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Is this more like the World Series or the Super Bowl? Just kidding - I hope it turns out to be like Ping-Pong Diplomacy.

I use Windows XP in a Boot Camp partition on a MacBook Pro. I currently have that partition set at 30 GB, but I've successfully run Orbiter with a partition as small as 10 GB. (I increased the size in order to run some other apps as well.) One of the neat things about Boot Camp is that you can...

Orbiter is fantastic on a Mac! Last time I noticed, I was getting 160 fps. :thumbup: I use Windows XP in a Boot Camp partition on a MacBook Pro. I currently have that partition set at 30 GB, but I've successfully run Orbiter with a partition as small as 10 GB. (I increased the size in order to...

Powers of Ten An oldie but goodie

Yep, Orbiter makes us justify the craziest things. I use my MacBook Pro to run Windows (with Boot Camp), only to run Orbiter. Welcome to the community!

Congratulations on a significant milestone! A bit of advice, from someone who will (I hope) celebrate 40th anniversary in October: When you're asked how long you've been married, and she answers "X years", don't say, "Seems longer." Even if you only mean that you can hardly remember a time you...

What are the requirements? As a systems guy, I hate to see people wasting effort constructing a solution before defining the requirements. So what is the objective for "terraforming" Mars (or anywhere else)? Some thoughts in the form of step-wise high-level requirements (these would have to be...

You're doing a great job with the site - and the video is fascinating.:thumbup: Watching the Soyuz dock with ISS, as seen from the forward camera, raised a question, which a brief search of O-F didn't answer. Is there a key to what the various numbers are? I can figure out (with the help of the...

It even looks good on the iPhone! :)

A friend of mine retired from the IT industry after decades of experience. He described the alternating trends of centralizing applications/data on the server or distributing apps/data as an Indian War Dance: sometimes the braves dance toward the fire and sometimes they dance away.

Blade Runner is great sci-fi, but not much about space. Apollo 13 is a great (the greatest?) space movie, but factual, not fiction. Firefly/Serenity is great sci-fi, too, with better stories and better coherence than any other sci-fi series.

Can the size of the circle indicate the action area to make the repair?

Not bad: both the story and the translation. Also, see this news item about real-life trapping of anti-hydrogen.

Sorta makes you feel good about physics, doesn't it?

The magazine "Physics Today" had an article in July about a constellation of earth-observation satellites, informally dubbed the A-Train. Many orbinauts will find it interesting (it's not too technical). The satellites are all at 705 km altitude, inclination 98.2 degrees, and within just a few...

I created a Boot Camp partition of about 10 GB, and installed Windows XP on that. I also have an external drive formatted as FAT32 so Windows can read/write it, and I have several Orbiter installation folders on that. Orbiter works great on my MacBook Pro. If you don't have (or want) an...

ESA has released The Space Game (http://www.thespacegame.org/) with a trajectory-planning challenge. Which of our orbinauts will win, and what tools will you use?

"Tranquility Base here" I heard it live, and it made the hair stand up all over my body.

The Asteroid Belt Video showing discovery of asteroids from 1980 to 2010. Be sure to watch in 1080p, if possible. YouTube- Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010!

Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about. I can imagine a sort of chat facility being somewhat interesting, with audio and video for those who want to use it. Imagine that whenever you have the "ChatMFD" active, you are given a list of orbinauts/ships and their distance (or light-time)...