Recent content by natey787

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...