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Subject: 
Irresponsible use of spacecraft (was Re: Wings [was: Re: Building big])
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lugnet.space, lugnet.loc.au
Date: 
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 00:28:20 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Kerry Raymond writes:
It makes me sick
the way that spaceships have got so fashionable now that everybody buys one
but never actually takes them out of earth's atmosphere.

:)

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 atmospheric vehicles, but these large space ships
have been produced under completely different design rules and they're not
nearly as safe in a collision as people think. And you can't see out of the
back properly.

And have you seen the damage that a star-trek type deflector shield can do
to a parachutist?

Cheers

Richie Dulin
Patrician of Brick-Morpork



Message is in Reply To:
  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)

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