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I saw a mention of Orbiter 2010 out there on the Interwebs thingie and was really pleased to see it's finally been released. I installed it with a fresh install and, mirabile dictu, it worked great from the first attempt to start it. The speed of start-up and improvements in the interface...

I have a question arising from a project I'm working on. Does anyone know any good sources for capabilities of military radar in the 1940s -- WWII and after? I'm looking for both ground-based and airborne, and something that would help me get a grasp on the evolution of the capabilities of...

How do I determine what version of DirectX I have installed?

Here's a blog post that points to an article that describes what looks like a very sound concept for using EELVs to launch STS-sized payloads to the ISS: http://selenianboondocks.com/2008/11/interesting-paper-on-shuttle-alternatives/ Note the discussion for the need/demand for a "prox/ops" tug...

I'm looking for recommendations for what's good in the current generation of modern military flight sims. Factors I'm interested in are: -- flight realism -- large number of aircraft types -- combat realism -- graphics -- ability to do addons (if such a thing exists) I haven't even seen what...

Bummer: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3ab47b5367-e89d-4b6d-bd47-5e05016f7e32 ... not surprising given the budget blood...

With the success of SpaceX's fourth Falcon 1 flight, even a bitter old curmudgeon like me has occasional, brief flashes of hope. I thought I'd start a thread devoted to the general topic of the prospects for "New Space" with a link to a short little blog post I came across that discusses the...

I've started a new thread because this subject is quite far afield from the one out of which it sprang, and I thought I'd leave the "Patriot Act" thread for those who want to continue to discuss the theocratic fascist regime that took over in the US eight years ago -- just kidding. So I've...

A quick post to let folks here know my wife and I and our zoo are OK. We just got electricity back. Ain't been fun. Especially since I didn't get to shoot a single looter ....

Can anyone point me to SUPER-high-res moon textures and bump maps? 2500x1250 are the biggest I've been able to find.

I have what surely counts as a STOOPID question. I'm VERY close to releasing my next addon, but just encountered an issue I've never faced before. I'm using non-spacecraft3.dll, .cfg-file-based vessels for some of the simpler, cargo components in this addon. These utilize the attachment...

Inherent in much of the violence around the world is an unresolved conflict that lies at the foundation of the modern state system: the tension between ethnic and national identity on the one hand, and majority rule on the other. In the closed thread about Ossetia and Georgia, Andy made a...

Here's an item from AvLeak about the upcoming 50th anniversary of DARPA...

Here's an article from AvLeak about the little-noted X-37 program and it's current state of progress: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=awst&id=news/aw080408p2.xml&headline=Air%20Force%20Ready%20To%20Launch%20First%20Spaceplane%20Demonstrator%20Mission As...

I'm in the process of trying to reduce polygons on a mesh before converting it to .msh form. For reasons irrelevant to these questions, the particular "polygon hunt" I'm on right now has to be done manually and is very tedious: I have to zoom WAAAAY into the part I'm working on and delete...

Now available at Orbit Hangar: Local Space Transport You can view the documentation at my website: http://www.gregburch.net/orbiter/LSTS201.html As always, feedback is welcome. I'll be leaving for work shortly, so if there's a "packing" error, I may not be able to get to it until this...

Here's a presentation recently made about a DARPA program called VULCAN aimed at developing an engine that works in the "trans-hypersonic" range (i.e. above what a turbojet can do, up through scramjet ignition speeds)...

I often bemoan the shocking prevalence of irrational thought and the general lack of healthy skepticism in popular culture. But this article: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-06-04.html#feature puts a little empirical shine on the steady defeat of one particularly disgusting brand of...

I'm sure I've asked about this before, and no doubt the answer is staring me in the face somewhere obvious, but I'm not having luck in a quick search finding it (or, more likely, I'm too lazy to find it), but is there a relatively straightforward conversion factor to transform ISP figures from...

I thought I had a pretty good handle on how to make the rotation point of one animation component move as a function of another animation component. But I'm having hell doing it on the addon I'm currently developing. Here's the problematic code: This is supposed to describe a docking tube...