You know you want one.

[athelind]

3-D Starmap Etched In Glass

I've always wanted to set up a computer desk to look like a pulp-era starship control panel. Needless to say, this will be an integral component for the navigation console.

Now I just need to rig a laser pointer that will move from star to star as a "position indicator".

Edit: Actually, I'd like to set up a computer/tv ROOM to look like a pulp-era starship BRIDGE, but I'd need a "Nav Cube" ten times the size...

Comments

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Damn, I do want one. I like the globular cluster one too.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I like the Large Scale Model even more.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

damn, that one's the best. one of the star maps would be a perfect gift for my dad too.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

and I said 'damn' too many times.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Schveet!
"And yourself an invisible dot on an invisible dot" ~ Gargravarr, custodian, Total Perspective Vortex.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Intriguing...

[andreal.livejournal.com]

I... I admit it. I want one! *sobs* o.o

[darkkdragon.livejournal.com]

Oooh, beaut! I want :)

[reveille-d.livejournal.com]

It looks like it's made of jello. I want to taste it.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Schveet!

[rancourt.livejournal.com]

Oooooh. *salivate* I like. A lot. Thank you for sharing this!

[iridium-wolf.livejournal.com]

I want one too!

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'd like to set up a computer/tv ROOM to look like a pulp-era starship BRIDGE, but I'd need a "Nav Cube" ten times the size...

you'd also need to make sure that any/all remote controls looked like sliderules.

because of course, in classic pulp-era SF, the "computer" was actually the person with the sliderule and the pencil who figured out by hand the settings and coordinates for navigation.

/me sighs, remembering that she actually had a crush on Kimball Kinnison. Actually, that factoid probably explains more about my life than any other. ;-)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm currently rereading the Kinnison Trilogy of the Lensman Saga (Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second-Stage Lensmen -- the other three books are kinda peripheral, and Triplanetary is just TEDIOUS).

The remotes will be big, clunky, table-mounted things with adding-machine keys and verniers.

[silussa.livejournal.com]

I think I'd have to actually design the setup. A good set of controls should be programmable for the operator's preferences (and biology).

Yes, it's not pulp fiction, but it would be right. Besides, if they'd thought of it, they would have used it.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

I have read 4 copies of Grey Lensman to pieces. Literally.

I know that book not only inside out and back to front, but engraved on my soul. why? god only knows. it used to be that when I put out my hand for a book, that was the one that fell into it most often - that and "Dream Park" by Larry Niven, however I've only read three copies of that to pieces.

I'm totally with you on Triplanetary. Tedious doesn't even begin to sum it up.

I enjoyed my first read-through of most of the Family Dalembert series, but the ghost writing eventually became too obvious. Same with the Lord Tedric books.

I even picked up from the depths of the 50c table at some long-forgotten secondhand bookstore some post-doc-smith lensmen books. One I particularly remember was Dragon Lensman. They were pretty dire. ;-)

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Dragon Lensman was the only one of that batch that I read (for obvious reasons) -- and I think I read it before I managed to lay hands on the Real Deal. I remember it being Not All That Bad, but the persitant mis-description of Worsel (not nearly enough arms) irked me almost as much as the anime version of our favorite Velantian.

[azhreia.livejournal.com]

there was an anime version?

dear god, no. how COULD they ?

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Badly.

[cynicaloptimist.livejournal.com]

You're right, that makes my geekometer go off the scale *drool*