d.brin wrote:

> Hi folks.  Hoping you are all having a great summer. All
> except for you fine folks south of the equator.

> Quick question, Do any of you know the URL of images of
> my spaceship STREAKER?

There's Robert Hurt's classic "Streaker Down":

http://members.aol.com/roberth616/latest/streaker-down.jpg

There are front, side, and three-quarters views of my model:

http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee/streaker.jpg

And my "Izmunuti" animation:

http://www.sloan3d.com/gallery/izmunuti.avi

And this image has an earlier version of my model:

http://www.sloan3d.com/gallery/kithrup2.jpg

> Or references to its dimensions?

I dug up my old notes. Startide gives two firm numbers: the
interior of the ship's main bay is 20 m in diameter, and the
ship's central spine is  5 m in diameter. My model assumes
the exterior is *exactly* 20 m, and the interior is only a
little less. Looking back at the notes I used to build my
3D model several years ago...

http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee/streaker.jpg

Back when I wrote those notes, it looks like I tried to
do a lot of math to figure out the length, but that never
really settled anything. In the end, I just *picked* a
length, 128 m, that looked like it matched the book's
illustration. I've drawn a quick sketch containing the
rest of the measurements used in the model:

http://www.sloan3d.com/brinl/streaker_hand_measurements.jpg

> The people at the new Sci Fi Museum want to include it in
> the gallery of starships and I'd like to provide as much
> info as possible.

Cool.
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