Celestia real-time space sim

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Tara wrote:
> Though not a game, I downloaded it and from a cursory look it was
> interesting and seemed a great teaching tool, especially for children.
>
> http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

neat. windows and *nix versions available here

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

In FreeBSD its in the ports tree under 'astro/celestia' (I'm doing a
'make install' on it now)

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"FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message
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> Tara,
>
> I have a question regarding the Yager game. Does it offer Newtonian
physics
> in the flight model? Also is there a downloadable demo for the game?

Read the link and see it's more of a futuristic flight sim. I really liked
the flight model in Echelon 1 and 2. Don't know if you ever played that
game, but the gameplay itself was a bit shallow.

> "Tara" <taragem72@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:61f7c3a1.0410061423.1bf3a683@posting.google.com...
> > Though not a game, I downloaded it and from a cursory look it was
> > interesting and seemed a great teaching tool, especially for children.
> >
> > http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
> >
> > Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience
> > our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software,
> > Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can
> > travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or
> > even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the
> > exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of
> > scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters
> > across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate
> > through the universe to the object you want to visit.
> >
> > Tara
> > --
> > Yager action flight-sim
> > http://users4.ev1.net/~taragem/yager.htm
>
>

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"FLY135" wrote:

> I have a question regarding the Yager game. Does it offer Newtonian physics
> in the flight model? Also is there a downloadable demo for the game?

Hi. Good to c u from flight-sim. :-)

I thought Newtonian physics were only for space? Tells you how much I
know about them. <g> Anyway, it has the best physics of any 3D
flight-sim I've played. I've made some pretty radical moves!

There's a demo at: http://www.gamershell.com/news/9610.html

Tara
--
Yager action flight-sim
http://users4.ev1.net/~taragem/yager.htm

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Tara wrote:
[snip]
> I thought Newtonian physics were only for space? Tells you how much I
> know about them. <g>
[snip]

Actually, Newtonian physics works pretty well for just about anything
that doesn't involve relativity, extreme warping of space by gravity, or
most things on the molecular scale. Most things you encounter in your
life involving motion can be explained well enough using Newtonian
physics.

--
The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence
has its limits.

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HiEv wrote:

> Actually, Newtonian physics works pretty well for just about anything
> that doesn't involve relativity, extreme warping of space by gravity, or
> most things on the molecular scale. Most things you encounter in your
> life involving motion can be explained well enough using Newtonian
> physics.

Does that mean when I'm not looking where I'm going and I run into
something I can blame Newton?

Tara
--
And the end of all our searching shall be to return to the place
where we started and know it for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

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"FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well if you were a guy you could probably blame it on a beautiful looking
> girl walking by.

http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/155.jpg

// Xan, Ph.D.
// I worship His Shadow.

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Xan wrote:

> "FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message
> news:56E9d.10699$Vm1.9105@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>
>>Well if you were a guy you could probably blame it on a beautiful looking
>>girl walking by.
>
>
> http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/155.jpg

Think that was a perfume advert; bottom's been cropped.

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Tara wrote:
> Leo Fellmann wrote:
> > Think that was a perfume advert; bottom's been cropped.
>
> So it was her perfume, not her looks, that caused the accident?

Just from looking at the picture, it appears to be doctored, though it
would be easier to tell if the image were higher resolution, or better
yet, the original.

If you look at the road you can see skid marks. It's mighty unlikely
that the car would have time to skid and crash, but the model never
looks away from the sea. I would expect to see at least a little
blurring from some head motion as she turned towards the sound.

Also, the picture is framed too well to show the accident. Even if the
image were merely cropped that way, it seems odd that the photographer
would want to capture so much roadway in the photos.

I'm sure I'm stating the obvious, but it's pretty unlikely that it's an
undoctored photo.

--
The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence
has its limits.

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"HiEv" <spam@someoneelse.invalid> wrote in message
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> I'm sure I'm stating the obvious, but it's pretty unlikely that it's an
> undoctored photo.

Nahhhh. It's just staged. =)

// Xan, Ph.D.
// I worship His Shadow.

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"FLY135" <fly_135(@ hot not not)notmail.com> wrote in message
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> Now thats a revelation! I thought people just went around serendipitously
> looking for weird things to happen so they can shoot photos for
> advertisements. Of course you could make the case that if they were looking
> it wouldn't be serendipitous.

I'm glad I've enlightened somebody. =)

// Xan, Ph.D.
// I worship His Shadow.