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    Slow-Motion at a Trillion Frames per Second: Femto-Photography

    I'm sure you've seen videos like the ones at Time Warp on TV or The Slow-Mo Guys on YouTube. Remember how they told you that the video was taken by a 500/4000/10000 whatever FPS. Well, these guys have taken it farther. Much farther. Here are videos taken with a ONE TRILLION FPS camera...
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    Support Weird crash with Dansteph's addons (otherwise a vanilla install)

    I installed Windows yesterday on this computer, and I thought, why not install Orbiter on it. Sure, I've got no sound card drivers... or video card drivers (my computer is ancient). But I can live with that, assuming the graphics work. So, I've installed it, and it worked, I got so far as a...
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    Why aren't there external CPUs?

    This might sound completely stupid to anyone who knows a bit of computing, but... I was wondering, there are external hard drives, so why don't we have external CPUs? Some wired or even wireless processor that you could connect to your computer and use its processing power to speed things up...
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    High resolution Orbiter icon

    Well, I made a high resolution icon replacement for the stock one. As with many of my "improvements" (as if I made a lot of them) it keeps the style of the original. This time it comes in 2 versions, with and without the black background. It also comes in resolution up to a huge 512x512 (but...
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    Scientific Method Mega Thread

    Recently I've had quite an interesting conversation with my English teacher. Now, I first need to say that she's the best teacher I've ever had. However, nobody's perfect, and she has this firm belief that we never went to the Moon... and slightly more... Her: We never went to the Moon...
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    Hello, new member here!

    Hi all, I'm Rtyh-12 and I am new to these forums. I have been playing Orbiter for some time now, but I can't say that I fully understand the physics involved in it. So, that's about it, no I want to hear YOUR stories! :lol: I'm looking forward to chatting with you guys!:)
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    Idea Kill Translation

    I have an idea for a new add-on, that (I think) wouldn't be too hard to code and it would also be extremely useful. What if there was a 'Kill Translation', relative to the closest ship, autopilot? It could activate with Numpad 7. So it would be as easy to reach as the KillRot autopilot, and...
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    General Question How realistic are your flights?

    Not sure if this is the right place to post this... sorry if it's wrong, anyway... We all know that Orbiter is meant to be realistic. But there are ships that can warp through space, or teleportation MFDs. We may not use these to fly our Space Shuttle to the ISS, but there are other options...
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    Q/As about space

    This thread is for questions about space, like Q/A's about ISS and Q/A's FOR STS, but more general. I think it's better to have all questions in a single thread, to keep the forum organized. To start, I've got a question myself: the definition of a planet is that (amongst other things) it has...
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    Poll Thoughts about Windows 8?

    To keep this short, what do you think about Windows 8? It sounds like a very innovative design (meaning, not very good, we'll need to wait and see, but something really new). And there also are some shocking news: Microsoft is discussing whether they should make the non-professional version of...
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    Question Transfering huge files between two computers

    Again, I come to O-F with computer questions :facepalm: anyway, I think I'll get Windows 7 on my computer in some time, but I need to back-up my data (everything on my computer, 60 GB!!) and Microsoft recommends me to use Windows Easy Transfer, which will create a HUGE file containing everything...
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    Question Sequel to Aero Cursors (Thanks a lot Orb for showing me how to do the install file!)

    Recently I've discovered this handy program RealWorld Cursor Editor and I've created a set of cursors (cursor scheme you would call it) which is inspired by Win7/Vista's cursors. I call it Aero 2. Well enough with irrelevant information, I decided to try to create an .inf file to simplify the...
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    Question Any good free gravity simulators around?

    Anyone know any (good and free) games that simulate gravity between different objects? This idea came to me when FSXHD said on the ChatBox: I had some fun with it, but are there any other, better simulators like this?
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    Mini Physics Quizzes Mega Thread

    The idea came to me a while ago, when I read a mini-exam on a "Welcome" thread. The person (I can't recall the name of the thread, sorry) posted a question with 4 possible answers. Then someone else said that the idea was great, and that "we should have more such questions", "to keep the...
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    Software Application configuration incorrect??

    Soo...one good news and one bad news. The good news is that I finally upgraded my 80 GB HDD and my 1 GB RAM!!!:bananadance: The bad news is that I can't get Orbiter to work. At first I thought 'Oh well, Orbiter is quite portable. It's gonna work.' But guess what: I've tried reinstalling it...
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    TransX Any advice for a TransX beginner?

    At long last I got bored to fly from the KSC to the ISS, and I decided to finally try my first mission to Mars (my first successful mission to Mars, I've done 2 others, once I messed up in the atmosphere and once I crashed at very high speed into the planet. I've done both with IMFD.). I've...
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    Science Do we live inside a computer simulation?

    Yesterday I watched a documentary about whether God exists. There was some interesting stuff about a magnetic helmet which makes you feel as if someone's in an empty room with you, some very weird and complicated shape which is some kind of model for subatomic particles, the 'mind of God' inside...
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    Software Help an Ubuntu beginner (previously 'Linux')

    OK, the title wasn't too descriptive, but I couldn't think of anything else. If you can find better title please write it and I'll change it. And now, let's go on topic. I recently got a laptop. It was on a special offer, but it's quite good:processor 1.66GHz, 512 KB cache, 1 GB of RAM and 250...
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    Request Mouse as a joystick

    I'd like to see an add-on that lets you control aerodynamic control surfaces with your mouse. I know it has already been done before by computerex in this thread, but as he mentions it himself it's 'quick and dirty'. So I think somebody should do a better version of this and upload it. Ok, and...
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    Problem Missing runway

    OK, I'll get to topic. My runways at KSC are missing. I've just reinstalled Orbiter yesterday because it was getting too crowded with add-ons (again). I remember that last time I reinstalled Orbiter I had the same problem, but somehow I fixed it. I've got Shuttle Fleet andNew Runway Textures...
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