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[MattBaker]

I think I'm becoming Howard Wolowitz.

If you can sing a heartwarming song to your wife you might.


Halloween to me is like Christmas. Since we're not in the Basement everyone may interpret that as he wishes.

 

[Quick_Nick]

This is BEFORE today's coronal mass ejection hits Earth.
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=88601

Many to come: http://spaceweathergallery.com/index.php?title=aurora&title2=lights

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Official spooky mod for Don't Starve:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JZKCxzdn-U"]The Screecher - Prepare Your Butts - Really Scary - YouTube[/ame]

 

[mojoey]

If you can sing a heartwarming song to your wife you might.


Halloween to me is like Christmas. Since we're not in the Basement everyone may interpret that as he wishes.

Do I get a nurse too?

 

[MattBaker]

Do I get a nurse too?

Sure thing but one in Germany.

A romanian man who can't really speak German but works here because no one wants to work that much for that few money.

Have fun.

 

[mojoey]

Sure thing but one in Germany.

A romanian man who can't really speak German but works here because no one wants to work that much for that few money.

Have fun.

Ehhh...fine. Is he quiet?

 

[MattBaker]

Ehhh...fine. Is he quiet?

So quiet that old Horst got a second heart attack.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Udacity is introducing an online Master of Science in Computer Science program:
https://www.udacity.com/georgiatech

 

[mojoey]

So quiet that old Horst got a second heart attack.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

:uhh:

 

[Pipcard]

I read Baxter's "Voyage" over the summer. Because I wasn't planning on reading his next novel, "Titan" (since I read a post by Cras saying that it was "pretty depressing"), I decided to spoil myself on Wikipedia. Voyage was a realistic and plausible-sounding alternate history novel. But the plot of this is just ridiculous! Especially the political plot, and the part about sending a space shuttle with an ion drive and repurposed Apollo capsules on a mission to the eponymous moon! How can you move a vessel weighing dozens of tons with those engines?

 

[mojoey]

It ain't legit if it ain't pulling a 10g turn around the Moon.

 

[jedidia]

How can you move a vessel weighing dozens of tons with those engines?

Slowly but deliberately... The concept doesn't sound too plausible, but I wonder more about where the power for those engines is supposed to come from. If you have to refit the spaceshuttle with a powersupply for long-term life support and electric propulsion, a retooling of the ISS might actually be simpler (but I suppose it's not present in the alternate history scenario). But knowing Baxter, I would assume that he at least did the math for the thrust...

 

[Urwumpe]

The main problem with Baxters plan was actually the week-long passage through the Van Allen belts - the astronauts would be already deadly radiation sick after a few days.

Even with a very very low acceleration, you can reach your goal. You need a higher DV than for a Hohmann Transfer, but the specific impulse more than offsets it.

 

[teslax]

Speaking about Halloween, does Orbiter have its own special-day where players celebrate anything related to Orbiter, space and beyond?

 

[Urwumpe]

Speaking about Halloween, does Orbiter have its own special-day where players celebrate anything related to Orbiter, space and beyond?

We have the traditional Probe Day, on 4th October.

 

[teslax]

We have the traditional Probe Day, on 4th October.

Ooh, well too bad I registered only few weeks afterwards. What did you guys do?

 

[Axertan]

We :hail: the , of course

 

[teslax]

We :hail: the , of course

I might be the nth person already to ask this question. But, what is, or even who is actually the Probe? V'Ger? Rama? or the whale one?

 

[Urwumpe]

I might be the nth person already to ask this question. But, what is, or even who is actually the Probe? V'Ger? Rama? or the whale one?

http://www.orbiterwiki.org/wiki/Probe

This is the only probe you need. There may be other probes, but this probe is special.

 

[Axertan]

This is the only probe you need. There may be other probes, but this probe is special.

Well said. For the Probe is the One. The Bringer of Knowledge. The Seer of the Far Side. The Ascended One.