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Well, I just plugged my new Life on Mars sets into the LUGNET DB, and noticed there weren't many that were filled in for title and piece count. Also, on the back of 7316's instruction booklet, all the boxes for the LOM sets are shown, so I figured (...) (24 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.admin.database)
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| | Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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(...) I essentially agree with all the technical criticisms made of this story but I want to play Devil's advocate for a second. This story is written in the form of a letter from a presumably average person, not a rocket scientist or trained (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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(...) You mean to *be* truly weightless. There are several means of *feeling* weightless even on the earth such as reachng neutral buoyancy under water. John #388 (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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(...) *Especially* from a big, reputable, known-for-its-educational-toys company. (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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There are about 5000 stars (3000 in the northern hemisphere and 2000 in the southern hemisphere) visible to the naked eye from Earth. The number would of course be higher in outer space, with more lower-magnitude stars revealed from the lack of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: rare colours in: Life on Mars
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(...) Looking at it in person I'd call the new 'red' Dusty Rose or some such. Mike (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Re: New sets
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(...) 60xx is normally castle so I would be skeptical that these numbers are the correct numbers (...) ditto, 63xx is normally town (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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| | Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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(...) Actually, until we send humans to mars we won't know what life is ther or was there in the past. It is entirely possible that humanoid life forms are living in small colonies on/under the suface of mars. After all, if we could do it, why (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO.COM/mars now running!
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) what (...) possible. True, but normally sci-fi (as opposed to fantasy) takes its different premises from things where we are not sure yet, not things we already know are untrue (e.g. blue aliens on Mars). (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| | New sets
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I was in Shopko and they show several new Lego sets on their shelves (no sets, just names). I'm not positive about the set numbers , their numbers are always Lego numbers Throwabouts (5992?) Exploration station (6263?) Arctic? Snow Stormer (6297?) (...) (24 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.year.2001)
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