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well, i have to admit, im one of the non talkers, but then im not always at the keyboard.

Sorry for that folks, but the more people that get there the more people will be talking.

Right now, there is a problem with the servers, however the network is working on the problem

I am of scot, apache and cherokee descent, and can speak with absolute certianty that the rest of you mortals (unless you are descended from one of the blessed peoples, including all native americans and celts) are inferior and doomed to spend eternity in New Jersey after you pass thru the viel. :D ...

There is an irc channal set up for celestia users on irc2.peacefulhaven. net, and there is a web based chat for that room at www.peacefulhaven.net go to either java or cgi chat, put in a nickname and join a room after that, type /join #celestia there have been a few there, but we could and would lik...

Just a couple of questions, 1, what make and model is the laptop? 2. When was the last time you did a critical update on the operating system and system drivers. the error you are getting is quite common with trident laptop vid chipsets, usually happens when something has corrupted the driver files....

Well, i have it on good authority that the lenses and mirrors that i ordered for the unit im building will be here some time this week....

Granted they were supposed to be here MONDAY!!!!!

Seldon, as soon as i find the link, i will edit the post. I was going to download it to plug into the control program for a remote controlled telescope im building, complete with a webcam interface... Unfortunately, due to a massive primary harddrive crash, most of my resources went "POOF"... the 80...

Check and see if the stc and ssc files were saved as text files, if that is the case, then you need to convert em.

Granted i cheated, i downloaded an stc file and used it as a template.
windows is very picky sometimes.

Hope this helps

I admit, the model needs work, and a lot of it, but here are my first free hand, from scratch attempts

Just as soon as i get me another scanner ill be posting them. Actually, the home built systems are coming along fine, Cormoran, making the textures for the planets is taking more time than i figured. I noticed that paint shop pro doesnt have a plugin for fractual landscape generation, should have go...

Recently, I was going thru a bunch of stuff that had been hanging around the house since i was a kid (YES, THAT WAS PRE MTV, SHOWTIME, HBO :D ) and came across some pictures that my father brought back from when he was in the airforce and was on the C130 that transported the apollo 12 and 14 crews b...

Actually, i think that fleshing out celestia will probably keep going, and if i could find a way to intergrate the 60 meg messer catalog and find a way not to double entriers, i might just go for it. Personally I would like to see some form of gravity added to the system, simply because of the unive...

WELL, after much trial and error, i have got the models to go in where i want them and actually see them. I have moved on to adding fictional solar systems and my wife seems to think that celestia is addicting. :D A few things i have discovered, and may be of help to others. Win98 seems to have a ba...

Celestia is, in and of itself, a 3d space simulator, in that it does simulate space in real time. Having gravity added to the package would not be turning into a game simulator, but carrying the concept to its next logical step. However, I think that if full gravity effects were added to the system,...

Alright, here is something i knew i had read about at somepoint, and after emailing an old physics prof who happens to love star trek, he reminded me of this one. Granted, it aint ftl but it is pretty quick, about 25 years to alpha centauri. to qoute "it would scoop up fuel from the space that it tr...

Well, actually, i have one other room on that network, dealing with native american spritual beliefs, and lurk in two rooms dealing with 12 step programs. So, it just made sense to open a room there. Anyway, if your dialup does not allow irc clients, you can get around that by using the web chat int...

From a paper written by Michael Fowler, who points out a few facts on the subject of mass and acceleration. A unique phenomanon is often observed in particle accelerators, a dramatic shift in gravity field around the particle in motion, and the fact that the measured mass does increase, which, by al...

Lets see, for the last week we have had in west texas 101, 103, 105, 102, 100, 103, 106... and today we cooled down to 95! (time to grab a parka) Now as far as the temp inside HAL900psychopc (my homebuilt custom job) with the 800mhz duron oc'd to 1.2 ghz, liquid cooling and 18 fans, it is a cool 87 ...

Okay seldon, granted you have posted some interesting points. And as far as having an engineering degree, well, my chosen fields of study were history, philosophy, anthropology, with a lot of courses in computer technology since it always has been a hobby. However, if i may point out, some of the bi...

Actually there are a lot of planatarium software available, much of it freeware, such as starcalc. all very good and all very informative. as far as using celestia as a planetarium, i wouldnt begin to tell you how. the most intersesting part of this software, IMO is the fact you can model so much of...

I was considering cloning my ex wives and have em sit on the nose cone and shoo away such things with fly swatters. :lol: Okay, well seldon, looks like you were the first, okay, how bout this idea for the radiation, dust particles and the little things Considering if using nuclear fusion, there shou...