Re: Heinlein's "Rodger Young"

Will wrote:

Scott Lowther wrote:


Will wrote:



Scott Lowther wrote:




Anybody interested in this ship of RAH's from "Starship Troopers", take
a look at this site and lemme know what you think.

http://www.up-ship.com/Heinlein/heinlein.htm

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The Asgard from Starman Jones is a RAH FTL from about the same period.
That's one starting point.




There's a problem, though. The RY has a distinct port, starboard and
"centerline" (one of the capsule guns is mounted on the centerline). A
sphere tends to not have a centerline, or even a distinct port or starboard.





The Asgard isn't a true shere. More like a lightbulb.

Just because the moldline has a circular cross section, doesn't mean
there can't be a distinct centerline, port and starboard dictated
either be internal arrangement or administrative convenience.

Asume for the sake of argument that the Rodger Young is a classic RAH
lightbulb shape externally.


Actually, the Asgard is the *only* ship of that shape. The others were spheres with conical engine sections; the Asgard was converted from one of these, with a whole new engine section of different geometry. I used to have the illustrations on my website, but no longer.




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    ... "centerline" (one of the capsule guns is mounted on the centerline). ... A sphere tends to not have a centerline, or even a distinct port or starboard. ... You should have seen that Omega ship model of mine; giant multifaceted armored front with four heavy laser turrets, twelve medium laser turrets, and a shitload of 30 mm gatling guns. ...
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  • Re: Heinleins "Rodger Young"
    ... a look at this site and lemme know what you think. ... The RY has a distinct port, starboard and "centerline". ...
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