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http://ultimateclassicrock.com/chris-squire-dies-yes/ Sad news.

Amazing magnitude -3 pass of the ISS this evening and setting just left of the rising full moon, beautiful. Even better about 30s behind it in a similar orbit was a much dimmer object that must have been Georges Lemaitre. What a treat!:cheers:

This is well worth 40 minutes of your time if you have not seen it before. Great interview with Frank Borman. Made in the days when science documentaries actually contained some science. (Apologies to those of you who cannot get BBC IPlayer)...

Rush fan? If you have not yet heard this remix then do so asap. And then dump your 2002 copy. Shame it isn't on vinyl... s2k1

Any mileage in this as far as Orbiter is concerned? http://www.oculusvr.com/

JJ Cale has died. http://jjcale.com/index.html :(

I was watching 2001 ASO last night, purely for revision purposes you understand, and noticed this rather spooky resemblance: Are they by any chance related? I think we should be told. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL..."

Is this too good to be true? Is it possible to use USB to VGA adaptors such as this: http://www.lindy.co.uk/usb-2-to-vga-adapter/42744.html to extend Orbiter's display output over three monitors? In other word, is this an alternative to a Matrox Triplehead2Go? I understand that such a wide...

I have a Logitech Cordless Rumblepad installed as my joystick. When landed I have noticed for a long time that when I operate any of the joystick controls my ship (DG, XR2 etc) exhibits a strange vibration or jitter mainly in the Y axis. It is as if the ship is bouncing up and down rapidly on...

While we are in a "what if..." mood, imagine a process has been invented that could implant one skill, and one skill only, into your brain. What would it be? I am thinking of skills such as being a great artist, speaking another language fluently, a master chef etc. Mine would be one of these...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8168691.stm If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her...

In the last few days XP has been pestering me on bootup with a wizard asking me to install WGA Notification. I have a rough idea that it allows M$ to validate my XP installation (it is a genuine install BTW!) but I don't want M$ snooping in my PC. I have used RemoveWGA to remove WGA...

Was that the ISS I saw passing over southern Britain at about 19:40 this evening? A very bright object moving W -> E about as bright as Jupiter. Ed. Yes, it was! http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/view.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=Leeds :speakcool:

Anyone tried this? http://www.vuzix.com/iwear/products_vr920.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7681914.stm Opinions anyone?

Just wondering if I am the first to run Orbiter on an Asus EEE. I recently bought one of these amazing little things to replace my inherited antique laptop (Fujitsu Lifebook of indeterminate vintage). Found that it runs Orbiter faultlessly and with a respectable framerate. So, my addiction is...

Within a vessel DLL, is it possible to add a mesh for the vessel so that it is initially invisible? AddMesh() causes the mesh to be rendered immediately and before the DLL has had a chance to set the correct animation states. This is causing a very brief flickering as the unset anims are shown...

The Orbiter developer docs state that it is possible to add custom entries to the vessel's config file. I can't find an API function that allows these to be read. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks

I am coding a dll for the Shenzhou spacecraft. I am separating the spacecraft modules using the same method shown in the stock Atlantis dll source i.e. calling oapiCreateVesselEx() to spawn the detached module as a new vessel. This works well, except that the new vessel has its animations reset...