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    Idea: Realistic Space Travel Board Game

    Yup. http://apegames.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=APE0600&Category_Code=
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    Idea: Realistic Space Travel Board Game

    I've actually started playing them more; I've got a friend who has a ton of interesting games. We've played this game called Through the Ages, which is basically Civilization in board game form, and the Order of the Stick Adventure/board game.
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    News German ships blaze Arctic trail

    Looks like the icebreakers are a just-in-case thing, they're not actually being used. Furthur articles on the subject: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/...
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    News German ships blaze Arctic trail

    Apparently, the big news is that it's now possible to cross it without assistance from icebreakers.
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    Question Leaving For College

    Hey, a Florida guy! (to some degree) I've lived in St. Petersburg, just started at New College down in Sarasota.
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    Humor Retro games?

    I would hate to do that with, say, I Wanna Be The Guy. *eek*
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    Pluto balloon rockets.

    True, but you wouldn't have to spend all the energy getting through the dense lower atmosphere.
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    ICBM bombardment

    Where were you launching from?
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    controls

    What craft are you using? The stock Delta glider?
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    Flight Question Almost there........nevermind

    The V +/- vectors just show where you're going; pointing towards the +V[ISS] and burning should increase your CVEL. Nonspherical gravity might well be the problem, but if it isn't, you'll just need to be more precise when aligning planes and setting up your rendezvous in Sync MFD. (assuming you...
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    Landing on a Runway

    Well, if you're on ATM AUTO, it'll sometimes switch to RCS right as you're landing due to your low speed. I almost always switch to elevon & gear by the time I'm on final approach so I don't randomly crash.
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    Buying a Laptop

    I'm looking to buy a laptop for my own use when I go off to college this fall, and I'm looking for some advice on a few areas. First: I'd like to have Linux on it, (Ubuntu, specifically) but I'm not sure how many programs this will cut me off of. I know Wine exists as a Windows emulator, but...
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    Weather

    It's Florida, it's summer, it's hot. We in the Tampa Bay area aren't getting much rain right now, though.
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    Question AMSO sound

    How can I disable the ATC chatter (I think that's what it is, the talking between Apollo 11 and Houston is what I mean) on custom scenarios involving AMSO?
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    Video Tutorial: DG4 to ISS

    Wow, that was an awesome tutorial. I know how to rendezvous with things in orbit now! Massive thanks.
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