Re: 1/144 scale Space Ship Two

On Jan 30, 1:02 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
scottlowt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Whatever happened to the Spiral-50/50 model?

Too big and complex (i.e. expensive) for the limited interested
expressed. Sits about 1/3 completed.

God, did they do a great packaging job on that space fighter:http://www.buran.ru/htm/str126.htm
That would be worth a cutaway model in its own right.
Of course, I've never seen a cutaway of our X-24 based SAINT II, which
could have been damn near as slick.



And you know... you've _got_ to do the WT-715 from "Things To Come"
sooner or later:http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uoc--cpm080206.php
What a plane!

Looks more like a cat parasite.

Just for that, you get a "Gas Of Peace" bomb on the head, like the Pope
fatally did in the book.

Not *my* fault you posted the wrong link.



Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand" is then made manifest, and in a world free
of war, fear, and defense spending, everyone can set forth using their
individual abilities and effort to increase the overall abilities and
possibilities of humanity as a species, benefiting not only themselves
as individuals, but bettering the entire society they live in as a whole
- so that everyone's life is getting a bit better, day-by-day through
everyone's efforts. You don't come up with new ideas to make a buck, but
rather to be honored both in the present day and in memory as the person
who helped out the whole world..

A common delusionary utopian future amongst late Victorial sci-fi/
social commentary writers. I've read a number of books like that from
that general time period, looking forward to a day when people work
not for their own benefit, but for the "common good." The thing you
take from each of these books is that they're not exactly describing
*humans,* but brainwashed robots. Such systems would never work with
large numbers of real people. People like to see rewards for their
efforts. people don't like to see lazy bastards living like ticks...
unless they *are* the lazy bastards in question. Plymouth plantation
taught us that centuries ago.

..which is one hell of a ego trip when
you think about it, and probably a lot more fun than Bill Gates' tens of
billions of dollars.

I'll take a billion dollars over unpaid ego-stroking, thanks. With a
billion dollas, I can build new industries. With accolades, I can't do
anything but try to avoid paparazzi and crazed stalkers. Witha billion
dollars, I can build an orbital tourist craft and orbitting hotel.
With "memory" and "honors" all I can do is dream about such things and
in the end eat a bullet as a lifetime of unfulfilled dreams crash down
on me.
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