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Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
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Date: 
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:18:22 GMT
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That’s one sweet train! Nice job, and that’s pretty quick with the rendering, too! How long has that container been up - a few days?

One thing that’s been sitting in the back of my mind, gnawing at me: the shape of the container. Every day on the way to work I pass a couple of freight container storage yards. The containers are sorted by size/capacity and crammed together as tightly as possible. This container, and other Spacey containers I’ve seen, all have a non-rectangular cross-section, which means they won’t pack as tightly, requiring more space for storage (and mass-transport, for that matter).

But then I realize it’s a TOY! T-O-Y! A child’s PLAYTHING! And whatever works in Space! is fine by me.



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  Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
 
(...) Equilateral triangle cross section containers stack ok as long as it's fine for 1/2 of them to be upside down... (in a gravity field, in 0g it may not matter)... IIRC, the containers in Silent Running were tetrahedra. ++Lar (19 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)  
  Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
 
For what it's worth I have built space containers with a rectangular cross section. (URL) I work in shipping, containers are really useful and have really sped up shipping in the last few decades, and space needs more of them! Soren's can be stacked (...) (19 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)

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  Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
 
Hi all, Recently Soren Roberts came up with this (URL) excellent truck> with a really nifty container format. I dug it a lot and reverse engineered it with some help from Soren for the purpose of making a train to go with it. Anyway, to cut to the (...) (19 years ago, 29-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.space, FTX) !! 

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