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I was flipping through my Aviation Week & Space Technology yesterday when I came across an ad for CFM, an aircraft engine manufacturer. Normally I wouldn't even bother with the ads, but it caught my eye since it had a sci-fi looking scene. I scanned in the picture, so take a look for yourself: http://bj.o.home.mindspring.com/BJ_art/b5city.jpg
Now take a closer look at the skyscraper in the background to the right of the center one, and also at the one in the foreground almost in front of the center one. Look familiar? Unfortunately, it's a lot better quality in the magazine than scanned, but you get the idea. I'm curious where they got the model, and who did the picture!
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What are you talking about? That really doesn't look like B5 - maybe a little - more the background one looks like the reactor end of the station.
I'm looking more at the tower in the background left - it looks like Sydney's Centerpoint.
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Yeah, maybe I should have explained a little better. The one in the background is B5 with its forward prongs stuck in the ground, so you're seeing the reactor end. And the one in the foreground is the same, one with the last bit cut off and that squashed sphere added. I actually noticed the one in the foreground first. Since I built the model kit a few years ago, I'm intimately familiar with the details, and I'm telling you this is dead on. The one in the background only had the solar panel/radiator fins removed.
And I was wondering if there was anything else included in this picture that I missed.
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Well, Straczynski at www.jmsnews.com seems to think that Doyle is full of crap on a lot of this... but that may just be my interpretation.
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quote:Originally posted by B.J.: I was flipping through my Aviation Week & Space Technology yesterday when I came across an ad for CFM, an aircraft engine manufacturer. Normally I wouldn't even bother with the ads, but it caught my eye since it had a sci-fi looking scene. I scanned in the picture, so take a look for yourself:
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"Well, Straczynski at www.jmsnews.com seems to think that Doyle is full of crap on a lot of this... but that may just be my interpretation."
No, that definitely seems to be what he's saying. Though I wonder why he keeps talking about WB when Doyle's interview only (sort of) mentioned Fox.
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Holy Crap! Okay, the scan cut off about 1/2 inch off the right, but that far right skyscraper is the nose of the Sulaco! They chopped off a few of the spires, but if you could see the far right of the image, the Sulaco's vertical spire is still there.
Okay, now I'm REALLY curious as to who did the picture. Anybody think Mojo might know?
Yeah but it is kind of cool, actually. I mean it's kind of clever. The artist probably should have come up with their own shapes, but this is kinda interesting. I almost wish there were more and different ship parts in there for us to point at.
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"Well, Straczynski at www.jmsnews.com seems to think that Doyle is full of crap on a lot of this... but that may just be my interpretation."
No, that definitely seems to be what he's saying. Though I wonder why he keeps talking about WB when Doyle's interview only (sort of) mentioned Fox.
Damn, that's some pretty nasty bitching. I'd expect a little more diplomacy than that on the part of Doyle, especially since it seams that they're both communicating through third parties instead of directly.
quote:On the B5 front, there has been something of rather substantial proportion that's finally gone from talk to money, such that I'm now working frantically to meet some deadlines, but there's nothing I can say about this until after January 15th, probably closer to the end of that month.
The only thing I can say is that phase one of the new project is a go, hence the furious writing schedule at this end of things, which is why I've been silent until deciding to kick up some dust on the political discusion. I've been writing my little brains out.
I know the immediate result of this will be speculation, but if we could keep that to a low roar on the nets to avoid precluding anything, that would be a wonderfulness. But trust me: I wouldn't go on about something in this way if it wasn't a significant development. Just trust me on this one for a bit and hold fire until further word.
(Longtime followers of the various news groups know that an eep means that something significant has happened, but that I can't talk about it...the eep is just a way of saying, on the QT, that something has, indeed, happened and it's real, not just speculation or maybe-gonna-happens. So on that basis, you may consider this an eep.)
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"Something wonderful is happening, but I'm not going to talk about it, and I don't want anyone else to talk about it either. Now go generate nerd buzz for me."
Although, if Battlestar Galactica can get a miniseries, and Firefly a movie, anything is possible.
Honestly though, what's the point of this sort of ha-ha-I-know-a-secret foolishness? It is like the most annoying thing about certain self-promoting media types, in my opinion. But anyway, I look forward to Legends of the Rangers, Part II.
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