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[Codz]

It's a beautiful Fall night for astronomy here in Atlanta. Great conditions to observe Jupiter, Mars, Pleiades, Andromeda, and Orion, among other points of interest.

 

[Quick_Nick]

It's a beautiful Fall night for astronomy here in Atlanta. Great conditions to observe Jupiter, Mars, Pleiades, Andromeda, and Orion, among other points of interest.

And maybe the slightest glimpse of an eclipse?

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I was playing with some concepts today:
* 6 x 20 meter cylindrical payload will fit.

Wow, you've been a one-man space-plane factory lately. :lol:

Kind of reminiscent of most KSP spaceplanes with those forward elevators Id say.

 

[Loru]

Wow, you've been a one-man space-plane factory lately. :lol:

Kind of reminiscent of most KSP spaceplanes with those forward elevators Id say.

Actually those are early concepts - not one of them is orbiter ready yet.

And TBH I don't have KSP and have no idea how spaceplanes look there (except 2 glimpes of let's play videos I've seen)

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Actually those are early concepts - not one of them is orbiter ready yet.

And TBH I don't have KSP and have no idea how spaceplanes look there (except 2 glimpes of let's play videos I've seen)

Oh yeah, Im sure it will take a while before they can be used, but your modelling output is really impressive. :thumbup:

Just a random coincidence with KSP then. All of the spaceplanes built with the stock parts seem to tend towards that style, mostly because the center of lift is always too far back from where it needs to be.

Funny design with the four engines though... Is there a particular engine type in mind for this, or is it just a tinkering project?

 

[Loru]

4 rocket engines and 2 big scrams.

Here is something for showing scale:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Caption on Imgur: Fixing bugs in code...

 

[MattBaker]

Caption on Imgur: Fixing bugs in code...

So you're saying all you need to fix your code is double-sided duct tape?

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Cool rock I found while hiking near Guelph yesterday

It appears to be a Quartz intrusion into another igneous rock. The coin on the rock for scale is a Canadian quarter.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

I see that kind of stuff all the time in the Sierra Nevadas in California. The entire mountain range is riddled with stuff like that. Matter of fact, that's where the gold from the California Gold Rush came from, quartz veins not unlike that one.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I see that kind of stuff all the time in the Sierra Nevadas in California. The entire mountain range is riddled with stuff like that. Matter of fact, that's where the gold from the California Gold Rush came from, quartz veins not unlike that one.

Cool! I suspect the rock wasn't originally formed here though. Most of the southern Ontario area appears to be sedimentary rock, but plenty of boulders were transplanted by glacial movement in (relatively) recent history.

I almost missed it too, only caught it the second time when I looked at the rock and went "Huh, thats odd, it has a seam in it..."

 

[Urwumpe]

Thrustmaster HOTAS Warthog - doesn't fit into a German [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation"]Packstation[/ame]. :facepalm: Now I have to retrieve it from the next post office... somewhere over there... in the distance...

(The maximum envelope is 60 x 35 x 35 cm in the local one with no known weight limit - the Thrustmaster package is 46 x 25 x 32 cm and weights 10 kg...)

 

[Pablo49]

Caption on Imgur: Fixing bugs in code...

the imgur comments on this were sogood, too.

 

[teslax]

Crytek: Develop one of the most realistic game engines of all time - Announce to resort to free-to-play (or pay to win:shifty titles.

Seriously, wtf?

Speaking of graphics engine, is it possible for Orbiter to have Cryengine?

 

[Urwumpe]

Speaking of graphics engine, is it possible for Orbiter to have Cryengine?

Yes, but not easily. you would need to adapt it to the Orbiter Visualization Project API.

 

[teslax]

Yes, but not easily. you would need to adapt it to the Orbiter Visualization Project API.

Wow Orbiter does have great amount of flexibility.

Btw, habe grad bemerkt, es gibt so viele Deutsche hier!

 

[Urwumpe]

Btw, habe grad bemerkt, es gibt so viele Deutsche hier!

Wir sind überall. :tiphat:

 

[MattBaker]

Having to work during the launch of the first Asian Mars probe...accomplished.

Well, to be fair there was another one but a) it was launched by someone else and b) it didn't go to Mars.

 

[Urwumpe]

Having to work during the launch of the first Asian Mars probe...accomplished.

Well, to be fair there was another one but a) it was launched by someone else and b) it didn't go to Mars.

Sounds like a question to Radio Yerewan: I heard that an asian Mars probe was launched?

Yes, but it was not for Mars, but for Mir and not a probe, but a Lada.

 

[jedidia]

Announce to resort to free-to-play (or pay to win) titles.

Free to play doesn't have to mean pay to win, if it's well designed, although the temptation to go there is pretty big...