of the Toyota concept cars in this months issue of Popular Science. You can see a picture here and there are more in the newstand issue. (URL) I like it, Daniel (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| This is really cool. It's very airy and light, but still doesn't look too fragile. Some really interesting build design in there too (especially around the cockpit...ow, my head hurts now...). Sweet ship! -Stefan- (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) That's not that different than today's tanks shooting while on the move - the recoil is taken into effect, but it's not nearly as powerful as the drive. Also, don't forget that the mass of a round is minute compared to the mass of the tank. (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space)
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| (...) I agree! (...) Either that or they’d use recoilless weapons (venting exhaust gasses from projectile weapons, or energy weapons of some sort, or whatever) However I think there’s still the billiard ball effect. When struck with a projectile, (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Indeed, your presence was missed at BF. It certainly was a spectacle, and it certainly is a relief to have it finally completed too! (...) Yeah. If I ever conceive of a project of this scale again, please try and talk me out of it. ;) (...) (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) For ships of this scale, the drawer technique works out quite well, though you have to be very judicious in the building of the superstructure to make sure that it doesn't (2 URLs) fall> (URL) apart> during construction :) As for the tail (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Hey, high praise from another big ship builder! Always a pleasure. As for the shape, it turned out that greebling the exterior of the Tribunal was unneccessary. In fact, almost every attempt at greebling I tried just looked tacked on exactly (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Inside the Tribunal's Shuttle Bay: PCS Paul Dirac
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| (...) Who's going to attack an unarmed shuttle whose only cargo is likely to be scientific in nature? Oh, right, 3vil. Who do things for the sake of being 3vil. I'm not the first to make an underslung canopy like this (Our very own Grand Admiral has (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Since power suits are near future sci-fi and we are talking about tanks everyone should check out Keith Laumer's Bolo series. It concerns a really cool (and scary in many dimensions) future military developement idea: Bolo's Giant tanks run by (...) (21 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.space, FTX)
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