Recent content by Deltafang

Sounds like the plot of the upcoming 360/PS3 game "Vanquish". According to the game though, by the time we've become capable of building such an advance power collection satellite, humanity numbers 100 billion. :lol:

Wow, that was hilarious! Congrats on making it into orbit. I still can't do it, but that might be because I'm using my keyboard. It'll take me a while before I can get a joystick.

Welcome, we look forward to working with you!:cheers:

I swear I just snorted mountain dew all over my shirt. Thanks for that. As if this wasn't funny enough without Horacio one liners being brought into it. :lol:

I recently bought Mars Life by Ben Nova when I was browsing the train station bookstore. Apparently everyone here has high opinions of him, I haven't started reading it yet so I'll have to start. I finished Mars Crossing by Geoffrey Landis a few weeks back, and I have to say, that was a...

Yeah, that's pretty much the rule of food nowadays. If it tastes good, beware, it'll kill you in the long (or in some cases, short) term. If it tastes bad, well..... that's because its good for you! As a college student, I just buy microwaveable food and rarely anything I can actually cook...

Yeah, I was thinking of a hybrid system after looking up rebreathers on wikipedia. I mean, they're limited to wandering around on the surface of the base, scooting around in a boat to look for animal life, and exploring ice floes to get core samples. The base itself would probably have a heavy...

I sincerely hope we can continue the funding of the TPF. If I ever win the lottery, a quarter is being donated to charities and another quarter to funding development and deployment of new technologies. Never winning that though. Ah, I forgot all about the crater floors being parabolas. I'm...

We do seem to have notoriously low expectations. I don't think the average person understands how expensive space travel really is. They also don't seem to understand that we've just opened the patio doors but haven't stepped out into our own backyard yet. We certainly have a long way to go. I...

When you've tried to do an orbital insertion with a laptop keyboard 40 times. And fail....40 times.

Indeed. I had some friends over in order for us to brainstorm and I found it very tiring to have to refer to it by its astronomical nomenclature. I'm working on the star system itself, one of my friends is working on geography and politics, and the other is working on potential future...

Sorry for not having posted this week, I've been catching up on some school work I've been neglecting. :dry: I see that most of the major contributers to this thread have stopped posting. :( I'm not sure if this constitutes a double post, being over a week since my last, but I apologize if it...

Yup, they all seem to be there. I even tried dragging the demo scenario file into the Launchpad and it still didn't work. Oh, I found the problem. When I was running it in Coherence mode, I was running it from the desktop of my OS X. I put Vista back into a separate window and loaded it from...

Hey guys, I have Macbook and Parallels for Mac and just got a copy of Windows. Now, I'm running it in Coherence mode as I think its a bit more convenient than running it in the whole virtual machine in a different window. I've tried several games already and they seem to work without any...

Got it. This pontoon base would have to be pretty big regardless. Especially if its to support a TAV. I had somewhat of an unrealistic dream of it being VTOL capable for short periods of time. Right. For some reason I forgot all about the heat the TAV would emit upon attempting to land on an...