Or a hardtech Highway Star replica powered by a pair of Mazda R13b's.
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Roughrider's mecha jocks would be all over this shit.
Got that one in the works anyway.
Quote:Jet’s wearing a smirk.
“That’s the Highway Star.”
It’s a replica of a motorcycle featured in an episode of an animé named Bubblegum Crisis, Jet tells us. An animé she based her own armour on.
Seeing it in the metal, naked, it looks like something capable of 600kph. It looks nothing like the usual streamliners. It’s brutal and vicious, front heavy. It looks like it batters the air out of it’s way and tells drag to fuck off rather than slice easily through it all with the minimum of fuss. It has a certain elegant brutality to it, like a precision machined double-headed axe.
“How much does it weigh?” Chippy asks. He’s gobsmacked by it.
“About half a ton,” Ford answers. “And we’ve tuned it to about 600 kilowatts, with a push button boost up to 750.”
Meanwhile.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/01/mars_tent/ Camping on Mars
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Okay, this guy is clearly a nutjob -- he's looking at a smudge of light-colored pixels on Google Mars and thinks he sees more detail than the Face had in the NASA photos. But the idea has merit for Fenspace:
"Space Station" found on Mars
His video on YouTube is
here, and you can get the coordinates of the smudge from his notes below. I took'em and my copy of Google Earth and looked, and I'll tell you, his video-shot-off-the-screen does
not lose any detail. It's a smudge of pixels, nothing more, and if there are cylinders or any other 3-dimensional forms there, they're all in his head.
But as I said, the
idea...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Okay, this guy is clearly a nutjob -- he's looking at a smudge of light-colored pixels on Google Mars and thinks he sees more detail than the Face had in the NASA photos. But the idea has merit for Fenspace:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... -Mars.html]"Space Station" found on Mars
This is
exactly why Noah built a filter against apophenia into Takami...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
First published picture of an Orbiter docked to the ISS.
http://www.nasa.gov/missi...ultimedia/e27depart.html
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Voyager probes discover AU-wide magnetic bubbles at the edge of the solar system.
Hmmmmm... We might have to re-write the FenWiki article about The Limit...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
*ponders*
Could be the froth exerts subtle harmonic interfereances that keep a drive from ftl inside of it, for rider safety, so to speak. IOW, you cant ftl from inside a mag bubble like that, and the froth essentially forms one large bubble. Hence you have to get OUTSIDE the bubbles, and arriving the interferance from the foam is what drops you back into normal space. Were wave not involved, hitting the limit at speed might involve going splat, but 'wave dont DO splat... though I might imagine the first ship to attempt to penetrate at speed feel like it hits a wall as the ship decelerates quickly enough that even with any sort of inertial dampners/whatever, anything not tied down goes flying forward.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children
http://fiveyearmission.net/lyrics/]Trekkie Music!
No, not "Trek Music" - that's music from
Star Trek. The is music about
Star Trek. They're midway through the first season, so far.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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"look my little boy, some of them stayed there because they fear the darkness between the stars..."
Image source unknown. Caption by Hrogge
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Solar powered laser sinter device for sand.
http://vimeo.com/25401444
I think rapid "autofactories" are not that far away for Fenspace. *G*
Ben+Gina: "What giant bug incident?"
Mayonaka: "...Amber, did anyone ever tell you that loose lips sink ships?"
(^_^)
heh. Then again, it could have been something similar to the Vorkosigan Butter Bug incident(s)
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by
Echo's Children
You bet your sweet bippy that Stellvia's got
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14030720]one of these at Meg's.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
And every Valentine's Day, birthday, and anniversary, Ben somehow manages to secret one of these personalized chocolates someplace where Gina will find it quite by accident. Best of all, she never even tries to catch him in the act because she adores the surprise. Besides, she easily manages to surprise him back whenever she wants.
