Damon Hill wrote in message .134...
--Damon, who'd rather take the train (Galaxy Express 999) than a submarine.
Esmerelda's much sexier than Venusian Fire Women anyway.

Hmmm... A space train, you know what, a Multiple Unit version of a
space craft will be much ideal than a single unit that acted as the
propulsion unit for the whole ship.

Imagine a space-capable ShinKanSen. As in the originial ShinKanSen
where all of the cars are powered. Much like the Discovery in 2001, it
would be long and carried a lot of cargo. And much like the
'generation ship' in Star Trek Voyager's "The Disease", it consist of
many multiple units that each are capable moving on their own.

Space station that accomodate them could be much like a train
terminal.

However, space is more like an ocean, a vast ocean. So a train
probably isn't the best way to travel, unless it's for a short
distance (station to station), and for longer distance you fly the
train into some sort of tunnel / space folder that shortened the
distance travel (kinda like the Malir Gates in the old game "Space
Rogue").

So... Space Train is nice, but the term spaceship still preferable.
And... Space is quite a hazardous area, so... the submarine analogy is
much preferable than the surface ship analogy.

Star Trek actually has pretty much covered many ways of space travel
in a ship.



As for the submarine thing.

Well... The submarine analogy is quite nice. And... The spaceship we
seen so far look like tin cans, and submarine sure also look like tin
cans. Also both submarine crews and space station crews shared many
similiar hardships.



As for launching a modified submarine into space.

Well... You do know how heavy a submarine is, do you?

A submarine concept, I don't mind. Launching a real submarine on the
other hand....

Hmmm... Uchuu Senkoutei Polaris?



As for the Queen.

Well... Classic drawing, I wouldn't called it sexy, more like
artistically beautiful. Though, ever since I was a child, I never got
the hang of Ginga Tetsudo 999 (Milky Way Railways 999), and even when
I was adult, still never got the hang of it.

And probably the only thing that Uchuu Senkan Yamato (Space Battleship
Yamato) got me since I was a child is probably only the warping scenes
and the wave cannon shooting scenes.