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    TransX Moon-Earth Return - Need Help Understanding TransX

    You must use the proper date for a Hohmann transfer launch window to start. Then you must launch into the correct plane of alignment. You use launch mfd and align while climbing to orbit. Once you have launched into the correctly aligned orbit you have made things a whole lot easier. Going to...
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    Question I'm asking those who have jobs

    I manage a day program that educates developmentaly disabled adults in independent living skills.
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    A movie called "Thrive"

    http://transitionculture.org/2012/01/09/film-review-why-thrive-is-best-avoided/ This is most likely all one needs to know about Thrive.
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    Question What are you reading?

    Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312".
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    A breath of fresh air!

    Wow! I am so fortunate to be healthy. It is only when I read about someone like you that went through what you went through to live do I realize what a gift it is to be able to breath normally. Your picture brought me to tears honestly. I fervently hope for your speedy and complications free...
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    Question Question to Guitarists-Orbinauts

    Actually it is: tonic,full step,full step,half step,full step,full step,full step.
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    Question Question to Guitarists-Orbinauts

    In measures 17 and 18 the triad of notes under the Des and As respectively are inversions of the chords D flat major and A flat major. Does this help?
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    Gaming Any IL-2 Sturmovik fans?

    Oh yeah, best combat flight sim ever. Used to play with voice coms with folks from all over the planet.
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    70's TV show including great big eyeball?

    "The Night Stalker" I think it was "Kolchak, the Night Stalker" starring Darrin McGavin. The episode most likely was "The Energy Eater" an episode about the american native bear spirit legend the matchemonedo but has since been combined with another episode with new narration and has been...
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    Memorial Day

    All that being said, I would remind everyone to at least check out and hopefully read Smedley Butler's "War is a Racket". I am an honorably discharged veteran of the Viet Nam era.
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    DockingMFD The Rendezvous Burn

    Another way to rendezvous in a scenario like you have described is to use IMFD orbital function and use auto burn with the velocity match function after you have set all the parameters. Fire auto burn when time to rendezvous according to the sync orbit MFD is about half of your burntime...
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    Question Your favorite music genre(s)?

    Bluegrass, leaning towards Newgrass, primarily instrumentals, as I am a bluegrass musician (30 years playing a Gibson Mastertone and several bands later).
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    Free War Simulation Games

    Steel Panthers "World at War" at GamersGate.com
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    Odd things afloat

    We from the 60's say: "If you can remember the 60's you WEREN'T there!"
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