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	Generation ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A generation ship is a hypothetical starship that travels across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than that of light (see interstellar travel).
		Generation ships are often found in science fiction stories.
		A common theme is that inhabitants of a generation ship have forgotten they are on a ship at all, and believe their ship to be the entire universe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Generation_ship (565 words)

	Anti-ship missiles
		Ships as small as the 3,500-ton Indian Navy Khukri corvette carry a powerful armament of 16 100km-range Kh-35 Uran anti-ship missiles.
		Some ships are known to have evaded missiles through the use of decoys, ECM and tactics but only a small number of missiles have been shot down.
		The subsonic TASM that could be fired from ships and submarines, had a Harpoon active radar seeker, an ESM system for target detection and four times the range and twice the warhead weight of the Harpoon.
	www.global-defence.com /2003/anti_ship.htm (1553 words)

	Articles: Cruising the Infinite: Strategies for Human Interstellar Travel, by Paul Lucas
		The generation ship could also pick up additional resources via Stepping Stone objects that may be along its route with subcraft, or the world where the ship was launched might send unmanned resupply ships ahead of the main spacecraft.
		One way of dealing with this may be to start the ship with only a small seed population confined to one small area of the space ark's artificial habitat, which will then grow and "settle" the rest of the ship's living space in the ensuing the decades or centuries.
		A terraforming seed ship, therefore, would have to be built as tough and as long-enduring as the most rugged generation ship, as it might spend a very, very long time running on automatic, given the combination of a decades-long journey and the centuries or more needed to terraform a planet or planet-sized mass.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040621/travel.shtml (3947 words)

	Generation Ship Campaigns - HERO GAMES Discussion Boards
		Multigeneration ship has a mutiny n generations into the trip, all officers are killed, radiation is released on certain decks of the ship.
		After many more generations, the humans in the outer/lower decks have reverted to peasants run by a religious class who control the power, access to information, etc. The inner/upper decks are controlled by mutant groups who kill any pure humans who venture that far.
		It is an immortal observer of the generations.
	www.herogames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=18074 (1749 words)

	USS Nevada BB-36, Battleship Development
		General: The two Nevada class were the first 'superdreadnoughts' laid down for the U.S. Navy and they marked a radical departure from established practice.
		She was finally raised in 1944 and because of the progress of the war and the availability of new construction, it was deemed she was not worth the effort at repair.
		Lower photo Finally, the same ship is seen transformed yet again for service in the new air age, with her old secondary armament replaced by eight dual 5-inch 38 mounts augmented by a multitude of 40mm and 20mm light antiaircraft guns.
	geocities.com /batdev/nevadabb-36class.html (718 words)

	generation ship
		Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and J. Bernal wrote about artificial planets and self-contained worlds in the 1920s, as did Olaf Stapledon in his visionary novels, and by the 1940s the generation ship concept had been fully expanded by science fiction writers in the publications of Hugo Gernsback and others.
		In 1952 L. Shepherd examined the idea of the generation ship in more technical detail and described a nuclear-propelled million-ton interstellar vessel shaped as an oblate spheroid, which he called a "Noah's Ark".
		Perhaps there would be less of a psychological problem for subsequent generations who were born aboard the ship and therefore never knew what life was like on the surface of a planet under open skies.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/G/generationship.html (534 words)

	U.S.S. Generation - Ship History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The U.S.S. Generation was launched in 2374, Stardate 51670.36 and given the NCC registry 5510.
		In 2384 he was transferred to the U.S.S. Generation where he served as the ships XO until he was promoted to the rank of Captain in 2386 where he assumed command of the U.S.S. Generation.
		The ship was then admitted to space dock for a special refit which including some technology brought home from the Delta Quadrant by the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager.
	www.nickurquhart.co.uk /shiphistory.htm (205 words)

	Interstellar Generation Ship
		Other ships are sent with minimal personal, but hundreds more in cold sleep (in this case bringing the body temp to near zero), a final ship, much later, is sent with the majority of the set-up crew.
		Gases generated within the comet are piped into refineries brought for the purpose of extracting water, minerals, and other useful resources from the gases and mining remains.
		The ships that originally brought them to the comet were used for several purposes.
	www.itsf.org /resources/factsheet.php?fsID=141 (537 words)

	Cross generation ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A cross generation ship is a variant of a generation ship that takes into account obstacles that slower than light generation ships might have.
		The cross generation ship is a concept that attempts to solve these problems by eliminating the idea of colonizing with a single ship.
		Since any one of these ships would not be designed to be self-sufficient forever, they are expected to cost less and take less time to design, build, and test than a true generation ship, although a fully self-sufficient generation ship could take part in a cross generation ship fleet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cross_generation_ship (459 words)

	Just Another Space Opera...
		Thus, a generation ship was purchased by the government, and the colonists were taxed.
		At first, the conditions of life had been deplorable, and the first generation barely made it out of their solar system before a huge explosion of a virus cut the inhabitants nearly in half.
		The ship, since it was given a pre-programmed flight pattern, needed no crew nor mates to remember where they had been and where they were going.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/ixris/hakushima.html (1341 words)

	Attenuating Thoughts : Anatomy of a code generation bug
		Since the intrinsic is generated such that it loops until the CMPXCHG compares equal, the branch-on-equal (which is a synonym for branch-if-zero) that takes us to the fail path is always taken.
		Whether discovered a week before shipping or six months after shipping, the hotfix MUST be announced and MUST be published with a URL that everyone can download it from.
		Generally speaking Service Packs are the way in which we do broader distribution of fixes.
	blogs.msdn.com /mlacey/archive/2006/08/01/686098.aspx (803 words)

	Sailing to the Stars: Sex and Society Aboard the First Starships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Instead, Landis envisions ships with vast sails, propelled by laser light to about 10 percent the speed of light.
		Sending humans out into deep space over a period of generations probably means a one-way trip for those aboard, researchers say, and would require the development of reliable power sources and closed-loop life support systems.
		But the gulf between astronauts on the Space Shuttle and colonists aboard a laser-propelled space ship is a big one.
	space.com /scienceastronomy/generalscience/star_voyage_020319-1.html (971 words)

	The Next Generation of Ship
		The bow of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer swung slowly to starboard as the ship maneuvered down the Elizabeth River past the Norfolk, Va., waterfront.
		"Virtual ship" bridge-training simulators have been used by the U.S. Navy, foreign navies, and the maritime industry for more than a decade, but their very large and expensive computers dictated that they be installed at only a handful of locations close to fleet areas of concentration.
		CSC's ability to replicate the ship-handling characteristics of the Navy's aircraft carriers, surface-combatant warships, amphibious ships, and logistics-force ships is equally impressive.
	www.navyleague.org /seapower_mag/feb2001/next_generation.htm (1887 words)

	Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo - an infinity plus review
		The ship's society is rife with classism--oppression for most, privilege for the few.
		The Church, whose cathedral is the ship's centrepiece, keeps the masses in pliant submission to the status quo.
		Ship of Fools is a grab bag of science-fiction goodies: social speculation, planetary exploration, space travel, alien encounters, a generation ship, a giant and deadly derelict spaceship, the far future, machiavellian machinations, imaginative settings, ineffable mysteries, a tense mingling of horror and wonder, and much, much more.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /fantasticfiction/shipoffools.htm (324 words)

	Generation ships
		Of the three, generation ships are probably the most technologically feasible.
		Even worse, most authors assume that the inhabitants will lose their technical skills over several generations, so lest someone accidentally let the air out or release a deadly fungus from an old Petri dish, no one can be given any really crucial job.
		Even when the ship is only one “light-day” from Earth, the minimum time between a question from the ship and an answer from Earth is two days.
	www.bewilderingstories.com /issue94/generation_ships.html (968 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Katrina Campbell submitted a cite for the form "generation ship" from a 1992 reprint of Anne McCaffrey and Jody Lynn Nye's "The Death of Sleep".
		By the time the ten remaining generation ships arrived in the Leffer System, Earth had already established a going-business of trade and cultural exchange, which was already a hundred or so years old..
		It was the oldest of the original EEC generation ships still in space.
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/54 (760 words)

	Amazon.com: Ship of the Line (Star Trek: The Next Generation): Books: Diane Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its as if he's facing a life altering moment all the while wanting to scream to him that a ship is a ship is a ship.
		Totally contray to the way in which he was portrayed in his breif cameo at the end of the episode "Cause and Effect." Told by Picard and Riker, that he and his crew are in the future with no avenue of possible return and he all but collapses figuratively speaking.
		This would be akin to General Norman Schwartzkophf(sp), simply going to to Baghdad during the first Gulf War in 1991, asking for the Iraqis to return their colation prisoners, and with little fan fare the Iraqis agreeing.
	www.amazon.com /Ship-Line-Star-Trek-Generation/dp/0671009257 (3178 words)

	Scorpion Project 1230.0
		The missile boat of Project 1230.0 (Scorpion) is a new-generation ship.
		In terms of combat capabilities and performance characteristics, the missile boat of Project 1230.0 is claimed to surpass all missile boats and corvettes of a similar displacement.
		The new corvette has gunnery and missile systems that are unique to a ship of its class.
	www.fas.org /man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1230.htm (302 words)

	Science Fiction Themes: Space Travel Part 2
		An alternative method of transporting your characters through space is what is known as the generation ship.
		In a generation ship the characters go about living their lives at a normal rate and the spaceship travels at a believable speed.
		With a generation ship, many of the passengers will spend their entire lives within the confines of the ship, never setting foot on a planet.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/writing_science_fiction/76219 (454 words)

	The Last Generation by Robert E. Bleier (Book) in Science Fiction & Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A multi-generation ship is nearing the end of a 2000-year journey to a new planet.
		Between this gang war, and neglect, the ship had degrading to the point where it would soon be uninhabitable.
		By their lead, a fraction of the ship's population makes an exodus for an escape ship.
	www.lulu.com /content/141099 (275 words)

	Amazon.com: Ghost Ship (Star Trek The Next Generation, No 1): Books: Diane Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Three hundred years later, Counsellor Deanna Troi awakens in her quarters from a nightmare in which she senses the voices of the crew of that Russian ship, whose life-essences were somehow absorbed by the creature that destroyed them.
		The Next Generation was such an excellent series that it's hard to believe that one book could focus almost entirely on the goofy parts of the series.
		Given that this was the very first of the original Star Trek The Next Generation novels and that the author didn't even have the benefit of a full season of the show to work with, she did a worthwhile job in her characterizations based on her limited knowledge of them.
	www.amazon.com /Ghost-Ship-Star-Trek-Generation/dp/0671746081 (1918 words)

	Defence Talk Forum - Chinese Navy - New Generation Ship on Patrol
		Please comment on the ship and its role NOT on the politics.
		Generally offshore Patrol Ships are of displacment 1200-1800 tons but not more than 2000 tons.
		malaysian government did not finalized the type of missiles to be install aboard the ships, so there will be no "missile firing" for a while.
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3568 (524 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Star Trek The Next Generation: Ship of the Line
		Ship of the Line is a good, though slightly flawed, novel that is worth reading.
		The answer to that lies in a three-fold plot line that involves Captain Morgan Bateman (the character portrayed by Kelsey Grammar in a cameo role), Montgomery Scott, a holodeck image of James Kirk, and Gul Madred, Picard's Cardassian torturer.
		In greater depth, Carey explores what the loss of his ship must mean for Picard.
	www.sfsite.com /11b/ship21.htm (694 words)

	"Magic number" for space pioneers calculated - 15 February 2002 - New Scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For a space trip of 200 years, perhaps eight to 10 generations, his calculations suggest a minimum number of 160 people are needed to maintain a stable population.
		The second is to ask the space crew to postpone reproduction to later in woman's fertile period, perhaps age 35 to 40, creating longer time gaps between the generations.
		This measure results in a stable population of just 80 but the consequences of the increased medical risks of late childbirth have not yet been considered.
	www.newscientist.com /news/news.jsp?id=ns99991936 (577 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Non-Stop
		Millennium's SF Masterworks series includes a re-release of his well-known 1958 novel, Non-Stop, which was given the rather less inspiring title Starship in the U.S. Non-Stop is a generation ship novel, in some ways a reaction against some earlier generation ship books.
		The idea is that the generation ship has broken down.
		Aldiss rings several clever changes on the general concept of the generation ship.
	www.sfsite.com /12a/ns94.htm (700 words)

	M Ship Co. \| MO 100 Cargo Ship \| Next Generation Hull Technology
		The MO 100 Cargo Ship is a wave-suppressing, high-performance watercraft for use on U.S. inland waterways.
		The ship also has a draft of 4 feet with a broad flat open deck for stowage and a pilot cabin at the bow.
		This smaller size commuter boat is the ideal vessel for high-frequency trolley-style ferry services and is an important part of the Mangia Onda boat transportation solution.
	www.mshipco.com /?page_id=31 (165 words)

	Chinese Navy - New Generation Ship on Patrol - - Naval Forces \| Defence Talk Forum
		Chinese Navy - New Generation Ship on Patrol - - Naval Forces
		Chinese Navy - New Generation Ship on Patrol
		Re: Chinese Navy - New Generation Ship on Patrol
	www.defencetalk.com /forums/showthread.php?p=38711 (638 words)

	Scifispace.com's Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Forums -> Generation Ark Ship Stories To Proxima Centauri + (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I would love to read something of generation ship stories and the like.
		They also do a good job of having the fighters and ships behave like they would in space.
		Greg Bear's trilogy, Eon, Eternity, and Legacy, feature a generational starship called Thistledown, which is launched to explore nearby star systems, and also deals with the problems and consequences of manipulating local gravity monifolds to negate the effects of momentum.
	www.scifispace.com /members/forums/index.php?showtopic=2876 (590 words)

	The Crouton Generation Archives
		Ship's Bartender, Mordred Lotson is looking through his mother's old recipes and finds one he figures should be a fine drink.
		Upon mixing and serving it, he discovers that it is instead a youthening potion that takes 20 years off the life of it's users.
		Zen adopts an alter ego named Xoanon, who be- comes a bezerk paranoid and attempts to starve the crew by reprogramming the food synthesizers to produce nothing but spinach, eggplant, and brussel sprouts.
	www.apeiros.com /~tcg/tcg1/epi3.html (3018 words)

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