Recent content by TR1978

Seveneves Hi, I played Orbiter years ago (2007-9 ish?), and have been following this forum sporadically. I just want to bring to your attention Neal Stephensons (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash) new book SEVENEVES. It is a story about what happens if the moon just suddenly explodes. Im actually...

Hehe, I in no way have any knowledge to have an opinion on this, I just found it interesting that Nasa had tested it and got strange results. :-D

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/31/nasa-validates-impossible-space-drive

Hey orbiteers! First of all, I'm an absolute amateur when it comes to creating music. But I like to try my best at making some music on my computer once a while all the same. There is nothing like it when you get the creative juices going. (and her comes a disclaimer: I'm an amateur! My music...

Yes, "steam ship pier" is one of the locations where footage was aquired as Urwumpe says. But there are now so many reports that it is difficult to give you an answer. Me myself is in the far south, and I don't know anyone up north, and really dont know any more than you. Sorry :-) Heh, I...

Amazing! It reminds me of a galaxy. I would love to have seen that live, but I live way south in the country, unforunately.

The big picture was taken from "Dampskipskaia" in Trømsø: http://tinyurl.com/yzrt6uj Sorry I don't know the bearing. It was visible from Sør-Trøndelag to the north of Finnmark.

The article does mention the possibility of it being a Bulava, which according to Reuters has failed on 6 of the last 11 (test)launches.

I agree. But keep in mind this is a long duration exposure on a tripod. There are also a few movies which may be a bit more convincing: http://go.vg.no/cgi-bin/go.cgi/vp/http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27553 http://www.vgtv.no/?id=27558

Look at this: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/vaer/artikkel.php?artid=596369 English: http://tinyurl.com/yheqc5n Any theories? A Russian rocket launch?

English version: http://www.zorich.ru/games/k_factor/epresentation.htm

A positive Altitude is key! (or is that attitude?) Angle, angel? I don't really know. Who am I?

Thanks for that detailed explanation dbeachy1. Helps alot.

Manual here: http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/simulations/games_i_o/microsoft_space_simulator.html (they require payment for downloading though) Keychart: http://www.planetmic.com/orbit/mssskey1.txt

I made it work now using goto, thanks for that tip. :) Sorry, I'll try to explain better: 1 and 2 worked as expected (triggered the correspondig if statements. 3 exited the program. 4 to 9 and 0 made it print "Wrong selection".. All as I intended. But, if I for instance typed in a "g", the...