Talk:Gemini

Should we consider Gemini a spaceship, or should it belong to an entirely new class of patterns. Of course, the original Gemini is a spaceship, but the ability to be trivially modified to form spaceships of differing speeds differentiates it from any other known spaceship. I would like to know what others think before this is made into a legitimate pattern page.
~Sokwe 07:02, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

This page is about the original Gemini spaceship. Geminoids, such as the one Dave Greene posted, are also individual spaceships. The entire set of Geminoids can be considered to be a VVSS, or versatile-velocity spaceship.

More specifically, the set of Geminoids has three degrees of freedom (period, vertical displacement, and horizontal displacement). This is the first set of spaceships to have more than one degree of freedom. --Calcyman 08:44, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

There you go: "Geminoid". We can use that term to refer to a spaceship that behaves in the way Gemini does. Gemini should be reserved for the name of the original spaceship. Keiji 10:13, 22 May 2010 (UTC)