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[Loru]

Interesting read for heavy metal fans :headbang:

 

[Athena]

Overdid it...i'm a year earlier and THIS was the historical roster... :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

And the award for the most unknown astronauts and the biggest dystopia goes to:

I really have to take more risky mission, but only one guy for Arlington: Gemini IX testing my LM in Earth Orbit. Neil Armstrong was Capsule Commander, Robert Rushworth was in the LM and should have tested the engine, which exploded.
I don't know how Armstrong got out of there, but he sure as hell has a skill for critical situations, deorbited and landed safely (and flew the Lunar Pass mission Gemini XII later, WITHOUT LM).

 

[n122vu]

And that there weren't aliens at Roswell...

And that HAARP really *is* just about transmitting power through the atmosphere.

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There's a small post-it on the drink machine in our break room. It simply reads "Vendor has been contacted"

I'm not sure if the machine is broken, or if this is just part of some social experiment to see who won't use a perfectly good machine just because of a vague note...

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“Ok, now that SimCity 2000 has loaded, here are the basics. You click this icon, then click here to build roads. This one builds power lines. This one is a bulldozer - when the citizens complain about taxes or lack of transit or your leadership, you use this one to cut them off from commerce and take down their utility infrastructure. It’s very realistic.”

 

[Pipcard]

We finished reading The Great Gatsby. I still don't love it, but I don't hate it anymore.

 

[Urwumpe]

"I have become soo bad in Il-2 1946.... hey wait a minute, didn't I play it in easy difficulty before and not in Normal?"

 

[mojoey]

"I have become soo bad in Il-2 1946.... hey wait a minute, didn't I play it in easy difficulty before and not in Normal?"

I think 90% of my time in MCFS 3 was spent in a right hand turn over london. The other 10% was misjudging my speed and slamming right into a Heinkel HE-111.

 

[Urwumpe]

I think 90% of my time in MCFS 3 was spent in a right hand turn over london. The other 10% was misjudging my speed and slamming right into a Heinkel HE-111.

I spend the evening to three times almost die in a P-40. The last time because I tried to take on a Betty bomber with it and got my instrument panel shot away.

Still only a single kill in 3 missions... My career looks badly.

 

[Izack]

I spend the evening to three times almost die in a P-40. The last time because I tried to take on a Betty bomber with it and got my instrument panel shot away.

Still only a single kill in 3 missions... My career looks badly.

What? Don't tell me even I'm better than you at this. Or maybe it's just making up for my horrible luck with everything else...

*cough* That's 7 kills over two missions, using mostly realistic settings (leaving out some of the engine management that I don't have enough hotkeys/patience for.) The Hellcat is a beautiful aircraft. The thing with the Betty is the cannon in the tail. I find coming at them from the side or top more reliable, or at least have lots of lateral/vertical velocity when making a pass on them from behind. With lots of luck and a quick trigger, tight formations of them can be cut through like butter in one pass.

Unbalanced Russian fighters can also be lethal in the hands of someone who knows just the right way to collide with a bomber to totally destroy it while suffering only nick or two. Seriously, any of the LaGG series are nigh invulnerable to collision damage from some angles, it seems. And the Sturmovik title-aircraft is overpowered by a huge margin. Slow, but completely stable at all angles of attack; pretty much uncrashable unless the pilot's a blithering idiot.

 

[Urwumpe]

What? Don't tell me even I'm better than you at this. Or maybe it's just making up for my horrible luck with everything else...

*cough* That's 7 kills over two missions, using mostly realistic settings (leaving out some of the engine management that I don't have enough hotkeys/patience for.) The Hellcat is a beautiful aircraft. The thing with the Betty is the cannon in the tail. I find coming at them from the side or top more reliable, or at least have lots of lateral/vertical velocity when making a pass on them from behind. With lots of luck and a quick trigger, tight formations of them can be cut through like butter in one pass.

I try to get them coming from below, but usually, I rather die the following way:

I am glued to the rear of a Oscar during a fast attack and break away right into the rear of a betty.

I just need more training. I think in the past campaign a few years ago, I had many realistic flight characteristics enabled, but flew with the nice friendly labels to tell friend and foe.

 

[Izack]

No one can fault you for that - screen resolution is worse than even my eyesight. No way you'd be able to see the red sun on something that's only six pixels of the screen.

 

[Urwumpe]

No one can fault you for that - screen resolution is worse than even my eyesight. No way you'd be able to see the red sun on something that's only six pixels of the screen.

I usually look at "light gray" vs "dark brown"... but more than often, I really need to see the red sun.

 

[mojoey]

Don't worry, I did something stupider. I was running through the Pearl Harbor scenario, as part of the first wave, and I dropped my payload on a ship, pulled up, went right on down the middle of battleship row, then when I pulled up(to climb away from the harbor)...right into a zero.

 

[Pipcard]

JAXA has some pretty cool launchers.

 

[Scav]

I have vivid memories of playing F15 Strike Eagle II . . . the moment that sticks out the most for me was when I was in the middle of fending off an incoming SA-10 missile --

Ended up getting the angle on it to out-turn it, when I accidentally hit the eject key whilst semi-inverted, less than 50 meters off the ground while buzzing along at mach 1.3.

Needless to say, I didn't stay for lunch.

 

[mojoey]

I have vivid memories of playing F15 Strike Eagle II . . . the moment that sticks out the most for me was when I was in the middle of fending off an incoming SA-10 missile --

Ended up getting the angle on it to out-turn it, when I accidentally hit the eject key whilst semi-inverted, less than 50 meters off the ground while buzzing along at mach 1.3.

Needless to say, I didn't stay for lunch.

Ugh, so rude. Did you at least pay for them to redo their garden?

 

[Pipcard]

JAXA's launch vehicle for lunar missions (multiple launches), the H-IIC Heavy.
(Three H-IIB cores + 5.2 m upper stage)

 

[Scav]

Ugh, so rude. Did you at least pay for them to redo their garden?

Garden, hell. They should've paid me for my tilling service. And I don't just till the surface dirt; all that clay and sandy soil 3-4' underneath gets it, too.

 

[mojoey]

Garden, hell. They should've paid me for my tilling service. And I don't just till the surface dirt; all that clay and sandy soil 3-4' underneath gets it, too.

You also fertilized their lawn, as well. Mmmmmm...nutrients!

 

[Quick_Nick]

Ribose looks like little molecular cheerleaders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribose#Structure