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Well, if heat's the problem. . . . There's always the unobtainium material found in the movie ''The Core''. Any heat will just end up strengthening it.

Spacecraft resonance Actually it's a little easier than you think. If I remember correctly, back in the Apollo program, the planners had to be very careful about launches becaus the vibrations of the 1st stage rocket engines were extremely close the the resonance of the entire Saturn 5 stack.

Martian Communication Wouldn't a far simpler solution be just to put a satellite in the same orbit as Mars, but exactly 90 degrees behind it, so that when Earth and Mars are on opposite sides of the sun, we can relay all communications through the satellite. And it wouldn't require a solar...

Magnetic Fields What if you use magnetic fields outrigged around the spacecraft, overlapping, so that you still have the protective magnetic fields, but none of the electronics are in the magnetic field.

Just to let you know, it's a lot harder to achieve resonance in a space craft than you think, since different materials have different resonance frequencies.

Whoops No, I just need to figure out how to use TransX instead of Transfer.

Crashing into Earth You actually manage to get back to Earth? How do you do it, I always fly out of the Earth/Moon System watching the green planet getting smaller in the window :dry:

heat Depends on what kind of atmosphere it has.

Landing on the Sun I don't like flying real close to the Sun, it get's all weird when the Sun fills up half the screen. Although it is fun to turn on unlimited fuel, and turned the engines on full pointed straight at the sun. You end up flying out of the solar system spinning out of control at...

10 That was mindbending.

Twin Paradox From what I remember, the twin in space ages less because he has experienced less time than the twin on Earth, simply because he was traveling faster than the other twin.

Has anyone ever tried building a simulator like those you find at places like the National Air and Space Museum, or at amusement parks, but for Orbiter? Because I thought it would be really cool to build one for one of the DG's or the space shuttle, or another spaceplane.

Hunter gatherers, tech indistiguishable from magic You do realize that those two things are favorites in science fiction stories right? Finding other type E planets with humanlike creatures on them?

Artificial Magnetic Field Well, that's a very good idea, but we just can't make a field that big, the only way we could do that would be to restart the Martian core, but since it's frozen, we'd have to melt it. Besides, we don't even know exactly how the Earth produces it's magnetic field...

Why the atmosphere I don't think the atmosphere of the moon is enough to change anything about the feather. It's like saying we should take solar neutrinos into account when we measure Earth's orbit around the sun

Death Star Addon If I remember rightly, one of the Death Star addons is for an earlier version of Orbiter, and it may not work with 2006P1. Although I don't know what version you are using.

one idea What if the server could manage to match everything up, I mean, it would be like as normal on Earth, since you don't really want to do 1000x time acceleration when your flying in the atmosphere. So, the server would try and match everyone up, in space it wouldn't really matter, since...

time acceleration Maybe there could be a way of programming the server so that different players can use different speeds and yet be in the same world. I myself would have no clue how that would work.

What would be really cool, but amazingly complex, is if they created an internet Orbiter server. Like Runescape, and other online games. It would be a lot more interesting than flying around an empty solar system. It can get pretty lonely, even on Earth, because nothing is moving besides you...

collision Yeah, the scientists at LHC would wonder why they suddenly need more computer space than they intended, or why the detectors would be detecting many orders of magnitude higher number of particles.