LordFerret

Humm... another essential forgotten... should your vessel capsize, ALWAYS STAY WITH THE BOAT. Should the boat actually sink, stick together in a group an utilize any floating debris... there's safety in numbers, plus you're easier to spot by Search & Rescue crews.

Turn off computer. Sit down and recline back, get comfy. Close eyes. Play - no lag, no wonkyness from time warp, and the Kraken only comes out when you order him to.

I noticed several articles on the subject the other day while doing some searches for papers on the latest Earth-2 find. Here's a sample - http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2007/29/aa6560-06/aa6560-06.html http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/750/2/115 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015AAS...22542008K

Is that Celestia?!? The textures look familiar.

Very good advice! ^ I'll throw one more thing: Your boat; When you're out with family and friends aboard, be it you or your dad (whichever one), there is but one 'Captain'. The Captain is ultimately responsible for all crew and passengers. The Captain's word is the word and final. Be it reminding folks to keep their life-preservers on, or stay seated, or no horseplay, etc etc anything safety related ... your crew and passengers need to know and respect that authority before they even step aboard, and if they can't follow that - then leave them home.

Question: When you target the asteroid in attempting to lock the Claw on it, are you targeting its center of mass? If you right-click on the asteroid, it will give you this option. It helps. I've put two class C asteroids into orbit around Kerbin just these past few days, and once course has been set and my burn finished, I've used time warp (several of them) with no problems. I've not tried to land any yet however.

Today's Weather : Pluto Hazy, with flowing nitrogen ice.

Oh yea. I forgot about that. I was thinking Hullcam VDS (which has two telescopes, but not specifically IR), which I already have. Thanks!

I see no 'complaint' there, merely a fact I was pointing out. But now that you bring it up, no, Java is not platform independent ... as you pointed out, its JVM is required. Unix isn't in the picture here, nor is any other OS, as the JVM is nothing more than a(nother) layer over the OS that allows the communication of interpreted instructions (bytecode) from your Java application to the OS/CPU... the JVM passes machine code through. That is something I see as ludicrous; You want speed?... remove the layer. Java bytecode is compressed source code, as I said - tokenized, although said tokenization is not 'line by line' but optimized over complete methods. Subtle differences. Bottom line - the same. When you get down to it, Java is not very different from Python.

Infrared telescope? A mod? Which? As I was coming into orbit around Dres (SCANsat probe), they started popping into view (map view). Now that my probe has been there a while, more of them are apparent. I've not decided if I want to start tracking them yet. Maybe when my probe is done with scans, if I've fuel enough (should be), I'll go check one of them out.

Good incentive to go on that diet. - - - Updated - - - Yes, that was it, that is what it dealt with. Thanks.

Yes, although I thought I'd also read something about a doppler shift in the stars observed spectrum during exoplanet transit which might provide a basis for modeling possible atmospheric compositions. I could very well have misunderstood what I read however. I'll have to see if I can dig up the paper again (if I do, I'll post it).

Someone at NASA needs to walk down the hall, open that closet and kick that web server in the rack ... one of the slowest loading sites I've been too since dial-up and AOL.

Nice. Hope to see it posted here, if you're so inclined. A cruise on the big red boat? Have fun!

Interesting news! Someone mentioned Kepler not being able to detect planet atmospheres, but I've seen several scholarly articles related to transit detection to the contrary. I'll guess this announcement is the proof in that pudding.

Captured and put another Class C asteroid into orbit around Kerbin, asteroid AOR-706. Pilot Jensen Kermin did the job this time. While all that was happening, mapping of Moho completed ... science! And as well, my mapping probe orbiting Dres finished its lo-res scanning and was moved to a higher orbit to begin hi-res scans. I also put a small lab into Kerbin orbit, and it too is now (slowly) churning out science. And, I put a 'Hubble' telescope, from the Hullcam VDS mod into Kerbin orbit (thank you Albert VDS!). Jensen, doing science at AOR-706... I must add - the FreeEVA mod is making my EVAs a breeze to manage ... so much easier.

"the big green one".

It's been many years since I've done any development work, but back in the day when Java was *new* it had plenty of issues - as I recall. First of all, Java is compiled into an intermediate code (looking it up, Wikipedia says 'bytecode'), which very much resembles scripting (IMO), and requires a runtime module specific to the platform you intend to execute it on (cross-platform compatibility)... it's not in direct executable machine code. In that sense, I view it as 'tokenized'. As somebody else already mentioned, GC can get wonky and disrupt things (usually at the most inopportune time, or so it seemed). Something else I recall was that Java was not fault tolerant, and because of that it was not used for/in any critical systems (I remember a number of Java applications with exactly such notice in the documentation). I did a quick search on that issue, and it seems only recently (around 2004-5) they've done something about it. - - - Updated - - - ...thinking about it (fault tolerance), I think C-language suffered the same pitfalls in its infancy too.

You should take a look at Celestia.Sci

There was another paper I ran across which was a bit more specific than the first two links I posted, but it seems the focus in example is on white dwarf stars. Maybe more information can be gleaned from it? http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1972ApJ...175..417N/0000417.000.html

Might help... https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/average-density-of-a-star.281229/ http://www.maths.qmul.ac.uk/~svv/MTH725U/Lecture4.htm

I'm sure there's a few GFs/wives out there who think so. lol

Is there a higher resolution image available of this region yet? (probably not :/) I'm still very intrigued by what appears to be 'dunes', for example: center section of that image. And right below that, the two 'tongues' which appear to be flows(?). And that obvious crater lower left quadrant, filled with ice. And finally, those two mountain peaks on the right side, upper and lower quadrants... the comparative perimeter bases of each. I'll be marveling over this stuff for a while lol.

Hey! I was just talking about this!

Careful, you'll have union reps crawling all over you before you know it.