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| Have the aliens landed?; Have the little green men made contact, or is it a figment of our imagination? | |
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| Holben | Mar 19 2010, 03:59 PM Post #61 |
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Humanesque aliens just tick me off EPICALLY. What better way is there to show off your lack of imagination and laziness? THat said, alien sightings do seem faked. Saucers are more difficult to disprove, but i'm not sure. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Mar 19 2010, 05:29 PM Post #62 |
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Well, saucers seem pretty impractical to me. They don't seem to be the most aerodynamically shaped objects, do they? Unless they are launched by a giant arm that frisbees them across the galaxy... |
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| Canis Lupis | Mar 19 2010, 06:07 PM Post #63 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Well, keep in mind that space is a vacuum. So technically, you don't have to be aerodynamic to travel through space. Your ship would be shaped like a box and it would travel just as well as a conventional rocket. |
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| lamna | Mar 19 2010, 06:20 PM Post #64 |
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Saucers are a fairly decent shape for flying and there have been several experiments with saucer shaped aircraft. |
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| Holben | Mar 20 2010, 05:03 AM Post #65 |
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With over-untiy drives, a more rounded shape is better for field containment. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Temporary | Mar 20 2010, 08:30 AM Post #66 |
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True, but they never caught on for a reason. High energy expenses and difficulty stearing, for example. So, they must have an alternate form of locomotion. Perhaps some use of electromagnetism, negative mass, inertial drive, or some mix? |
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| lamna | Mar 20 2010, 09:38 AM Post #67 |
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And with an over-unity drive you need fresh unicorn poop to keep the pixie generator insulated. |
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| Kamidio | Mar 20 2010, 10:39 AM Post #68 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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The aliens left already. They sang a good song too. |
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| Practically Uninformed | Mar 20 2010, 10:49 AM Post #69 |
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I thought they came back already. |
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| T.Neo | Mar 20 2010, 11:43 AM Post #70 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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Aerodynamics mean very little in space. Have you looked at spacecraft at all? They aren't saucer shaped, they aren't box shaped, they're not airplane shaped. They're everything-else shaped, since the defining factors are things like mass, temperature control, energy gathering etc. Saucers are actually quite good aerodynamically if you do them right, as lamna said. There has been actual interest in saucer-shaped aircraft.
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| Ddraig Goch | Mar 20 2010, 01:13 PM Post #71 |
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Oh, of course. That makes sense. And explains the Borg Cube. |
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| T.Neo | Mar 20 2010, 01:25 PM Post #72 |
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Yeah. Or the ISS, or Mir, or Skylab, or Soyuz, or the apollo LEM, or the Voyager probes, or the ATV, or the Hubble Space Telescope... |
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| Holben | Mar 20 2010, 01:46 PM Post #73 |
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I think they were just trying to convey the borg 'industriousness', as they had no imagination and they thought cubes symbolised industry.
I know! Neither can I! |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| T.Neo | Mar 20 2010, 02:07 PM Post #74 |
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Or it could just be Rule of Cool?
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| Temporary | Mar 20 2010, 02:43 PM Post #75 |
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Find me an example of them done right. I'm pretty sure that if they COULD work right and we had done them right, they would already be used by the military for their advantages. Their hinderances are far to great to ever be used effectively. That's why Silverbeetle and Paperclip were both failures. |
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