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[Nilocy]

Recently I've been getting into future space theme'd books and what not, and an idea cross my mind. What if dwarves could go into space on a gigantic rock spaceship? Sure this is all fine and dandy with the vanilla engine (just carve a space ship out of the cliff face or soemthing and pretend the unexplored squares is space and the little white icons are stars  , but what would really be missing would be a lack of gravity. So, another idea crossed my mind. What if you could make the dwarves fly to simulate the lack of a substantial gavitational force?

[Silveron]

Heh. Someone would post this before I get to my mad scientist community fortress.

[Kagus]

Dwarves do not fly.  Period.

They suffer panic attacks whenever they're higher than a few feet off the ground, and will starve to death in mid-air.

[TheSpaceMan]

i like it. To bad we don't have fine control over some aspects, it would be awsome if you could make a super cold enviorment outside and you can make a super warm "space suit" to use that would cancel out the cold effect.

[Kagus]

Well, you can make a plant or metal that has a high fixed temperature (but not too high), and then settle on a glacier or something, with clothes made from that material.  It might work.

You'd still have to deal with forging, dyed cloth, weapons, digging, wagons, and a few other interesting aspects.

For wagons, I suppose it's possible to just create some robotic creature that can carry a lot of goods, and then have the traders leading those instead of wagons, since you can't do anything with wagons.

[Earthquake Damage]

quote:Originally posted by Nilocy:
<STRONG>gigantic rock spaceship</STRONG>

Talk about fuel inefficient designs...

[Helmaroc]

quote:Originally posted by Earthquake Damage:
<STRONG>

Talk about fuel inefficient designs...</STRONG>

Behold, steam powered space travel!

[Dari]

quote:Originally posted by Helmaroc:
<STRONG>

Behold, steam powered space travel!</STRONG>

With my new aether-ship I'll finally be able to steal all the moon women!
Victory for the count is at hand!

[Alfador]

Spaceships would have to be made of adamantine. It's the only thing light and strong enough. And if it can keep demons confined, it's also airtight enough.

[Cthulhu]

Psh, real spaceships are made of Styrofoam and duct tape.
Dwarven ingenuity could totally design a spacefaring vehicle made of rocks.

[Metal Chao]

This is a Iron !!XXDwarven Space ShuttleXX!!.
It menaces with spikes of Diorite.
On it is a picture of Dwarves and Elves by Glod Glodson.
The Dwarves are exploding in the vacuum of space.
The Elves are laughing.

[Dopefish]

quote:Originally posted by Metal Chao:
<STRONG>This is a Iron !!XXDwarven Space ShuttleXX!!.
It menaces with spikes of Diorite.
On it is a picture of Dwarves and Elves by Glod Glodson.
The Dwarves are exploding in the vacuum of space.
The Elves are laughing.</STRONG>

Thank you, good Sir.  You have just made my night.

...And, I should add, slightly scalded my nasal passages.  Snarfing coffee is never good.