The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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That is the basic idea of taxation. You take people's money, and then you can make them do what you want (e.g. eat what you think they should eat) in order to get it back.
You forgot your
Filed Under: for sale, $1 a bag!
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I think it's obvious what ship that is:
Oval-shaped saucer section? Wide "neck" down to the engineering section? Wide and flat nacelles? Even the SIZE is right, since Voyager's like a third the size of Enterprise-D and about the same size as a large-ish office building.
Look, the nacelles on the -E are way too narrow, and only on Voyager were the nacelles "level" with the bottom of the ship. (Usually, although they were on hinges for some reason that probably seemed cooler in the writing room than it did when showed on screen.)
Anybody who thinks it's not the Voyager, should go back to hell, coward!
(No Ben, I'm not going to post 27 of them. It's no fun on Discourse.)
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Yeah, it looks like the Intrepid class to me too. Or it's just a completely made-up design. The second option is actually more likely...
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Surprisingly pertinent to the current topic: New good idea: Purchasing the required model paints so I can finish assembling the Constitution-class Enterprise model I started working on at the beginning of the year and forgot about.
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All Enterprise hulls are way too big for that.
I bet the NX could have done so, but it wasn't built to be able to land.
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I recognize existence of no such ship.
Actually, if I do, can we get it to try? I'd enjoy watching it fly apart half way down. And I don't mean to say it would be the ship's fault.
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Wasn't the saucer section of the Enterprise-D supposed to in theory be able to land as long as it was detached from the engineering section? I seemed to recall that one of those tech manuals shows it had landing legs.
Or was the crash-landing in that really shitty movie just the best it can ever do.
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Or was the crash-landing in that really shitty movie just the best it can ever do.
Given who the driver is, I'd give the ship the benefit of the doubt.
I wonder if there's a deleted scene where she says "Commander... I sense... impact" when they hit the planet.
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I wonder if there's a deleted scene where she says "Commander... I sense... impact" when they hit the planet.
I still can't get over why their special effects guy decided to add a shot of the windows shattering, when it's well-established windows are made of transparent aluminum. #geek
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Galaxy class ships were designed to separate and reconnect, something that TNG took advantage of on occasion. The saucer section could land, and apparently sometimes they were equipped with landing equipment to enable a gentler landing than seen in that movie.
The saucer sections of many starship classes were designed to make planetfall on a suitable planetary surface, preferably Class M. The saucer was required to make a level approach, heading towards the ground at a shallow angle. The area chosen for landing had to be smooth and relatively free of obstruction. However, unless there were landing struts or similar equipment available, the vessel would generally be disabled beyond repair.[1]
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And I have now remembered a small Easter egg in the first Elite Force game. You could find a small room with one console, where a crewmember was stationed. He had no idea why he's there and what to do except to wait for orders. ISTR the journal you could read was quite funny.
The room was actually right next to one of Voyager's landing gears. He was sat there to control a single landing gear.
Poor bastard.
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Ooooh! I think I wantUPDATE:
Sigh, looking at the 50/500 cycle and output issues listed in the other referenced links (posted later in the thread), I'll need to give 'em a pass.
[1]: http://unicode-table.com/en/#47c
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No Ben, I'm not going to post 27 of them.
I didn't recognize you until I saw that gif and went back to read your username. Fucking avatars, how do they work?
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For DiscHorse or for everyone else? And I don't just mean toxic hellstew forums, literally everyone else that does avatars does it differently to DiscHorse and does it better.
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Fucking avatars, how do they work?
Well here, you upload one. Then the radio button to select the uploaded one is inexplicably greyed-out, then you hit save and it somehow works anyway, but there's a long enough delay before it works that you actually go back into the settings to try again before finding out it's not necessary.
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Click on my avatar.
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You're not the boss of me.
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E, because all the rest have a round saucer section:
D wasn't circular, although it was wider in the opposite dimension.
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/OnBoard-Spread1-660x393.jpg
(from http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2013/03/virtual-tour-enterprise-d/ if hotlink protected)
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For those who want a legible size:
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For those who want a legible size:
Nerd. The size I provided is big enough to hold up a piece of paper and measure the two semidiameters.
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E, because all the rest have a round saucer section:
incorrrect. the NCC 1701D also had a ovoid saucer section.
it was however oriented differently thant it was on the NCC-1701E
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You've been d
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the power of nerd is strong with these ones.
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hold up a piece of paper and measure the two semidiameters.
Unless your video card is putting out a 16:9 image that is being stretched to fit a 21:9 monitor, in which case the saucer appears to be not-round in the opposite direction.
Yes, I know I need a new video card that properly supports this monitor (and it really, really, really doesn't like trying to use it as the primary monitor), but not as much as I need more RAM and a bigger disk, but I'm not getting either of those until I get a new job.
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You've been d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGiRRTi_hJk Imagine that song only with the word "Hanzo" instead of "Ramses".
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At least use the correct nope.avi.
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Fixed it.
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Fixed it.
Perfect.
But I wouldn't say that that D or Voyager fit either, because in both cases the nacelle silhouette is wrong--they don't go far enough back. I just chalk it up to the architectural equivalent of poetic license.
Also, it appears that there's a certain amount of nerd sniping going on, but you probably lost that the most.
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I have to do everything around here, sheesh.
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This commercial
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Also this.... thing
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GIANT LEGO
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Aren't you a little old to be making Phineas and Ferb references?
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Taking this screenshot:
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Aren't you a little old to be making Phineas and Ferb references?
one is never too old for Phineas and Ferb
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one is never too old for anything
this too.
"growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional!"
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@accalia said:
one is never too old for
Phineas and Ferbanything
QFT
Brb. Going for breast feed and diaper change.
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Aren't you a little old to be making Phineas and Ferb references?
Ferb just said there's no such thing. You shoulda heard 'im, too. Guy's a riot.