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"All we need now is a "Royal Mail XR2 payload" addon and we're set to deliver second class* to the ISS!" naw, what'll happen is they'll take it all the way up there, realise the postage is about 2p short so they wont deliver it to the recipient and bring it aaaall the way back to the sender.

I wish there was a bit more on how these were done. A friend of mine at SFM informs me these are probably photos of real physical minatures, not CG. Given the background of the guy who put them together it seems likely but i bet theres plenty of computer touch-ups and some digital elements in...

No, i mean preventable in that it could have been inspected and the re-entry prevented.

Sure, lets not forget that its really the first of its kind too. And given the complexity its remarkable to me how well its performed. interestingly, in a slightly grim way, despite its complexity which you might think would be its achilles heel, the reasons why the orbiter has twice been...

i agree that past performance does not indicate that nothing will fail in future. Thats not what i'm trying to say however... which is that had failures not occured in the stack in the previous 2 accidents, both columbia and challenger would very likely have returned, barring some other...

Buzz Aldrin was on coast to coast am just recently he also seemed in favour of extending the shuttle program. The orbiter itself actually never failed though, right? it was twice destroyed by its stack. Once you're in space, and if you know your heatsheild is ok then its an easy, safe ride...

stereo/3d has been around for years and years... imho 3d in movies is a passing fad that comes and goes every couple of decades, the novelty will wear off and become annoying eventually. Anyone remember jaws 3d? no?

Yes, as far as i can tell they're all nicely made, textured and rendered models. A couple of them are very convincing, looking as if they are actually there, esp the spindrift and flying sub. If you look carefully there are some problems though, the flying sub seems to change scale a bit...

umm, because they are in fact not a alternative energy producer? What it actually is, is an established fossil fuel company putting down a potential competing product.

US gov man involved in a big-oil conspiracy to discredit alternative energy production... who'd a thunk it...

yea they shoved in a model of a the old basestars and an old cylon suit in there too they were in shot for a while... dont recall seeing the mk1 in there but i'll take your word for it:thumbup: Technically you could also say that the enterprise and a firefly are in the show also as they are seem...

Those are all mk2's including adamas old one. MK2: MK1:

Andy, as much as i hate to out-nerd you.... A, Forget about what service operated it, Grumman F18 tomcat? Aint never heard of that plane...;) B, in nu-BSG i don't think i ever saw a Mk1 as in the original series model, the show depicted mk2's and mk7's... perhaps they were shown in something...

I'm not entire sure what the score is there, but nvidia seems to have now just recently dropped support for older versions of direct x. It should run just fine on most cards however, theres no problems with ATI's either, other than them being ATI's.;) As far as i know, a joystick is...

No, i mean it's freeware as in it's freeware... Just go download it, thank me later;)

Marvin the Martian infact, as we're going to mars,;) no doubt Dodgers is making him very angry indeed. Glad there's at least one other person around here who appreciates that era of warner bros cartoons.;) I was thinking of calling it the 'Constellation II' After the legendary Lockheed airliner...

Very true in my experience, nearly all the 3d artists i know use some flavour of windows, all the CAD places i've worked at also use entirely windows pc's. I have my complaints about windows and i'm sure linux is better in some areas, but i personally would never use it for anything. Even if...

With a dry ship, you'll be able to put down on dreamlands long runway and stop. KSC's shuttle runway with hover-assistance and almost anywhere else if you cheat a bit. I'll have some basic scifi runway building blocks ready soon, at least modelling wise anyway.. maybe even a big curved skijump...

Its older than some of our members, but the venerable and usually warmly remembered Falcon 4 is in its latest reincarnation, and its freeware. http://www.freefalcon.com/ After 12 years the hundreds of volunteers that have worked on it have nearly ironed out the bugs from the original...

again i think thats absolutely dooable at some point, seaplanes that can take to space could be very useful. I'm not all that interested in the idea because the water in orbiter isn't all that interesting at the moment... all you're doing at the moment is hitting blue coloured ground with no...