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| "William R Ward" <bill@wards.net> wrote in message news:m28zji1glj.fsf@...iew.com... (...) Very nice!! My only suggestion is to find a way that there are neither 'male' or 'female' units...so they're totally universal -- if you have two of one type, (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I agree with Tim on that one and also add another complication; if a docking ring is going to be holding two ships together, it will need more than 4 connector pegs between the rings. There will need to be additional linkage structure either (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) I don't think that's necessarily so. One could just pretend that Technic pegs are really really strong. Unless you're talking about two huge ships, there wouldn't be enough strain to really worry about, IMO. --Bill. (23 years ago, 28-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| bill@wards.net (William R Ward) wrote in news:m27kz114kk.fsf@...yview.com: (...) two huge ships would never get that close together. they would use shuttles and transporters(i wish) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Yes, exactly... that much mass means it would be too difficult to maneuver. It's a lot easier to have a shuttle go back & forth. Plus, it gives us more opportunity to play at docking & undocking, and we get to design the shuttles! :-) --Bill. (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Good point; I never thought of that. So all we are really going to be docking is the shuttles, *if* the ship doesn't have a hanger bay. But as argued before, shuttle docking rings will be small. Anyways, this way you get to design shuttles AND (...) (23 years ago, 29-May-01, to lugnet.space)
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