Design Brainstorming

[erifah]

I was thinking this morning, while sitting on the pot, how nice it would be during the wintertime to have a heated toilet seat. But that isn't important right now.

I was also contemplating on the goodness of dietary fiber in my daily breakfast, which is equally irrelevant to you, yet vitally significant to me.

I was pondering and pondering until my ponderer was sore about variations of the warp-nacelles-on-a-stick approach. What alternatives haven't already been done? The ring ship is nice; wish I had been born 20 years earlier and come up with it.

I thought about the struts that hold the nacelles, and how the nacelles do the work of creating the warp fields. Then I thought about airplanes, and how the wings look like struts... but the wings do the work of generating the lift, NOT something attached on the ends of them.

So, that is my "challenge" to you and me: sketch out a nice, conventional ST starship, then ditch the nacelles, and morph the struts into the warp drive units!

Go to town with it - god knows, I will!

 

[largo]

I was thinking this morning, while sitting on the pot, how nice it would be during the wintertime to have a heated toilet seat. But that isn't important right now.

japan has these, among numerous other features. they're brilliant.

 

[Wingsley]

I was pondering and pondering until my ponderer was sore

You know, you really should stop pondering with yourself while on the Throne every morning. Most unbecoming.

 

[erifah]

I was pondering and pondering until my ponderer was sore

You know, you really should stop pondering with yourself while on the Throne every morning. Most unbecoming.

What? You don't like the way I just toss off these ideas?

 

[Belisarius]

Archimedes did his best thinking in a bathtub...although I don't recommend running naked through the streets shouting at the top of your lungs afterward.

Anyway...I shall ponder this myself.


~Belisarius
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"All life is struggle, from first breath to last."
- Anonymous

 

[lennier1]

Reminds me of something Atolm did experiment with a while back:

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I was thinking this morning, while sitting on the pot, how nice it would be during the wintertime to have a heated toilet seat. But that isn't important right now.

japan has these, among numerous other features. they're brilliant.

And hope it never gets an electrical fault

Reminds me of something Atolm did experiment with a while back:

That Atolm has some of the most interesting, atypical designs I've ever seen.

 

[ST-One]

He sure does:

 

[Forbin]

I was thinking this morning, while sitting on the pot, how nice it would be during the wintertime to have a heated toilet seat. But that isn't important right now.

japan has these, among numerous other features. they're brilliant.

And hope it never gets an electrical fault

No chance. They use circulating dolphin oil.

 

[erifah]

Reminds me of something Atolm did experiment with a while back:

I find that I have an almost instant affinity for this ship by Atolm, because of a design I tinkered with many years ago, where I toyed with upright warp field generators, that ended up looking more like solar sails.

Very primitive technique, yes. I was doing the best I knew how to do with MS Paint. I have never pursued refinements, because I got distracted by something shiney...

 

[erifah]

Reminds me of something Atolm did experiment with a while back:

I have to say, though, that I think this design would work a LOT better without the "package" hanging down underneath. Looks like a squirrel's nuts (and don't act like you're not impressed with some of those squirrels. I mean, DANG!)
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/RO-l89OijzW67XwH5oyfUw

 

[Ptrope]

I was pondering and pondering until my ponderer was sore

You know, you really should stop pondering with yourself while on the Throne every morning. Most unbecoming.

What? You don't like the way I just toss off these ideas?

Frankly, I'm a little concerned with the idea of you 'tossing off' while on the throne ...

 

[erifah]

You know, you really should stop pondering with yourself while on the Throne every morning. Most unbecoming.

What? You don't like the way I just toss off these ideas?

Frankly, I'm a little concerned with the idea of you 'tossing off' while on the throne ...

Well, SOMEONE has to do it.