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Published: 2009-05-17 07:44:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 1737; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 130
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First FlightItinery : San Francisco Naval Shipyards Alameda to Spacedock L5
Command Crew : Capt Robert April (Dockmaster)
Lightwave 9.601 x64
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I wonder if that's how they got her into space? This is nice and I don't care what anyone say. Abramprise is A great ship.
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Gorgeous.
Hmmm, she got up - must be Wednesday.
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Shame this did not happen in the film - would have been a dramatic thing to see - like Titanic leaving Southampton!
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why this useless info so late in the day?
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Nice work man, I would like to invite you to join
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Think I'm a member already, I just had a screw up with trying out a CSS last year and lost track of all my clubs.
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Hmm... And I was probably the one that invited you to join. I must have forgotten because you are not on the members list, but then most people aren't. Have you uploaded anything yet? You have a lot of stuff that could go up there. Do you still have the password?
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Take a look in your gallery.
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BEAUTIFUL WORK. NOW, AS A TREKKY, I HAD ALWAYS ASSUMED THE ENTERPRISE WAS BUILT IN SPACE, AND DID NOT THINK SHE COULD FLY DEEP WITHIN THE ATMOSPHERE. BUT IN THE LATEST MOVIE WHICH KICKED BUTT, WE SEE HER CLEARLY BEING BUILT ON THE GROUND. I HAD TO MAKE MYSELF CONTINUE ON WITH THE STORY AND NOT DWELL ON HOW THEY GOT HER INTO SPACE. BUT YOU SEEM TO KNOW SOMETHING I DON'T, OR AT LEAST ARE ASSUMING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SO WHAT DO YOU KNOW?
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Great angle. Of course any side of Enterprise is her good side.
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Nice work in for the fabled Capt Robert April.
Great work here.
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Should the registries have transparency maps or are they supposed to be elevated like that? Other than that, excellent work, though she was built in Riverside, Iowa, so her first flight would have started there.
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The Registration plaque says san fran so I'll go with that and as has been mentioned to another dA user this was supposed to go straight to scraps as its just another materials test under spectral atmosphere conditions. I've not finished the conversion yet by a long way but the mesh modelling and the surface making I do concurrently.
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Alright, just making sure. I never did see the new Plaque. I knew the old one said San Fran, but oh well. Anyway, like I said, looking good so far
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Simply magnificent. The gorgeous detail just blows my mind.
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be better when its finished I suppose
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ΓberschΓΆn! (only German can express the beauty if it)
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Too awsome sir, I just happen to live by San francisco and by the Alameda shipyards, so how's the foot?
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Foots ok, it looks worse than it is, theres a load of dead nerves in there anyway and Danny's angel tread did nothing other than highlight damage that was already there. Was quite lucky actually a 550 ish tread could have done a lot worse if he'd caught the joint he'd have crippled me.
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Lol, glad you're ok!!! Tell Danny I said hello!
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Dannys coming down with flu so hes not feeling too hot today, gave him your message, cheered him up a bit
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Oh boy! Tell him to take it easy and eat lots of hot soup!!
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Beautiful...but we STILL don't know how the heck they get the ships off the ground!!!
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Technically a warp drive would work just as well in atmosphere as it would in space. As you are warping space and time itself, effectively surfing that wave of your own creation. An atmosphere is most definitely part of space, so warping it would be no problem.
Only real concern is by compressing space in front of the ship and inflating it behind, you might cause some bizarre chemical reactions to happen with the molecules in the atmosphere.
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Well one of the biggest issues with going to warp in a planet's atmosphere is more than chemical reactions. This debate has been raging for quite some time (I believe it started in ST:TVH with the bird of prey engaging within Earth's atmosphere). Many have argued that it went against "Roddenberry's Rules", hence the construction of ships in space and NOT engaging warp until a ship was clear of planetary bodies. perhaps this was overcome in the future, as technological advancement in warp drive efficiency and operation came along.
Still though, it is highly risky and if you look back on all of the shows, MOST of the time, ships wait to be clear of any atmosphere before engaging, but again, the rules are bent to satisfy the plot of a story.
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and they dropped out of warp IN Titan's atmosphere too. Apparently in new Star Trek doing stuff in atmosphere is no big deal.
I'd think it would have more to do with needing such precise navigation as well as the strength of the planet's gravity well making warp calculations quite nasty and requiring an absurd level of precision with no room for error. I remember in TNG staying clear of gravity well event horizons (arbitrary based on the ship) was a big concern.
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For me personally, I'd rather take canonized publications such as tech manuals, interviews with tech guys, etc. as what is set as opposed to novels. Doug Drexler has some fascinating blogs that deal with all aspects of ship engineering (amongst other things).
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Rules? What rules? This is space opera, its meant to be a pleasant if not downright entertaining passtime. Don't think it was ever stated that Star Trek was Science Fiction, science fiction plays by the hard and fast rules of the fiction we call science but manipulating it enough to make it both entertaining and believable. Space opera on the other paw - anything goes.
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Juding by the way some folks nitpick, I would say it's being taken more seriously that for what it is, which is pure fiction. For what is published and with such believability, you can't help but get down to the nitty gritty of it all and see what makes sense (which some stuff does) and some of which that is still considered far-fetched.
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