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    You know you're addicted to Orbiter when...

    When you plan a trip, driving to the country side and you start accelerating using max engine power, using 1st, 2nd and 3rd gear (stage) and then you turn off the engine (MECO) so you can reach your destination. Extra points if you use 6th gear thinking it is a low thrust VASIMR engine.
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    You know you're addicted to Orbiter when...

    When you ask: "How do you know you're addicted to Orbiter?" and you expect a reply like "Read the manuak..."
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    Martin Schweiger Interviewed!!

    Q: How about the future? Do you plan to release Orbiter 2012? Oh, wait... it would be the end of the world by then... :lol: I enjoyed this interview a lot.:thumbup:
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    News on VASIMR

    Vasimr Prototype Makes New Strides Last fall, the VX-200 Vasimr prototype reached full-power plasma thrust under the control of a superconducting magnet in vacuum conditions. The achievement marked a critical milestone in Chang-Diaz’s long-running efforts to develop an electric propulsion drive...
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    AeroBrakeMFD aerobrake mfd for orbiter 2010?

    Or you may edit moon to add a 1 meter high atmosphere...
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    Gaming Simulation games

    Is there any oil spill simulator? :lol::lol:
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    [ESP] ¿Quienes son ticos aquí?

    Hay cosas muy tuanis en camino para los que amamos el espacio en tiquicia. En estos momentos no puedo hablar de ello, sino que les contaré oportunamente. Nada más sepan que lo que viene es tuanis.
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    Gaming Microsoft "dumbing down" games?

    Computer games exposes you to a wide variety of support problems. In the era of DOS you had to configure lower and upper memory usage, EMS or XMS memory, sound configuration, and you should know how to manage yourself in a directory tree and use text commands. Nowadays having some old games...
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    Science Ancient Aliens (the Series)?

    If we think a pyramid is a geometric shape and you can prove the existence of pyramids and all its mathematical properties, you can prove that aliens brought math to Earth...:lol::lol::rofl:
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    Gaming Microsoft "dumbing down" games?

    During the era of PC games if you were a player you learned about computers and could grant you a job in the future. During console games era, you play console games only, and unless you excel at it and you want to make a living in gaming championships, it grants you no future. If Microsoft...
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    Lunar Capital City Competition

    A colony will have to deal with sharp moon dust that is likely to damage equipment used to build anything on the moon. Moon base should be built underground, like an ant colony, because there is no atmospheric protection against meteorites. My bet is lack of exposure to sunlight (production of...
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    Gaming Microsoft "dumbing down" games?

    Pacman ghosts may use a very simple path finding algorithm. Imagine a Pacman board where every cell in the grid could be a destination, assign a number to every cell. Make a table where rows indicates current call and columns indicate target cell. Data in that row and column would indicate...
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    Gaming Microsoft "dumbing down" games?

    Except for Microsoft Flight Simulator X and Orbiter I have nothing else that runs fine on Windows 7. I do not like consoles. They seem way too old fashioned. Microsoft is turning PCs into "trucks" (very popular when our society) and "dinosaurs". IBM PC became more attractive for many people...
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    Question 3D Orbiter support?

    Will we ever have 3D Orbiter support some day? :cheers: Games are going 3D in wake of Hollywood's success With 3D movies boosting both audience experiences and box office coffers, videogame publishers are following Hollywood's lead and developing 3D games to immerse players more into virtual...
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    Gaming Microsoft "dumbing down" games?

    It looks Microsoft is departingfrom hardcore games, which means... Will games be dumbed down? Microsoft christens motion-gaming "Kinect" When I compare Wikipedia and the boring Encarta, when I compare Mechwarrior 2 and Microsoft Mechwarrior, I see they have a huge lag in gameplay and...
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    General Question Help a Beginner: no sound + shuttle controls?

    Perhaps I should start an academy and hire you and use this as advertising "tired of reading manuals? Enter our academy!!!". :lol::lol:
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    News Giant sinkhole in Guatamala City

    What causes sinkholes?
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    Space Laser and warfare

    Nope. You rely on sensors. If sensors can't see you, you are invisible. Examples: How many pieces of junk smaller than 1 meter are up there near geostationary orbit? How many particles of junk smaller than 10 cm are in LEO? NORAD can't see. How many undiscovered asteroids are out there in...
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    [ESP] ¿Quienes son ticos aquí?

    Mae, la vara es que ando limpio de aquí como hasta el 20, así que creo que el yodito podría ser en Chepe a partir de esa fecha, creo que un fin de semana (tal vez un sábado) estaría bien. Quizá un 3 de julio? ¿Qué le parece? Por cierto mae. Tengo la idea de realizar algún tipo de actividad...
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