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mostly anti-plane I know this is swinging off topic, but could you briefly summarize why? Energy expenditure per ton-mile? Reality, in short, is integralist, and I now greatly regret getting lured into a thread where I have to interact with something as odious as a libertarian. The simple fact is t...

Not the first asteroid-with-a-moon we've discovered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/243_Ida#Moon

Forgive me as I do not know much about protection against tornadoes other than what is widely known but is there any protection against an EF4 or EF5 tornado other than an underground shelter? Do above ground reinforced structures offer any protection against those massive tornadoes? Yes, I believe...

Nice job, OmegaChief! A good landing is always a good feeling. Looks like you have enough fuel to make it home, too -- though I'm not spotting a parachute on this side...

I'm with Sky Captain, I'll believe it when the general media comes out with stories of"working multi MW output reactor with >1000 hours of continuous operation" etc. I'm also glad it's a "mini star in a vacuum jar" variant, as opposed to these " piston powered fusion " ...

I have a similar model of Eee pc that I picked up for $200 on a Woot sale a few years ago. Vendetta's right, it's just going to suck. What kills me the most is the 4GB of space it has on the main drive, which is apparently barely enough for a base OS these days. I'm currently running an older versio...

Played Settlers of Catan for the first time yesterday. Highly enjoyable! Also tried out a 6+ player card game called The Resistance. Very easy to grasp and great fun, it's a good warm up for other games as it's quick. It's great for encouraging paranoia and deduction. Gah, the gaming event I've bee...

Well now I have a major reason to go back to the Mun. You find that using a polar orbit mapper or will a more equatorial orbit suffice?

Once you've plumbed the depths of sub-atomic physics, you can probably work your way up to chemistry and biology No, you couldn't, or rather 'work your way up' does not mean 'create a larger simulation'. Hm, yes, I guess I got carried away with the value of seeing the 'source code'. I had computati...

We're talking about reading the source-code of the universe. You could run your own experiments on your own computer with that, able to get perfect resolution and effectively full understanding of the results of the experiment. Once you've plumbed the depths of sub-atomic physics, you can probably w...

Make sure you've downloaded the latest patcher, it should be the first one with a version number on the home screen.

Docking joints are firm but flexible.

No, I think the vessel physics simulation mode has limits in the "couple of kilometers" range.

PainRack wrote:Funding. That and NASA has become very good PR with that whole Curiousity video

Or maybe we could say that JPL or Curiosity's PR team is good. I have yet to see the rest of NASA's PR effort improve.

I'm a little skeptical at this point. I'd love for this to be something like "NASA finds very strong proof of micro-organism activity in Martian soil", but NASA has a history of doing these huge build-ups for stuff that, while quite interesting, aren't exactly ground-shaking scientific di...

Assuming we have computer access and can read the ships library, we can probably move the ship, limp somewhere and prevent it from exploding. We have enough sci-fi nerds and engineers on here to figure that out, and probably enough realists to keep things under control and not decide to run off and ...

The only possible solution would be to eliminate the possibility of gerrymandering, as some states (including California) have attempted to do by forming non-partisan citizen redistricting boards. Of course, these boards are often attacked by both sides for various reasons, but I'd say they are gen...

My initial reaction was along the lines of "my god that thing's ugly" but it's really growing on me now. I feel like there's too much going on just aft of the centerline. She's got nice curves up until the engine nacelles, and then it seems like everything gets jumbled. Maybe try losing th...

All that we need now is a planet with SEVEN suns just like in Isaac Asimov's Nightfall . :mrgreen: I could have sworn that planet had 6 suns. Wikipedia backs me up. You're right, there were only six! How dare I not be up to date on my Asimovian knowledge. I guess I should head over to my local libr...

Boeing 757 wrote: All that we need now is a planet with SEVEN suns just like in Isaac Asimov's Nightfall.

I could have sworn that planet had 6 suns. Wikipedia backs me up.

Re-read and finished Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things". "The Hydrogen Sonata"by Ian M Banks. After that, piling into the Humble Indie Book bundle books I just picked up the Humble eBook bundle myself, started with John Scalzi's Old Man's War and just could not put it down. I'm only...

Flagg wrote:Wow, apparently Romney cheated and brought prepared remaks with him.

Why would you not bring notes, quotes and soundbites to a debate? Not like I was in debate club, but that makes sense to me.

That, and his closing remarks seemed fairly well rehearsed. So what's the problem here?

Was there a discussion as to why Lerher didn't get mute buttons?

I do think Romney gained more from this debate than Obama did, it seemed like there were several places where Obama could have drove home the point and failed to do so. Romney's closing statement also nailed a lot of specific hotbutton issues for his base, so they may pick up a little steam after th...

In .15 I did 3 succesful mun missions, with landings and shit, and each time nobody died (!). Now I've directed my efforts towards planes - and I must say, it is a bitch to fly them with no trimming functionality, even with a good joystick. And now, onto the drawing board for a hypersoar! It is now...

If EV had a dynamic world without fixed solutions it'd be choice as hell cause the combat is neat. As it is it's just 'find profit run, repeat 100102910291291029 times, get infinite money', and not DESPERATELY FUND WAR EFFORT AND PUSH RESEARCH TO DEVELOP MILITARY OFFENSIVES AND SAVE THE WOOOOOOORLD...

That's nothing, I've seen pictures/video of other easter-eggs even more indicative of alien activity on Mars Duna.
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