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As a practicing photographer, I can tell you that choosing the right camera system is based off of the following criteria: Money Money How much money you can spend After you decide that, then I may be able to give you suggestions.

Man that's a sweet Earth!! "NASA's Landsat satellites have been snapping pictures of the Earth from orbit since 1972. The most recent iteration of the project, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, arrived at its orbital resting place on April 12, and shot this series of 56 images shortly thereafter. NASA stitched the pictures together into one long strip, which you can tour in the video above. As always, satellite images testify to the wonder of the biosphere. This particular set of pictures, though, is a simple meditation on the diversity of conditions on Earth, and the mark that humanity has left on the planet." VIA: The Atlantic Earthobservatory.nasa.gov's collection of features, links, and all of the images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/LDCMLongSwath/?src=features-hp The Short Version: The Long Version:

Sounds like fun. Looking forward to watching the development.

Right. Do you have a copy of photoshop? If not http://pixlr.com/editor/ has continued to surprise me as an online editor.

No i think that was a playful organization of Kerbin. If all goes well there could potentially be an official map. Idigfig doesn't seem to have any meaning, etc. Grab a map of Kerbin and start throwing names on.

Cool thanks. Hey Super another thought: a map of Kerbin with labels. I did a google search for "map of kerbin" and found this image, but the link to the forum post was blocked for me.

I was able to watch my city develop very clearly. This is so cool!

Yeah, so long as it is tidy. I love that! The Minmalayas.

Like make edits to the original post. For example: Booster Bay: The water beside ksc. [KSP] Kycho Crater: Big crater on the mun. [NASAFanboy] The Great Kerbinian Undersea Basin: The crater island on Kerbin [NASAFanboy] Upper Duna Highlands: North Pole of Duna [NASAFanboy] Just an idea.

Super 6-1 since nobody has a system for this, you may want to keep editing the first post to include the collection of names. Or make a new thread.

Oh right, i'm glad you revived this thread! There was a good bit of discussion over in the Dev thread: http://forum.kerbalspacep...QUESTION-Are-the-stars-randomly-generated Have the continents and land masses not been named yet? I know booster bay is set in stone, idk where but i feel like i saw the names of geographic locations somewhere sometime... something... at some point... or something.

Google automatic translation from article: "Chang'e III of this original "lady" we imagined, looks more like a majestic, wearing a "Full Metal Jacket Cloth general. It turned out that in order to be able to more realistically simulate the space environment, technicians wear for her an "armor" - this "armor" woven by more than 3,000 off-chip heat, as well as in the high-, low-temperature multi-layer components. Chang'e III will wear this body armor in vacuum thermal simulation to be more than 40 days will be accepted during the rainbow night so the test of baked high temperature and low temperature cold. " ("accepted during the rainbow night")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding Thanks for the update, Kryten!

I posed the question in the Dev forum. Check that periodically for responses as there arent any yet. http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/27245-QUESTION-Are-the-stars-randomly-generated

Lets get a dev in here to give some definition on how the celestial map works.

THIS SOUNDS AWESOME! However, I need to verify something I don't know. Do each of our respective Kerbin skies match? Like, is it a fixed system or is it randomly generated on each load of the game or per user?

This is something i never did as a kid, and now as an adult the prospect has peeked my interest. Some thread popped up a while back, and one of the posts was about homemade "rocket fuel", and the idea of mixing this stuff and stuffing it into homemade rockets--- failing miserably and trying again is very exciting to me.

Remember that this is one of the first steps for Virgin Galactic. Here's an excerpt from the first article i found from a google search: Following the historic first rocket-powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, Virgin Galactic plans to build a fleet of spaceships and begin ferrying hundreds of tourists into space in 2014. And then? A whole new kind of spacecraft, Sir Richard Branson said. “We’ll be building orbital spaceships after that,†Branson told Fox News Tuesday. VIA: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/30/sir-richard-branson-plans-orbital-spaceships/#ixzz2S2lJq2Dz Spaceshiptwo is definitely a roller coaster and i want a ride. But it's not the final build.

I think you've missed the fundamental point of this project. "The Virgin Galactic spaceline plans to operate a fleet of five SpaceShipTwo spaceplanes in a private passenger-carrying service, starting in 2014." What starts out as a roller coaster ride eventually may turn into transport for an orbital resort, who knows-- maybe even transport to and from the ISS. 2014 is not very far away, and neither is 2050. Or 2100 for that matter. @kryten its a passenger space plane. How does that have nothing to do with space exploration? EDIT: okay maybe not "exploration". More like habitation.

I don't understand why the iPad was ever invented. It gets humanity nowhere. Its just a toy for rich people. The roller coaster aspect is true. However it is most definitely giving humanity something other than a fancy ride. When was the attitude ever "Whats the point? Lets just give up." when it came to space exploration. If anybody on the Mars Science Laboratory had said that, they would have been fired and the mission would have continued and would have succeeded without them.

New official video! And its awesome! Everything about this is awesome! Except for how expensive a ride is! VIA: http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/were-feeling-supersonic

I think i got sidetracked. What i MEANT to say was: An energy map of satellites in orbit would be totally cool.

You're totally right. I can't think of a good reason to lock weapons into orbit except for first-response defense/strike. Plus, the only way an orbital-to-ground defense/attack system would work is if there were A LOT of them ready to burn retrograde and enter the atmosphere where you want, and in good time. But even so-- there would have to be a ton of satellites for this system to be efficient. On top of that the idea is borderline weapons-of-mass-destruction. Call me an idealist but I cannot imagine 2013+ Earth being in mass chaos because of war. (Let me reiterate, I cannot imagine Earth in mass chaos because of war. Bombs still go off on a daily basis all over the world killing individuals for reasons that are beyond me, but most of the world's population still goes to work and grows vegetables in their gardens.)

Rune. That peaks my curiosity. Could a ground based station focused on earth orbit be able to detect the varying energy outputs of existing satellites?

I tried making a system to house a secondary SSTO a few times but never got it to work. I'm sure someone has made one. *to the space port*