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 Post subject: Five things you didn't think you'd find in space
PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:12 pm 
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Number 5: Pull Tab cans

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Not seen much since the 1980's, these cans saw a surge in popularity in the 2120's when Aspen Beer decided to bring back the "retro" style.

Number 4: Wooden Ships

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Weylan(d)-Yutani discovered that a controlled amount of creative self expression on the part of its employees was more cost effective for boosting morale than prescribing antidepressants. Lambert had her cowboy boots, Parker had his girly mags, Brett had his model ships.

Number 3: Oxen

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How else would you haul downed EEV's out of the sea? Cheap labor, and a food source: if only they could pilot commercial towing vehicles...
As a side note I'd love to see the cryo tube they'd need for transporting these things. An "Ox-Box"?

Number 2: Continuous Paper

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Once considered as outdated as pull tab cans, these connected sheets of paper proved vital on space ships and space stations where a sudden loss of gravity could put your report to the ICC in disarray.

Number 1: Cardboard Boxes

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Remember: corrugated cardboard can be recycled into Conestoga-Class Escape Pod bolts:

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:32 pm 
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LOL!! Too funny. Great pic.
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retrogarde wrote:
Number 5: Pull Tab cans

Don't mean to nitpick (well... yes I do :wink: :lol: ) but that looks like the "push button" style tabs of the late 70s, not pull tab:

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Doh!

I was born in '77 so I pretty much missed the boat on these. Thanks for the info!

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You can ship the oxen as calves.


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 22, 2013 4:49 pm 
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retrogarde wrote:
As a side note I'd love to see the cryo tube they'd need for transporting these things. An "Ox-Box"?




If you weren’t bothered about comfort (or survivability ) could you just have a big old cryo-room ? Shove them in shoulder to shoulder and hit the switch. :)


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Your assuming they were brought there...

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Are you suggesting they're...


SPACE-OX??? :shock:



They actually had quite a few types of farm animals:

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Lol nice....I remember pepsi having push tabs after coke came out with the pull style.


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I miss those push-tabs!


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This ain't nothing. You should see what we find down the sewers...!!


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they brought the push-tabs back in the mid-90s... STILL can't bloody remember the name of the lemon drink that was in those cans, but I made an astounding discovery.
Artificial lemon flavouring from that + artificial mint flavour from gum = ...

... REALLY STRONG PINEAPPLE FLAVOUR
WTF?

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Your assuming they were brought there...


That's where these three come in..

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Are those new DLC characters for ACM?

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You know, as a homebrewer, I could produce, bottle, and label, any appropriate 22nd century beer.....

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Now there is a fun idea!

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Any other good pictures of the Aspen Beer label out there....?

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Fantastic. Research program starting in 3....2.....1......

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The second one is more accurate. Compare it to the prop photo above.

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88reaper88 wrote:
Your assuming they were brought there...

Maybe.

Other places in the 'Verse ship cattle from planet to planet:

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It's all good! Someone on the RPF made a printable label that fits right around a vintage can. I'm afraid I don't have the link handy though.

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