Recent content by fireballs619

:hailprobe: The emotes that matter made it through the migration ;)

I actually logged back in to poke around, which I've done a few times in the past, but I saw your recent post and was inspired to do one of my own. Good to see you!

Hi all, some of you might remember me from ages ago but I decided to pop back in and actually post. I was active here circa 2010 when I was in middle school, but I slowly fell away from Orbiter when I got to high school and beyond. This forum and community had a surprisingly large impact on my...

Here's a silly little thing I made years back

When you mouse over the comic, it says "Ahem. We are STRICTLY an Orbiter shop."

An extremely popular webcomic at that! Any old webcomic could mention Orbiter and it wouldn't be a big deal, but xkcd on the other hand... :thumbup:

Take a look at the mouseover text on today's xkcd. I thought that was a nice little reference to the sim!

Well of course, that's why we all love using complex numbers :lol: I'm not arguing that we SHOULD be thinking of it so, only that it could be thought of like that.

But can't you just think of the complex number and any operation done to it as the scaling and rotation of a vector?

Hm, if this is the question I think the answer is that no, no such part of physics exists. Here is my reasoning, which may very well be wrong. Of course i has no physical meaning, since the square root of -1 has no physical meaning. It is then prudent to ask what we mean by "multiplication". We...

I would just like to leave this somewhat relevant quotation from Mr. Rogers

I have to say, almost everything Feynman related is worth a read. I consider Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! to be one of my favorite books. I also recently picked up the Feynman Lectures on Physics, so needless to say, I will be occupied for a while!

RIP Neil. I guess its back to the heavens with you :(

This means good things for Planetary Exploration funding!

As already stated here, I don't think this is correct. Different dialects are not the same as different languages, so people are fine calling what is spoken in the United States 'English'. No need to specify :thumbup: