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Air France Flight 4590? That Concorde was in the air for less than thirty seconds.

I help with LaserFest, a group of physics and engineering students at my university (WVU) that goes to schools and libraries around West Virginia to teach elementary-level kids a little bit about lasers and careers in STEM fields while giving them a laser show. It's really fun!

It's beautiful!

A MFD that would display HTML files... like OF :)

Hmm.. Probe is an electronic device. It must have some kind of operating system... What OS does Probe run?

Well, it's official. Google is trying to take over the world.

Stargate theme anyone?

Thanks! That is a HUGE help!

Or the flag of the United Nations.. quite nice-looking if you ask me.. Also, if there is to be a doctor aboard... could it be named Leonard McCoy?

This is amazing! Oh, Jonathan Coulton wrote a song about the set; it's quite funny. YouTube- Mandelbrot Set

It looks fabulous, Hispa! Just an idea, it might be a way to keep the weight down while keeping the longer truss, but why not turn the engines around and have them in tractor configuration, at a slight angle from the centerline, in the style of the ISV Venture Star and the Valkyrie concept that...

There's a passage in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey (the book) that describes, in detail, a day in the life of David Bowman and Frank Poole on the Discovery One. It is of course very sci-fi, but I would imagine that the 'feel' of it would apply to life on any 'present day' spacecraft.

That's a very interesting design. I like it a lot. Have you ever read the novel "Titan" by Stephen Baxter? The protagonists use a very similar spacecraft complex for getting to Titan.

I can has cheezburger?

I see your point, but to "live off" a planet would require the use of local resources. The goal is, eventually, self-sufficiency. That means that everything needed to survive can come from the planet. The Moon has some water, in a few places. It would be useful not only for everything we...

Concerned with stress, are you? Hmm. Relax the mind, you must. Sorry, couldn't resist ;) Anyway, the first thing you could do would be to break up your responsibilities, like homework assignments, and focus on them one at a time. Start earlier, so you'll be done sooner. Finishing homework...

I know right? I'm not going to lie, the first five minutes was my favorite part of the movie. First the awesome planetary system with Polyphemus, and then those few tantalizing shots of the Venture Star, and finally the shuttles. And then the shuttle landed and I'm like OMG it's a VTOL...

That is a very interesting article. And I LOVE that novel! It was great! I loved everything about it (well, maybe not the feces in the spacesuit parts) but it was really entertaining! And when the crazy general tried to shoot down the Endeavour! And the president was soooo wacko! Haha.

Yes, I recall downloading this a while back, but it's for the earlier version of DGEX. DGEx on JupiterIII-X

Oh, Foundation is great! Make sure to read the whole series, up to Foundation and Earth. Then read the first two, Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation!