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I must be the only person in my area who's put his humming bird feeder back up since Gustav. I did it Tuesday 2 Sep, the 2nd thing I did after putting my squirrel feeder back up. The birds are still acting like they can't eat anywhere else. I'm pouring nearly 1 gallon a day down their...

Howdy All- Sorry to be lagged but Gustav knocked me off the air for a week. And from what I can tell, those of you in the Houston area had better batten down (again) for Ike. Unless it gives us a second helping... Anyway, here's what happened to me in Gustav... On Friday, 29 Aug 08, I...

My Fellow Gulf Coast Inmates- Looks like we'll be playing Hurricane Hot Potato again in the next few days. I won't wish it on you all if you all don't wish it on me :rofl:

You all have probably seen this before, but I didn't find it in the SEARCH so I'm posting it up. This is the B-52 "The High and Mighty One" used to carry the X-15 up for all its flights. Looking at the scoreboard, I had no idea they flew so many times. You can also judge whether or not the...

The 4 July issue of Science magazine has many papers on observations made by the MESSENGER spacecraft during its 1st pass by Mercury back in January. It's pretty interesting stuff, although rather disappointing in a personal sense. Mercury still seems to be about 60% iron by weight, but none...

I'm hearing that the Borealis Basin on Mars is actually a 3.9Byr-old impact crater 8500km x 10600km, by far the biggest crater yet known. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/mars-basin-0625.html Have there been any papers yet to disprove this idea? While I'm down with impacts of this size...

100 years ago on this day (according to the calendar used outside of Siberia :P), some sort of thing from space blew up over the woods near Tunguska. Guess it's about time for that to happen again, eh? Anyway, the 100th anniversary of anything space-related is kinda cool, so let's party...

Check out this cool pic of the sun rising over Mars or something :). Actually, it's not. It's the inside of the my ankle joint as seen through the little telescope thingy the orthopaedic surgeon stuck in there while he was doing my microfracture surgery last week. The "sun" is actually glare...

Howdy- I recently got IMFD 5.1g and have encountered a problem with the autoburn feature. Here's what happens... Set up course change (orbit eject, mid-course, plane change, orbit insert, etc.) as before. Go to the BV page of the Course program Select Autoburn Ship orients in what I assume...

This is mostly about the Map function in IMFD 5.1.... I've been doing Orbiter on an old P3 computer under WinXP. On that machine, the Map function in IMFD 5.1 looks just as advertised, with all features showing either by default or when activated with a button (SOI, intercept, etc.). I...

Howdy- I've got a problem: I can't make any of Greg Burch's add-ons work at all. This is a problem unique to his stuff--everybody else's add-ons seem to work fine. When I try to run one of the scenarios that come with a Burch add-on, however, it's always the same story (regardless of...

I'm trying to figure out how to use this attachment vs. docking thing I keep hearing about, with no luck :sos: For instance, I'd like to try to put a space station together using Greg Burch's SSBB lego system, using one of his Descartes-class ships. But the docks with those add-ons seem to...

Title says the question. Vinka's site has no info on usage and all the add-ons just say "spacecraft3.dll and/or multi-stage required", but assume you know what to do with it. But I don't. So where to put these things? Thanks. Edit: thread title should be "do", not "to". Too much whiskey...

Thought I'd add this to the list: Rdenny has made a 20-min video tutorial showing how to use IMFD5 for interplanetary trips. Only he's flying between Europa and Callisto, which uses the same principles as going from Earth to Mars, only on a smaller scale (and with more complicated local...