 | | Re: Mobile Party Palace (Space Wheels Contest Entry) —Brian Cooper
| | | | (...) 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)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Mobile Party Palace (Space Wheels Contest Entry) —Tim McSweeney
| | | | | | (...) 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)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Mobile Party Palace (Space Wheels Contest Entry) —Steve Lane
| | | | | (...) 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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