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A broken down old nag has a bridge? Well, whodathunk!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Rocinante.
Ah yes, definitely! And those chairs are cool. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Rocinante.
Yes! I would love to have one of those inertia dampening
couches and especially the automated drug administering
devices for when someone changes the deliverable target
a week before beta!!
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I'd settle for a few places I visit to have the turbo lift,
and seemingly also always there right away.
notwithstanding also not full of cackling old cows getting off one by one on separate floors
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Disaster Area stunt ship?
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So, you are going through your Goth period ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And to get you started on your bridge: Captain Kirk's Chair[^]
PS. Also my choice.
PPS. I wonder if you could 3d print one of these chairs?
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Ron Nicholson wrote: I wonder if you could 3d print one of these chairs?
Hmmm, probably, though having never played with 3D printers, I am not qualified to speak on such matters. 
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The Orville
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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The Tardis. All that extra space in the basement would be lovely. Plus, you'd never miss a deadline.
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But which version of the "bridge"? The white one with the round things? The dark wood one that Tom rocked for a while? The man-cave that Sylvester had in the movie? Or one of the modern versions?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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With or without Uhura...?
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I certainly wouldn't want any of the bridges from movies or television. All of the explosions, sparks flying, smoke billowing, and Captains gettin' jiggy with the aliens would be too distracting to get any work done.
Hmm. I've got it. I would like the bridge of Lazarus Long's Dora.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: All of the explosions, sparks flying, smoke billowing,
Brings new meaning to when someone breaks the build or commits code with failing unit tests.
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Marc Clifton wrote: commits code with failing unit tests
I guess it's a good thing then that we don't do unit tests. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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None of them had seatbelts!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Would rather no seatbelts, than HAL
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HAL 9000, but I'm afraid I can't do that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Why should it be constrained to looking like anything at all?
With the the tech they use for the replicators, transporters, and holodecks, the whole thing could be fluid, changing configuration as required by circumstance (e.g. by adding handrails during battles, to stop everyone getting tossed around so much on shockwaves that can't happen in space). Why walk over to the science station, when it can be right in front of you when you need it?
In fact, the whole ship should be generated -- which would also be handy in battles, as it would be all-but indestructible (and would also provide an inherent low-speed navigation system, which would be even more useful in battles, which apparently will always be conducted at extremely low speeds).
That's the problem with most people who call themselves sci-fi writers: they add tech to meet very specific needs in a story or two, but rarely give any consideration to how it will affect everything else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But bridge is where the management tends to congregate! Engineering is where the real work is done! 
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The Millenium Falcon - so that I can fly over Disney headquarters drawing in some imperial star destroyers, preferably while the cast of The Rise Of Skywalker are present.
Another movie I walked out of half way through...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 20-Dec-19 8:10am.
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And don't forget to kill all those silly crystal foxes while you're at it!
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