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I'm hoping someone here can help me with an Excel question I have. I want to make a chart that recreates this hand drawn report: I can make Quadrant I without any problem, OR I can make Quadrant II without any problem. But I'm not sure how to make them both together in one chart since the...

Listen to the audio clip in this article. Pretty terrible customer service.

If anyone cares, Battlefield 3 is currently available for free until June 3rd. It does require Origin, so that may be a major detractor for some.

People ask about Joysticks quite often: Recommended Joystick? Do you use the Thrustmaster T joystick? good, low price joysticks? Best joysticks for Orbiter? What joystick do you use? Good joysticks for Orbiter Joystick? Joystick? ...and more One of the most common recommendations is the...

I want to find a power supply for my keyboard. The keyboard operates just fine with the power from the USB port, but if I want to use the USB hub that is built-in to it, it needs an external power supply. The keyboard manufacturer does not seem to provide a power supply, but they do provide the...

For those of you who enjoy playing the occasional video game, you can get the original Dead Space for free at the moment. No catch, just download it and it's yours. The offer may be rescinded at any time, so if interested, I would grab it now. The original Dead Space was an awesome game. I...

I wanted to make Mercury look better, so I downloaded this This happens whether I use the inline client or D3D9. Is there a way to solve this? Or is the add-on hopelessly broken?

A big thanks to Loru for making the high quality logo for me.

From the website: "Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig...

A couple of months back, dgatsoulis sat down with me via Skype/Teamviewer and recorded 10 30-minute videos with me about IMFD. When we started recording, I knew almost nothing about IMFD. Here just 2 months later, after watching the videos a couple times myself, and practicing what I learned, I...

I don't get into celebrity news much, but I was a fan. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/30/paul-walker-dead_n_4366214.html

You are in the XR2 at Hall Base on Phobos. Take off from the base and land as close to Olympus as you can within the allotted time. The usual challenge rules apply: Do not refuel the vessel Do not add any more LOX or APU fuel Do not egress any of the crew Must keep the CHM in the XR2 at all...

How do real world space vessels orient themselves? (How do they "find" prograde?) Someone asked me this question a week or so ago in a comment on one of my videos, and I couldn't answer their question. This is something I've wondered myself. I did a couple searches in the forums and didn't find...

I was looking over the recent posts and didn't see anyone else mention this. The Facebook page for "The Universe" is showing a screenshot of Titan taken from Orbiter.

"Phil Green was wandering along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts when he discovered a piece of rock that didn't seem like it was from around his parts." ... "NASA has determined it is a piece of the Russian space station Mir." Article

I did a search for Oculus Rift and was quite surprised that it did not come back with a single result. My nephew sent me a video today of a guy playing around with a game called Spacewalk while wearing one of these VR devices. Cymatic Bruce Rift Requests Ep 11: Proton Pulse and Spacewalk -...

Greetings everyone. I recently spent quite a bit of time attempting dgatsoulis' Martian moons tour challenge. After several tries, I succeeded! While refining my efforts for that challenge, I found that I was wasting 200+ m/s just taking off and getting into orbit around Mars. That revelation...

The XR2* seems to have a bug where if you add the line "CONFIG_OVERRIDE_MainFuelISP n" to a scenario file, the vessel will act as though you have set EnableATMThrustReduction=0 I sent a private email to dgatsoulis and he verified that he was seeing the same thing on his end. He also suggested...

Article "Want to wave goodbye to any chance of productivity for the rest of the day? Then step right up to 100,000 Stars, an interactive starmap from those mad geniuses at Google’s Creative Lab team. The map allows you to click, scroll, and otherwise explore a (mostly) accurate representation...

I saw this article posted on slashdot that asks, "What would happen if you tried to fly a normal Earth airplane above different Solar System bodies?"