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Here's a goofy ship from the short-lived 70s sitcom Quark. The lower section opened up to collect "space baggies" of garbage.   
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Jun 23, 2022 02:07
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Strange.
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Jun 23, 2022 02:16
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Yet somehow charming.
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Jun 23, 2022 02:20
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Space ships are submarines. That is the best way to think of them.
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Jun 23, 2022 03:46
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Mister Kingdom posted:Here's a goofy ship from the short-lived 70s sitcom Quark. I remember that show! It wasn't good, but... I mean, it was on, so I watched it.
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Jun 23, 2022 05:04
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Mister Kingdom posted:Here's a goofy ship from the short-lived 70s sitcom Quark. Similarly here is the DS-12 "Toy Box" from the manga/anime series Planetes.  The series takes place in the 2070s and follows the crew of the Toy Box who are a space garbage clean up crew. They fly around between the Earth and the Moon picking up all the junk left over from over a hundred years of space flight. It is mostly hard science fiction dealing with stuff like the dangers of cosmic radiation exposure and the importance of actually exercising in microgravity to avoid muscle loss.
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Jun 23, 2022 06:20
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Culture General System Vehicles, at least the later models, are described as having their living space significantly extended by the use of force fields to enclose external air pockets. I don't think there are any pictures of GSVs but I imagine them looking like smaller, friendlier versions of the Death Star.
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Jun 23, 2022 07:37
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They are just huge mirrored sausages i think
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Jun 23, 2022 07:41
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sebmojo posted:They are just huge mirrored sausages i think That's what they look like from the outside. From the inside they've been described as a large central mass topped with a park, with an outrigger structure on each side. Later GSVs are more like multiple floating islands within the same field enclosure. The largest GSV (system class) had a field enclosure 200km long. Plate class, ~53km. They're big.
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Jun 23, 2022 07:54
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Not just air pockets, we see at least one Culture ship wrap itself in entire oceans using its fields
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Jun 23, 2022 08:03
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A Plate-class GSV's physical structure is roughly 54x20x4 km, usually with a topside park landscape for the inhabitants to enjoy. With fields fully extended its field bubble (which is what they really think of as their 'outer hull') is 90km long. There's a fair bit of variation, some have been described with outriggers, some not, and there are usually lots of smaller vehicles sharing the field bubble, even other multi-kilometre-long MSVs or LSVs. Generally from outside they look like a silvery elliptical bubble, but under that they'd probably look something like if you imagine this image floating in space.  Most GSVs follow the similar 'flat plate' structure, but the latest and most advanced and largest ones, the Systems-Class GSV, has given up the illusion of being a single structure altogether and is a bubble 200km wide with many floating 'islands' of structures and components inside. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Jun 23, 2022 |
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Jun 23, 2022 08:10
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Madurai posted:I remember that show! It wasn't good, but... I mean, it was on, so I watched it. Quark aired back in the day when "best in it's time slot" could do a lot of heavy lifting.
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Jun 23, 2022 12:25
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It’s been a long time since I’ve read Dan Simmon’s Hyperion series but there was one faction (a quick look at a wiki seems to point to the Ousters) that had like rivers suspended in force fields between some of their ships.
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Jun 23, 2022 13:40
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I like the idea of ships that are more of a bottled piece of their home planet than anything.
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Jun 23, 2022 14:05
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david_a posted:It’s been a long time since I’ve read Dan Simmon’s Hyperion series but there was one faction (a quick look at a wiki seems to point to the Ousters) that had like rivers suspended in force fields between some of their ships. There's another class of ship that's just a giant tree floating in space with engines and forcefield generators glonked on
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Jun 23, 2022 14:14
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haveblue posted:There's another class of ship that's just a giant tree floating in space with engines and forcefield generators glonked on Iain M. Banks in Surface Detail posted:It was a truism that as a scientific society progressed, its ships gradually ceased to be strictly utilitarian designs in which almost every part was in some way vital to the running of the craft. Normally they went through an intermediate stage where the overall conception was still limited by the necessities imposed by the environment in which the vessels travelled but within which there was considerable opportunity for the designers, crew, and passengers/inhabitants to fashion them pretty much as they pleased before - usually some centuries after the gross vulgarity of rocket power - simple space travel become so mature a technology it was almost trivial. At this point, practically anything not messily joined to lots of other important stuff could quite easily be turned into a space-capable craft able to transport humans - or any other species spectacularly maladapted to hard vacuum and the somewhat industrial radiation environment generally associated with it - to (at the very least) different parts of the same stellar system.
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Jun 23, 2022 14:36
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:That reminds me of this bit from Surface Detail This makes me think of the guys making RC flying Lawnmowers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26PpA1kFIWw Like that thing was never meant to fly but we've gotten so good at making small motors to provide lift that with enough effort you can do it.
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Jun 23, 2022 19:57
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More Quark ships: The base, Perma One:  And the Gorgon ship: 
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Jun 23, 2022 23:45
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I feel like those look more like models than the ships in supermarionation shows
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Jun 24, 2022 00:29
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The Gorgon ship reminds me of what Brainiacs ship in Superman Lives (the Nick Cage Superman movie) was going to look like His ship has always been a skull but its always some crazy techno robot skull, using the skull of a early hominid is a really cool and striking design.
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Jun 25, 2022 06:00
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Madurai posted:Every time I see a spaceship tractor tug with a train of containers behind it, all I see is this: "Sador you sonuvabitch, this is Space Cowboy from the planet Earth!"
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Jun 26, 2022 03:46
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It has been ages since I checked this thread, so I can't remember if I posted these yet. However, I always liked the spaceship designs from Project A-ko. Say what you will about the movies (or that anime is bad), but the starfighters always looked particularly sweet imho:     The alien warship was pretty good, too 
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Jun 26, 2022 10:44
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There is a lot of bulk to those that I appreciate
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Jun 26, 2022 16:02
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It looks like the Core Booster ot the G Fighter if it was more like a practical ship and less of a toy.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:17
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Looks like one of the fighters from the original Battlestar Galactica but thicc.
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Jun 26, 2022 22:52
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tfw you're dummy thicc but the claps of your dradis keep alerting the megatrons
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Jun 26, 2022 23:07
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Yeah, I love how chonky they are. I think today's sci-fi sometimes forgets that it's okay for a single person ship to be big. There's a lot of things that ship has to do to keep you alive, comfortable, and mobile in space.
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Jun 26, 2022 23:11
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If you want to see them in action (and get mercilessly dunked on by the alien ship), here's a clip. The space part is over at 5 minutes and then goes back to what Project A-ko is (ridiculously weird and dumb but I love it). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki6LD61qKyo
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Jun 26, 2022 23:18
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Bogus Adventure posted:Yeah, I love how chonky they are. I think today's sci-fi sometimes forgets that it's okay for a single person ship to be big. There's a lot of things that ship has to do to keep you alive, comfortable, and mobile in space. Spaceman Spiff had everything he needed
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Jun 26, 2022 23:22
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Bogus Adventure posted:It has been ages since I checked this thread, so I can't remember if I posted these yet. However, I always liked the spaceship designs from Project A-ko. Say what you will about the movies (or that anime is bad), but the starfighters always looked particularly sweet imho: Project A-ko is amazing and is literally the wellspring of modern anime. Like basically everyone who went on to make something notable in the 90s worked on it, because they all started making a porn anime called Cream Lemon. Including Hideki Anno, who was the only one who didn't use a pseudonym during production. Shoichi Masuo was the guy who designed all the ships and stuff using Toho films as referance, and he went on to work on a ton of mecha anime including Eva, Gunbuster and Orguss. Also Akira. If youre interested in learning more about Project A-ko, consult the book in your local library, or just watch this very good history of it https://youtu.be/JGKOzLG1g8s
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Jun 27, 2022 03:09
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Bogus Adventure posted:If you want to see them in action (and get mercilessly dunked on by the alien ship), here's a clip. The space part is over at 5 minutes and then goes back to what Project A-ko is (ridiculously weird and dumb but I love it). The shot of the two fighters at 2:12 is straight out of Robotech. Same with the cockpit controls lighting up immediately after and the pilot's face. This isn't a complaint, I loving love this poo poo. edit: they were all made around the same time - mid 80s. The height of anime as cool weird poo poo stretching the boundaries of what was possible. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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Jun 27, 2022 04:52
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Oops, wrong thread.
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Brawnfire posted:Spaceman Spiff had everything he needed Spiff was constantly getting his rear end kicked lol
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Jun 27, 2022 08:14
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As usual with anime,Ako would be far better without the weird sexualised stuff. Also in a blink and you'll miss it moment it turns out she's the daughter of superman and wonderwoman.
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Jun 27, 2022 08:14
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twistedmentat posted:Project A-ko is amazing and is literally the wellspring of modern anime. Like basically everyone who went on to make something notable in the 90s worked on it, because they all started making a porn anime called Cream Lemon. Including Hideki Anno, who was the only one who didn't use a pseudonym during production. Shoichi Masuo was the guy who designed all the ships and stuff using Toho films as referance, and he went on to work on a ton of mecha anime including Eva, Gunbuster and Orguss. Also Akira. I knew the Cream Lemon part, but didn't know about Shoichi Masuo and the mecha designs. That loving owns. Gunbuster has some sweet spaceships even if it's another weird anime.  I know some of them have a very Star Wars vibe, but I feel like that's a feature rather than a flaw. Megillah Gorilla posted:The shot of the two fighters at 2:12 is straight out of Robotech. Same with the cockpit controls lighting up immediately after and the pilot's face. Hell yeah, '80s anime had some really awesome tech/mecha stuff. I remember seeing a bunch of sci fi anime back when the SyFi channel was the Sci-Fi channel and they had Saturday Anime in the early mornings. That was how I learned about Project A-ko, Gall Force, Dominion Tank Police, and Vampire Hunter D. That last kind of made me  since I had no idea what it was about and I got to watch a guy's head get crushed and explode. I was probably 13 and a pretty sheltered kid for the most part. Fun times!
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Jun 27, 2022 08:20
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Bogus Adventure posted:I knew the Cream Lemon part, but didn't know about Shoichi Masuo and the mecha designs. That loving owns. Gunbuster has some sweet spaceships even if it's another weird anime. The Exelion's laser batteries are HOT. 
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Jun 28, 2022 02:02
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bij posted:The Exelion's laser batteries are HOT. Those are beautiful
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Jun 28, 2022 04:22
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Yeah that is some highly aesthetic beam weaponry
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bij posted:The Exelion's laser batteries are HOT. I could watch that all day.
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