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Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:14:03 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Jesse Alan Long writes:
(snipped some stuff)
> The comment on the antennas is still true
> because there are millions of tons of space debris that is flying around
> that could damage such equipment on a ship. There are two other points that
> you fail to consider and the first point is some of these space craft are
> horribly bulky and therefore not very streamlined in their structure. These
> space craft would be considered very easy targets by their enemies.
(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 encountering those
space monsters that live inside the asteroids and have the huge mouths that
are disguised as caves. All those pieces sticking out of the ship would
poke the monster in the sensitive areas of its gums and the roof of its
mouth. And if that didn't stop it then the bulkiness would make it hard for
the monster to swallow the craft.
What's the good of wings if you're sitting in the belly of the beast being
slowly dissolved by gastric juices?
G.
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| (...) 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)
| | | Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big]
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| (...) 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)
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