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  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) The Apollo space craft were essentially rockets that allowed for humans to live inside of them in a small compartment and your fuel was primarily used for sending you into outer space and not necessarily down from space. The fuel that was left (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Hi Jesse: (...) A distinction must be made between controlled and uncontrolled re-entry. In the case of the Apollo (and various other pre-shuttle craft) entry was controlled, to an extent, as you indicate. Of course friction was still intense, but (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes: (snipped some stuff) (...) (snipped the rest of the scientific discussion) I think you've failed to consider that a bulky ugly craft with lots of antennas and other pointy pieces would be very handy when (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Dave, you are correct in observing a small mistake concerning the rockets. There were parachutes that helped the rockets land in the ocean but even so, in a unique way, the parachute acted not only with but against the retro rockets because (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) It's more complicated than that. The rocket was a several-stage affair; the first few stages would drop off and burn up as you head up through the atmosphere; by the time you reach orbit only a small amount of rocket is left. The Lunar Module (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) There are no retro rockets used in an Apollo re-entry to Earth. Only the heat of friction and the parachutes slow the ship down from orbital speeds to the slow speed required for a safe splashdown. (...) If there was such a laboratory it would (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
lol.... (...) those (...) that (...) for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) [snip] (...) <Chuckle> Well, this is close, but not entirely correct :] The airplane goes into a climb, and then in one fluid motion levels and enters a dive. It's during the arced portion of the flight that the occupants experience zero-G. (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) those (...) that (...) for (...) And what happens if you need to detect that undetectable tachyon pulse signature and you've left off the tachyon pulse antenna?! It makes me sick the way that spaceships have got so fashionable now that (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Irresponsible use of spacecraft (was Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big])
 
(...) :) Yes. People should buy much more economical atmospheric craft if they're not going into outer space. Just think of the extra fuel used by dragging those hyperspace drives around with your atmospheric thrusters. Sure, you can see over the (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Did you ever see the Millennium Falcon in the first Star Wars motion picture where that space craft travelled inside a crater to hide from the Galactic Empire and they flew inside a space monster? I thought that the Sarlacc Pit Monster (which (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I think I was possibly referring to the "vomit comet" when I was talking about the laboratory, Bill. I do appreciate the fact that you made me consider an attempt on weightlessness I never thought of in my mind when you mentioned the swimming (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I'm getting this image of a gargatuan space ship, rapidly approaching and decelerating. As it draws near, the large tachyon pulse antenna switchblades out from the port side... Steve (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) No I'm not familiar with that motion picture. That's keen that they featured an Asteroid Cave-Mouth Monster in a movie. I just hope that it wasn't a comedy because the danger posed by these creatures to space ships is very real and no laughing (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space) ! 
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I am sorry that I confused you on the motion picture Star Wars but if you wish to know more about Star Wars, there is a seperate discussion board on Lugnet for Star Wars Lego sets and if that does not satisfy your interests, then go to (URL) . (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I really don't think you confused him. Maybe I'm giving it away, but it was all well crafted sarcasm. (...) AMAZING! Those movies sound pretty neat. I wonder why I haven't seen those before, being a space nut and all. Are they in theatres or (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I believe there is also an Episode I: The Phantom Menace (recently released), and there may also be sequels to Episode I, called Episode II and Episode III, forming a prequel trilogy. Who knows what types of Freudian Symbol Monsters might (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I believe that your comment about those monsters in Episode II and Episode III of the new Star Wars Trilogy. The monsters near the city of Otoh Gunga were scary enough for me. The comment about the stud length is a generally accepted standard (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I have posted this message by accident---please ignore it everyone. Thanx ;] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) ^^^...^^^ Y'know, if I think about the world as a glorified "Civ" game, then I believe this will be the outcome ;] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Like Jon Palmer already kindly asked, could you please separate your LONG paragraphs. You do this by pressing a button on your keyboard called _ENTER_ or _RETURN_. Hope you understand and use this advice. (...) letter. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Whoa hoss, slooooowwww dooooowwwwwn. You're rambling a TON here. Why not take the time to think about a reply and write it into nice paragraphs, so we can all read it. Better yet, why not go do something more productive? (...) I'm sorry to be rude, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) ...In the heat of battle, the captain presses the wrong button to engage the maxi*zappo ray gun, and out pops the intergalactic corkscrew and fish scaler. <duck and run> jk (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I've always envisioned an empire as a large, sprawling governmental body that tended to stay put, at least until the natives got restless. It must be stressful to return from a long range deep penetration preemptive "patrol" and find your home (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jun-01, to lugnet.space)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
<snip> (...) Ahem I dont know if any one has corrected you, and I hate to be nit picking but the M.F. flew into a "cave" not a crater in the SECOND MOVIE called The Empire Strikes Back. thank you (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
snip (...) Ahem the M.F. flew into the monster, which is technically called a space slug by George Lucas, in the Second movie not the first. The first starwars movie was over That whole Death Star thing. The second (Empire Strikes Back) is where the (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Jesse Long wrote: <snip> (...) Sorry to interrupt guys, bu this is the *funniest* thread I faced for a long time..:-D Is this Jesse character is real? I mean does he really exist? I really don't appreciate beating innocent clueless, and my attitude (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) You are correct about the Super Star Destroyer comment but I know that it was in Star Wars that they ended up inside the space slug (which I believe appears to be an early ancestor of those worms in another science fiction story named Tremors) (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) There was a man who asked me about eating soy and I simply said that I did not like soy because I am not exactly a vegetarian, that and I decided to be humorous (as opposed to being annoying or rude, which many people on Lugnet seem to think I (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) By quite a coincedence, my library has the Star Wars Trilogy and I would like to rent those movies but my parents would probably stop me because I have seen each movie about five times in two years and possibly as many as a dozen times in my (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) RTL stands for Rec.Toys.Lego a news group that existed before LUGNET. (...) -Duane (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Stop. you are both technically right. Although it is hard to justify the usage of the term "flying into a crater" inasmuch as you can fly into a cave. The giant worm-like creature was inside a cave-like hole that was located in the center of a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Actually not! What REALLY happened was that the MF flew into a crater/cave and then monkeys flew out my butt! =oP -- Hop-Frog (The Giant Thread Killer) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) "No way, Wayne!" LFB (who beats the dead threads...*thump* *thump*) XFUT -> .o-t.fun (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) So that's where they went! Call off the search party fellow Oz-simians, that amphibious phreak Hop-Frog was the kidnapper! --DaveL (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) No, I think you'll find that the flying monkeys are from The Wizard of Oz. ;-) (...) It's not dead yet. :-) Cheers Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick Morpork (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) It was 'I really don't appreciate beating innocent clueless, and my attitude *was* same to this conversation.' At first, I thought that you were a teen, just were rambling around, and there was no need to be harsh to you. But after this much (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Heya Selçuk- (...) I'm actually sort of stumped at that line too--it doesn't quite compute grammatically. I think that's what Jesse wasn't getting (that's definitely what I'm not understanding). (...) No comment, except that this has been a most (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Needless to say it is very appearent to me. Do I undesrtand your own language better than you or what?..:-) Anyway, the thing I tried to express (and couldn't, by looking the respose) is: * I really don't appreciate beating (kicking, slapping, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) I think that you do not understand that sentence, either, Lindsay? The problem is that you respond with the sentence, 'I think that's what Jesse wasn't getting (that's definitely what I'm not understanding).' What do you mean by that sentence, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Hopefully that smiley means you were kidding... you guys are both respected contributors, and I think LFB was just trying to help clarify why your wording may have been confusing. ++Lar (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Oh, it just seemed to me that the sentence wasn't fully clear because of the way it was worded, and I posited that this might have been the same reason you asked for a clarification. Granted, it's faaa...aaar better than I'd ever do in (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
Hey Selçuk (...) Well, you're not an American, so it's entirely possible. :) (...) Okay. The "the" was missing, which is what screwed me up. Three little letters, a world of comprehension. I got all the words, but couldn't separate the sentence out (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes: <snip> (...) LOL! You may not find it hard to believe that I speak much worse English after two years in the good ol' US of A. As for that sentence, I just pretended Chris was saying it. ;-) Here's a (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) 8?) Even in my short trip (~5 weeks) I found myself pronouncing things with an accent, just to get the Murkans to understand!! (...) Didn't actually ask the Pieniazeks how they pronounce it, but I say it like Peen-yart-sik, accent on the 2nd (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Close. No R. pin-yacht-sick (yachts are big boats so that's the syllable that gets the accent) My Polish relatives say it "more correctly" as pin-o-scheck. (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Easy Larry, we are just making some fun..:-) No hard feelings involved in anyway. Thanks, though..:-) Selçuk (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) Then...:-), Turkish alphabet is a completely different thing than anything Ottoman. It was introduced in 1928 by Atatürk, based on the Latin alphabet that you already knew and been using for centuries. It has some "weird" characters like (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
 
(...) You think that Turkish or Arabic is hard, try learning how to speak AND write Japanese, and I am not even from Japan! The Japanese language has over 1,400 different characters known as kanji and there are two different subcategories for each (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au)

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