![]() |
|
Brighton Lounge General off-topic discussions. Political or religious topics may only be posted in The Basement forum. |
![]() |
|
Thread Tools |
![]() |
#25186 |
Orbinaut
|
![]() Quote:
Actually, this garage 110km from my home is about 5km from my glider airfield. And I am a regular customer there, so the crew of the garage is always willing to give me a ride to the airfield and pick me up when they are done with the car. So while waiting for my car, I was able to take a glider up for a flight. I flew back to my house to tease myself and back to the airfield while my car was being repaired. So that made it certainy worth it. ---------- Post added at 08:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 PM ---------- Quote:
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Thanked by: |
![]() |
#25187 |
Certain Super User
![]() ![]() |
![]() Quote:
Well, I drove ~35 km to work and back then and 10 km to my favorite mechanic... thats simple addition. ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25188 |
Aperiodic traveller
![]() ![]() |
![]()
Seeing how New Horizons is doing got me into a mood to play with virtual space probes.
The old Spaceway engine can't really do bilobale asteroids, unfortunately, but whatever is doable should be good enough. ![]() Instrumentation modules like a camera carry their own renderers, so i could ignore deprecated OpenGL stuff and stupidly slow intel shader compilers at cost of going in blind and only getting back periodic snapshots. ![]() Just what the mood needs. Program the probe, get it going on the server, get the feed going to the phone, sit back and watch things unfold. ![]() It's fairly meditative to just lie in bed and watch a telemetry feed along with occasional images. Imagination fills the gaps, and the chunk is the least cartoonish model among Spaceway's planet functions. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25189 |
shoemaker without legs
![]() |
![]()
I could totally see an ARG being built on that concept...
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25190 |
Aperiodic traveller
![]() ![]() |
![]()
ARG as in alternate reality game? Isn't it some marketing shtick from the 00s?
|
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25191 |
Certain Super User
![]() ![]() |
![]() Quote:
2010s... but yes. Remember, iPhone first appeared in 2010... But your screen more looks like one of those idle clicker games that flood the app stores today. ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25192 |
shoemaker without legs
![]() |
![]() Quote:
I'd imagine it kinda like KSP in real time... Well, maybe not quite real time, you don't want to take years for a probe to reach its destination. Except you go to certain spots to get stuff to construct your rocket, like there are parts shops, launch sites, stuff like that. And when you get your first rocket off the ground, you can track its telemetry and get cool picks, and get revenue for it, which you can use to build more rockets etc. Huh, it seemed cooler when just having a short burst of imagination rather than trying to think it through, to be honest. ![]() Last edited by jedidia; 01-17-2019 at 11:38 PM. |
![]() |
![]() |
Thanked by: |
![]() |
#25195 |
shoemaker without legs
![]() |
![]()
My soon-to-be 7 years old droped a bombshell question yesterday:
"What are humans for?" He was somewhat upset when I couldn't really give him an answer... ![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Thanked by: |
![]() |
#25199 |
Fine Threads since 2008
![]() |
![]()
My sister's daughter dropped a similar bomb on my brother in law when she was very young by asking him "How do you make love?"
My sister interceded and answered "L-O-V-E", averting a crisis. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#25200 |
shoemaker without legs
![]() |
![]() Quote:
Quote:
![]() In fact, we discussed that topic something like two years ago when he was asking about related issues. I'm not sure he'squite gotten around to making sense of it though, so it's probably going to come up again at some point. Last edited by jedidia; 01-20-2019 at 11:55 PM. |
![]() |
![]() |
Thanked by: |
![]() |
|
Tags |
avatars, images |
Thread Tools | |
|
|
Quick Links | Need Help? |