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Indeed, great short story - I first read it in my teens in the early '70s. and his work, along with stories by Sheckley, Robinson, Clarke, Blish,Heinlein, Anderson and Bester, formed the basis for my lifelong love of speculative fiction. Great reference, Face - brought back so many memories....

Hello, Spacefolk! Long time no see! I just picked up the first 3 books of "The Expanse" by S.A. Corey, right after viewing the explosive finale to the Syfy Channel's television series by the same name. An outstanding show with memorable characters and - finally - no f*cking "warp drive...

Hello, all: I apologize ~ wasn't thinking clearly the other night, and I kept mixing up real-world physics with an imaginary Orbiter-World situation of having a thrust source at the center of a vessel - but imitating 4 thrust sources on different planes, and both lowering and louvering/levering...

Just a throwaway idea, and feel free to laugh at my ineptitude... but what happens when you change the actual position of the "single engine" point (presently at (0,0,0, right?) to something ridiculous like (0,0,250), or (0,0,-250)? This would keep the thrust vector aligned in the x & y planes...

I'm working on a beaut of a movie which highlights the sights, sounds, effects (and maybe smells, lol) of our little (but growing) flotilla of ships in the Ragtag Fleet, and am in the process of souping up the effects for the Aries (Space Park), Raptor, Colonial One, etc.... now, would it be...

LOLOL, reminds me of the dyslexic devil-worshipper: He sold his soul to Santa! Warmly, ZCochrane

This thread has reminded me to ask a (relatively) related question: I remember on the old forums there being a discussion of "moons orbiting moons" in the Sol.cfg file - - - I'm at work presently, but have modified a copy of my Sol.cfg file. Does anyone here remember/know the correct syntax for...

"Does somebody else remember how he made a specially optimized boot disk for running Harrier Jump Jet ...?" Oh my God, Urwumpe! I DO remember doing that ~ on the Indian island of Timor, wasn't it? I had a blast shooting the little village huts and palm trees, LOL. Wow, did you ever bring...

This is a new modification (4-7-07) of Jon Marcure's fabulous 2006 Firefly "Jumbo" add-on, and REQUIRES that you first install his base package, found here on Orbit Hangar Mods. To install, simply unzip the contents of this file into your main Orbiter installation folder (where Orbiter.exe...