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So is this the final nail in Celestia's coffin ?

I'm so sad this project died.

Sad

PlutonianEmpire wrote:The entire time I've been here, I've always believed that the Celestia community was immune from the influences of pop culture crap,...

While I agree the link, singer and song are asinine, have you somehow missed the Trek and starwars plugins? Immune? Not even close..

Hopefuly nobody's getting bored w/ this thread. NASA just put up the Full resolution of the Full Landing video Even if you're not on the fastest of connections... it's wellllll worth the d/l time at the top resolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZX5GRPnd4U&feature=youtu.be

Here's little triva on the Rover. As I'm sure most of you know when moving the rover they often refer to distance moved in "wheel rotations". In order to make it easy to tell 1 complete rotation, they marked Curiosity's "feet" http://www.upl.co/uploads/curiositysfeet.jpg Look car...

:mrgreen: curiosity-shadow.JPG ? ? Me, and my shadow ? ? Great picture! The picture in my earlier post of the heat shield drop is already outdated :) They've just released the "hi rez" version of the photo. http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674789main_pia16021-full_full.jpg The entire se...

I stayed up last night to watch the landing. So impressive. NASA is having a press conference now. A few minutes ago, they showed a stop-motion video created from images taken from Curiosity itself as it landed. It showed the heat shield falling away and the dust being blown up by the landing rocket...

Just under 5GB. I really thought it would be larger than that, I have quite a few add ons in the extra folder. *shrug*

ajtribick wrote:...and another one!

NASA - Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto

Ha, you're quick. I came to post the same thing

Sure, lots of times. I wish I had a scanner, I'd post a picture I took in Yosemite National Park of it doing exactly that.

The sky is not falling...
Bad Astronomy

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http://saoirse-2010.livejournal.com/19823.html

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I found it interesting. Hopefully someone else will.

"Curiosity" launches Saturday morning 10:02am EST / 15:02 UST This is a nearly 1 ton Mars probe. NASA Tv has been running info on it, and of course will cover the launch of the Atlas V lifter. NASA/JPL UStream channel. will be broadcasting the lunch as well. Fingers crossed. >> edit << Due...

... Looking at the development of Celestia, compared to the activity of the Cosmographia project - is it safe to assume that Celestia is dead by now? (I know that this question was already answered with 'no' back in August, but that does not seem very convincing...) Man I hope not. This is an amazi...

I'm sure some of you have already seen this, but here goes anyway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmHamp0IIyE
Nice display of Newtons’s First law

Thanks John, I knew I was grasping at straws when I posted. I was fairly sure that if it could be done (and was worth doing) one of the folks here would already have been on it. I'm familiar with both those repositories. There really is some amazing work in both of them. I was just hoping to have fo...

While clicking through NASA's page, I found they have a few 3D models, several of which are in .3ds format similar to the Celestia plugins I've looked at. Is there a way to import these things into Celestia? Link to models page I'd especially love to see the Agena Target Vehicle and the Saturn V roc...

Marco Klunder ...I'm sorry, I didn't know THIS difference between Linux/Windows Celestia distributions .. Oh, no problem.. :) I'm surprised it is a difference. selden I've never run a Linux version of Celestia, but... aren't Celestia's scripts (filetypes .cel and .celx) associated with Celestia und...

... Have you looked at the contents of the file Atlantis.ssc ? (It's a plain text file.)... The log will show no errors if Celestia interprets the ssc catalog file as being empty or containing only a comment line. (I'm wondering if somehow the difference between Mac and Linux line terminators is ca...