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To: Monkey Face; sionnsar; 70th Division; Dead Corpse; Tax-chick; fanfan; SandyInSeattle; ...
"Say hello to 70th Division! He needs a misguided tour around the castle! Bob, can you ‘splain things to him?"

Here's the concise version:

On the original Undead Thread, we built a Castle. When it ended, because we got to the end of the internet, we moved it.

That necessitated that we make it fly, so it became a Flying Castle.

Then we decided, and nobody knows who even suggested it, that we should take off for outer space. Well, I can tell you, that took some real preparation, and a lot of skull sweat.

We would need, well, everything, but one thing we needed for sure is artificial gravity, just to hold things together. So we made a "folding" assembly of three Habitats that could spin for gravity; the aforementioned Flying Castle, then Habitat A, known as "Are We There Yet?", and Habitat B, which is called "He's Touching Me!"

These are connected through the Thrust Ring, which is the anchor point for our six hundred Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines, (each with a pair of nuclear rocket engines.) That sorta tells you how much mass we're draggin'.

Then we ocean-launched from our western Pacific location near Eniwetok Atoll. You can still see some barnacles stuck on the outside hull from the time we spent in the ocean.

We slingshotted past the moon, settled into orbit around Mars while the Flying Castle went down to establish a small colony, and stole a little Martian atmosphere for reaction mass.

After taking off from Mars again, we sauntered on out to the Asteroid Belt and parked ourselves around a rock we call Plymouth. We've been mining it.

Our latest thinking has been to put another colony down into the soup of Venus, where it will ride the Venerian "jet stream" around the planet while hooked to an orbiting rock, possibly Plymouth.

That will give us a presence on Venus, the moon (best look that one up), Mars, and the Asteroid Belt. That's less than forty percent of the Solar System, so there's still a bit of looking around to do.

239 posted on 02/01/2009 3:15:04 PM PST by NicknamedBob (It's getting harder and harder to distinguish those ululations of joy from primal screams of anguish)
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To: NicknamedBob

That is almost as cool as “big tricked out name tag” I can really see the letters and words.


240 posted on 02/01/2009 3:21:43 PM PST by ThomasThomas ( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
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To: NicknamedBob; 70th Division

Thanks, Bob!

*hug*


242 posted on 02/01/2009 3:23:22 PM PST by Monkey Face (Corduroy pillows: They're making headlines!)
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