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  • noun Plural form of spaceship.

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Examples

  • An Espinosa comic featuring dinosaurs in spaceships is sure to be awesome.

    Rod Espinosa's DinoWars to Be Released 2007

  • Tom Rogers, author of Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, joins us to discuss leaping hulks, giant ants, and why shooting down alien spaceships is harder than it looks.

    John Joseph Adams » The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 10: Space Battles! Giant Ants! Physics! 2010

  • Long-haul trips could be made in spaceships instead of planes in 20 years 'time if Virgin's efforts to commercialize space travel succeed, the president of Virgin Galactic told Reuters in an interview.

    NASA Watch: May 2009 Archives 2009

  • Long-haul trips could be made in spaceships instead of planes in 20 years 'time if Virgin's efforts to commercialize space travel succeed, the president of Virgin Galactic told Reuters in an interview.

    Space Plane Idea for Laug Haul Flights Resurrected by Virgin - NASA Watch 2009

  • Later, after discovering writers like Elizabeth A. Lynn, I realized science fiction and fantasy was awesome not only because it had the cool trappings I liked (as in spaceships and telepathic dragons), but also because I could see myeslf reflected there ... even if I wasn't quite ready to claim my GLBT status.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • The only thing satisfies that criteria is knowledge, which will necessarily include large rockets and astronauts in spaceships in space as a relatively small subset of our overall activities.

    Things We Used To Do - NASA Watch 2009

  • Tom Rogers, author of Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics, joins us to discuss leaping hulks, giant ants, and why shooting down alien spaceships is harder than it looks.

    John Joseph Adams » 2010 » March 2010

  • A highlight was showing off the new sampler reel of various characters and spaceships from the Guidolon project.

    Guidolon sampler frankwu 2010

  • What about fiction that takes place thousands or even millions of years before humanity, with aliens in spaceships?

    MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 1) 2008

  • The phrase "A long, long time ago" juxtaposed with the imagery of humans in spaceships, does seem to place the action in another strata or cycle of reality in this manner, a previous future long since past.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007

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