ISS gets window from Millenium Falcon cockpit

Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by Mr. Adventure, Feb 17, 2010.

  1. Mr. Adventure

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    lol. Nice find!
     
  3. Mr. Sin

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    The Falcon/TIE fighter/Emperor's window type of windows are meant to resemble those on WWII fighters, I think. So they sort of have a basis in reality.

    The prequels kind of took the concept one step further with ships that were clearly based on the SR-71 blackbird (the Naboo cruisers and fighters) and the gunships are clearly Hind helicopter analogs.
     
  4. Chris_Johnston

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    Kinda bugs me that NASA-TV's channel on YouTube posts HD versions of all the flight day highlight videos... except the day that they open up the thing I've been waiting for since ISS construction began!

    EDIT: Ah, good! They've now added the HQ versions!
     
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  5. FordSVT

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    ^Go harass Squiggy about it.
     
  6. Chris_Johnston

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    Squiggy who?
     
  7. captcalhoun

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    SquiggyFM, a member here, works for NASA's PR dept.
     
  8. M'Sharak

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    There's a larger version of the view looking out the window(s) here and ESA's page about the cupola here.
     
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  11. TheMasterOfOrion

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    shouldn't this one be in the science/tech section of trekbbs?
     
  12. Mr. Adventure

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    I considered it but since this post wasn't "Hey, the ISS got a window" but rather "Hey, the ISS window looks like something out of Star Wars" I put it here.
     
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    Oops, duplicate post...
     
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  15. DonnyBaker

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    Wow, that is damn cool. Don't all those gizmos on the inside look like they belong in the NX-01?
     
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    You never heard of the ISS? It'll do the Kessel run in 9 parsecs.