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Building the Enterprise D Out of LEGOs.
CleverNickName writes "A self-proclaimed "dork" has built one of the best models of Enterprise D I have ever seen (and I think I speak with some authority)...entirely out of LEGOs.
I can see my house from here!"
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
How many hours did this guy put in? Scope out those diagrams! Most archetects don't use that much detail when designing a building. Just goes to say that dorks have too much time on their hands.
"The model features accidental saucer-separation capability, as I've found out more than once."
Translation: I dropped it. It broke.
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.
To bold lego where no one has gone before!
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
I was admiring it until I saw at the bottom of the page: "created using a mac"
Now I just sit back and wonder: Wow...Macs are good! I'm gonna get myself a duallie G4 and see if it can make me a Borg Cube!
------- "From bored to fanboy in 3.8 asian girls" ----------
I once built the Borg Cube out of Legos.
A self-proclaimed "dork"...
I also proclaim that you're a dork..
And that makes all the difference in the world. Dorkle, the popular dork engine, is not affected by self-references of dorkdom. Only dorklinks from other dorks count toward a higher DorkRank, and the more the better.
Your post was hilarious, by the way. I laughed so hard that my pocket-protector fell out. I tried to come up with a joke about the existence of "dork matter" or maybe going over to the "dork side," but I'll have to leave that to cleverer dorks than me.
However, he has a picture labeled 'the troublesome deflector dish' which he just used some brown and white blocks instead of the gray. Its been a while since I played with legos, but weren't there some parabolic dish type things that would have made a reasonable deflector shield?
See, the thing is, if you made it out of those parabolic dish-thingies, it'd be really, really tough to modify the deflector dish to interface with the sensor array, and emit a neutrino pulse into the heart of the anomaly.
Inspired by this i just created a lego Borg Cube. Even simpler than these.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
(Data, On the Bridge)
Captain, I believe if we fire a controlled burst of tachyon radiation at the bridge of the 'Slashdot', Cmdr Taco will forget that he has attacked us. That should give us enough time to reroute the power from the impulse engines to the warp core containment field. If I can run a holodeck carrier beam with the tachyon radiation, I believe I can create a 'virtual wormhole', and give us an hour before Cmdr Taco will repost this story. I mean, uh, attack us again.
(Captain)
Make it so. (To engineering) Jordi, you have an hour. Number One, in my ready room.
(Number One)
Someone turn off that damn alarm!
Poor guy. His site withstood a farking, but now it's going to suffer through a slashdotting. Talk about double jeopardy.
Really, now, does this model truly qualify as an authentic Lego creation? Sure, his deviations seem minor, but it's a slippery slope friends.
Where does it end. Is it acceptable to glue Lego bricks alongside one another to achieve the desired effect? Is it acceptable to airbrush cool color schemes on a model when the colored brick motif just isn't cutting it? What about incorporating non-lego pieces like balsa wood or erector set parts?
I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, this should be categorized more as just another plastic model kit of the Enterprise than a true Lego creation. Better luck next time.
From his webpage
"One at a time, I downloaded the deck plans from the Web, resized them in Photoshop, and printed them out onto graph paper."
With 42 decks, this is no small amount of time. Wonder what I could do if I stopped reading slash dot so much?
...but I'd revise the bump mapping a bit.
Well I'm glad I didn't post what I was going to and be redundant and all. We picked the exact same quote out of the article.
;-)
Except I can add:
"..more than once."
Translation: I'm a clutz, what do you expect from a dork anyhow?
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
And I'd make a Romulan Warbird, or a Klingon Bird of Prey, but I just can't find enough green lego pieces lying around. I guess I'll just build the "cloaked" models of those ships.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
...to find out if he actually gets a date out of this!
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
"when there are lots of kits and plans to choose from http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/trekship.htm [starshipmodeler.com]"
Yeah I don't understand Lego people either. Why they build anything besides what's already planned out for them is beyond me.
The small print "Model not capable of warp drive travel"
But one things for sure, it'd probably survive a dense popcorn armada..
-- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
Most lego doesn't have to stand up to the destructive forces created by extreme acceleration of a disproportionate and brittle design. Just think of this as the lego version of a conveniently available structural integrity field that redefines previously understood boundaries.
BTW, our Uncle Willie should be able to add another geek notch on his phaser rifle butt now - Slashdot submitter/writer/actor that he is. ;-)
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Yup. It's packed with lots more people and destructive goodies than the Enterprise C. And there's and Enterprise E that's going to be ever more larger and deadly than the D class.
Enterprises are like bra sizes; when you go up a letter they get bigger and more impressive.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
with big boobs on the home page!
All we got is Bill Gates in Borg drag....
*I feel so small*
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
A self-proclaimed "dork" has built one of the best..
ALERT TO: self-proclaimed "dork"
FROM: The Ghost of Jon Postel
MSG BODY:Your dorkness has gone well past the levels allowed by all RFC standards. You are now in the "nerd" category, please refer to yourself with this label from now on.
Thank you,
postel, watching you from afar..
(NB: no disrespectintended in the least)
Trolling is a art,
Wow. This is so much cooler than girls.
Does anyone really need to know the dimensions of a fictional starship, in a fictional universe..?
1) In 1995, Blizzard released Warcraft II. The Goblin Zeppelin unit, when repeatedly clicked, had a set of silly phrases it would say. "I can see my house from here!" was born.
2) For a long time, nothing.
3) September, 2001. The series premiere of Star Trek: Enterprise, a few Klingons are invited to view a Holodeck for the first time. Presented with a recreation of the Klingon homeworld, one of them utters the phrase, "I can see my house from here!" in a guttural Klingon accent. Fans of the phrase are delighted.
4) July, 2002. The incredible Mr. Krol takes over the voice of the Goblin Zeppelin for the new Warcraft III. Although the phrase "I can see my house from here!" is absent from the game, early reviews of "What what what?!?" are positive.
5) November, 2002. Wil Wheaton uses the phrase in a Slashdot Posting, although we do not have an audio file of him saying it. Fans of the phrase are delighted and hopeful.
According to Star Trek timelines, the U.S.S. Enterprise (aircraft carrier) was destroyed by a nuclear bomb during the Eugenics wars in 1996. (Notable because it DIDN'T happen :).
Oh yeah, if it didn't happen then why are you so eager to deny it? Sounds like a cover up to me...
... the fact that this guy spent all this time putting this model together from detailed designs or the fact that the first thought that entered my head when I saw it was "Hey, I think I have enough LEGO pieces in the right colors to build that"
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I would like formally to apply for the role of "low level drone" in the Cult of Wheaton. I struggled against it, but to no avail. You epitomise all that is great and good in geekness. Please, let me join your Army of Dorkness, that I may contribute in a small way to your elevation to Spod Emperor. What is thy bidding, my master?
And the scary bit is... I'm not joking. Wil is one seriously self aware guy, and I'm prepared to do a bit of chanting and genuflecting in his cause.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.