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Someone asked #SMStirling why there weren't ekranoplanes in his first Draka novel "Marching Through Georgia." Turns out he'd never heard of them.
Someone asked #SMStirling why there weren't ekranoplanes in his first Draka novel "Marching Through Georgia." Turns out he'd never heard of them.
A pity, because they are definitely the sort of thing they would build.
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@Illuminatus @nyrath *banging table* ekranoplan! ekranoplan!
(every time I drive across the SF Bay on one of those long bridges I tell my passengers that we need ekranoplan ferries on the bay)
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@Illuminatus @nyrath someday I'm gonna find the right gullible VC bro and launch a startup making personal ekranoplans for bay area commuting.
They'll be very fast deathtraps.
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@nyrath@spacey.space ok
builds a dyson sphere, uses it as an engine and takes off with the sun
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@nyrath I'll make my lumbering getaway on Starbug1. Ugly and awkward, but the company is worth it.
Except for Rimmer. He is a Smeghead.
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@nyrath a beefy V-2?
Reminds me of this scene from The Simpsons when they show a future airport and remark that their happy to engineers found value in old fashioned designs
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Well, the external hull was based on the Polaris from Tom Corbett Space Cadet, which was based on a V-2.
But the engine is Dr. Zubrin's batshit insane nuclear salt water rocket.
In other words, it is a Torchship
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#nswr
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@nyrath High Mobility Zaku 2 - it may not be three times as fast but it's still pretty speedy.
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Ha ha! That spacesuit is empty! I was hidden underground! Sayonara, suckers!
Ha ha! That spacesuit is empty! I was hidden underground! Sayonara, suckers!
Whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop!
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I like that, in the description for that image in Spacecraft 2000-2100, it says that it was triggered by being stepped on.
I like that, in the description for that image in Spacecraft 2000-2100, it says that it was triggered by being stepped on.
SUPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!
...wait where are you?
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@nyrath…which would leave the unlucky pedestrian standing on the hoversod for some reason? Where the spiderbot can’t see it?
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I mean…the text in that book is filler. It’s there to make it look like there’s a larger universe unifying all these paintings that were kept in a big flat file. A lot of it feels like it got one proofread and then was sent to press.
I mean…the text in that book is filler. It’s there to make it look like there’s a larger universe unifying all these paintings that were kept in a big flat file. A lot of it feels like it got one proofread and then was sent to press.
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@nyrath @JoshuaACNewman but you gotta admit ol’ Stew is pretty good at making that stuff up off the cuff!
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A 𑐴𑐶𑐟𑐶 (hiti) is an ancient Newah urban water feature: a stepped, sunken courtyard with waterspouts and a central pool. These are fed through a remarkable network of pipes, reservoirs, and irrigation systems drawing water from mountain springs dozens of kilometres away. Every day, hundreds of people from the neighbourhood come to draw water, bathe, and exchange news. They are a unique and precious feature of Newa urban architecture through which neighbourhoods are created.
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