NorthernDevo

I'm fairly sanguine about the fighting effectiveness, myself - both in the SW movies and these fanclips, the creators aren't seasoned weapons practitioners; simply guys that know how to make a decent-looking movie. On that scale, I'd say this one was very well-done. I really wish I knew what video and editing technology people used to make these lightsaber duels; I'd love to do one of my own - and I know my teacher (who is now well into her 60's, weighs possibly 90 pounds soaking wet and has the seriousness of a 14-year-old) would love to as well. Cheers!

Jeb would certainly like it. As American films go, The Right Stuff is first-class; one of the best; a fast-paced, fun adventure. It is a fictional movie; it follows Tom Clancy's novel rather than real life, but nevertheless is close enough to reality to enthrall us. The cast is perfect: Ed Harris, Sam Shepard (who spent a lot of time with General Yeager, learning how to play the legendary pilot), Scott Glen and Fred Ward do a fantastic job in the film. But The Right Stuff is more than just a pilot movie; it highlights the home-front as well and the women - Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright and Mary Jo Deschanel - are given pride of place as well. I've heard critics say that The Right Stuff 'makes you proud to be an American'. I'm sure that's true - though not being American that aspect doesn't interest me. The movie makes me proud to be a pilot - to revel in the fact that as a stick-and-rudder man I have a great history and culture behind me. OK; those guys might be blasting off into orbit and I'm stuck grinding around Southern Ontario in a Cessna 172, but let's be honest here: what pilot on this forum hasn't hummed 'Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder' on takeoff one or twice? Or gone "Ba Baba bahh bahh BAHHH!!!" (the music from Top Gun) halfway through a turn? If anyone hasn't seen The Right Stuff; I couldn't recommend it more. Great story, great acting, great flying and a whole lotta fun. Cheers!

Thank you! I've actually been having some success in the demo version; I've managed safe-return landings on both moons, with landings by all the arches, the Armstrong Memorial (very touching addition, there) and found the flying saucer once; though with the updated demo it's much harder to find than it was a couple of years ago. I've toyed with single-ship and dual-ship missions and quite like saving fuel by aerobraking around Kerbin on my way home. Right now I'm surveying Minimus so see if there's any artifacts there...looking it up in the wiki would be cheating. (I think probably not; even orbiting AT 5600M - so low I'm scraping the higher plateaus - I've found nothing.)

(In solipsistic terms, at least... ) Hello everyone, call me Devo! I've been playing the demo version of KSP for a couple of years now; I'm finally taking the leap to actually getting the thing for real. Not that I haven't wanted to before now; it was just real life, if you know what I mean. I was introduced to it in a funny way; I've been a long-time Orbiter player and write S-F in my spare time. I'd frequently ask the fora I frequent science-based questions about space ships and technology-mainly concerning the physics and math; 'Is this realistic?' was the common theme. One day, I was asking about spinning a ship to provide artificial gravity and as luck would have it, an argument erupted among several highly skilled members. One of them inserted a video to make his point: a video of a long, segmented ship spinning enough to provide .5G at its ends. I was intrigues, and asked what the sim was: KSP. Well, it was pretty, but I wasn't really interested; I was hooked on the realism aspects of Orbiter. However; one day I'd heard enough about it that I decided to try it out. I fell in love instantly; those little green guys are hilarious and it's a much, much different challenge from Dr. Schweiger's sim. Unfortunately without the internet at the time (and without a whole lot of other things), I didn't have the resources to get it but continued to have quite good fun with the demo. I must say; I got extremely good at one particular maneuver: carpet-bombing the Space Center when my horribly-overbuilt rocket ripped itself to pieces a kilometer up. I'm back in a time of life when things are good again; I have security, work, home, etc. and can now enjoy luxuries; and KSP is pretty near the top of the list. I can't wait to try all the new parts and planets that'll be open to me. Cheers!