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Re: Docking system
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 29 May 2001 19:28:20 GMT
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In lugnet.space, William R. Ward writes:
> dstaudt@hotmail.com (Daniel Staudt) writes:
> > bill@wards.net (William R Ward) wrote:
> > two huge ships would never get that close together. they would use shuttles
> > and transporters(i wish)
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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! :-)
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> --Bill.
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 docking rings :)
ZaC
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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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