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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lurker Emeritus: [QB] Concur about Event Horizon the movie. I have always thought that Event Horizon was a complete waste of a perfectly good opportunity to make a decent space opera. Instead they had to blow the whole SFX budget on a crappy horror movie with spacesuits. Even Sam Neil couldn't rescue this mess from mediocrity and pointlessness. Shik, I think that was the Protector as well. Niven had at least two instances of Protector. One was an alien and one was a large asteroid equipped with fusion drives in which parts of the interior were hollowed out as hangars, cargo spaces and living quarters. I'll have to dig out my copy. You should give it a go sometime. Very good stuff, mostly. Not lately though. He's getting old and it's starting to show. In particular, if you wish to consider yourself a true SF fan, you must read Ringworld. It was actually published as two different editions. The second version was an amended copy which included revisions to the design and function of the Ringworld as suggested by the readers, who wrote to him about problems with the first design after reading the first edition. Chris, interesting designs. I particularly like the inclusion of exposed scaffolding. I understand and appreciate Roddenbery's logic that advanced manned spacecraft would have smooth exterior hulls because all the high maintenance stuff is kept inside. However, every square centimetre of exterior plate that isn't there for a very good reason is just extra mass that costs extra fuel. This is a particularly appealing feature of designs like Niven's. There is also the antimatter rocket design (select Valkyrie from the menu in the following link): http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aj.html which is a design for super lightweight interstellar relativistic spacecraft. Tethers are potentially revolutionary because their use eliminates all the structural reinforcement that a tail end "pusher" configuration requires, as opposed to the towed or "puller" configuraion. Wasn't the EAS Cortez the ship which that fella who was Captain of Excalibur captained before he took over Excalibur? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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