Posts by Splinterfrag
- 19.11.2010, 00:35
- Forum: Physics and Astronomy
- Topic: How fast can a Blackhole grow?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6526
Re: How fast can a Blackhole grow?
Methinks that taking out said chunk of neutron star could cause all the neutronium matter to try to fill up the gap via a sorta of flood. This would almost certainly create a huge blast of gamma rays as well. Or another possibility is that most of the neutronium would fly away from the star due to a...
- 02.11.2010, 02:06
- Forum: Physics and Astronomy
- Topic: Splitting a Magnetar?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2337
Splitting a Magnetar?
On 27 December 2004 a strong burst of gamma rays shot out from a magnetar (neutron star with a very intense magnetic field) over 50,000 LY away. And still this caused a slight tampering with Earth's magnetic field. This was caused when the neutronium crust of the magnitar slipped a few centimetres. ...
- 20.08.2010, 16:20
- Forum: Bugs
- Topic: Bookmarks Keep Resetting!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3969
Re: Bookmarks Keep Resetting!
How did you move it? .. or did you do a fresh install onto the laptop? Bookmarks are written to a file called favorites.cel in the main Celestia folder. Did you copy that file across? Fresh install. I'll try putting Celestia into another folder and see what happens. Thx. >>>EDIT<<< I put Celestia i...
- 20.08.2010, 02:27
- Forum: Physics and Astronomy
- Topic: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22461
Re: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?
Now that you mention it, thoes maps do resemble Pluto.
- 20.08.2010, 01:03
- Forum: Physics and Astronomy
- Topic: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 22461
Re: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?
Hmmm, this sounds a little farfetched but if an asteriod hit it at such a shallow angle, it could have glanced off the surface. Thus taking a huge chunck with it.
- 20.08.2010, 01:00
- Forum: Physics and Astronomy
- Topic: What's your favorite star?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12946
Re: What's your favorite star?
Either ?Carinae or Betelgeuse.
- 20.08.2010, 00:48
- Forum: Bugs
- Topic: Bookmarks Keep Resetting!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3969
Bookmarks Keep Resetting!
Srry, if this question has been already asked...
OK, so I had been running Celestia 1.6.0 on my XP without any problems untill I moved it to my laptop which uses Windows 7. Everytime I open Celestia, my bookmarks are totaly gone, even the folders. My graphics card is GeForce GT 230M. Thx
OK, so I had been running Celestia 1.6.0 on my XP without any problems untill I moved it to my laptop which uses Windows 7. Everytime I open Celestia, my bookmarks are totaly gone, even the folders. My graphics card is GeForce GT 230M. Thx