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[QUOTE]Originally posted by FawnDoo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [qb] Because it seems inefficient and wasteful to have to find a way to hold those massive, massive engines up on those spindly little pylons until the ship is finished, and then make sure the spaceframe isn't damaged by the stresses of hauling all that mass out of the gravity well.[/qb][/QUOTE]I really don't see a problem with the pylons holding up the nacelles - this is, remember, a ship made with extremely advanced engineering and construction techniques, composed of god-knows-what kind of superstrong materials, reinforced with all sorts of forcefield technologies, all of which are designed to operate in tandem and hold the ship together when it is moving faster than light, or being shot at, operating in inhospitable environments (close to planets, suns, stellar phenomena, black holes etc) etc etc. Hell, if the crew are having a bad day, it might be all of those things at once! :-) I just don't buy the idea that the ship is flimsy or in some way lacking the strength to handle lifting off from a standing start on a planetary surface. It's not made out of balsa wood and rice paper and it's designed to operate in (and survive) far more dangerous environments and far worse stresses than taking off, so where does this idea come from that it's spindly or in some way not sturdy? ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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