Nostromo - Alien ship


	Nostromo - Alien ship

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8-5-2008 11:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7d9e2360-dd99-48bf-b9a1-b947c25a0206/3921B5A4-BAC5-400B-9AED-E4CAC45612B4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nostromo_%28spaceship%29&oldid=229107957" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nostromo_%28spaceship%29&oldid=229107957" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nostromo_%28spaceship%29&oldid=229107957"><P>Commercial Towing Vessel <I>Nostromo</I>, an M-Class starfreighter property of the <A title="Weyland-Yutani" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyland-Yutani">Weyland-Yutani</A> Corporation, is a <A title="Tugboat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugboat">tug</A>, a towing vessel, hauling an enormous (some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in length) <A title="Ore" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore">ore</A> <A title="Refinery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinery">refinery</A> and 20 <A title="Million" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million">million</A> <A title="Ton" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton">tons</A> of raw ore, weighing many times the mass of the <I>Nostromo</I>. The ship itself is still substantial, over 60,000 metric tons and almost 245 metres (800 ft) long, including three <A title="Deck (ship)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deck_%28ship%29">decks</A>, four holds, stores, <A title="Engine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine">engines</A>, and lots of pipes and ducts; its <A title="Escape ship" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_ship">escape ship</A> is called <I>Narcissus</I>. The ship is fitted with a <A title="Self-destruct" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-destruct">self-destruct</A> system (for instances involving military cargo that could be hijacked) and separates itself from the ore refinery platform via an umbilical detachment system. The interior features a large 'space jockey' cockpit for all crew piloting functions, a medical bay, dining area, central computer room, engineering areas, a hypersleep chamber and a labyrinthine network of connecting corridors.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3921B5A4-BAC5-400B-9AED-E4CAC45612B4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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