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I'm sure that many people install power generators on their larger ships. Well, for those who do install them, here's an idea you might want to try: 1. Get one of those big 2-piece trans-blue cylinders they often have in Exploriens sets. 2. Attach a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) ..... Dude.....thats like all complicated can you simplify for the retards like ne? (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I'm pretty sure I get it, but I have to think about it. If I figure out how to rig a fiber-optic unit into it to create a power transfer shaft with those clear blue and yellow cylinders, then I'll let you know... Aaron>maniac@vol.com (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Hmmm...I operate with cabrionic engines, which operate on a slightly different theory--basically deriving energy from the 'flow' of spacetime in the gravity well of stars. Between the stars, energy loss isn't an issue--the superluminal drives (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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There really is something at the end...scroll down. (...) ...<snip>... (...) There are now .jpgs available. (URL) drive is mounted in a faux-bay of lattice grillework to give it that "operational" feel. These sit vertically, not horizontally as Z's (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) That's a neat idea on those. I just wish I could build a ship big enough to use it! Great idea! Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (URL) LEGO Page: (URL) to come: Star Wars LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) try: (...) cylinder. (...) the (...) two (...) the (...) a (...) gravity). (...) different (...) gravity (...) superluminal (...) "cabrionic engines"? "matter hypercompressor generator"? Can someone please tell me what´s wrong with the good (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) To a certain extent, ramjets and ion drives are rocket-ish. The reasoning for alternate powerplants is because rockets are extremely high consumers of space, power, and so forth; if one can derive one's power from the fields all around them, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Another nice feature to take advantage of when wanting to make circular engine things is the fact that the 4x4 radar dishes fit snugly into the studs of a ring of 6 interlocked 2x2 hinge bricks, and an 8x8 dish fits snugly into twelve interlocked (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) like the walk-around bottles, but you've definitely followed the jet-engine evolutionary tree to the fhighest point I've ever seen. Great photo, too! (Did you use macro?) (...) That reminds me of the way fighters were tested in the 1930s--in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Where am I supposed to get an 8X8 radar dish? That's a sweet power core, and I'd like to try building one, but would anything besides an 8X8 radar dish suffice? Z (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) The snow blower (trains, current S@H item) has one James P (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) The snow blower is also available over the counter in Europe. The 2000 Star Wars set "Gungan Patrol" (sorry, don't have the number handy) has two in tan, which IMHO is compatible with greys and blacks. best, Lindsay (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Wow, Paul, that is an impressive-looking engine! You've definitely given me some ideas for the large engines of the Lego Space Corps' newest explorer ship, the 4-deck Nautilus (under construction). -- Paul Davidson Paul Baulch (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I haven't tried this, but you should be able to build an 8x8 circle out of four 4x4 quarter-disc bricks (plus some pieces to hold the 4x4's together). It wouldn't look as good as the 8x8 dish, but it probably wouldn't suck. BTW, the 4x4 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) You could also try using one of those 8x8 circular tiles with four studs in the middle, as found in that small Exploreins set (Hovertron?) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) pay more to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Hi there, You've got to love these fantasy-tech discussions that spring out of the desire to model spaceships in Lego! To all of you who have posted pictures: love your designs. They have the no-nonsense look of real machines. (...) O.K., Tobias, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Cool, thanks for the interesting propulsion discussion. It's been a while since I've thought about these things, but it's always been an interest of mine. Personally I'd like to see some work being done on nuclear propulsion again as well. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here... and speculate that Tobias was only trying to call attention to the overly complex technologies and names people give there "LEGO" creations... I think Tobias (and please correct me if I'm wrong Tobias) was (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Going further up on the tree...... (...) Hmm.. Well, when I was younger, I bought the Star Trek Technical Manual for the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC1701D. I named a lot of my technology on that, I always liked the more technical names, as in Warp (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I got that same book. It was okay, I guess, but I got really steamed when I found out that the manual didn't come with parts to build your own starship. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Jeremy, (...) LOL! Yes, I was disappointed to. Some of the book made me want to vomit (Politics, etc.) but it was a neat book to see what the ST universe did. I still base a lot of my technology on it, simply because I like it. But I wish a (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) This is due to the shape of the engine bell -- how gases tend to collect inside instead of just spewing out, increasingly so the farther you get from optimal pressure. This waste gas not only robs from the total thrust mass, but also (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Why fission? Just because it's easier for us right now to garner energy from fissionable heavy minerals rather than the fusion of light ones? The concepts for nuclear pulse propulsion for fission almost always have to be external to the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) from (...) concepts (...) to (...) *inside* (...) momentum, (...) Why fission? It can be done -now-. The technology exists. :) I agree, in the long run fusion is much better, because of the theoretical effeciency, and the abundance of fuel (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Although fusion propulsion is far better than fission propulsion, there are still faster things. For example, light drives. They work by emitting light backward, as so to move foreward, an you know what the specific impulse in that case would (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) You just might want to try selling some of those fighter designs to TLG. I've never seen such cool fighters before! Just something to think about. Z (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message <3856C9BC.6EEECE67@p...su.edu>... (...) I (...) (Did (...) Thanks Lindsay, and everyone else, for your feedback. Yes, I did use macro. The camera was a Kodak DC215, which is perhaps not as good value for money as some (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) know (...) Ahh, but they -DO- come in grey... As of the 2000 collection, the Millennium Falcon has large grey saucer/ufo hull pieces. :) -- -Bones- = (URL) = NecroBones Enterprises Paul Baulch wrote in message ... (...) jet-engine (...) some (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) The Brasso really works, though. I tried it last night, and I'm speechless--my shipbuilding has just taken a whole new direction! :) The only downside is that it takes 20 minutes a piece, and Brasso isn't the most...fragrant stuff in the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) Have we determined how well Brasso works on transparent painted elements? Dave! (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: [snip] (...) [Snip] (...) Ya'll might want to try a product called nevr-dull, it comes in a small blue tin can and has the "polish" suspended in a kinda cotton wad. you ought to wear gloves of some (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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Bones Dragon wrote in message ... (...) Ah, well, yes that was my original boo-boo, I meant DARK grey. They've always been available in light grey - in fact I think that's the ONLY opaque colour they've ever been available in. 2000 sets.... yeah (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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(...) I don't know--Craig Hamilton said he was going to find a "victim" today if he had a chance--look over in lugnet.castle, since I think it revolved around the stained-glass in new Castle sets (no pun intended). best, LFB (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.space)
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John J. Ladasky Jr.: (...) I think you have some miscalculations there. Assuming that the reaction mass is 99% of the total initial mass of the vessel, and that the peak exhaust velocity is 2*10^5 m/s, the peak velocity of the vessel will be (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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