Recent content by Nerull

Engine was shut down early at T+20s due to trajectory deviations. I put this together, the sync isn't perfect but the deviation in when each video gets loaded and starts is too great for me to fight with it any more: http://youtubedoubler.com/Nhw Looks like they've got some nasty pogo going...

White dwarfs take longer to cool into black dwarfs than the universe has existed, but this does not mean it is impossible, just that it hasn't happened yet. ---------- Post added at 07:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:06 PM ---------- Polaris has not been the north star for all of...

Alt-tab works just fine, and that's not a win7 annoyance, that's a 'you had a firewall on' annoyance. Homegroup works alongside of normal sharing, not in place of it.

Why? I just created one with 35 with no noticeable slowdown. Far more of the computers time is spent rendering than doing physics calculations.

It is likely they will tell you to read your Terms of Service, where they are likely to have rules banning servers.

Still quite a bit to implement left, such as night lights and specular mapping. I have not yet examined the format in detail, but I think night lights is just a matter of processing the night texture in a similar manner. Specular reflections requires building the binary data file to go with it...

Updated with bug fixes and speed improvements. Processing and DXT1 compression went from 41 seconds (With CUDA) to 14 seconds without CUDA using texconv from the DirectX SDK. Unfortunatly the RGB files created by texconv do not seem to work in Orbiter - planets turn white. I modified the...

A command line app to build planet tetures up to level 8, allows more format control than pltex. Aside from curiosity, this was mostly made to allow use of other DXT formats. It currently supports DXT1, DXT5 (Possibly useless in orbiter, but its there), and uncompressed RGB. This will allow...

While not booting sounds like a bad memory combo, are you actually doing anything that would benefit from /3GB? You do *not* need the switch for your system to use 3GB of memory, the switch determines how virtual address space is divided up between processes and the kernel.

Perhaps you should look up how a space elevator actually works?

You do realize Germany is a first world country, right, and they have internet access there just like the US? (If not better) Most people who go overseas for a semester try to learn at least something about the country they are going to.

Took this a few months ago, never posted it. M33. 80mm f/7, ST-8 CCD. 10x2 minute exposures, stacked in CCDStack.

Not sure it really means that hot jupiters are more common. Remember, Kepler works by detecting the change in light when a planet passes in front of its star. If you were looking for Jupiter from another solar system, you would only see it every 11 years. Earth, only once a year. Hot jupiters...

The most important rule is to find a club. If you ever want to do EX than Tripoli is your best bet - NAR does not allow people to make motors. You will need to build kits, starting with smaller Estes stuff, using commercial engines, and work your way up to high power. Tripoli requires level 2...

My advise, as someone who has been doing this for years, and is in fact packing to go to a National Association of Rocketry regional competition just this moment, is to forget asking your question here, and instead go here: http://www.rocketryforum.com/ Where people actually know what they are...