Newsgroup: it.fan.startrek
Titolo: Astronavi rottame

http://www.scifisquad.com/2009/10/21/the-top-five-hunk-of-junk-spaceships/
Their engines whine; their walls creak. These spaceships may look like
antiques from the future, but many pack more punch under the hood than they
let on. Never judge a book by its cover, and never judge a spaceship by its
rust-holes and sputtering warp drive. What space-faring rattletraps make
the cut in our top five list of "hunk of junk" spaceships?
5. EAGLE V from Spaceballs
The most impressive thing about the Eagle V is its amazingly pristine (and
retro-hideous) 1973 Winnebago chassis. Piloted by Captain Lone Starr and
his Mawg co-pilot, Barf, the Eagle V is a ship-for-hire last seen crash
landing on the surface of MoonaVega. I would say it was last seen on the
recent Spaceballs cartoon series, but that would imply that people actually
watched it.
FEATURES: Interior shag carpeting, perfect for camping.
DRAWBACKS: Screen door, chemical toilet, small fuel tank.
4. THUNDER ROAD from Explorers
The only ship on this list named after a Bruce Springsteen song, this is
the vessel that carried Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, and Jason Presson into
outer space where they made first contact with a rubbery alien who could
lip-sync to "Yakety Yak". Higher forms of intelligence, indeed. This bold
trio built a craptacular capsule out of a rusty tilt-a-whirl, a garbage
can, a busted TV, and Charles Foster Kane's sled, and somehow, not only
managed to get it into space without imminent death, but impressed Dick
Miller in the process. The vast loneliness of space caused so much
psychological damage amongst the children that Phoenix OD'ed years later,
Presson went off-the-grid, and Ethan Hawke married Uma Thurman.
FEATURES: Bubble-based technology provides the ship with its own oxygen
supply.
DRAWBACKS: Bubble-based technology does not prevent the ship from sinking
into the ocean at the end of the film.
3. SERENITY from Firefly
"She don't look like much," professes Book as he takes his first glance at
the Firefly-class cargo ship Serenity in the first episode of Joss Whedon's
cult smash. Ship engineer Kaylee replies quickly, "Oh, she'll fool ya."
Fat-bottomed ships, you make the rockin' world go round. To avoid unwanted
scrutiny, the ship features not a single weapon to protect itself against a
hostile version of space, operating on frontier rules. This requires the
ship's Captain and pilot to carry out ridiculously fool-hardy flying
maneuvers like gorram idiots in order to keep on smuggling, but,
surprisingly, the ship can handle these with amazing grace. Known cargo has
included gold-foil wrapped protein bars, cows, and actress Summer Glau.
FEATURES: Plenty of secret hiding places, separate shuttles available for
rent.
DRAWBACKS: Seems to have a high pilot turnaround.
2. THE BORG CUBE from Star Trek
This ship, made out of what can only be described as the itty-bitty busted
up pieces of other, weaker ships that it has obliterated, was just about
the coolest thing ever when it made its debut on Star Trek: The Next
Generation (in the 1989 second-season episode, "Q Who?"). Since then, its
appeared on every television incarnation of Trek to date. Why? Because it's
FREAKIN' AWESOME. Voyager threatened to "explain" the Borg to death, but I
always preferred these baddies as weird, unexplained automatons that seemed
to have no place in the pristine Star Trek universe. It takes about a fleet
and a half of Federation starships to even begin to put a dent in one of
these blocks, making it easily one of the most powerful ships on the list.
FEATURES: Geometric design that would make IKEA weep.
DRAWBACKS: Assimilation into a hive-mind society, frequent run-ins with
Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew.
1. THE MILLENNIUM FALCON from Star Wars
If even a local yokel farm boy can recognize that your spaceship looks like
junk, then it reeeeally must look like junk. Once owned by Lando
Calrissian, the ship was handed over to Han Solo and his Wookie
life-partner Chewbacca during a heated game of sabacc (an intergalactic
card game that never quite caught on like Pokemon did). Over the course of
three movies, we've seen the ship's hyperdrive stall out, we've seen Han
accidentally land it in the belly of a worm, and we've seen the ship
sitting, broken down, parked in a hangar deck on Hoth. "You came in that
thing? You're braver than I thought," is Princess Leia's immediate reaction
to this hunk of junk, but how is she to know just how awesome it actually
is? In those same three movies, we've seen it gun down a flank of
TIE-Fighters all on its lonesome, we've seen it take out Darth Vader like a
chump, and we've even seen it blow up the Death Star. Lando calls her "the
fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy", and he may not be wrong--she's
certainly the coolest.
FEATURES: Can make the Kessel Run in twelve parsecs.
DRAWBACKS: Corellian-design easily recognized by bounty hunters, Hutts, and
the Empire.
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Jolan Tru
Filippo "Hytok" Simone
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 FEATURES: Geometric design that would make IKEA weep.
Chissï¿½ come riderï¿½ l'estensore dell'articolo quando si troverï¿½ una 
nanosonda rettale di diametro 60 mm.....
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nanosonda rettale di diametro 60 mm.....
...mica tanto nana sta sonda eh!
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 ....mica tanto nana sta sonda eh!
Te l'ha prestata Legolas?
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Te l'ha prestata Legolas?
...eh?
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 ....eh?
Legolas, l'elfo gaio.
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V'Ral ha scritto:
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legolas,e' vero che ho detto che ci serve un po' di fortuna per uscire 
vivi da sto' viaggio.
ma questo non ti autorizza a toccarmi il culo tutto il tempo!
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 ma questo non ti autorizza a toccarmi il culo tutto il tempo!
Legolas e le nanosonde... poi mica tanto "nano"...
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V'Ral