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It's in the N-SPACE collection of short stories and extracts. In the same book is "Bordered in Black" which explores the same theme with a much darker and pessimistic outlook.
I'm bordering on the verge of product placement here (which is against forum rules)

Larry Niven.... I never remembered manholes in "Integral Trees" and I dont recalled ever finish reading the "Ring World" books...then again I read those when I was in the third grade and I'm in college now so I cant say... so you got me buddy, *sigh* whats the deal with the manhole covers being cho...

delmarco wrote: if you are douglas adams!

...or Larry Niven (BIG CLUE!)

I can assure you it's not completely off topic.

What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers?

It appears there are no extra-galactic stars, pulsars, etc in Celestia. Is this correct? They all seem to be in the Milky Way.

If not, why not. Is the issue positional accuracy over those distances, or what?

dirkpitt wrote:

Slaverstudent wrote:

dirkpitt wrote:I whipped it up in less than an hour so YMMV.

Y.M.M.V.???

Ah, your mileage may vary...

IIUYC, YMMV is AAAIDU

(YANETUT)

selden wrote:....desired transit time (160 days) and acceleration (20 km/sec/sec), returning 210 days later ....

Selden,

are you sure you meant 20km/sec/sec, and not 20m/s/s?

That's 2000G's and if you kept that up for long, it would take a hell of a lot less than 200days for the journey!

dirkpitt wrote:I whipped it up in less than an hour so YMMV.

Y.M.M.V.???

Excellent, That should make for a happy new year! I suspect most of my problems stem from when I first started using Celestia some addons didn't install properly, so I started unzipping into a different location and then moving things into directories manually. So I probably got it wrong sometimes. ...

In my experience, a lot of things such as AltSurfaces will only work if placed in the solarsys.ssc file in the Celestia/Data folder. As Celestia's written in an object oriented language, I was thinking...how hard could it be to make it treat it's original definition files in the Celestia and Celesti...

I recently installed 1.4.0 and shortly afterwards had some problems with frame-rates to the point that it became unusable. The day-night shadow had a jagged edge and FPS was about 0.6. (I'd also installed a few alternative textures for earth etc...) I wasn't sure if the problem was due to 1.4.0 inst...