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CountZero - MemberNice screengrab mrchrispy. I remember the scene, but I never noticed the Firefly landing, and I'm pretty good at spotting things like that. I love it when programme producers drop in little references to other series.
Does that make [i]me[/i] the Übergeek then?
soma_rich said
No heart of gold yet?
There was one on page 2. Worth a repeat though.
Culture ships for sure. Not sure orbitals count as they are constructs that are stationary, and I can't rememeber if they have a Mind in them.
Clear Air Turbulance (CAT) for shear life-likeness and shonky all round charm (ok, I know its fictional!) but Consider Phelbas was pretty life-like and unlike a holywood movie and I hope they never make a film of it!
Have a look here for [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_(The_Culture) ]Culture Ship names[/url]
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Zoic the company that did Special Effects on Firefly (they worked on all the other Joss Whedon shows too)did the Special effect on BSG as well. geek points, i want them. 🙂
don't thank me, it was my google underpants.
apparently the company doing the cgi for BSG also did firefly.
if i had to choose it'd be either starbug or a culture ship.
from the best sci-fi film ever
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Singlespeedpunk said:
Culture ships for sure. Not sure orbitals count as they are constructs that are stationary, and I can't rememeber if they have a Mind in them.
They definitely have Minds. The one in 'Look to windward' used to be a Ship.
Matthewjb, not read Look to windward yet 🙂 So many good books not enough time!
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Mtbcol but it is advanced it use's Asgard and Goa'uld technology.
Matthewjb, not read Look to windward yet
It's my favourite Culture novel. Less geeky spaceships but a great story.
redthunder you are sooo right. I had forgotten all about elite.
The Blue Peter Geekdestroyer
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I think [i]Grey Area[/i] and [i]Frank Exchange of Views[/i] are probably two of my favourite Culture Minds/Ships, out of many. Love those books, read the whole lot one after another recently, 'cos Waterstones were doing 3 for 2 on them, and I'd only ever had library copies out.
Can't be ar*ed to see if it has been done yet, but my childhood one was...
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Dammit, someone beat me to it... I'd have the Sulaco, complete with dropships for those trips to the shops.
Never really took a fancy to the Firefly... It always seemed like a bit of a dump in both the series and the film, and it's not fast or cool. The Millenium Falcon could easily have it.
Nah, I'm sticking with the pride of the USCMC.
thunderbird 4
Jedi, do you mean Thunderbird3?
4 was the submersible..
Hmmmm Andromeda because it has the hot ships computer Romy /rawr and because looks cool
Mastiles - you'd think those clever SHADO people who managed to get a moonbase up and running, plus nice little spaceships would come up with a way of have more than one missile on their spaceship wouldn't you.....?
no i meant thunderbird4 underwater or in space as a kid it was my favourite.
i was an adult when i realised it was a submerine 🙂 🙂
Believe it or not, Thunderbird 4 did actually exist, it's the only bit of Thunderbirds that wasn't fiction, I kid you not! look here, this is the actual real thunderbird 4 setting off on a rescue:
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Great thread folks!
I always liked this one...
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And in Eve Online, I fly one of these freudian beauties...
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Chatting with a mate tonight on the way back from watching Wolverine: Origins, and he mentioned another ship I thought was really cool at the time, and that was the B5 Star Fury fighters. Terrific looking craft. Oh, and the latest Battlestar Galactica Cylon BaseStar capital ships are nifty. Still not as cool as the Shadow or Minbari ships.