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I keep getting an error when I try to run the program, it is a MSSTDFMT.DLL error, which says that I need to install the dll on my system.

I have tried installing the dll in system 32, and the program directory. Any ideas?

How would one determine the resulting geological and environmental results of a comet striking the earth? If the hypothetical comet was twice the size of the Chicxulub impactor or 20km in diameter, 90% of the mass consisting of water ice. The Chicxulub impactor was 10km in diameter and released 400 ...

Yes, I am aware of the Silent Running add on, however, I do not plan on using that in my setup. I actually am considering doing a "Starship Troopers meets my eversowarped mind" I have a large collection of sci fi novels, and I figure to populate my celestia with the Merchanter series by Chyrryl, The...

Being a former airborne critter, I found the movie starship troopers to be an insult to the book. So, I have taken it upon myself to create a by the book http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t187/jlf1961/vf.jpg?t=1186963765 This is a rough idea for the Valley Forge -1 (Remember, the Valley Forge was l...

There is also a black hole in every dryer......

What confuses me about black holes is that 1) nothing can escape the gravity well, and yet 2) Black holes produce xrays which stream away from the event horizon.

Now how are the xrays able to do this one?

The movie mission to mars had what appeared to be a relatively simple system, a rotating hab ring with a zero gee lab and control deck. This system would make sense considering when you think about present technology, since nothing we have available today could provide any acceleration that would po...