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Oh right . Sorry.

Goonster

I assume your bold `this' is a link to another page but it doesn`t seem to be working.

Goonster

Glad you liked it.
Here`s a bit more to get your head around-

http://space.newscientist.com/channel/s ... verse.html

As the universe is so big who are we to say there is no life out there?

Goonster

I don`t suppose you`ve got any young neurons left!

Goonster

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is finally finished after 8 years of scanning .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... rse126.xml

Impressive stuff.

Goonster

What do you fancy growing? I know how about grapes. Grapes make wine!

Goonster

BobHegwood wrote:

Goonster wrote:This makes me think of the Dave Bowie song -

"And I'm floating in a most peculiar way..."
"And the world looks very different today..."
Great music.

Thats the one!

Goonster

This makes me think of the Dave Bowie song - I think it was called Starman but I might be wrong (never been a big music fan ,removed i-tunes from the laptop `cause I never used it ) The one where the astronaut does not want to come back to Earth. Which song do you associate with a trip to space? Goo...

Having seen Richard Bransons new spaceship I was just wondering how many people ,if they had the money, would take a trip into space? I know I would.The view must be absolutely stunning, but most of all I would love to feel what it is like to be weightless (and no I don`t need to go on a diet!).How ...

Be sure to get it with Windows XP, not Vista. Vista is a pain to configure so that Celestia works conveniently. Bob can tell you all about that. (Unless you like Linux, of course; but I suspect that if you were a Linux fan, you wouldn't be asking about computer configurations.) Vista is a pain to g...

Thanks very much.

Goonster

Thanks. I am now enjoying very much the latest version.

Goonster

Thanks for clearing that up . I guess its a small price to pay when you consider all the improvements. I`ll have some fun re-creating the images in the new version I guess.

Goonster

I have downloaded 1.5.1 and I think it is definitely better . There is just a couple of things though. Firstly when I went to look at my bookmarks the images I had bookmarked were gone. I still got to where I wanted to go but whereas before I had a nice image of Apollo 11 and Eagle docked together o...

Yes I did`nt notice the date Your probably right
Goonster

Everyone is happy to help out here. I have frequently needed advice ,even on fairly basic things and have always got it. Just try to make sure you give an accurate description of the problem as possible as you are most likely to get the answer that way.
Goonster

hi Goonster i see that you have celestia-1.4.1 ( this was released on 2006-02-16 )installed you might also want to install the currant version of celestia celestia-win32-1.5.1.exe http://downloads.sourceforge.net/celestia/celestia-win32-1.5.1.exe?modtime=1209087954&big_mirror=1 Will I have to u...

It looks like there is an updated driver.With any luck that will cure the problem.Thanks again for helping out.

Goonster

I`ve never installed updated drivers as I am too sure about fiddling with the graphics.As a fairly new user of computers the last thing I want to do mess things up.I`ll check out the link anyway. Thanks.

Goonster

I guess it must be my graphics then. This laptop tends to struggle a bit with 3D.I have Google Sketch Up and that works but won`t display properly in 3D. I have Intel (R)945GM Graphics Accelerator .While its OK for most things it does have its limits.

Goonster