 | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —James Wilson
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) 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 (18 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —James Wilson
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| | | | | | | And, for that matter, they could stack end-up. In a low-gravity environment, again, probably an OK practice. (18 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Michael Rutherford
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| | | | | | Mr. Pieniezak, You grabbed the words right out of my mouth. As you point out, if you were moving containers in space, the “Upside-down” notion is relative. Equilateral triangle cross sections (or consistent trapezoid cross sections for that matter) (...) (18 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Timothy Gould
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| | | | | | (...) The containers have to reach planet level at some point... where they are carried in the more usual manner ;) Tim (18 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Mark Stafford
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| | | | 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 (...) (18 years ago, 31-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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