Best &/or Favorite Fictional (Or NonFictional) Spacecraft

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>>983930
I like Thunderbird 2

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Movie was a bit of a stinker, but I'll be damned if this isn't one of the coolest Sci-Fi ships of the last 20 years.

I like the abandoned Lighthugger ships in Alasdair Reynolds' Revelation Space book series. But of ones that Ive seen on screen I would have to go with the one from Sunshine. I know that movie is stupid but I fucking love it.

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No space ship is complete without a homicidal computer

>>983984
It is apparently also the most "realistic" movie spaceship to date

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>>983986
It's a shame that so few good pictures seem to be around of the Icarus II, because that's honestly one of the best things about that movie, barring the weird VR room that looks kind of outdated now that we have stuff like HTC Vive and HoloLens.

There's another one you'll like if you're a fan of the Icarus II, I'll post that one in just a moment.

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>>983992
Unfortunately, there are less good pictures of this one, from a 2004 BBC 2 part docufiction called Journey to the Planets and Beyond. It's on YouTube if you'd like to watch it, both parts are 60 minutes in length. It's good if a little obscure, there's not as much drama as you see in other space films, there's just exploration and good scenery.

>>983990
Realistic given its setting of 2154, antimatter is still out of reach and cryo-stasis has yet to become viable.

But, as far as cinematic starships go, it probably is one of the more realistic ones, besides the Endurance from Interstellar (although it used a wormhole for travel beyond the solar system, it was still a fairly realistic future spacecraft).

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Because good times.

>>983995
Are the rings really that thin , flat and dense?

I always though it would look more bell curvish in distribution.

>>984006
I don't know honestly.

In the film though they show the rings as being more dense.

test

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>>983989
What is your one purpose in life? (To explode, of course)

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It came out 32 years ago, and yet Buckaroo Banzai still has the best alien space ships of all.

Most other movies and shows build stuff that looks like something that humans would build, if only they could.
The Lectroid ships looked completely odd, with no clues as to how they were built or how they functioned.

>>983995

Thanks man I'll watch that!

I agree about the VR room but i liked it a lot. I just really like the overall feel and themes of the film, even though the third act was a bolt from the blue in terms of style. One of my favourite scenes in modern films is the part where they repair the heat shield, with the John Murphy soundtrack that gets used in everything now. Some how it still kept its peaceful viewing kind of thing

>>984207

I don't know what Buckaroo Banzai or whatever is but that's cool amd I agree qith the idea. Ive always thought the idea of aliens using the hollowed out and engine powered bones of huge space creatures as starships a cool one. Maybe I should write something

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Space Battleship Yamato is one my favorites - just the right mix of being goofy and badass.

>>984207
>Buckaroo Banzai
I've seen this and I hate it. I generally like it when filmmakers are meta-aware and make the relationship between film, audience, and creator part of their work, but in this case the message is "suckers!" - which would be funny if it were playful and cheeky, but to me it felt like W. D. Richter (director/producer) really thinks we're a bunch of fools for wasting our time and money watching this deliberately "cult" flick from corporate Hollywood.

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No one's mentioned the ship from Treasure Planet yet? For shame, /n/

>>984279
That looks so dumb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjhpETolG0

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It's a shame we're almost certainly never going to get a Freespace 3.

>>984325

It could only ever disappoint.
You can't improve on perfection.

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This viscous deflector beam'd bitch

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>>984279
OP here.

Aside from the Galaxy Express 999, my favorite would have to be the infamous "Arcadia"/DeathShadow which made its appearance within the popular "Space Pirate Captain Harlock, along with many other sequels and spinoffs.

A suitable vessel for a man who fights solely upon his own beliefs...under the flag of freedom...

I fucking hate its 2013! variant though, along with Harlock's personality.

2013 Harlock: Space Pirate was just an action packed, action filled disappointment.

>>984279
>I've seen this and I hate it.
Yea, I didn't think the movie was all that great.... a lot of scenes appeared to be improvised, and they just didn't work well

the concept of the spaceships was kewl tho

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>ctrl-F
>soyokaze
>not found
get out normies, all of you learned your ficitional space craft from buzzfeed

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>>984327
there is no better starship than the Intrepids

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>>984932
I dunno, I've always liked the look of the Enterprise E

>>984932
that ring system's geometry is unrealistic for a planet of that size and composition

2/10 would not suspend disbelief

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>>983930

>>985072
And the design of starfleet starships are all fucked up and would probably rip themselves apart, but we ignore our autism to enjoy things

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Time for NASA-prise

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From the viewpoint of current technology Stanford torus makes most sense.

If we start bending time and space, vessel type vehicle transportation makes less and less sense. I'd lean more towards stargate style teleportation stations or even offsite beaming generators with remote control at user.

>>983996
I'd say the Discovery One (>>983989) was also fairly realistic, at least given the information available at the time it was thought up. It used fission rockets (not fusion) for propulsion, and this was a technology that seemed just around the corner in the 1960s, and its long connecting section makes sense in light of that (to take advantage of "distance as radiation shielding" effect). Not to mention the rotating interior to provide artificial gravity, rather than relying on any technobabble. It's the sort of thing that probably could have been built by the early 21st century, had incentives for manned space travel continued to exist.

>>985089
>and would probably rip themselves apart
That's what the structural integrity field and inertial dampeners are for. The main factor for hull design is subspace dynamics, whereas conventional physics is a non issue, and the performance of impulse engines (measured in thousands of Gs) would mean any ship, no matter how well designed would tear itself apart without supertech holding it together anyway.

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If you haven't seen Disney's The Black Hole, go watch. The Cygnus is gorgeous.

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>>987509

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What else would it be?

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I really like the look of the Gemini Spacecraft. Plus is had ejection seats for emergency abortions instead of some pansy LES.

>>987561
Good taste

>>983989
>>987460
I vaguely remember hearing they were aware that a spacecraft like the Discovery would need large radiator panels to get rid of heat from the reactor but they decided against including them in the movie. Apparently any sensible design would have looked like wings and they didn't want the average uninformed movie-goer to come to the wrong conclusion.

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>>984222
not him but here's another pic of a small 2-man ship. there was also a pod-type vehicle featured. and Buckaroo had a jet-truck. not even a prop, it was a real truck with a functional jet engine on the bed.

>the idea of aliens using the hollowed out and engine powered bones of huge space creatures as starships

there was an X-men plot arc back in '82 that included this, when they were fighting the Brood, issues 162-6.

http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Acanti

Bb

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>>985070
Galaxy class is my fav, but the sovereign is dope

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>>983930
Borg Cube