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I saw the eclipse live, though here only the 84% of the Sun was covered.

Now the next total eclipse that will pass from here ( Greece ) will be in ... 2088. I will be in the young age of ... 118 years old

:D Thats true. Celestia alone would seem like a miracle if you compare it with what commodore 64 and other 8bit computers could offer. I remember one small program on the 48K Spectrum i had ( i was a Speccy owner :D ) that calculated the Halley comet movement - you just gave your location on Earth a...

As to optical camouflage we didn't have to wait for the University of Toyo photo: animals can do it much more perfectly since thousands and thousands of years... Yes of course they can ( many times very succesfully too ) but i didnt expected to see human clothes with such abilities ever ... This is...

What a great movie. I guess i will buy the book also. One line from the movie stuck to my mind. Someone asks Dr.Arroway what would ask a "Vegan" if she could make to him just one question. She replies that she would ask him how they manage to evolve and how they passed their technological immaturity...

The invisibility cloak ( well - almost ) and how it works!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/invisibility-cloak.htm

Science continues to amaze us every day

Is anyone here interested in strategy games and particular to Warhammer 40.000? :) I do play warhammer and i would find it interesting to see a earth texture based on some warhammer 40K fictional map ( those who know some things about the warhammer 40K fiction know that the earth in the warhammer un...

What do i believe about life in other places in the universe? I doubt that we are "alone" in this vastness of the universe, but i dont know if we will ever come in contact with anyone... Isnt it a bit depressing? With our imagination / science fiction we dream travels to other stars, contacts with o...

I was viewing the "tour of venus" script and in the end i remember that it said that the planet is a "good example of a runaway greenhouse effect" - this means that our planet can became like venus? By polluting the atmosphere only? If this can happen ( and i suppose that if scientists say that it c...

Of course im not suggesting something like that, i just wanted to ask what helps celestia more, a better gfx card or more memory since i plan to upgrade my pc ( probably buy more memory ) sometime before summer Sadly here in Greece too CPU prices and PC prices in general are quite expensive ... the ...

Thanks a lot!

Allow me to add that ive downloaded your earth texture ( mark I ) and although it runs a bit slowly ( the HD works frantically when i zoom into earth ... i suppose its time to improve my PC ) it looks fantastic! Thanks a lot again

i have a athlon64 3500+ with 1GB RAM and a 6600GT 128MB gfx card celestia runs very well, but only with the default textures ... with the improved textures for Earth that i downloaded ( 64K Jestr Earth Mark I ) it runs pretty slowly. I guess that i must improve my PC... But what is more crtical for ...

I downloaded from the celestia motherload the model for a imperial star destroyer and a X-wing. When i opened the .zip files inside the readme files said that i needed to download and install Thomas Guilpain's 'Star Wars' addon first. I downloaded it and istalled it, but i still cannot see anything ...

First i want to send a big "hello" to everyone since im new here :) And please excuse my English if sometimes seem crude :( Anyway, to my question. Yesterday we had a discussion with a friend and i had a thought that it may seem silly, but i just want to ask here if it is ( theoretically of course )...

If it is all Greek to you, then what must i say ? hello everyone