Starships

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>>6841217

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>>6841018

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>>6841220

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>>6841272

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>>6841273

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>>6841288

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>>6841293

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>>6841507

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>>6841516

Cool

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>>6842294

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>>6841582
>firing weapons this close to station
>station not completely obliterating everyone
right

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>>6841347

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>>6843157

>>6841018
I came here to tell you that your thumbnail looks like a drum-kit.

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>>6843223

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>>6843784

A multi-generation interstellar concept ship, the Mayhlower II.

https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?141544-Generational-starship-now-animated

~43 MB .mpg animation of a short flyby of the ship at that link.

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>>6843791
> Mayhlower

* Mayflower II

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>>6843794

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>>6843791
>>6843794
Using a comet as a shield is a brilliant idea. Blew my stupid mind. Thanks.

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>>6843803

Related sci fi reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeelee_Sequence

Using an asteroid or comet (of various sizes or pieces thereof) has been in science fiction stories for a long while now. Without doing actual research, I'll guess at least the 1950s, and probably a decade or three before that. There have been interesting concepts for in-system colony habitats, as well as interstellar travel. Great source of various resources.

We have, of course, vastly evolved our practical thinking on how to accomplish such a thing based upon newer science & tech.

One of my favorites, probably from the 1960s some time: Find an iron-nickle asteroid. Focus sunlight onto it with a mirror array, until it is quite hot and getting molten. Detonate an atomic bomb inside it and blow it up like a balloon. It hardens into a thick, iron-nickle shell, which can now be shaped and mined, structurally reenforced where required, other modifications. You get a large tube or semi-sphere, perhaps a mile or 5 in length/diameter. Or more. Spin it for gravity (Rendezvous With Rama, Arthur C. Clarke).

Then, park it in a Solar orbit for in-system colonization/space dock/whatever ... or attach large engines to it and send it to another star.

We can probably think of much more sophisticated ways without nuclear explosions today, but the idea was floated over half a century ago.

I wish we were far enough along as a species at this point that we could be building a few of these right now. In my lifetime I'd like to see several of these parked in permanent, colonized orbit in the Trojan Points of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune & Uranus ... maybe even get to relocate to one of them before I died.

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>>6843851

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>>6843865

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>>6843871

>>6843851
Amazing read. This is something i never thought about.

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>>6844202

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>>6841018

>>6845228
haha

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Yes that is Mars and yes those are First Order ships from the new Star Wars trilogy.

Screenshot of models are from an upcoming Empire at War mod.

>>6846781
Can anyone remove the logo?

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StarCraft, one of my favorite wallpapers

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my last 1

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>>6848643

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best ship ever

>>6843851
>Your faith in humanity has risen.

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I feel like actual fans of the NX are few and far between, but I'm one of them.

>>6848676
o7

>>6843799
>swimming pool

made me laugh

>>6849088
Grazie.

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>>6849909

>>6849296
Why are you admitting to liking an inferior product?

>>6849296

I feel like I don't live in front of the TV enough when I read something like this and have no fucking idea what you're on about. From context of the thread & your post, I'm assuming it's some one of a thousand or two Star Trek universe ship designs?

So fucking tired of permavirgins living in their own universe and thinking that the entire rest of the world does too and understands their Sekrit KodeSpeak. Or even cares.

> my apologies, in advance, for not posting in Klingon

>>6850107

Cant look at anything from Logh without hearing that damned narrator's voice announcing the year

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>>6850759
on 02/13/17(Mon)12:50:11 Anon posted wondering about a fictional historian who had stolen his heart. What he didn't know was that the coming battle would only bring him more questions...

>>6850440
Jesus, mad about not understanding something a simple Google search could tell ya lmao

>>6851460
top kek and great wallpaper.

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>>6850107
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>>6851925
Saved.
I only have two shitty ones from LOGH:

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>>6852749

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>>6852749
Here you go

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>>6849296

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>>6851085
>Rebel SSD

what

>>6849120
^

>>6841293
I miss the late 80s-early 90s appearance of starships.

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>>6850107
>>6851925
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>>6852772
Yesssss

>>6843851
You don't need a nuke. Once most of the body is at sufficient temperature, hit it with "bullets" made of ice. Quickly explodes into steam, inflating the asteroid like a balloon. In fact, spin the body before heating, and the combination of the force from the spin plus the exploding water-to-steam will inflate the structure nicely. It can even be customized in this fashion, (but you need to be careful of where you place bulges, as it will de-stabilze the spin.)

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>>6841018

>>6855744
more star trek papes

>>6850440
Can you show us where Gene Rodgenberry touched you, anon?

>>6852919
In the extended universe, the Lusankaya, a SSD, was captudre by the new republic. I suppose this image illustrates that.

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I'm running out of spaceships op where are you?