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[mojoey]

I was cleaning my .30-.30 (Winchester Model 84) when my daughter walked into the room. She asked about it and I gave her all the specs and told her it used to be my favorite gun.

With no pause she asked if it was named Vera.

My kid = AWESOME!


(Can't stop the signal)

Should have just told her it was your boomstick.

 

[jedidia]

Random question in the random comments thread:

Is there a file somewhere in Orbiter that defines the marker colors (for planetarium mode) or are they hard coded?

 

[Linguofreak]

"Drive Wheel", actually, but the rest matches up pretty good :lol:

Actually, I'd say "ride wheel", given that "ride" is a valid translation of "fahren", and the correct English phrase for riding a bike is, well, "riding a bike".

And the word "riding" reminds me of the joke "Wenn sie keinen Führerschein haben, dürfen sie auch auf keinem reiten". For non-German speakers, that's "if you don't have a Führerschein, you don't get to ride one." I]Führerschein[/I] means "driver's license", but could also mean "Führer's license", if such a thing made sense.

A lot of English words can be fairly entertaining if you translate their Greco-Latin roots. "Bicycle", for example, is "two circle", and "submarine (boat)" means the same as the German "U(ntersee)-Boot".

 

[ISProgram]

Is there a dedicated application for determining the the COG of your vessel(s), or is it all just pure guesswork?

Trying to calculate the COG for a upper stage.

 

[Urwumpe]

Is there a dedicated application for determining the the COG of your vessel(s), or is it all just pure guesswork?

Trying to calculate the COG for a upper stage.

Well, what is the mass of your triangles?

 

[ISProgram]

Well, what is the mass of your triangles?

...

 

[MaverickSawyer]

:blink:

After my post, we'll be 11 posts away from 18,000 semi-random comments in the RCT.

 

[Andy44]

10!

 

[Urwumpe]

...

That was a bit ironic... The CoG of your spacecraft depends on the mass distribution (and actually the gravity field around it... but please assume Galileo g=const for not going crazy).

It is really as simple as : The tank weights 500 kg and its CoG is 2 m away from the 250 kg rocket engine, so the CoG of the two joined masses is 2*500/(250 + 500) = 2 * 2 / (1 + 2) = 4/3 meters away from the CoG of the rocket engine.

Think of the CoG as of a simple scale there: Where the CoG is, your spacecraft would not be rotating, if a force would act in its direction (this method is also used for building aircraft models BTW)

And IX ... you arabian collaborators. Freedom Numerals!

 

[Izack]

1000 to go, meatbags.

A lot of English words can be fairly entertaining if you translate their Greco-Latin roots. "Bicycle", for example, is "two circle", and "submarine (boat)" means the same as the German "U(ntersee)-Boot".

Which also leaves us with a few odd examples. Riddle me this: "Butterfly."

 

[MattBaker]

1000 to go, meatbags.

As a meatbag would say: "I have a bad feeling about this."

 

[Andy44]

In 6 time, you cats...

 

[mojoey]

It's a magical place.

 

[Linguofreak]

10300 to go.

EDIT: Why limit ourselves to the real line for selecting bases?

 

[Loru]

Hi. I'm making an add-on for Orbiter 2010 P1. What dds format does Orbiter works with? DXT1? DXT3? DXT5? A8R8...? X8R8...? A8B8...? X8B8...? A1R5...? A4R4...?

I had no problems with DXT1, DXT5 and 888-8. I use DXTBmp converter.

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Is there a dedicated application for determining the the COG of your vessel(s), or is it all just pure guesswork?

Trying to calculate the COG for a upper stage.

Well - Measure tool in 3dsmax or GMax shows you center of mass for model assuming consistent density of your model

 

[C3PO]

Which also leaves us with a few odd examples. Riddle me this: "Butterfly."

A fly that is the colour of butter? I raise you: Hamster.

 

[Urwumpe]

A fly that is the colour of butter? I raise you: Hamster.

What is the problem with "hamustro"?

I see your hamster and I raise you by a "Neuntöter".

 

[RisingFury]

Post number 18 000 in this thread. Where's my award for awesomness?

 

[Loru]

Post number 18 000 in this thread. Where's my award for awesomness?

Lost in the glare of your awesomeness

 

[Andy44]

Post number 18 000 in this thread. Where's my award for awesomness?