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[Izack]

WTF? I had nothing of the sorts showing up... :lol:

For some reason, the image won't embed, so here's some clarification:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26163846/ads.png

It's great reading a page that begins with "And so the penis fills with Cialis."

 

[jedidia]

Oh I've seen the image, alright. I (thankfully) didn't get the blind text on opening the page.

Maybe it's your searching habits :lol:

 

[sorindafabico]

Is it possible to make that pentagram system in Orbiter?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/07/30/5-gifs-of-n-body-orbits/

 

[jedidia]

Is it possible to make that pentagram system in Orbiter?

If the solution is correct, it should be possible to do with dynamic bodies, but I'll be damned if it remains stable for long under high time acceleration.

Otherwise you'll have to code the behavior into the bodies itself, which is possible.

 

[sorindafabico]

Transfers would be very challenging in such a system

 

[Codz]

I've been to quite a few military and civilian airshows and I must say, USN/USMC F/A-18's always seem to put on the best show. Anyway, it's interesting to see it from a demo pilot's perspective.

 

[Urwumpe]

Spaceflight explained again...

http://what-if.xkcd.com/

And the Proclaimers deserve to be called honorary rocket scientists, to match the length of their song and the lyrics so that the ISS (or any other spacecraft in LEO) achieves exactly what the song promises.

 

[MattBaker]

Things explained in xkcd that you would have learned with Orbiter or KSP as well, part one.

 

[N_Molson]

I took that picture yesterday on Toulouse-Blagnac airport tarmac. I was aboard a CRJ-1000 Nextgen, a fine plane if you ask me. We had to go through a stormy cloud layer during approach with some nice lightnings, but everything went fine. I was seated next to the left wing aft emergency exit, had room for legs and to take nice pics. :thumbup:

Notice the Airbus factory buildings on the background.

 

[SolarLiner]

Why did we never cross, being so close worldwidely?
Arf, anyway that was a great shot, it seemed tonemapped from an HDR to me on the first see...
I had the change to have 2 VIP tickets for the Airbus Familly day, 2-3 years ago, as a friend's dad is actually working there, and getting into the A380 was beautiful

 

[N_Molson]

Arf, anyway that was a great shot, it seemed tonemapped from an HDR to me on the first see...

I took it with a "simple" LG mobile phone, 3 MPx, all auto settings. Rain showers and sunsets give great results.



Here's another CRJ-1000 on the Nantes-Atlantique airport tarmac. The passengers are boarding and the last luggages are loaded into the cargo bay. On that relatively small airport, you can walk "freely" on the tarmac from the terminal to the aircraft, and that's really cool. In Toulouse-Blagnac you have to take a bus.

 

[Urwumpe]

Mike Foale retires... One of the astronauts onboard Mir during the collision accident.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Gotta love this:

 

[MattBaker]

I've just spent 15 minutes calculating how much earlier (time-wise, like 5:30 local time vs 5:15 local time) the sun rises in London compared to my hometown based on longitude.
Then I realized you could just look up sunrise times online.:facepalm:

 

[Urwumpe]

I've just spent 15 minutes calculating how much earlier (time-wise, like 5:30 local time vs 5:15 local time) the sun rises in London compared to my hometown based on longitude.
Then I realized you could just look up sunrise times online.:facepalm:

But you managed to calculate it yourself, which means you are part of an elite! :lol:

 

[MattBaker]

But you managed to calculate it yourself, which means you are part of an elite! :lol:

360/10=36
24/36=2/3
2/3*60=40
60-40=20

If that's elite I feel bad for our education.

 

[Loru]

360/10=36
24/36=2/3
2/3*60=40
60-40=20

If that's elite I feel bad for our education.

It's not about complexity of math but understanding the underlying concept IMHO.

 

[Cras]

I don't really need to explain do I?

 

[Loru]

Jellyfish DNA was inserted into the cloned rabbits, making them glow. It doesn’t hurt the bunnies at all, it is just visual confirmation that the insertion was successful. Researchers hope to use this technology to make better drugs for hemophilia by creating blood clotting enzymes more efficiently. The two glowing bunnies are perfectly healthy, and cannot be distinguished from their siblings in the daylight, but under UV light it is hard to mistake who has the gene.

In the past, cats have been made to glow in the dark to show they had an antibody for feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).

More read here: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112922043/glow-in-the-dark-bunnies-lead-to-better-drugs-081313/

 

[Artlav]

Glowing Plants on Kickstarter.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plants-natural-lighting-with-no-electricit
I'd really wish they shipped outside USA.