 | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | (...) 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 —James Wilson
| | | | | | And, for that matter, they could stack end-up. In a low-gravity environment, again, probably an OK practice. (19 years ago, 30-Mar-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Michael Rutherford
| | | | | 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) (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Anime inspired container train for Soren Roberts containers —Timothy Gould
| | | | | (...) The containers have to reach planet level at some point... where they are carried in the more usual manner ;) Tim (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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