matty

How about... Blade Runner Soylent Green Planet of the Apes/the current remake is pretty good Time Machine The Fly... 'Brundle Seth' ~And Firefly was fun.

Verry interesting, Marc. I'm curious, should you look here: http://history.nasa....nd/structur.htm, scroll down a bit, under the heading entitled 'B. THIN SHELL STRUCTURES', take a look at the sheet stringer construction illustrated in Fig. 1, do you find it any more practical they've eliminated weight of that inner skin, maybe even more material in using this I-beamesque-construction, possibly fewer welds, and, further, with their running them strictly vertically, taking the compression factor into account they mention later on~wouldn't it do just as well?.. No offense, admittedly, I don't know this first thing about rockets and so feel free to laugh, I just found it curious; your post is very interesting. ...And how much are we experiencing these days, in the way of the buckling, with current design?.. I do find the extrusion process neat, and extruding would-be beams or anything else, such as the corrugated look of your own idea, has a lot to to offer in the way of adding exponential strength, as opposed to sheet metal fab.

Ohgreat, I'm here two minutes and already, a nannyState-thread. Sorry, alcohol's on the side of Grandfathered in, eh, you gotta anything else? Hey, maybe we oughta ban Banning.--I'm thinking there's a worthy debate. ~

I'm both a manufacturing/political enthusiast; former Automotive/mechanical QC inspector/SPC, basic electronics-certified & Electrical CAD Drafter/Designer in better mnfg times, looking to reenter the mainstream there; I'm degreed in Drafting and Design Tech and sport an intense curious interest in a wide ranging scope of anything-Science and with applications not just to that end--the mnfg & politically relevant--but reaching far beyond. To the dude from way back beneath me, I'm not sure at all that sounded any better than having walked in saying 'Hi,' but it was certainly fun to illustrate the difference. ~This place looks awesome, I'm stoked. Was directed, I thought, from a link to my email to first peek in here, hope it's the right place...