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    You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator

    Own a Tyrannosaurus Rex of Your Very Own

    These Are The Droids You're Bidding For

    Support Artistic Freedom Logically By Bidding On Pope Trek Art

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator
    Now if I slept in it in a Taun-Taun sleeping bag, would that be bad? #startrek
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    Image of Donathius Donathius
    11/03/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_ H1N1 Symptoms List: Only if you're really short. The nose is fake (hides a TV and an amp), and there is a small step up to the stations in pic #4. There's about 4 feet of uninterrupted floor space in that thing. #startrek
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator
    1000 bucks aye?

    heh, this reminds me of the second grade, where every class except mine got to make a space ship out of a refrigerator box. so after some poking around at the end of 'space month' or whatever, i got to take one of them home. i had it out in the yard until the rain made it fall apart. #startrek
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator
    Wait, I don't understand. What does it do? Is it a motion simulator? #startrek
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    11/03/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: I'm not seeing any hydraulics, so my guess is that it's essentially a supped up video game.

    Makes me wish the STE would hurry up and re-open. I need my shuttlecraft fix, damn it! #startrek
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    Image of Malthian Malthian
    11/03/09

    @Dunny0: I thought they canned that attraction. There was a big article about it closing down. I swear, if you get my hopes up for nothing, there will be vengence. #startrek
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    11/03/09

    @Malthian: Oh, it closed. I was there... it was sad, and the "retirement" ceremony for the "time station" was actually very well done. But there's also been a lot of talk of it re-opening in 2010, in the now-defunct Neonopolis building.
    The mayor was pretty vocal about it, which surprised the hell out of me.

    There's not been any real news on it in ages - but I'm not quite ready to give up that dream just yet. #startrek
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    Image of Donathius Donathius
    11/03/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: I used to work there and this is one of five Star Trek style simulators. It is on wheels, so it does move, but there are no hydraulics.

    The target audience for this experience is 4th-8th grades with missions oriented more towards older (high school age) kids run during the summer. #startrek
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    SJ_Edwards promoted this comment Donathius was starred Donathius was unstarred
    Image of ghostbusterbob001 ghostbusterbob001
    11/03/09

    @Malthian: I used to work at that school. A sixth grade teacher transcribed history lessons into episodes of "Star Trek: the Next Generation." and rather than having his students learn history, they experienced history. (then the parallel was explained to them)

    This teacher was later given a grant to transform a classroom into a simulator, and within six years he had five working simulators used during the day as other elementary schools would visit for field trips, and after school or over-night missions, where it was more of a Star Trek simulator and less of a classroom.

    I, I different times, have played roles like: Klingon, Romulan, Chief Engineer, and Orion Pirate (an original faction created by the director of the simulator.)
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/03/09

    In reply to You Can Have Your Very Own Starfleet Shuttle Simulator
    This shuttle would end up to be the wrong answer to the question "What kind of car do you drive?"

    Other than at a SF convention.
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    Image of Communist Pope Communist Pope
    11/03/09

    @ManchuCandidate: And yet, the absolutely correct answer to the question, "Why don't you have a girlfriend?" Unfortunately, I don't have an excuse this good. #startrek
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    Image of losersandwich losersandwich
    11/03/09

    @ManchuCandidate: nice one
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    Image of Andrew Dickerson Andrew Dickerson
    11/03/09

    @Communist Pope: I just emailed my fiance this article and she (jokingly) said I could buy it as long we 'break it in' first. There are women that would jump all over you just for having this. #startrek
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    Image of Donathius Donathius
    11/03/09

    @Andrew Dickerson: I used to work there running this very simulator. I didn't get any action until several years after I quit.

    Oddly enough my wife and I still volunteer with them during the summer to help them with makeup effects for long-form (overnight) missions. #startrek
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    09/15/09

    In reply to Own a Tyrannosaurus Rex of Your Very Own
    more toys for the rich pricks to own.
    i would love to have a bone from a dinosaur
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    09/14/09

    In reply to Own a Tyrannosaurus Rex of Your Very Own
    This would go great with the full sized cylon raider I didn't buy ion the BSG auction.

    Maybe I could put it in the cockpit of the viper...
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    Image of artiofab artiofab
    09/14/09

    In reply to Own a Tyrannosaurus Rex of Your Very Own
    Not to be too much of a negative Nancy, but every one of these specimens that is not in a natural history museum is basically a fossil that is being cut off from the scientific world.

    With that said, please continue discussing the whoring out of scientifically valuable extinct lifeforms.
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    Image of The Mikekearn of La Mancha The Mikekearn of La Mancha
    09/14/09

    @artiofab: Or you could look at it like this: selling these older pieces that have already been studied to death raises a huge amount of money to keep the museum running, while simultaneously making room for other displays that have been relegated to back storage.
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    Image of artiofab artiofab
    09/15/09

    @The Mikekearn of La Mancha: That's a little bit non sequitur to this individual story, because most fossils that are on auction blocks are in private hands, and since the sales are completely free enterprise, it's likely that at least some of the best material will remain so.

    But, yes, sometimes museums do sell off specimens. It usually is a last-ditch sort of action, not something planned so that they can wheel in a different display. Similar to how art museums don't sell Rembrandts so they can put up a painting by some hot new artist.

    Also, don't know whether you were aware of this or not, but saying that a scientific specimen can be studied to death implies that somehow an individual specimen reaches a research asymptote, after which no more data can be gleaned from it. Is that your actual view?
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/15/09

    @artiofab: Its a Dinosaur, its big, its scary and it would rip you a new one.......how much further do our studys need to go? Personally im all for selling it before it kills us all!
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    Image of artiofab artiofab
    09/15/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): That's why I don't study dinosaurs. Them bones are just plotting against us, all the time.
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    09/14/09

    In reply to Own a Tyrannosaurus Rex of Your Very Own
    Okay, so I have to:
    A) Steal a car
    B) Rob a bank on the way to Las Vegas.
    C) Avoid the po-po long enough to make a winning bid.

    The things I do for love...
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    08/10/09

    In reply to These Are The Droids You're Bidding For
    The Muggs represent Star Wars characters in TV, movies, games, comics and novels. A few others are mashups of Star Wars characters and other pop culture references.
    You might recognize a few from Robot Chicken: Star Wars! ;-)
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    08/04/09

    In reply to These Are The Droids You're Bidding For
    The creation of the Lucas double chin beard is awsome!
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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/02/09

    In reply to These Are The Droids You're Bidding For
    These are all sort of odd, but I must say that the Death Star and T.I.E. fighter ones are extra-odd.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Berd Berd
    08/02/09

    In reply to These Are The Droids You're Bidding For
    These are suprisingly original. They could easily just made the main characters, but they really explored their options. I especcialy liked George Lucas with a Han shoothing (first) T-shirt and pet AT-AT. However, I don't recognise nr. 9.
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    Image of _MARVKO_ _MARVKO_
    08/02/09

    @Berd: I don't recognize her either. Maybe an expanded universe character?
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    capnrob promoted this comment _MARVKO_ was starred _MARVKO_ was unstarred
    Image of capnrob capnrob
    08/02/09

    @_MARVKO_: If so, she's probably Mara Jade, based on the amount of slash I've successfully avoided featuring her. No idea who the character *is*, though - I just know the name from too many discussions of Rule 34.
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    08/02/09

    @capnrob: Luke Skywalker's wife, I believe...
    Yeah, I don't know who 9 is either...
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/02/09

    @Berd: It can't be Mara, she has red hair/green eyes . . . I just looked at the site, apparently it is "Leia Robotika". There's your question answered, although I'm not entirely sure what the answer means.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    07/20/09

    In reply to Support Artistic Freedom Logically By Bidding On Pope Trek Art
    That headline is misleading. I read this as "Pope Trek" and was hoping for a comic about history's greatest Popes travelling the cosmos in a space ship.

    A man can dream.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/20/09

    @OW-Holmes:Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.: Wait, so they don't already do that?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    07/20/09


    @OW-Holmes:Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.: And anyway, we know that at least one of them has been in space.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    07/20/09

    In reply to Support Artistic Freedom Logically By Bidding On Pope Trek Art
    I couldnt afford these. But im all for supporting art in every way and form. Im an illustrator and I love it when people rally behind good art. This is lovely because im really partial to black and white art. The art work from the ABC Warriors in 2000AD is no exception.

    So any whos got some cash....BUY BUY BUY...Go on.
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    Image of Ronestar Ronestar
    01/19/09

    In reply to The Recession Hits BSG Fans Hard
    It's too bad - in a way - that the ship models are all virtual.


    I'm sure some Nerdy McRichy-Pants would have paid some coin for a Galactica, Pegasus, Basestar, or Colonial One filming model.

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    Image of Truthseeker_Young Truthseeker_Young
    01/19/09

    @Ronestar:


    I wonder, tho, if in the not-to-distant-future we'll see those same Nerdy McRichy-Pants' (love it!) happily shelling out for, say, 'Official' or 'Original' .obj files (or whatever format) of the virtual ship models used in the show.


    No more useful than a non-virtual film model, and, as our lives increasingly come to include virtual spaces, no less nerd-cred-worthy an object to display on your virtual mantlepiece...

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/19/09

    @Truthseeker_Young: But like all things digital, much easier to copy. Everyone will be able to have their own copy, which you can't do with real stuff. So I don't think McRichy-Pants would pony up as much.
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