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4/would be vast and precise distance fixes could be made for stars on the other side of the galaxy. A number of TAU designs were examined, but the one shown here in JPL art seems to be pretty representative. These probes would have to be engineered with a high degree of both ...

Gundam didn't invent that solution; that was part of O'Neills original concept. Except his design had a ring composed of a numbers of smallish stacked "Stanford torus" ag modules.

Keeping the inhabitants sane is kinda *really* important. We've all seen the documentaries...

Holy crap...

Found on ebay: negative transparencies of some (prob mid-70’s) McDonnell-Douglas art. The images were not well reproduced, but w/some processing they turn out useful. Here's DC-2000 hypersonic transport, capable of 5,000 mi range at Mach 6.0 via four turbojets and four ramjets.

A 1/350 scale diagram of the 1971 Boeing Resource Air Carrier (AKA RC-1, AKA “Brute Lifter”) designed as a flying oil tanker for the arctic. I've often pondered 3D modeling for printing at 1/144. Would there be a market? aerospaceprojectsreview.com/…

Westerner: "Here is a moral position nobody could argue with." Our Greatest Strength: "Hold my halal beer."

2/ I fed the Chinese into Google Translate, and it suggests a not-identical but effectively the same translation. Here's the thing: there are two Chinese characters, and translated singly, the meaning is *vastly* different. "Lie down trough" translates to "holy crap" somehow.