Posts by Splinterfrag

by Splinterfrag
19.11.2010, 00:35
Forum: Physics and Astronomy
Topic: How fast can a Blackhole grow?
Replies: 4
Views: 6274

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...
by Splinterfrag
02.11.2010, 02:06
Forum: Physics and Astronomy
Topic: Splitting a Magnetar?
Replies: 0
Views: 2232

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. ...
by Splinterfrag
20.08.2010, 16:20
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Bookmarks Keep Resetting!
Replies: 3
Views: 3861

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...
by Splinterfrag
20.08.2010, 02:27
Forum: Physics and Astronomy
Topic: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?
Replies: 36
Views: 21481

Re: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?

Now that you mention it, thoes maps do resemble Pluto.
by Splinterfrag
20.08.2010, 01:03
Forum: Physics and Astronomy
Topic: Could Pluto have a giant gash in it?
Replies: 36
Views: 21481

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.
by Splinterfrag
20.08.2010, 01:00
Forum: Physics and Astronomy
Topic: What's your favorite star?
Replies: 15
Views: 12254

Re: What's your favorite star?

Either ?Carinae or Betelgeuse.
by Splinterfrag
20.08.2010, 00:48
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Bookmarks Keep Resetting!
Replies: 3
Views: 3861

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

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