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I think it\'s quite likely it\'s going to be a show based in Team Fortress, given how Valve has said the Meet the Team stuff is how they\'re exploring film stuff. If it keeps the quality of the Meet the Team stuff, it could be good. http://www.adultswim.com/promos/valve/index.html Thoughts?

I thought the exact same thing.

First piece of fanart here, be gentle. Pencil version: Full colored version (used Paint.net after scanning it): Smaller colored, focusing more on the capsule:

Seanoog, Viral marketing in the pure sense (just let the community run wild and make videos and tell people about it) is great, but I hope you don\'t mean stealth marketing. That\'s a slimy tactic which can easily backfire if not done completely correctly and you get caught. Also, I\'d have to agree with Capt. Skunky. At an alpha stage, if you start telling too many people about it you can clog the development process with too many bug reports (mark my words, that problem will never be totally rooted out in any game), make expectations too high too early, unintentionally mislead newcomers into thinking it\'s a complete game due to the popularity, and then get swarmed with complaints, alienate the original fanbase by bringing in a new sort of audience with their own very different hopes for the game, and in a similar vein, bring in a different audience with different hopes, and as a result, continued following of the original design path could upset them and cause them to spread poor reviews of the game. I think that after there are a healthy number of other planets, and the code of the game is at a point where it will no longer need any huge re-writes, trying to get the game to go viral for a second time (who can dispute the fact that it went viral to an extent when it first was released?) would be great, but not so much now when many core features to a complete space travel game are missing.

I can read and write French pretty well, enough to look through any french part of the international forums with relative ease, and if I want to I could participate there, but I\'m not that good when actually speaking it. I need to work on that part.

More specifically, Navajo Nation. Probably some of the best days of my life. 15 students of my school and I arrived there last Friday, and we just returned today a few hours ago. Sure, it was a service trip and so we had to work and help the Navajos there, but that wasn\'t by any means bad, and the cultural aspect of the trip we experienced at where we stayed (Greeting the sun, meeting in a Hogan) as well as what we saw during work probably made it better. Wonderful way of life down there. We also were briefly in Red Valley in Arizona for a sun dance, that was also very nice. Anyway, the whole area truly deserves the moniker 'The Land of Enchantment'. The mountains, Shiprock, Canyon de Chelly and Spider Rock, they\'re all beautiful. With regards to the last two, it was just surreal. Your mind just doesn\'t want to believe what you\'re seeing, you seem to lose all sense of depth when you stare down through the canyon and at Spider Rock. It\'s a feeling that you can\'t get from a picture for sure. The view is maybe just as amazing from the bottom as it is from the top. I remember walking through a tunnel near the bottom, and as a reached the exit, I just pretty much stood there in awe as the first thing I could see was as huge section of the canyon wall looming over a small farm (people still live down there!). When you reach the ruins of the white house though, that\'s when it just gets unreal. If you look up, you can see countless little pieces of dandelions peacefully floating above you as well as the walls of the canyon itself. It\'s almost too peaceful to be real. The trail itself is amazing as well, I stopped a countless number of times to just take in what I was seeing. The drive back from the Canyon to where we were staying also had some amazing views. We drove up a long, winding road up the reddish, tree covered mountains, ears popping every so often on our way there. When we were at the top, there was a break in the forest, and suddenly it was as if you could see forever. There was flat desert almost everywhere save for a few small natural landmarks, and of course Shiprock. There it was, almost all alone in the center of my view. It was just stunning. We also got a taste of the more awe-inspiring side of weather there, namely a dust storm. It seemed to be heading off somewhere else at first, but then the large cloud turned our way, and so did the wind. It must have been almost hurricane strength, and the dust just started flying everywhere, making it hard to see anything more than a few feet in front of you. But all that couldn\'t compare to the scene at night. There\'s little light pollution in New Mexico, and so the sky is awe-inspiring. Stars are everywhere, and for someone like me who only knows the most routine constellations, it made any sort of star-spotting impossible simply due to the vast number of them. I must have seen over a dozen shooting stars, as the darkness made it easy. And even more impressive than the stars and meteors was the Milky Way. When the dark set in each, the disc of our galaxy was not yet high enough to clearly make out, but in an hour or two, it could be seen as clear as day. I\'ve never seen the galactic disc with my own eyes before, and had always hoped to do so. I didn\'t see it the first night, as I fell asleep too early since it had been a long day of travel, but on the second, we had a meeting in the hogan with our host, and after I walked out, I noticed a section of the sky was brighter than the rest. Actually, two sections, as a black, misty line seemed to divide the bright spot. I thought it was just a few earthly clouds at first, but when I noticed how this could be seen in a uniform band all the way across the sky, I realized that these were not earthly clouds, but galactic clouds. It was unbelievable. I\'ll remember this trip for a long time. I not only got to see brilliant scenery, but experienced and enjoyed a whole new culture and became closer to those who also came with me on the trip. I think I want to go back the The Land of Enchantment one day. I don\'t have pictures of my own, unfortunately. I didn\'t bring any sort of technology with me. I may be able to find pictures that our chaperones took though, and might post those.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18345079 Article says it all.

There were so many clouds for so long, but at about 7 I saw blue out of my window and got optimistic. At around 7:40, I saw the sun clearly beginning to poke out of some clouds, but it was behind trees. Since the sun wouldn\'t set until 8:30 or so, I got my Dad to drive me out to anywhere with a low horizon, first a random parking lot of some building presumably for offices, then a Wegman\'s parking lot across the street. The first one was no good because there were a few trees just in the way in the distance and the Sun had gone behind another cloud, but at the Wegman\'s parking lot, I managed to get the solar telescope on it JUST as the sun poked out from the newer cloud. I only had a few seconds before it went behind another though, I couldn\'t even see the whole sun. But I managed to see Venus. I couldn\'t get any pictures, and it wasn\'t what you would call crisp since I didn\'t have time to focus it (plus I was a bit hyper trying to just aim the thing, so I was really just too fast to effectively get it done), but I saw it. And then the Sun went below the other clouds. Awesome.

Honestly, it\'s been cloudy for the past month non-stop. It\'s getting ridiculous. Every time something cool is going to happen, weather has been ruining it.

I\'m going to try. But there are so many clouds at the moment...

I don\'t see why everyone has to get mad about it being PS3 exclusive. PC gets Planetside 2.

If I had a drink there, it would have probably come out of my nose.

I think a must would be a football shaped planet, like Haumea.

I think you mean some Kerbal craft look strikingly familiar to the construction projects.

This makes me remember something - this is NOT by Crytek at all. It\'s just by the people who made Rigs of Rods rebuilding it in CryEngine 3. Which further reminds me, one of their devs was talking about this on Reddit, and said they 'could port it to any engine pretty easily'.

We hardly knew ye.

I was at whichever version was the one right before symmetry got added. I think it was .8. Edit: Actually, I think I was here at .7.3. I just looked at the archives and saw a thread way back about loading ships (before it was implemented), I clearly remember that feature (or lack thereof) now, and how ecstatic I was when I saw the new icons for loading stuff by .8 ;D

So, has anyone else seen this? I thought it was awesome. I\'ve played RoR before, and was hoping for a while that it could be put onto a better engine.

Woo! Go Nova! Also, I\'m curious: How does communicating with devs who are so far away work? Do you guys just email stuff between each other? File sharing?

Touchdown valley?

I am not a teacher, I\'m a student, I don\'t have a class . Also, I don\'t have access to anything at my school that could come close to running SpaceEngine (I have it), or even KSP for that matter.

All show an FRT actually, just in different ways.

First, just go to your KSP folder. In the same folder as the application (just KSP.exe) you should see settings.cfg. Go in there, and find these lines: CONIC_PATCH_DRAW_MODE = <insert number here> CONIC_PATCH_LIMIT = <insert number here> The CONIC_PATCH_LIMIT will give you more conics (display more orbits). Usually 3 will serve most purposes. The CONIC_PATCH_DRAW_MODE determines the mode. It\'s 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4.

I\'ve kind of been waiting on this for a while, finally got started on it. I put up an interest poll in my school\'s science building and sent out an email to all the classes about it, and have some interest (Right now, I have 6 people who have said they\'re interested, not including myself, as well as two teachers who could act as moderators for the group), and I\'m pretty confident that by the time the gym gets opened up next year for the clubs to present themselves I\'ll be able to get more. However, the biggest hurdle is not interest levels, but plans for the club. Right now, I would bring in both of my telescopes, one solar one and another normal one, to be used for Sun viewing and stargazing (The former of which could occur just after school, the latter is up in the air right now, since weekends may be occupied with other activities and other days would be school nights), and I would try to set up viewing sessions for special events. The events could include meteor showers, which could be planned in advance, and with the coming of the solar maximum in 2013, I could also try to send out alerts for possible auroras in the case of a strong flare. Of course, in addition to all this, things that are being seen would be explained, and any questions answered along the way. But other than this, I can\'t think of anything, and I\'m not comfortable with this list of stuff, since after a while it could become stale. I don\'t think it has enough variety, and is too focused on viewings and stuff. Well, maybe there is one other possibility, which would be amateur rocketry, but I\'m not so sure about that due to expenses (It IS a club, and so usually it wouldn\'t require any sort of money on a regular basis, plus rockets are difficult to build in real life). And I\'m not so sure about the safety of it. So, any ideas? I\'m not on any particular schedule with ideas yet, since this would start NEXT year (all I have to do in the next few days is make sure it has enough potential interest, which I think it does), but this would really be my first leadership role, and I don\'t want to make the universe seem boring (since it most certainly isn\'t), so I want to make sure it goes smoothly.

Am I the only one who is irked by calling the first other planet Mars? I know it\'s just a placeholder name by the community, but it just seems a bit weird to use it in reference to KSP planets.