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It's not working for me either. Firefox says: "404 - File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

Far Lands or Bust? :probe:

There's no joystick plugged in and there's no autopilot going on. I fire all my thrusters manually. I'll try switching off the RCS. That's a REALLY good idea. I didn't think of that!

I first noticed it with the Deepstar, but I've found that it happens to me with the Delta Glider, and Ravenstar and all the other ships too(There's quite a list of ships). Let me find out exactly the time compression that it wonks up. Okay. Arrow Freighter is the ONLY ONE that doesn't do it...

Sounds similar although they didn't really have an answer other than they assumed that it was either an autopilot or him accidentally thrusting while in high warp. Let me ask this. Would traveling from Earth to another planet with my spacecraft pointed in a certain direction, even if I used...

All I know is that the spacecraft is not spinning. I pop up the time compression and suddenly, the spacecraft is immediately spinning at infinite speed. Is there a proper time compression I should be using when doing interplanetary voyages? I'm thinking I'm just setting this thing too high and...

The spinning wasn't due to an autopilot done at high warp. I did my maneuver and completed it. I then went to high warp. It was then that the spacecraft went into the crazy spin. As soon as I noticed it, I popped back to real time but the spin still appeared to be near infinite. I hit "Kill...

I'm wondering if this is a bug. You might think I'm nuts, but I've been flying in Orbiter for YEARS but I've never left the Earth-moon system and everything I've done has been between those two locations (and that's a lot of stuff. Just a testament to the vast amount of stuff you can do with...

The major problem with cloning is that if you're using DNA from something, the new offspring will have the DNA of a living thing that was the age of the thing that contributed the DNA. So it won't live long, unless they use baby DNA. Dolly the Sheep ended up with an old lamb's body in only a...

That Slingatron thing looks SCARY!:uhh: Imagine the forces in there! It would probably shred any living thing to get the velocity it would need. And imagine if something goes wrong!

I remember back when I was 21, I went to Florida for a vacation. On the trip back, a HUGE storm came in behind us. We were at cruising altitude, and then all of a sudden, we got hit with a bunch of wind that shook us all over and then the plane dropped like a brick. We were weightless for...

I have a big book here about the history of the video game industry where there's an interview with the some of the lead programmers at Activision and they say that they laughed when they saw the Atari port of Pac Man. They say that they could have easily done it without the flicker, and with...

There's still people writing games and stuff for those old systems, mostly using emulators now. I've actually seen a LOT of new Atari 2600 games that people have coded, and that's a tough thing to do. Coding an Atari game is just ridiculous. I tried to learn to do it myself and gave up...

I would imagine that the energy required to turn the sun's heavy elements to lighter ones would completely obliterate the star. What experiment using un-melting magnets is this guy talking about? I've never heard of a magnet that can't melt.

The name of this post should be "What? The sun could last forever?" instead of what I typed. I was randomly looking around on the web and I came upon a question on "wiki.answers.com" that asked "How long does the sun have left?" The top part, I knew, but that bottom part intrigued me. I've...