
Lexx_Luthor
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Meteor explodes over Russia, hundreds reported injured
Lexx_Luthor replied to Fubar512's topic in The Pub
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.
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Meteor explodes over Russia, hundreds reported injured
Lexx_Luthor replied to Fubar512's topic in The Pub
I like your thinking logan. Rocks diving to attack out of the sun. Somethings never change. -
Meteor explodes over Russia, hundreds reported injured
Lexx_Luthor replied to Fubar512's topic in The Pub
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). -
Meteor explodes over Russia, hundreds reported injured
Lexx_Luthor replied to Fubar512's topic in The Pub
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.
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Meteor explodes over Russia, hundreds reported injured
Lexx_Luthor replied to Fubar512's topic in The Pub
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?
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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.
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Is that a cat or a bear? Yes I see the tail, but still. lol
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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.
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Downloading it. Sampling soon. Its packed up in 7z, nice. Thanks.
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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.
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Looks like the dollar, well 100 Ben in this case, is about out of air.
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Speilberg and Hanks To Make 3rd WWII Miniseries
Lexx_Luthor replied to JediMaster's topic in The Pub
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.
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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.
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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
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Cockpit problem...
Lexx_Luthor replied to Wrench's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
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. -
You can't make this up. For the night of 27 November 2012 lol --- -- - There seems to be a building purge in NK, going beyond the military, "to the population at large." Read about it at the Nightwatch.
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RuGG:: Whoa there, that's Captain Nelson, plain as black and white. I always prefer the black~n~white seasons of these Shows of Old, Shows of Reknown, and Captain it is.
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J-15s landing on new Chinese Aircraft Carrier
Lexx_Luthor replied to MigBuster's topic in Military and General Aviation
10 - 20 yarns or even more sounds about right if they don't collapse in fraud. But by then will carriers be of primary importance? Probably yes but who knows? -
He was huge in Romania, before and after...teh chowzesque(sp?)
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Hangar and loading screens
Lexx_Luthor replied to Phil56's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 1 Series - General Discussion
Did you define each image in each aircraft's base ini file, and where did you drop the bmps? Mee, I only have one hanger screen in the Menu folder, just didn't want hundreds of bmps. My game has hundreds of aircraft lol.