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Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers
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Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:59 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, James Wilson wrote:
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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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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
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