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yea i think it was a completely different animation. i went back and watched the video and its not the same one from before. the one you linked is that video, it only looked similar to the frame that was shown in the video box. and you can tell thats bogus because all the planets are pretty much orbiting on the same plane and they dont look properly elliptical.

man that was a good series. i couldnt stop watching it, then i had to watch 2001 again.

im not wonderful in any way shape or form.

are we going to all build our own vehicles or use a bunch of pre-made craft files? also a required mods list with version and downad links would be nice, or perhaps a zip with all the requisites in it so we just have to add ksp. this would eliminate confusion and possibly make things more stable for the event. and we might get a better turnout as a result.

KITTY!!!

it was just something i picked op on hearsay. i was just doing some transformations in my head and before it gave me a headache i figured it looked fishy. you know, dubious science.

wasn't this video refuted some time ago? the orientation of the galactic disk as seen in the night sky is all wrong for this to be accurate.

how few gs does a planet have to have before you can place a golfball in orbit with a typical drive. assume the drive takes place atop a mountain so that periapsis is roughly at position of the ball atop the tee.

was going to post a doom reference, but others beat me to it.

ive had this one stuck in my head all week. this is one of those songs i liked so much i played it on a loop for several hours, then completely forgot about it. then months later, in a painkiller induced coma after having a tooth pulled, i remembered it. now its back on an infinite loop. terrible vocals (for black metal, too immortal-like), but love the guitar work. also like the trend in entropy-themed black metal ive been seeing.

this looks like it would be fun. do you have more information?

doesn't surprise me at all. huge sets like this are hard to store and its usually cheaper just to take it apart and recycle the materials (usually into another set). all the more reason to do it. for science! we really dont know how much gravity is necessary to maintain bone density and muscle mass. we do know that coriolis effects can be problematic and that motion sickness is a major concern. but we wont know anything until we actually do it. when i was younger i did see a guy do the humpty hump on the gravitron, it was rather impressive feat considering the gs that thing pulls.

i wonder what it would take to launch the original set into space and use it as an actual (rather nausiating) centrifuge.

oooh thats even more fun!

except in that case you are trying to contain charged particles vs repel neutrals. magnets are fun.

they want to pull 10 others, but they dont have an opening till the middle of december. also taco bell, how do you keep it down? you can make superior mexican food at home.

im alive and thats questionable. howabout you dont ask me stupid questions and i wont oughtright lie to you. i had a tooth out yesterday. unfortunately that was not the worst part of my day.

the slaves know not the way to cast off the shackles.

i am so glad i havent worked since 2008. dont miss it.

i want to say that the show is using this as a commentary on the political bipolarization we are currently going through in the usa. i dont think its so much as pushing one side or the other (but a clear bias exists simply that the side represented by the klingons is the opposite side from the one that runs hollywood). i want to say that they are using the show as a whole to show that its possible for both sides to understand eachother and help close the divide. i want to think that, but i have a feeling that the bias will be exploited to push someones agenda. i dont want to be too political but this seems to be the direction the show is going.

i like how easy it is to prototype a robot chassis with lego. considering doing a 3d scanner build. help automate the process of taking the hundreds of photos required for visualSFM, which turns them into a point cloud which you can use to generate model and texture data. its pretty much just a turntable, something to raise and lower the camera while keeping it pointed at the subject and a servo to take the picture. but i dont have a camera with high enough resolution to get good results.

went through a brick link phase. i dont think ive messed with my legos since i got my 3d printer though. ive doune some experiments printing custom bricks, but its easier just doing your build as one piece.

klingons didnt take the path of self elevation into a space faring civilization (the path the post prime-directive federation prefers other races to take). another race attempted to enslave them and the klingons revolted, seizing their technology in the process and later developing their own and expanding their empire. hence the mistrust for outsiders. they have learned that when another species 'comes in peace', that enslavement is soon to follow. they have been there before and arent going to risk it happening again. its also why the klingons have such a cultural-tech disparity. they have values of a feudal iron age warrior culture but tech superior to starfleet at this point in the timeline.

expect a merge into the other thread, think the mods have merged 3 into it already. captain seems more like a serial killer than a starfleet captain. especially that scene in the dissection lab with bits of alien critters everywhere. hardly creepy at all. was that a gorn skeleton?

i need something to watch until the expanse comes back on. hard scifi has ruined trek for me. discovery was just a nail in the coffin.