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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!"
The only possible answer is that if you have to ask, you couldn't possibly understand.
Restating the obvious since nineteen aught five.
As recently as 50 years ago, most humans on this planet were mainly concerned with finding enough food on a daily basis to stay alive.
In today's society, it's only slightly unusual to report on an individual who apparently has enough free time to obsessivbely recreate a fictional spacecraft in exacting detail with intentionally poor tools.
The screwed up thing is, the majority of people in the world are STILL mainly concerned with finding enough food on a daily basis to stay alive.
I'm not trying to pull a guilt/ego/trippy trip on anyone; it's just odd to think that some of us are lucky enough to have to go out of our way to waste time.
Marc Siry || interactive media professional, motorcycle enthusiast ||
No, the Enterprise "D" was destroyed in 2372 by a Klingon Bird of Prey under the command of the Duras sisters. Don't you know anything? :) (I don't get many chances to out-geek anyone.)
OK, if you want to be hypertechnical, according to William Shatner in that oh-so-tragic SNL episode the whole Star Trek thing is make-believe. Many of us suspect that he is still under the control of the mind-control device in Episode #37.
Actually, people have been wasting time since prehistory. What purpose was served by the cave paintings at Lascaux? I'd assume that those folk were generally preoccupied with the question of continued survival.
Look at it this way--any time spent creating the spacecraft was not spent in procreation, though that may not have been entirely due to a proactive decision on his part. Consider the long-term resource savings!
other funny things from the faq Okay, I didn't mean to make my geekness such an issue, though it is kind of funny. Don't worry, I do leave the house, and I do many, many things besides Lego. like watch star trek, go to star trek conventions, play with my star trek action figure...you get my point No I don't need help finding a date. Yes, cute girls may still e-mail me, though I will surely question your attraction to a 24-year-old who plays with Legos. the real question here won't be why are you atracted to me but are you really a woman :)
but hey I'm a geek too and to be hounest it's a pretty cool ship I'd never do anything like it but thats just becuase it would mean I'd have to leave my monitor
Why bother building a Linux distro from scratch?
Eh, I've worked with architects. Any details they add aren't usually worth the graphite they were drawn with. Architects don't actually know how to build things, and thus rarely have any concept of appropriate materials/dimensions/cost, etc. All they care about is how it looks.
It's the engineers/builders who have to transform the architect's crack-pipe hallucination into something that obeys the laws of physics, human ergonomics, and modern economics.
The guy who built this was not an architect, he's an engineer.
A long time prior to 1995, someone came up with a joke about Jesus being nailed to the cross. Jesus calls one of the disciples over to him (which one depends on who is telling the joke) and eventually gets around to saying "I can see your house from here!"