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| | | (...) What about this for a name? What if in honor of the first non-generically named base, we name the spacebase "Alpha-1"? The name could apply to the whole base, and we could add at least one 483 Alpha-1 Rocket Base to it just for fun. I'm still (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Tom McDonald
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| | | | (...) fun. (...) After reading your post again Steve, it seems I ignored it. And I ignored Jonathan too. My apologies! Please forgive me. I like your ideas now that I've read them again. And they can both work together. Steve, to nitpick here, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) I'd think of Base to be something purely military/government. Outpost and Station are either mixed or all civilian -- the difference being that an Outpost would be more on the frontier. (25 years ago, 26-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Jacob Sparre Andersen
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| | | | | Tom McDonald: (...) This corresponds with my view (and use) of the words. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) No biggie. I wasn't clear on my post. I said: (...) I meant each neighborhood would have a descriptive/category based on its own peculiar nature. Not that every site would necessarily have the same description. Or necessarily have different (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Tom McDonald
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| | | | (Edited for cogency!) ---...--- In lugnet.space, Steve Bliss responded: (...) I was thinking along the lines of your original thought. It could still work: "Station Outpost" could be a remote installation in deep space, while "Base Outpost" would be (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) Yuck! I forgot that Lugnet substitutes spaces for tabs made with ^I. It doesn't show up that way in the web interface message editing window though. Oh well, do visit the website cuz that's much better lookin. (see prev post) -Tom McD. (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Tabs in web interface (was: Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?)) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Nope, it doesn't! Tabs are actually preserved. If you do a "view source" on this... (URL) see that tabs are actually output correctly as "	" HTML entity sequences. It's actually your browser which is converting the tabs to spaces, but it's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 McSpamcakeBoy mentioned: (...) It could go that way, or LD-A could refer to the installation as a whole, and LD-Ax would be specific models within LD-A. If LD-A1 is the whole site, then the first model in the site would be LD-A2, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Tom McDonald
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| | | | (...) I your idea better. (...) I'd rather keep it that 1 means the first thing. [...] (...) Good, and I agree. Duane hasn't been as vocal as we have but I know he wants that base :-) I do too, and the moon is a great place to start. And again I'll (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Duane Hess
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| | | | | (...) <Clears Throat> I agree. That was the first thing that came up in my mind. To begin with, it would be easy to add on to, just add a baseplate. I really don't have too much input as to the naming conventions used. I just want to build. Has (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Hmm. Would we have to mark it as mobile? ;-) So what's the nature of Moonbase LD-A? Before we decide that, we should decide on the background environment, so we'll know what's appropriate and inappropriate. I'll take that to another thread, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) lol (...) k (...) Note below when you get there.* (...) Just to maintain some equality, should we stick with: 1 parsec = 3.26 light years = 30.8x10^12 km = 206,265 AU I vote yes, just so we can come out somewhat consistent. (...) Note below (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) If we start with the just the Moonbase, we can put off making this decision at least until the second installation is started. If not longer. (...) Hmm. Do you mean 100 cubic parsecs? Or a sphere with a radius of 100 parsecs (that's 4.2 cubic (...) (25 years ago, 30-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —David Leese
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| | | | | | (...) of (...) That sounds fast enough to me! I mean, on a bad morning, some people get a headache *walking* from the bedroom to the bathroom! It all comes down to distance and time (doh!). The further apart the installations, the faster we need to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —David Leese
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| | | | (...) wants (...) I'll (...) Very funny! 8-) (...) I think the centre of the galaxy would be a good idea, if only as it will simplify the Maths! If we said that Earth was (0,0,0) then the x,y and z axes would be moving all the time. For one season (...) (25 years ago, 2-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | Re: Space Station/Base Names (was Re: Space stations?) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) It's too detailed for the discussion at hand, but I was wondering if it would be practical to use several systems. For interstellar travel, use galactic coordinates. For in-system travel, use solar coordinates. On a planet's surface, use the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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