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Old 12-01-2006, 08:42 AM   #7
airship
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I remember the motor yacht Time, one might say that it was ahead of its' time too...

I'd like to think that all great yacht designers (along with the rest of us) go off to a better place in space and time. I can just imagine it now:

Bannenberg and Fexas are arguing about Bannenberg's latest design for a weekend Warp-Speed Factor 12 interstellar cruiser:
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"Jon, that looks remarkably like what you did on the Opal C. In fact, the only original-thinking I see in it are the wing-thinggies you've got on the back over the pulse-motors. It might have been fashionable back in the early 1980s AD on Earth (and as if I need to remind you, we don't have air-friction to worry about in space [sigh]?), but don't you think Robert Maxwell would appreciate something more for his new Lady Ghislaine IV...?!
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