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(...) Very nice build, Doug! I look forward to the brick version! JOHN (12 years ago, 7-Jan-12, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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Its been along time since I posted here... lets see if I can remember how this works. Thought I would start off the new year with a new MOC post. As a volunteer aboard the museum ship S.S. Lane Victory, I thought I would try my hand at a micro-scale (...) (12 years ago, 6-Jan-12, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build.military, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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Even Captain Stubing is a fan of the LEGO Love Boat By Gene Sloan, USA Today, June 22,2011. Remember the LEGO Love Boat we told you about a few weeks ago? (URL) of Love:'LEGO Love Boat' to be displayed in Chicago>. The largest cruise ship ever built (...) (13 years ago, 24-Jun-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.boats, lugnet.people, FTX)
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I've built a (URL) sailboat> from the pieces from a (URL) great flame throwing dragon>: (URL) Play well, Jacob -- (URL) Getting started with LEGO CAD on Linux> (15 years ago, 18-Sep-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats, FTX)
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I'm working on a viking shipyard for an exhibition in Høje Tåstrup next month. (URL) The shipyard itself> is ready, so now it is time to build longships. (URL) What do you think of it? Any blatant anachronisms? Play well, Jacob -- (URL) LEGO boats> (15 years ago, 18-Sep-09, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.boats, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.vikings, FTX)
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Rene- Thanks for sharing this. It's always nice to see how people tackle these curvy problems! LFB (15 years ago, 24-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) That has nothing to do with the confusion between short (US) tons and long (imperial) tons, which was what led us here. (...) ROFL!! I had hoped you'd realise I was being humourous, or maybe you did and decided to bite anyway, in which case (...) (15 years ago, 8-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, you'd think the ten fingers things would have been hint enough... (...) Huh. What real world are you working in? In my professional life, which I suspect uses actual weights and measures a bit, English units are just something we joke (...) (15 years ago, 8-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats)
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(...) You mean the bit where it's stated that if God intended for us to use Metric, he would have seen to it that Jesus had 10 disciples? (...) No we're not. And it's telling that no country in the world has voluntarily undergone the metrication (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Yeah that's just a bit more confusion that imperial measures brought us. It's all explained (URL). Good think all the sensible countries are moving to metric ;) ROSCO (15 years ago, 6-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) A US ton is 2000 lbs. Jeff (15 years ago, 4-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Actually I'm pretty sure an imperial ton is 2240lbs, but it's still a remarkable MOC. ROSCO (15 years ago, 4-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) Hi Travis, well, it weighs a lot :-) In fact, it's something about 850 to 900 kilograms. The metric ton is 1000kg, but if I'm right, the imperial unit "ton" should be a little bit more than 900kg (2000lbs). I built many parts of the (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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(...) All I can say is, wow! When you say "a ton of LEGO bricks", do you mean that literally? (The word "ton" is frequently used as a figure of speech in English to simply mean that something weighs a lot. I don't think that's what you mean, but I'm (...) (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, FTX)
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LLL, in case you're interested in seeing how to stack a ton of LEGO bricks to build a 21-feet-long cruise liner, please see this video: (2 URLs) May be the Keel King with you! -René (15 years ago, 3-Jun-09, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) Nop, I have seen it. I will try to get more information about it. (15 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) due to who's catalog arrived at my house first. They look almost identical in functionality except the LabQuest has a stylus and more memory, while the XplorerGLX has I2C sensors (or seomthing like them; it seems they transmit digital (...) (15 years ago, 1-Mar-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) I would be interested, but I have no audio equipment (apart from a function generator) Very interesting data BTW! Philo (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Excellent suggestion!!! We'll open one sensor and try once again. (...) (URL) else interested in repeating the experiment? Philo? Claude P.S. I added a graph to the page, where the sound pressure is maintained constant. (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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(...) Since I was doing this all manually, it was by far the easiest. I realized that a better way would be to vary the signal generator level at each frequency, but often when trying that I simple "maxed out" the reported level from the sound (...) (15 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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