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Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAH
Posted By: SiliconDream =PN=Date: 12/12/01 6:27 p.m.

In Response To: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHTON? (Ernie TMBM)

: I just finished playing M1A1 (I have never played all the way through
: Marathon 1 before this... shame on me) and I've realized that for a colony
: ship, its design pretty much matches that of a insane deathtrap.
: Who in their *right mind* places an access terminal 100 feet into the air?
: Who, would contrive elaborate puzzles involving platforms and SHOOTING a
: switch to trigger them into action that is *10 meters + into the air*?

: I know Marathon is insanely great, but still. The design of Marathon makes
: *no* sense from a conventional standpoint.

: #:-)

: Any comments are welcome on this one.

Well...it could be that, for most of its journey, the Marathon wasn't spinning and was therefore at zero-G (why put the whole ship under pseudogravitational stresses when everyone's in stasis?), in which case enormous variations in height wouldn't be an issue. (Or else most of the architecture was built back before they planned to use the Marathon as a colony ship, again when it was at zero-G.) And when all the computers are in full control, pushing switches and such is probably unnecessary
So my explanation would be that they decided to let small children design all the aspects of the ship that were never supposed to be important anyway. :-)

What I want to know is how several square miles of flowing molten metal contribute to the ship's operation...

--Silicondream

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What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHTON?Ernie TMBM 12/12/01 4:30 p.m.
     Just an addendumErnie TMBM 12/12/01 4:35 p.m.
           This is normal.Djof 12/12/01 5:01 p.m.
     Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSiliconDream =PN= 12/12/01 6:27 p.m.
           Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSNoblitt 12/12/01 7:41 p.m.
           Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSteve Levinson 12/12/01 8:37 p.m.
                 Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSiliconDream =PN= 12/12/01 10:15 p.m.
                       Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSteve Levinson 12/13/01 5:00 a.m.
                             Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHDjof@School 12/13/01 5:59 a.m.
                                   Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHget azure 12/13/01 7:26 a.m.
                                         Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSteve Levinson 12/13/01 10:31 a.m.
                                               RollerCoastersDjof@School 12/13/01 11:36 a.m.
                                                     Re: RollerCoastersSteve Levinson 12/13/01 1:15 p.m.
                                                           Re: RollerCoastersTrahojen 12/14/01 3:41 a.m.
                                                                 Re: RollerCoastersSteve Levinson 12/14/01 7:54 a.m.
                                                           k then :)Djof@School 12/14/01 7:03 a.m.
                                                           Re: RollerCoastersAhruman 12/14/01 8:36 a.m.
                                                                 Re: RollerCoastersSteve Levinson 12/14/01 10:15 a.m.
                                                                       Re: RollerCoastersDjof 12/14/01 12:31 p.m.
                                                                             Re: RollerCoastersSiliconDream =PN= 12/14/01 5:24 p.m.
                                                                       Re: RollerCoastersRampant Document 12/15/01 6:03 a.m.
                                                                 Re: RollerCoastersSiliconDream =PN= 12/14/01 5:23 p.m.
                             Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSiliconDream =PN= 12/14/01 12:27 a.m.
                                   Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHget azure 12/15/01 6:06 a.m.
                                         Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHTru7h 12/15/01 7:03 a.m.
                                               Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHRincewind MoG 12/15/01 8:27 a.m.
                                                     Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSteve Levinson 12/15/01 10:08 a.m.
           Chemical freaks indeedElectricSheepOne 12/16/01 10:55 a.m.
                 You're right - I remember that *NM* *NM*Steve Levinson 12/16/01 11:12 a.m.
     Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHVid Boi 12/13/01 12:47 a.m.
           Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSteve Levinson 12/13/01 4:38 a.m.
                 Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHShnu 12/14/01 7:08 p.m.
                       Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSiliconDream =PN= 12/14/01 11:43 p.m.
                             Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHAhruman 12/15/01 9:48 a.m.
                                   Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHSiliconDream =PN= 12/15/01 3:25 p.m.
     Re: What kind of Chemical freak designed the MARAHMark Levin 12/16/01 11:10 a.m.



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