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My entry to the Lego Ideas 90th Anniversary: Space Celebrations contest:
Lego Space to me means exploration, co-operation, and ingenuity to survive a challenging environment, with style! Here I tried to convey that spirit in a Dakar-style race. Each team has a driver and navigator for a wheeled vehicle:
#1: Ice Planet 2002’s rocket-powered car has excellent sat-nav.
#2: M:Tron’s articulated truck features a magnetic drive.
#4: Blacktron’s motorbike is the most agile.
#5: The second Blacktron entry is the fastest around corners.
#6: The Buggoids’ truck has 6-wheel independent suspension.
#7: U.F.O.’s quad features 4-wheel steering.
#11: The Martians put skates on a mech.
#31: Spyrius’ 8-wheeler has arms to move obstacles.
#33: The Exploriens’ solar-powered wheelbike has minimal effect on the environment.
#107: The Insectoids’ caterpillar train has many redundant power and drive modules.
#924: The veterans’ classic trike is always in with a chance of victory.
The Space Police ensure the competitors follow the rules on their motorbike with flashing lights.
Just a simple treatment of Space Mountain with a monorail in front of it. Sometimes, you don't need to be fancy.
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Set 60229 came with one small robot-rover that would fit into the cargo bay of the shuttle-rocket (the one on the left).
I think it is designed along the lines of the Mars rovers we have send out in the last decades; a semi-autonomous vehicle with 6 wheels, an observation mast (here with stereoscopic cameras I think), solar power panels and something to drill/scoop/scratch the surface.
After not liking the big rover set (60225) it came as a surprise to me that this new line had small rovers that I did like!
It offers quite a bit of room for modifications, so I gave it a quick try. Seat and control panel for a human driver instead of AI unit. The drill was replaced by a laser drill (of course). And I stuck a proper communication dish on it. I think the basic design of this Rover offers as much possibilities for modification as the old tiny grey rovers from Classic Space. Just stick on diggers, claws, lasers, power packs or wherever you like, it will work…
Picture for the MacroMondays group theme on April 14th, 2014: Negative Space.
正在為本週主題發愁，發現這張從下面往上拍的蝴蝶照片，正好有大片天空留白啊！
PS. 標題出自宋代，陸游的「春日暄甚戲作」。
~馬美部落, 尖石鄉, 新竹縣
Mamei Village, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- ISO 640, F5, 1/8000 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 L macro lens
- Shot @ 11.30am
'3... 2...1!
We have lift off!
We have lift off, shuttle 'Little Grasshopper' has left the platform for its maiden flight....'
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Building a full launch tower meant I had little use for the launch capability of the crawler from set 60229.
But while playing with all kinds of rocket and spaceship combinations I stumbled into this one.
It's the small spaceship from 60224, launched 'shuttle-style' with a big tank and solid rocket boosters, and the shuttle riding piggy-back.
And If I am going to turn the space station into a Shiptember-worthy spaceship, it's going to need a big fuel tank...
SpaceX launched this Falcon 9 mission from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base tonight, carrying a collection of 10 satellites into low-Earth orbit. The payload is destined for a constellation of communications satellites owned by Iridium Communications.
...just playing a little bass in space at Inspire Space Park in Second Life. maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shinda/42/196/1560
I had been inspired to do a photo like this in a while; where I had a model balanced on top of a wooden ladder- inspired by being on a pedestal and watched. So when me and the model (Beffy Gilmore) went to this beautiful location, I felt very inspired to create this photo. It began by the inspiration I drew from the location, I was surrounded by props and masks and all kinds of performance based items that I felt had so much story to them (you can see some of the hanging in the background.) We then fit the ladder into the tiny space and used the rings she holds that we found around the corner.
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Define yourself by what you want to be and the parts of yourself you are willing to celebrate as an oppose to the person you don't wish to be. Lifes about acknowledging the flaws in yourself, not blocking them out and instead rejoicing in them and discovering why those parts of yourself may be around. Be confident in where you are going and what that may lead to.
Alien art
The difference between computers and us is we are alive and have emotions and feelings. Computers can have senses and collect information, but they are not alive and have no emotions and feelings. It looks like being alive and emotions -feelings are going together. Being alive, emotions and feelings, senses and the information collected from our brain make us human beings. We function as human beings in our society because of the pressures which affect our feelings and emotions. Fear is the leading one. The additional feelings and emotions which we like to have are love, heroism, helping, enjoying, etc. bond us together to live in a society. We have to be the one which our society wants.
Aliens have to function like us if they exist. They have to be alive and have to have feelings and emotions, but the dominating feelings - emotions and the number of feelings - emotions can be very different. They might have a strong mechanism to control their feelings and emotions.
As human beings, we have to learn to control our feelings and emotions. We can't wait that the biological development created by nature to do the job for us. There is a conflict between what society desires and how we actually function. We are not perfect. The conflict creates for us troubles.
In space, an explosion would not affect technologically advanced aliens. They would be aware of when stars are likely to explode, when comets or asteroids may collide with them, etc.
'Are you sure this is the front end?'
'It most certainly will be, once we're done!'
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The crawler from set 60229 taking shape.
The rubber wheels are on axles that connect to one sprocket in each track. It 'drives' the hard plastic tracks, even on a very smooth surface, and works very well.
No idea if this qualifies as "Neo Classic Space" if there is no yellow windscreen ... But oh man, did I wish there was an egg shaped dome piece in trans yellow. Then this would have turned out way better: into an actual space ship instead of this ... beacon? energy collector? weapon? At least the rover looks cute!
I wanted to test out the idea of recording an entire build from start to finish. The full build took about an hour but I sped it up into a 15 minute video. I'd like to do this sort of thing more with smaller builds like this. If you'd be interested in seeing more videos like this, let me know.
Model was inspired by this artwork from fightpunch.
No place, not even the furthest reaches of space, is safe from Elvis impersonators.
Built for the Mixels series 4 competition on Brickset from the Orbitrons: 41527 Rokit, 41528 Niksput, and 41529 Nurp-Naut.
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