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Re: Life on Mars air-pump function
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Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:40:14 GMT
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In article <G3036q.8wI@lugnet.com>, Lorbaat <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>
wrote:

> So, with these new scans, can anyone actually tell what the pump on the Mars
> Base thing does?
> 
> http://collectibles.echostation.com/fbtb/2/sys07.jpg
> 
> It looks like one of the pipes might shoot the little alien guy through the
> tube, but what do the other two lines (the ones with the gates) do?
> 
> It is clear from the next page
> 
> http://collectibles.echostation.com/fbtb/2/sys08.jpg
> 
> That all three lines aren't hooked up at once, you have to manually switch
> them
> around.  But I can't tell what they're supposed to do...
> 
> eric

Yup, pneumatic transport system. See
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=23431

John

AFOL and his money are soon parted.



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  Re: Life on Mars air-pump function
 
(...) So... how long do you figure it'll take before the average child (or AFOL...) aims the tube straight up , plunks in a martian, and stomps on the pump to see if he can acheive orbit? :D "STOMP! Zzzzzip! Prang!" Jeff Elliott (26 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)
  Re: Life on Mars air-pump function
 
(...) So... how long do you figure it'll take before the average child (or AFOL...) aims the tube straight up , plunks in a martian, and stomps on the pump to see if he can acheive orbit? :D "STOMP! Zzzzzip! Prang! Hee hee hee hee hee..." Jeff (...) (26 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.space)

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