[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="67" id="2967345"]One year isn't an extension, its camouflage for the slow dismantlement of NASA, and the turn over of space to private industry and international "cooperation", which means the US will just fall further behind.[/quote] Odd, I didn't know "dismantlement" meant "increase overall budget." NASA's budget for 2011 is higher than 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA .
[quote who="Uvah" reply="64" id="2967169"] Orion is no more than a bigger more advanced Apollo capsule. Not a true ship at all. It still requires parachutes after re-entry and still splashes down in the ocean. Meanwhile instead of doing what they should have done while STS was still flying was to, not invest in, but build the replacement years ago. Think about it, the shuttle was first designed in the late seventies, first flew in the early eighties and you mean to tel
[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="62" id="2966989"]Orion isn't going to make it at the rate they are going... [/quote] ...It's first scheduled test flight is two years away... the same as it was before Constellation was cancelled.[e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e]
[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="60" id="2966756"]Project Constellation and Project Orion, same difference, Orion is a part of Constellation. Orion might as well be canceled without Constellation. [/quote] [e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] They are hardly the same. The Orion is still getting full funding and is actively being worked on. It is the Shuttle replacement, and will go to the ISS, assuming private companies don't have the capability yet. When the asteroid/Mars missions happen
[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="54" id="2966546"]Obama doesn't want to fund Project Orion, that is clearly striking down something. Obama claims to want to make the United States a leader in science and technology, but is willing to let the Space Shuttle program die without a replacement, thereby forcing us to rely on the Russians to get to the ISS. [/quote] He killed the Constellation Program, not the Orion. Constellation was supposed to go to the Moon, etc, while the Orion is
[quote who="tazgecko" reply="7" id="2966480"]Compete against the apple stores?[/quote] That's pretty much exactly what the MS Stores are, right down to the floorplan. Except with a corner for Xboxs in the back[e digicons]:P[/e] . They have a little more room to walk around though, which I like. A surprisingly large amount of people do actually go to the one by me, although I guess if that weren't the case they (probably) wouldn't be building more.
[quote who="vStyler" reply="52" id="2966458"]Struck down by a Marxist with one stroke of a pen. [/quote] You know Bush was the one who ordered the end of the shuttle program, right? (I just assume that when anyone is talking about a "Marxist/Socialist/Communist" they're talking about Obama[e digicons]:P[/e] )
Hm, that map of existing stores is wrong. I've been to the Lone Tree, Colorado store many times, and it is not in Wyoming[e digicons]:P[/e]
I really like the new Doctor Who for the most part, but I'm still not sure about Matt Smith. He seems more inconsistant to me, with some good episodes and some that are kind of lame. I suppose that's at least partly because of the writing, but still. David Tennant was my favorite, although it did take a while for him to grow on me too. The last season (or half-season or whatever it was) seemed even more up-and-down than the previous one. I'm glad they've made Rory a regular, e
[quote]Firefly[/quote] There is a special place in hell for the Fox executive(s) who cancelled Firefly. He/she/they will be forced to watch 24 for the rest of eternity. All eight seasons will be jumbled together and out of order, and some episodes will be missing (like the final episode of each season).[e digicons]:P[/e]
[quote who="Polistes" reply="41" id="2964287"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 37 Quoting Polistes, reply 36 No the "crawl" is establishing a base on the moon and mars, we already have that ability according to NASA. The walk will be speeding it up and streamlining the process. Everything starts out rough. But ISS is not helping towards that goal, its more focused on random experiments that are useless to the general public and cannot readily b
[quote who="Polistes" reply="36" id="2964232"]No the "crawl" is establishing a base on the moon and mars, we already have that ability according to NASA. The walk will be speeding it up and streamlining the process. Everything starts out rough. But ISS is not helping towards that goal, its more focused on random experiments that are useless to the general public and cannot readily be applied for space travel/colonization. [/quote] Oddly enough, the ISS is used to test many of the
[quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="32" id="2964183"]Side note - this reminded me of my fav series about space exploration and NASA. Its a 6-part series that uses a substantial amount of footage from NASA and has plenty of interviews with the folks that went up. Anyway, its on amazon and you can get the whole thing for $10 digitally or like $2 an episode. Suggest giving it a look if you have not seen it (they have a free preview). Series is called "When we left earth."
Do you mind if I use those for my desktop background?[e digicons]:P[/e] Those are great pics! I've only had the privilege to see one launch in person. Unfortunetly, it was the Columbia mission that didn't come back. [quote who="OMG_pacov" reply="8" id="2963848"]It is the end of an era.[/quote]
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[quote who="Mord_Sith84" reply="1407" id="2963357"] Quoting kyogre12, reply 1384 Quoting Cylon_Luvr, reply 1381 Hey Kyogre12.... i'm sure there are a number of us who wouldn't be phased if the Valkyrie wasn't included... It would be a bonus... but I would rather the trade off of being able to play the updated mod now, without the Valkyrie. Well, the Valkyrie is one of my favorite ships in the series, s
Thanks for the info! That will definetly make things easier.
Oops, I guess I didn't make that clear. I get the same problem as the OP, where the hardpoints will convert, but I get a radius of -1 and 0 vertices. Hardpointing in Softimage is definately easier than Max, but I can't find a way to save the hardpoints in SI and get them to carry over to Max. Since Max is the only way I can make meshes, I end up having to do the hardpoints with it. I don't do tangents... 1. I don't know how[e digicons]:P[/e] 2. My texturing is terribl
I get the same problem. I honestly have no idea what causes it (I'm using the 64-bit Softimage 2011). The really weird part is that at first it didn't work, then something changed (but I don't know what) and it started working, and then a while later it stopped working again. After spending ages messing around with it, I finally just gave up. Now I do my modelling in Softimage/XSI, then hardpoint in 3ds Max, and then use the script for Max to convert straight to .mesh.
[quote who="Darkstare" reply="5" id="2960543"]Well, well Kyogre23 and Stant123... Time to laugh at you both, umm, there's still NO NEW INFO ON NEXT MONTH and seems my calendar was right after all right Stant123? Ha, ha, ha. You both die. [/quote] Hmm, that's odd. I still seem to be alive[e digicons]:rolleyes:[/e] Maybe it has something to do with you getting my screen name wrong. And if you will carefully reread my post, I never said there would be new info in June. Just
[quote who="Sinperium" reply="536" id="2960387"]What's most astounding about this entire dialogue though is the inability to transfer a fictional movie and a fictional TV series into a fictional game without trying to "prove" which is more "real" first. *facepalm* P.S. Tachyons may actually have [imaginary] negative mass and it's pretty much a certainty tachyons can exist as far as current physics theory is able to establish. W
[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="535" id="2960352"]Quoting kyogre12, reply 534You're kind of correct. Special relativity states that any object with mass cannot be accelerated to or travel at the speed of light, as doing either would require that object to have infinite energy, which is obviously impossible. True, true. The (IMO, somewhat obvious) loophole there, is, however, that it says nothing about objects which travel at superluminal velocity, or an object which goes subligh
[quote who="Whiskey144" reply="532" id="2960301"]Quoting CdnSldr, reply 519Point 1. Faster than light travel is impossible (Einstein theorized it), but Star Trek actually tries to explain it with an ACTUAL physicist on staff and how they get around this in a plausible way. Star Wars on the other hand doesn't even try thus making it irrelevant in reality. *facepalm* I'm going to simply point out that you obviously didn't read Einstein's theory very well, a
[quote who="CaptainPlanet" reply="73" id="2957799"]I hope I am not being unreasonable, having given examples of other games currently in development and how their developers have interacted with the community on a regular basis. Overall I feel the interaction with the community surrounding this particular project does not live up to the standards of the games industry as a whole or meet the expectations of its fans.[/quote] What "standards of the games industry?" You mean like how Val
[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="5" id="2957536"]Screenshot verse concept art, same difference, it is still nothing tangible. [/quote] What exactly would be more tangible than a screenshot, besides a beta? A screenshot says "hey, look, we have this awesome Titan in the game now." Concept art just says that they have, well, a concept for what the Titan is going to look like/do. There is a world of difference between the two.
[quote who="Zeta1127" reply="1" id="2957465"]Indeed, I won't be preordering this until I see something more substantial than a screenshot and a vague list of features. [/quote] I'd just like to add that there isn't a screenshot[e digicons]:P[/e] I assume you are both referencing the Titan; that was concept art, not a screenshot.
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