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Think? Let me put it to you this way, it wasn't shoddy Quality Control that brought down all those Russian rockets...
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Think? Let me put it to you this way, it wasn't shoddy Quality Control that brought down all those Russian rockets...
Artlav
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MUAAAAAAHHHH--HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Ahem.
Nope, a disk of it just vibrated off the cryocooler, due to being insufficiently secured, and bounced down to the floor.
Ahem.
Nope, a disk of it just vibrated off the cryocooler, due to being insufficiently secured, and bounced down to the floor.
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SPAAAAACE!
Seriously, the only person I care about and who cares about me - my wife - I met on a wedding of my friend, where for obvious reasons the competition was low :lol: Be sure not to miss them!
What helped me is the experience I gained by drinking with men, among talking and doing other things with girls ... paid or unpaid, who cares? :lol:
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Your dietitian cares.
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Now this is what I call a bad day at work.
Athena
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Just bought FTL today and its a pain in the ass to defeat the pirate flagship at the end...
They're not pirates. They're part of the Rebel Alliance and traitors!
Quick_Nick
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I still haven't done it. My friend finally beat it on Easy after many weeks. His own ship was destroyed simultaneously but it counted.
We both had the Advanced Content or whatever enabled. I don't think it changes the difficulty but it does enhance the game elements.
I think you're going to want to unlock a few spaceships before winning becomes conceivable.
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It's peculiar how this picture just screams "photoshop", even when you take a close look again and again and see no evidence of it.
SolarLiner
It's necessary, TARS.
Yeah, but the reflections are there, the water is reacting properly to the bodies, lightning is respected, white balance is the same ... Either this is pure reality, or this is some serious CGI stuff right there!
The shadow of the diving board is a detail that surprised me. It does look legit, but I'm cautiously optimistic as to its authenticity.
**EDIT: Looks like it was actually posted on the NASA website:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/remembering-apollo-1-0/#.U7k5rvldWZk
**EDIT: Looks like it was actually posted on the NASA website:
http://www.nasa.gov/content/remembering-apollo-1-0/#.U7k5rvldWZk
NASA said:
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jedidia
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That's just because out of context, the picture looks so hilariously surreal that if it didn't actually exist, someone would have shopped it
Linguofreak
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Even before I read your verification that it had been posted on the NASA website, I had no real doubts about its authenticity. The Apollo CSM was designed to land on water, so water egress training was going to be a thing. Now, if there were a similar photo with the nose of a Shuttle orbiter poking into the frame, instead of the CSM, then I'd be suspicious.
jedidia
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I have a photography book about the Apollo and Shuttle missions, there actually is a picture of an STS nose mockup in the water...
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Exactly why it's so peculiar - you know that it's likely a real photo, you look and can't see any tell-tale artefacts, but it still feels like a photoshopped image.
RisingFury
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On easy I won my second time. I find it difficult to lose on easy. The odds have to be stacked against you badly. The only times I lose on Easy now is if I go through all the sectors and not find (buy, find, force others to give up) enough weapons to get through the enemy shields and do damage...
The first ship you get is actually pretty decent. It doesn't excel in any area, but it doesn't lag behind either. It's easy to upgrade and offers a variety of play styles.
Every other ship asks you to sacrifice something in order to gain something - the ship that is "best" asks you to sacrifice whatever isn't in your play style and gives you whatever is in your play style.
Here are some tips I found useful:
- Don't rush through the sectors. You always want to make sure that you just barely escape the pursuing fleet. That will allow you to accumulate more scrap.
- When enemy surrenders, they usually offer less scrap, but more fuel, missiles and drones. If you destroy them, you get more scrap. Only accept surrender if they're offering exactly what you need and you're in desperate need of them. Usually it's better to destroy the ship, get the scrap and buy the materials.
- Shields are better then engines. Shields will guarantee protection from one hit (except missiles and bombs), where engines will only offer you a chance. Upgrade shields FULLY before upgrading engines. I usually don't leave sector one without upgrading shields to 2 and usually don't leave sector 3 before upgrading them to 3.
- Don't use autofire. What you want to do is wait for all of your lasers to fully charge, then fire them in one massive burst. That won't give the enemy enough time to recharge the shields so part of your fire won't go into nothing.
- Always fire on weapons first. There are very very few exceptions to that and usually only when the enemy can't hurt you much. A very sophisticated drone system can sometimes be worse than enemy weapons, that's usually the most common exception.
- Don't rely on missiles and bombs. They get through the shield, yes, but there is limited ammo. Only use them in cases of emergency - where you don't stand a theoretical chance of destroying the enemy ship (it has 3 shields, you have only the ability to fire 3 lasers to down the shields, but not actually do damage) or when you're taking damage. Save the ammo for the end boss. You'll need it...
- Fight fires by evacuating compartments of air, but NEVER evacuate your door or your O2 room. If you evacuate your O2 room and the O2 is destroyed, you're almost guaranteed to lose crewmen attempting to fix O2. If you evacuate the door control room and the doors and airlocks are stuck open, you'll lose people.
- When fixing stuff in evacuated areas of the ship, send one crew in first, then the next one a few seconds later. Keep exchanging your entire crew between the sick bay and whatever you're repairing. That way nobody will die and the repair will take place at all times. If at any point no crew is repairing the system, you'll lose the progress they've made.
- Upgrade your sensors and doors by 1. If you have spare scrap, also your O2 by one (but don't power it). Upgrading sensors by one will allow you to see the interior of the enemy ship - where the crew is. You can see what areas of the ship the crew is repairing, so you can target that system - that has two effects. The first is that the system doesn't get repaired and the crew is stuck repairing that system from scratch. The second is that you can hurt or kill crew members, further slowing the repairs. Sensors take no extra power. If you upgrade doors, they also take no extra power. This helps you in three ways: If there's a fire, it spreads far more slowly from room to room, so it gives you more time to evacuate the compartment without the fire spreading. If you have intruders, they'll take more time to blast through the doors, giving you more time to suffocate them. And the third is that the system now takes twice as much damage before going down. This is very useful when fighting fires and intruders...
