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I found this on the Natural History Magazine website. It's an old article, but new to me. http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/171931/virtual-universe It looks interesting, but I haven't tried it yet. Here's the download link. http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/partiview

This will free us from fossil fuels forever! Check this out! http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Joe_Cell

The first space game that I loved was Frontier Elite 2. Although I discovered it in a bargain bin after my Commodore 64 and Amiga days, it was originally released for the Amiga. I have Frontier First Encounters as well. Since they're now freeware this link should be ok to post here. Haven't...

While learning to make buildings I've noticed that the shadows cast by hangar objects seem "off". They aren't cast in the same direction as blocks and tanks, and moving the view around makes them move strangely. I've finally realized that it's a function of the hangar's distance from the center...

Basically, a programmer wrote an algorythm that sampled Christmas music and outputted its own songs. There are some spacy tracks in here that some of you might want to put in your mp3 folders. Or you might not. Anyway, Happy Decemberween to you all...

Here's a link to a paper I stumbled across. If I understand this correctly, it may be possible to create a linear repulsive gravitational field by spinning a torus of the proper mass at the proper velocity, and placing an extremely powerful electromagnet beneath it. It would fall up. Now picture...

I found an article about it that I thought I'd share. This drive seems really promising. If it works as advertised, the solar system is ours! http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17476-ion-engine-could-one-day-power-39day-trips-to-mars.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news edit: As Agentgonzo...

This may be old news to most of you, but I just found out about it, and I tend to keep up on this kind of thing. I first discovered it on a site with erroneous info. It lead me here to the real stuff. http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/ Aside from the general "wow!" factor of expanding...

When we finally get around to settling on the moon, we're going to need a network of communication satellites orbiting the moon. On Earth, we can use geosynchronous orbits. I assume that wouldn't work on the Moon, and we'll utilize lower orbits instead, but the thought popped into my head. Is a...

This really isn't a request, I just posted it for you developers in case you haven't seen it. The link is to a company's space plane concept. Rather nice looking, I think! http://www.smartfish.ch/index.cfm/fuseaction/show/path/1-130.htm

Just an idea I had. This is directed at developers of DG variants and other space-planes. When one first walks into the showroom and "purchases" one of your awesome add-ons and taxies it out of the lot, one expects the spacecraft to look pristine. After the first re-entry, one would expect the...

My current flight is my first mission to the ISS. I'm flying a stock Delta Glider and learning how to dock by visiting all the ports on the station. The images below show something I haven't seen before. This was only visible in vc mode. I'm approaching sunset here. Notice how the view is...

The stock Delta Glider has Nav, Beacon and Strobe lights. I'm wondering which lights should be used for takeoff, orbital flight, docking, etc. Is there a protocol for this? What do you folks do? I know that the lights have no bearing whatsoever on what you do in the simulator, but I'm curious...