If the Ancient Romans had a Space Program, What Would Their Space Ships Look Like? Maybe like this? This is Archonius IV. Victor in the Alpha Centauri War. It will fly at NYPower on an H53 Mellow Yellow.
I posted it on Facebook, but not here.
Great, now I'm an absent-minded stalker
Volati te salutant! ( We who are about to fly salute you [ corrections welcome { I may have just coined this phrase } ] ) .
That's more like Flash Gordon.
This guy would destroy all the little Roman space ships in a screaming rage, naked, painted blue with his hair limed back! Long live PICTLAND!
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Would the design really matter? As the ancient Romans had no representation for zero, could they complete a countdown and launch? V, IV, III, II, I..........
Would the design really matter? As the ancient Romans had no representation for zero, could they complete a countdown and launch? V, IV, III, II, I..........
They would probably launch at I.
All those symbols are Roman. The symbols down the top represent the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. On the Canard wings the symbols represent the Trinity (this was added during Constantine's reign), The sword is the Roman symbol for power. The olive crescent, a symbol for leadership and honor. The phrase "Imperium Romanum Stellis Ducet means "The Roman Empire will Rule the Stars."
There's more to life than pop culture.
I'm sorry but speaking from a country still struggling to come to get over the trauma of Roman occupation this is all too much. I know they left in 410 but that's not so long ago. I still see the hurt in people's eyes when I walk down the road (that's Roman Road, Bethnal Green...or at least I think that's what I'm seeing). It's bad enough knowing all those places named '-chester' were their garrison towns. Thinking they might have built spaceports here (no doubt linked by pedal powered monorails) while we Brits were still thinking plank wheels and trousers were pretty cool just does my head in. Having said that, if I'm forced to confront the grim possibility - I'd say their spaceships would definitely be bronze coloured. I just feel it.
Sometimes it's just not worth it to make a joke. Even with a winky guy.
You should demand that the Italian government apologize and pay restitution...Good luck with that.
Why would the Romans have Led Zeppelin symbols all over their rocket? Led Zeppelin was British and didn't come around until 1969.
wink: in case it wasn't obvious)
I'm sorry but speaking from a country still struggling to come to get over the trauma of Roman occupation this is all too much. I know they left in 410 but that's not so long ago. I still see the hurt in people's eyes when I walk down the road (that's Roman Road, Bethnal Green...or at least I think that's what I'm seeing). It's bad enough knowing all those places named '-chester' were their garrison towns. Thinking they might have built spaceports here (no doubt linked by pedal powered monorails) while we Brits were still thinking plank wheels and trousers were pretty cool just does my head in. Having said that, if I'm forced to confront the grim possibility - I'd say their spaceships would definitely be bronze coloured. I just feel it.
Before the Age of Science, before the Age of Reason and before the Enlightenment and Renascence, ya put yer motors at the front of the rocket. Living in our age of Modernity we now know better not to do such things. So these might have been Roman like rockets, mid cant and tractor motors. Dragons, squids and tape worms. Rockets not designed for sleek efficiency and performance, but rather to appease and entertain the blood lusting masses.
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Like in Monty Python's Life of Brian the Romans are the bad guys, but we should really thank them for the roads, sewers, aqueducts, security, education, commerce, baths, entertainment, writing, organization, technology. . . and don't forget concrete!
Just hope we don't run into any Huns. By Jove I would hate to see what they do with black powder rocket motors!
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