My top 10 spaceships of all time

POSTED BY: Moss
UPDATED: Thursday, March 23, 2006 04:44
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MALICE

Monday, March 20, 2006 9:22 PM

Can't forget to throw out the Galaxy Quest ship (forgot the name). I mean who wouldn't want to be able to time travel even if it is for only 13 seconds, hehe.

COMICBOOKGEEK

Monday, March 20, 2006 9:42 PM

The mother-ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

ORPHEUS

Monday, March 20, 2006 9:44 PM

One of my favorites is technically a spoiler, so here goes:

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Dark City.

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"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

GIXXER

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:30 AM

Malice,

That was the NSE* Protector.

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*Not (the) Starship Enterprise

LANCER

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:32 PM

No particular Order.

Serenity. (esspesally with the cannon)
Death Star(boom)
some of the Reaver ships
VF Veritech.
Lybra (from Gundam Wing)

i like things with big guns

GIXXER

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:47 PM

OK, specially for Lancer.

The largest gun ever built had an operational career of 13 days, during which a total of 48 shells were fired in anger. It took 25 trainloads of equipment, 2000 men and up to six weeks to assemble.

She was called "Dora" and she was probably Krupp's favourite gun...

It weighed 1344 tons with a bore diameter of 800mm (31.5") and served by a 500-man crew commanded by a major general.

Two types of projectiles were fired using a 300-lb. charge of smokeless powder: a 10,584 lb. High explosive (HE) shell and a 16,540-lb. concrete-piercing projectile. Craters from the HE shells measured 30-ft wide and 30-ft deep while the concrete piercing projectile proved capable of penetrating 264-ft of reinforced concrete before exploding.

Maximum range was 29 miles with HE shells and 23 miles with concrete piercing projectiles. Muzzle velocity was approximately 2700 f.p.s.

AELIN

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:49 AM

Mine are based less on technical specs and more on my gut emotional reaction and sheer coolness... in no particular order:

-X-Wing
-Millenium Falcon
-Andromeda Ascendant
-Defiant
-Serenity
-anything piloted by Wash

Also, just to be weird and different:
-Earendil's ship Vingilot

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She's terse... I can be terse. Once, in college, I was laconic.

LEGOLAD

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:52 AM

Can't come up with a definite ranking, so, in semi-random order...

Slave 1 (coolest design ever, in my personal opinion)

Serenity

Discovery (from 2001)

Star Destroyer

Super Star Destroyer (for somehow managing to be more awesome than its predecessor)

Enterprise-D (my personal favourite of the most famous line of starships)

Romulan Warbird (the huge ones from Next Generation; another simply fantastic design)

Millennium Falcon

Deep Space Nine (hey, it could move... slowly)

Spaceman Spiff's little red flying saucer (from Calvin & Hobbes)

"We need a hood ornament."

AELIN

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:02 AM

Quote:
Spaceman Spiff's little red flying saucer (from Calvin & Hobbes)

Ooh, good one! *adds to list*

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She's terse... I can be terse. Once, in flight school, I was laconic.

PEULSAR5

Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:19 AM

O.K. here goes:

1: Millenium Falcon
2: USS Enterprise NCC 1701 "No bloody A,B,C or D"
3: Lion Voltron (It flies in space)
4: Super Dimensional Fortress 1 (Robotech)
5: Serenity (Hey, how can it not be there!)
6: Nostromo (Aliens)
7: Battlestar Galactica
8: X-Wing fighter
9: USS Defiant (full of piss and vinegar)
10: A-Wing Fighter

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