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[Dartz]

Or a hardtech Highway Star replica powered by a pair of Mazda R13b's.
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[Black Aeronaut]

Roughrider's mecha jocks would be all over this shit.

[Dartz]

Got that one in the works anyway.

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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[Dakota]

Fire in the Sky
from
http://www.prometheus-music.com/
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[Bob Schroeck]

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.

[robkelk]

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

[LynnInDenver]

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

[robkelk]

First published picture of an Orbiter docked to the ISS.

Is now on the FenWiki's http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... ce_Station]ISS page.
--
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

[Black Aeronaut]

Benjamin, always thoughtfully playful (or playfully thoughtful) got Sora this shirt as a gift when he found out she was going to the Soviets: http://www.redbubble.com/...configure/380485-t-shirt
ETA And here's one that's closer to the topic in spirit.  Say hello to the Hover Bike.  I would love to have me one of these. 
http://www.hover-bike.com/photos.html

[Bob Schroeck]

Voyager probes discover AU-wide magnetic bubbles at the edge of the solar system.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[robkelk]

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

[Star Ranger4]

*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

[robkelk]

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.
--
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

[Dartz]

Wow. Just. Wow. Electronic memory expansion for the brain
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[Rod.H]

http://www.telegraph.co.u...ld-change-the-world.html

[HRogge]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5 ... world.html

[Cobalt Greywalker]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/5 ... world.html

[Dartz]

"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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[HRogge]

Solar powered laser sinter device for sand.

http://vimeo.com/25401444

I think rapid "autofactories" are not that far away for Fenspace. *G*

[robkelk]

Replace Art, Kat, and the platypus with Ben, Gina, and the Bolonga Loaf Express, and you know this has happened on 36 Atlantae... possibly more than once.

http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=703]Sequential Art strip 703 and http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=704]704
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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

[HRogge]

Replace Art, Kat, and the platypus with Ben, Gina, and the Bolonga Loaf Express, and you know this has happened on 36 Atlantae... possibly more than once.

http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=703]Sequential Art strip 703 and http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=704]704

I have thought the same, just with a few other Fen... *G*

[Black Aeronaut]

Ben+Gina: "What giant bug incident?"
Mayonaka: "...Amber, did anyone ever tell you that loose lips sink ships?"
(^_^)

[Star Ranger4]

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

[robkelk]

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

[Black Aeronaut]

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.