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Thought so lol. Yea I'll bookmark that thanks -- Borowitz Report ~> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/ On a related note to that onion~esque twitter story of today (24 April), apparently AP (Associated Press) twitter got hacked and there was a false report of white house bomb attack sending computer traded markets plunging. ~> from Karl Denninger Maybe Felonious, But Not Erroneous

11 April, New Yorker ... seems Onion~esque, but apparently they couldn't get their new missile started because they upgraded computer. North Korean Missile Test Delayed by Windows 8 If true, they probably couldn't find the Start button, which explains why he looks like he (the boss) is yelling into the mic for them to find it so they can Start the missile.

Another one, pics working (for me) ~~> http://pvo.guns.ru/book/alp/index.htm Always loved that book cover.

Woa now, great find there thanks. Translating now.

I think these are the front and back cover of a manual on the missile. Note the 1950s (or 1930s?) "science fiction" art style. Always loved that. Interesting that style made its way to the Soviet Onion. The tilted text field on the back cover, how often you see that? Yea, forgot, I can't read a date on that, but assume that was written in the mid-late 50s or early 60s, during the...Kruchev (sp? ) Thaw so cover artists maybe felt a bit experimental.

Wow, its still alive. Years back, maybe. I severly simplified the effects because I ran a low end budget video card at the time. That's changed, and the effects could be WAAAY way better. I'd love to do it again for SF-1 if you fellas/fellattes can port it to SF-2. I never went beyond about 3 days with SF2, so can't help here. Stuck on SF-1...not even that...no time any more after last year's summer push to get a proto-map half working. SF-0 for me now. I did a big write up on the ideas, here http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=3970 for those who care to look at the grafix theory and improve the lot.

logan It was a funny. You have to think like a rock. The most successful stones try to have the sun at their back. When I was programming a space combat game, years back (DOS), the most important thing was hiding near the local star (phase angle) so your target is more fully illuminated (fuller phase) ... at least when well inside a star system. Farther out, depending on the local sun brightness and engagement distances and sensors and ship sizes and such, the best hiding place is then to position yourself against the backdrop of the countless faint Milky Way stars. But since that is a 180 degree ring around the sky, then your target is also concealed against the galaxy as well... although...there may be differences in the faint star mag distribution in looking against the different galaxy arms and such, and the dark neb voids with fewer stars that can be difficult to hide in, but I never got THAT far with it lol.

Unless the TV sat gets taken out.

I like your thinking logan. Rocks diving to attack out of the sun. Somethings never change.

That links to a RT youtube and that links to ~~> http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ Pic of a 6m hole in frozen lake, divers are getting ready. And, a Meteosat pic of the entry from higher abovee. ... good name for that weather sat hehe. Yea, that Tunguska thing was BIG.... Need to pay attention to that to get a feel for what populations might see for my SF LeMay~vs~Saiivitsky campaign. Haven't had time to look at anything SF in months. You reminded me of something I need to poast about (Siberia living related).

Some good vids collected by Russia Today,... here ~~> http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/5680948/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1 One seems to show the fireball coming closer to the cam, others show the visual effect on the local enviromentsystem.ini environment, like a nuke flash maybe. Another good reason for everybody to have car cams.

You must be prepared to defend it. If you use the stock, you won't be in condition to defend it. Maybe its a Xen thing.

BBC says it came in from a completely different direction than the near pass asteroid. If so this isn't related. Fub you hear about the giant comet due to hit us later this year? ...Wording that loosely here lol.

BoB, Bizmark, etc... for some reason Britts make the most Sincere, Serious, even Severe, war movies, of all time. Very "british" lol. For something different, how about funny war movies? Two good ones were Cary Grant in both Operation Petticoat and Father Goose (with Trevor Howard !!!!). Best of this kind, for me, was Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts. I like this one most, because it seems no gruel nor grit is sacrificed for a funny, yet at the end tragic, movie. Also tragic is the story behind the author of the original novel, who spent WW2 on a cargo ship, Thomas Heggen, dead at 30:: "I don't know how I wrote Mister Roberts," he admitted to a friend. "It was spirit writing". Bogart and Hepburn in African Queen come to mind. Others?

WORST -- Fail Safe. If I recall this is the movie where, in one scene a flight of...something...was instructed to goto afterburner, and they showed that with film of, I think, F-102s firing rockets. Honestly I couldn't watch the whole thing it was that bad. Oddly enough... One of the BEST is Dr. Strangelove. Maybe its a Xen thing.

Is that a cat or a bear? Yes I see the tail, but still. lol

Tried it --- pioneer -- , neat but weird. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but ... the set speed thing, if I rotate the ship, it thrusts always until it gains the same speed in the new direction. I wanna rotate and not auto-change velocity.

Downloading it. Sampling soon. Its packed up in 7z, nice. Thanks.

Well, a picture is worth a hundred words, and that hundred is gettn some awsum suffocation, and will soon submit and surrender to the power of her gold ...um.. -- she has a nice gold like tan. Good find thanks. Thousands of articles and blogs about money/currency condensed into one swift pic.

Looks like the dollar, well 100 Ben in this case, is about out of air.

AT:: One of my faves is the first, as far as I know, anti~war movie All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) told from the German view. I should get the original book by Remarque.

Oh those are nice. Love the blend of star magnitudes. The neastest thing to think about is seeing the sun in a dark sky, kinda like...at midnight, the bright sun.

I made one of those, kinda, for myself only, years back, for old DOS computer, 1990s. Spacecraft combat sim, the relevant thing here is the ability to zip among the local stars. Took weeks to input about 7000 stars down to magnitude 6.0 from a star catalogue, and I had to guess many distances from spectral type or cluster association. The goal for me was to ... turn off all lights in a room, except the computer monitor, and you can't tell the difference between the monitor and the real sky on a clear night. It worked, but requires CRT monitor for true black ... True black being when in a room with zero lighting, totally dark, you can't see the monitor screen glow, at all. Nothing.

Very interesting thanks. Chapter 6 -- we read the stories of Bear crews waving ... but here the author describes Bear crews trying to kill the interceptor crews. They had to fly close up underneath to read numbers at night, against blinding spotlights, and one friend got a sonobuoy dropped on his fighter, and then the author describes a fascinating attempt of a Bear almost running him into the sea... because (my opinion) the author forgot to FLY THE PLANE until 150 feet. Read it for details ... Chapter 6 about 1/3 way down ... word search for " sono " Thanks Sd

It doesn't have rounded corners. lol I'll remember that, always. The month of Moving cockpit meshes. To use the DogSabreTeam's F-86Dora cockpit usable for day fighter swept wing MiGs, I Moved about 35 meshes. It was a good month.