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(...) <snip> Too... Cool... For... Words.... There is a certain air of hubris about the Party Palace. While I was building it I had visions of a follow-up diorama depicting it's death. The Party lying broken backed across a ridge, it's great domes (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Ah, a titanic clash of the mobile theme parties, I like it. It's probably quite true that past a certain point, technologically, there's nothing to do but party. Sado-hedonistic urges run amok in quasi immortal beings who disdain further (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I hadn't considered the possibility of using the Party as an offensive weapon, at least not until you posted your brief synopsis of the downfall of Erf. But now I can't get the idea out of my head. (2 URLs) (click for a larger view) I really (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Drat! try (URL) if you are as impatient as I! (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) This may well be the silliest thread I've read in weeks. I love it! Well done. Adrian (URL) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I apologize for corrupting your concept. ;-) That's a great work on the picture, a slightly smoking trail of squashed debris going off into the distance. (The only thing missing for image realism is the dark shadow cast over the landscape by (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) DOH! Well spotted, I'll take a look at sorting that on monday! I was so busy worrying about the details of the trail I forgot the totally obvious! (...) Like I said, in the original post, technology indistinguishable from magic! :) (...) (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Of course it can steer! The mpp houses a large, horizontally mounted, flywheel in it's base. To turn right the flywheel spins left, imparting a turning force in the opposite direction, much like a helicopter, which needs a tailrotor to stop (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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