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I disagree - JJ letting the First Order destroy a planet/system that has nothing to offer storywise just to destroy a planet from the original trilogy would have added to the "copied IV everywhere" chorus.

I honestly cannot say how or where I first learned of Coruscant. Those three would be of no real significance storywise in the movie: a dust-ball of giant mafia-slugs, a muddy mist-ball, a small moon with fur-balls ...

Not entirely correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coruscant The Empire's homeworld first appeared in the expanded universe and was called Coruscant for the first time in Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire. Coruscant was first seen on screen in the 1997 Special Edition release of Return of the Jedi, and the X-Wing series of computer games. Coruscant was then seen (major appearance) in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. There is a speeder chase through the skies of Coruscant in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones that eventually leads to a nightclub in the bowels of Coruscant's Uscru Entertainment District. Coruscant is seen in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith as part of the opening battle scene.

Here you go surf : http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2016.html March 8 - Jupiter at Opposition. The giant planet will be at its closest approach to Earth and its face will be fully illuminated by the Sun. It will be brighter than any other time of the year and will be visible all night long. This is the best time to view and photograph Jupiter and its moons. A medium-sized telescope should be able to show you some of the details in Jupiter's cloud bands. A good pair of binoculars should allow you to see Jupiter's four largest moons, appearing as bright dots on either side of the planet. May 9 - Rare Transit of Mercury Across the Sun. The planet Mercury will move directly between the Earth and the Sun. Viewers with telescopes and approved solar filters will be able to observe the dark disk of the planet Mercury moving across the face of the Sun. This is an extremely rare event that occurs only once every few years. There will be one other transit of Mercury in 2019 and then the next one will not take place until 2039. This transit will be visible throughout North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, and parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. The best place to view this event in its entirety will be the eastern United States and eastern South America. (Transit Visibility Map and Information) June 5 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation. The planet Mercury reaches greatest western elongation of 24.2 degrees from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the morning sky. Look for the planet low in the eastern sky just before sunrise. July 4 - Juno at Jupiter. NASA’s Juno spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter after a five year journey. Launched on August 5, 2011, Juno will be inserted into a polar orbit around the giant planet on or around July 4, 2016. From this orbit the spacecraft will study Jupiter’s atmosphere and magnetic field. Juno will remain in orbit until October 2017, when the spacecraft will be de-orbited to crash into Jupiter. August 16 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation. The planet Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation of 27.4 degrees from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the evening sky. Look for the planet low in the western sky just after sunset. August 27 - Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter. A spectacular conjunction of Venus and Jupiter will be visible in the evening sky. The two bright planets will be extremely close, appearing only 0.06 degrees apart. Look for this impressive pairing in the western sky just after sunset. September 28 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation. The planet Mercury reaches greatest western elongation of 17.9 degrees from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the morning sky. Look for the planet low in the eastern sky just before sunrise. October 16 - Full Moon, Supermoon. The Moon will be located on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun and its face will be will be fully illuminated. This phase occurs at 04:23 UTC. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Hunters Moon because at this time of year the leaves are falling and the game is fat and ready to hunt. This moon has also been known as the Travel Moon and the Blood Moon. This is also the first of three supermoons for 2016. The Moon will be at its closest approach to the Earth and may look slightly larger and brighter than usual. December 11 - Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation. The planet Mercury reaches greatest eastern elongation of 20.8 degrees from the Sun. This is the best time to view Mercury since it will be at its highest point above the horizon in the evening sky. Look for the planet low in the western sky just after sunset. October 16 - Full Moon, Supermoon. The Moon will be located on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun and its face will be will be fully illuminated. This phase occurs at 04:23 UTC. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Hunters Moon because at this time of year the leaves are falling and the game is fat and ready to hunt. This moon has also been known as the Travel Moon and the Blood Moon. This is also the first of three supermoons for 2016. The Moon will be at its closest approach to the Earth and may look slightly larger and brighter than usual. (Just picked a few from the site - not mentioning any solar eclipses not visible from Europe because of envy , the many meteor showers or planet events not visible without special equipment.)

On some days I think it would require a save from when I was ten years old really ...

I would really like something like this - or for the mission team, upon returning to Earth, to hand over any flags they were given to plant on Mars with the words "Sorry, there was so much more important to do we just could not make the time." Strange that a group of people with so many different heritages would gather under a common flag to distinguish themselves from the countries they came from. The EU is nowhere similar to the USA when it comes to the Union/United part of the name. It is more a lot of indepentdent European nations trying to cooperate as much as possible - which is of course a far better idea than what they did in the centuries before ...

Magnetic fields have been proven to influence human brains - yet nothing comparable to mind control.

*opens mouth* *closes it* *nods and leaves*

I have a small canon-fetish. JJ-Trek received some raised eye-brows from me. And after season four finished they did some things to and in Dr Who (apart from changing the actor and producer [not that I did not like Smith, but because I liked Tennant so much]) that somehow felt out of place to me (having no knowledge of the classic show, to be honest, but neither Amazon nor Netflixx has them available). So, although Star Wars did not have much canon on screen (comics and books, I know, I dearly miss the Thrawn trilogy storyline and am still trying to fit it in for myself between VI and VII or something) some things did not taste quite right. The political situation is weird: Did the Empire not collapse completely? Is the Resistance then independant from the New Republic? Why is Leia part of the Resistance instead of building up the New Republic? How is Rey able to resist Ben's mind attacks and do an Obi-Wan on her Stortrooper guard without any training and probably not even knowing much about what a Jedi is/does/can do? The power-tonfa-thing I get, but do Stormtroopers train how to use a sword, a lightsaber no less (the blade being quite hot complicates the weilding a bit, no)? Of course it is a setup, it was planned to be a trilogy, like the prequels - which also started with a non-stand-alone first part. Destroying a classic planet - honestly I did not know it was not Coruscant until I came to the KSP forums, so in the cinema I turned to my friend saying "I see a pattern here, JJ joins a franchise and first he does is to destroy an iconic planet".

Is the latest version still experimental - as you have not updated the first post/thread title?

Happy New Year! From the timezone that Germany belongs to - how ever it is called!

Hm, picking this thought up for a bit - most people stay in the general area ... ignoring vacations and maybe defining the US as a general area (although I somehow doubt that a significant number of USAers actually move from coast to coast?).

Someone care to calculate the terminal velocity of a Star Destroyer making a Space Shuttle like reentry and landing? In the prequel trilogy we see really big ships (Star Destroyer predecessors?) taking of from a planet and going into orbit. The Star Wars universe uses repulsorlift technology to levitate just about anything, so a somewhat controlled crash landing using the rest of available power seems to be possible. (Ignoring the questions about the circumstances why the ship should go down on the planet in the first place.)

Thing is, MaxMaps played while talking, DrTurkey talks while playing. Where MaxMaps talked about the game while crashing, DrTurkey involves his co-hosts with his attempts at playing the game.

Yup. But as they are there anyway: What if they are trans-dimensional beings and as such are able to influence the physical world "from outside"?

Comes with age I guess? I already got my present a few months early, since I needed a new electrical tooth brush after the breakup of my medium-distance relationship and my mother was getting a new one for herself too at the time, I think it was a sale - so very un-xmassy but reasonable (re: age). Since there are no (real) children in our family at the moment we do not make "cross household" presents anymore. But the youngest (one of my cousins) thought that dull and so she prepared a little something (mostly sweets, which I tend to bring to work to not keep it till next christmas and beyond, if you know what I mean ...). And there was always grandmas christmas package for us, as her oldest daughter (my mother) and we (my father and me) are the only ones to have left the family's hometown, she always sent us our presents, usually a collections of smaller things like scarfs, gloves, books etc. This year she gave it to us early while we were visiting a few weeks before christmas, so it was already waiting to be unpacked on christmas eve. Which was fortunate because she had a heart attack late at night and passed away during surgery in the early morning of the 24th - which made reading her handwritten card later that evening a special kind of weird.

I like to think that I can tell which of my cooling fans is starting to work overtime.

Yes, but the lowest you can do is 60 without editing the file yourself.

Open the settings.cfg in your KSP folder and look for FRAMERATE_LIMIT = x - set the x to what you want. For me it lowers the load on my GPU especially when solar panels are involved, somehow those let it work like crazy.

I always edit the config to limit the frames ...

Is it much easier to take off now than before - or since .21 for that matter? Never got to try it myself. Always busy with something else ...

I started out keeping old versions but now I only archive screenshots - from which I usually make to few and did not start to make early enough, so now I lack the ability to take part in any "show your first steps on KSP" thread.

Hmm ... you are right - dead Kerbals lower the hiring cost ... So, if killing Kerbals would impact reputation more and hiring cost were bound to reputation rating ... ?

Kinda - if you use the stock one exclusively for her and get some more from a modder?