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[Quick_Nick]

NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You’re Free To Use Them

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/10/nasa-posts-huge-library-space-sounds-youre-free-use/

Someone call dansteph.

 

[MattBaker]

How to spot Mass Effect is fiction: Somebody engineered a human to be perfect in every way, gave her an Australian accent.

 

[n122vu]

Ah, yes, the Northrop "MiG" F-5 LOL. If these had been piloted by Marines Tom Cruise would've lost.

What I find hilarious is that when "Charlie" is briefing the pilots just before the infamous "keeping up with foreign relations" bit, she actually says "We will dealing with F5s and A4s as our MiG simulators...."

IIRC Jester and Viper both flew A4s during the training missions, and the F5s didn't show up until the "MiG 28" scenes.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

For example that you can get binary distributions for windows of the command line client. :lol:

Ah, so running git commands anywhere in a windows shell works automatically in windows, just like in linux/mac? (ie git init, git push, git clone works anywhere?)

 

[orb]

Ah, so running git commands anywhere in a windows shell works automatically in windows

Not automatically. You need to download the git binaries first and either extract them or install, and add the binaries location to PATH environment variable to make it work "anywhere".

 

[Urwumpe]

Not automatically. You need to download the git binaries first and either extract them or install, and add the binaries location to PATH environment variable to make it work "anywhere".

Which is the same that you also need to make the package manager of your Linux do during installation.... :lol:

 

[ISProgram]

Found this on reddit...and it's SpaceX, so yeah.

 

[Urwumpe]

Obsolete stuff.... the rockets changed already.

 

[Andy44]

What I find hilarious is that when "Charlie" is briefing the pilots just before the infamous "keeping up with foreign relations" bit, she actually says "We will dealing with F5s and A4s as our MiG simulators...."

IIRC Jester and Viper both flew A4s during the training missions, and the F5s didn't show up until the "MiG 28" scenes.

I think the dressed-up F-5 "MiGs" were also in the beginning of the film, when Goose shoots the opposing pilot the finger during the silly inverted scene.

The A-4s were used as aggressors, particularly by Jester, and they were used in real life as well.

 

[Scruce]

Speaking of SpaceX, somebody made a really cool animation of tomorrow's CRS-5 launch and flight profile. The second stage burning during Dragon's separation bothered me a bit though.

 

[Unstung]

http://fmjfn28v7he3vmrnjjqunw53.wpe...oads/2013/10/FE-Mec-CBT-specs_with-ranges.pdf

 

[Linguofreak]

Memories from my time in Germany:

"If we use base 10^110, the vacuum catastrophe becomes a matter of a Nachkommazahl."

"Nachkommazahl" means "digit after the decimal point", so the English is roughly "the vacuum catastrophe becomes a simple rounding error".

 

[jedidia]

A reminder from the doctor:
keeping your include paths clean in visual studio contributes to your sanity. Especially if some header files in different projects have the same names, like, say, "common.h"... :beathead:

 

[Spacethingy]

Memories from my time in Germany:

"If we use base 10^110, the vacuum catastrophe becomes a matter of a Nachkommazahl."

"Nachkommazahl" means "digit after the decimal point", so the English is roughly "the vacuum catastrophe becomes a simple rounding error".

Sounds like something from Douglas Adams...

"According to the Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy, The Fourth Rambulin Empire met its untimely end when a lowly government accountant by the name of Grodulous Snimble accidentally caused a localised vacuum catastrophe by attempting to calculate tax returns using base 10^110. This is another example of how the Guide is greatly superior to the Encyclopaedia Galactica, which merely remarks that the Empire was destroyed by 'unknown hostile rounding errors'."

 

[Urwumpe]

Among the nearly 2400 MSDOS games now available online on archive.org and playable within web browser...

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Shuttle_The_Space_Flight_Simulator_1992

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And also....


https://archive.org/details/msdos_Space_MAX_1992


Oh memories...

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Among the nearly 2400 MSDOS games now available online on archive.org and playable within web browser...

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Shuttle_The_Space_Flight_Simulator_1992

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And also....


https://archive.org/details/msdos_Space_MAX_1992


Oh memories...

Do they have "Flight of the Intruder"?

 

[n122vu]

Do they have "Flight of the Intruder"?

Yes, yes they do.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Flight_of_the_Intruder_1990

 

[Urwumpe]

Do they have "Flight of the Intruder"?

They do

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Flight_of_the_Intruder_1990

And also:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Falcon_3.0_1991
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Chuck_Yeagers_Advanced_Flight_Trainer_1987

But also:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Star_Control_II_1992

And especially:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_Deluxe_The_1992

 

[Fabri91]

So this is why a friend's laptop sounded like a jet engine with idle temps of 60°C:

 

[mojoey]

So this is why a friend's laptop sounded like a jet engine with idle temps of 60°C:

Just makes FSX more realistic