Comments on: Steam Trek

Steam Trek

adrianhon — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 14:28:32 -0800

- an enterprising individual has masterfully melded two classic SF genres, Star Trek and Steampunk. The result is a wonderful universe with a rich history where Her Majesty's Aether Ships explore the solar system and protect the United Kingdom of Planets. Long live Queen Victoria, and may her glorious reign continue as it has for the past 165 years! (preserved by Lunar Selenite technology captured from the evil Moon-dwellers).

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 15:07:58 -0800

Holy crap! Nerds to the third power! (I'm just jealous 'cause I don't understand it)

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 15:19:44 -0800

Yeah, as is quite often, I'm torn between: "That's pretty damn cool." and "NNNEEEERRRRDDDDDSSSS!" Kirk: Faster Chief Difference Engineer Scott! Scotty: The Jacquard's eatin' cards just as fast as she can, Cap'in!

By: hob

hob — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:04:37 -0800

wow, i think i've just had some sort of conversion experience...

By: Hammerikaner

Hammerikaner — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:23:05 -0800

the world would be much cooler if we lived in that universe. or much hotter, considering the steam.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 16:35:52 -0800

You mean we don't? There is something to steam. Nuclear power plants could be considered to be effectively really, really large steam engines (on a massive scale, with terrific output). I remember learning about the Industrial revolution and thinking that Nuclear power was some technological leap. It is, but it does seem like a really complicated way to boil water...

By: folktrash

folktrash — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:04:01 -0800

what's with that noise!!!!!!!!

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:35:27 -0800

Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so - exceptin' always Steam. --- M'Andrew's Hymn, Rudyard Kipling

By: Jos Bleau

Jos Bleau — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:38:49 -0800

Here's a real-world nuclear powered steam rocket! "In other words, one can produce a continuous controlled nuclear explosion in the region just behind the nuclear rocket. At this point the water of the fuel liquid flashes to very high temperature steam, expelling reaction mass with an estimated exhaust velocity of 66,000 meters per second (as compared with perhaps 4,500 m/s for a chemical rocket)." There's just the teensy little problem due to the fact that all that steam is going to be highly radioactive ... Proposed by Robert Zubrin, of Mars Direct fame.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 17:56:17 -0800

Some people with too much time on their hands who chose not to write blogs, simply amazing!

By: Stuart_R

Stuart_R — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:19:40 -0800

That reminded me of this game from the late 80s: Space 1889

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:48:21 -0800

Two associations: 1) I had good fun playing Worlds of Ultima: Martian Dreams back in the day, which is based on a similar concept. 2) An improv group from Hawai'i did a show called Spaced, which got some local press. They traveled around in a Star Steamer called the USSS Manifest Destiny.

By: MUD

MUD — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:58:35 -0800

The idea's kind of cool and a lot of effort seems to have gone into the site but (1) Stop making my computer sound like it's crushing R2D2 to death with turbolift doors (2) Tighten up the prose - it's stodgy as hell so far Mind you, the frontpage does explicitly call them "penny-dreadful stories" so perhaps my second point rather misses the point. Aagh! I've been infected.