One for the 3D modelers:
I just noticed that "
ptropeAerospace DART" is on Clearance over at Renderosity - this means that it's marked down before they remove it from the catalog. This is the model that I used for the Sammies'
Bolitho-class ship, so if you think you're ever going to want to use that ship in an image and you don't already have it, grab it now.
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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
Hells, it's Ptrope, who's well known among the Trek modeler set. I'm willing to throw down based on that.
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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
This might happen in Fenspace... easily!
Gravity requires levity to mete out the opposite force required to keep it from sucking itself into an overly serious singularity.
I note that Mr. Hadfield is a Trekkie and a brave soul, daring to don a red shirt.
I'm not linking directly because I'm on my iPhone, which makes it awkward, but in the "related articles" section for the one robkelk linked, there's an article about Neffi, a spacefaring jumping spider which died four days after returning to Earth.
I think I need to go to sleep, because the above is less comprehensible than my usual...
So, is
this a blow for or against Warsie/USA relations?
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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
robkelk Wrote:So, is this a blow for or against Warsie/USA relations?
No, this is a "we recognize that the Death Star is not ours to build..."
Thats a major UP for Warsie/US relations.
I like how the response just talks about practical concerns (and plays up peaceful science, which is awesome), and totally neglects to mention the SALT.
Here's something the Venus and Mars Terraforming Projects would certainly know about:
From the BBC,
an article on the sloppy, random and hodge-podge "terraforming" of Ascension Isle, and how in just a few decades it turned into a thriving ecology that couldn't exist anywhere else.
Why
is this useful? Because it suggests that you don't need to be
incredibly careful and precise when you try to start an ecosystem -- you
just have to throw enough living things together fast enough.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
And another one...
shooting things into orbit.
[url]
http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/]Interplanetary Cessna
For Fenspace, the important stuff's near the bottom, where he talks about man-powered flight being possible on Titan. Not "practical" - yet - but "possible."
--
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
Heh, how much ya wanna bet Roger Shaywer is working with the EEA? Or weren't the Brits trying to put an oil rig turned space station into orbit?
Edit:
Just found possible evidence for psuedo-Aurelian Vampirism, ala Buffy. Will
this make a certain Whedonite subfaction happy or concerned?