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  1. On 5/30/2020 at 3:23 PM, Ths71 said:

    https://iss-sim.spacex.com/


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    Argh its just killing me that the controls are not pilot-style (reversed in pitch). Down arrow should make you pitch up, and vice versa. Maybe I should try my joystick but I'm guessing this does not support joystick control.

    Also I don't see any visual indicator of your translation thrust setting/intensity. Without that it's hard to keep track of how the thrusters are set. 

     

  2. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    There were some horrible jokes going around our school within a week or two.   We were living in a fairly remote place/small town, and I don't know where the hell the parents came up with those jokes to tell the kids (no way the kids came up with Head & Shoulders jokes on their own).  It wasn't like there was internet, and the nearest decent-sized town was two hours away.

    I swear I remember hearing the "what does NASA stand for" joke from other kids at school the next day.

     

  3. Like TwiceHorn, I was decent enough at math, physics, etc. to muddle through an engineering degree at UT. There are many problems and concepts in engineering and science which you can visualize or relate to real-world situations that you can understand intuitively, even if the math is difficult. But when it comes to this level of abstract math, or quantum physics, or relativity--it's all complete greek to me. It might as well be magic or witchcraft.

     

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  4. 3 hours ago, Revolution512 said:

    Sounds like FM 3349 in Hutto is where they are looking

    Dammit, that's a nice stretch of country road to haul ass down and do an Italian tune-up.

     

     

  5. At 1:41, there's a building with a golden dome which I think is probably the University of Notre Dame. Immediately before that is a shot of either a racetrack or some kind of stadium, which I thought might be Indianapolis Speedway (esp. since it's in Indiana, like Notre Dame). But the shape and buildings around the track don't look quite right for Indy.

    At 4:28, I can't tell exactly, but those oil derricks are probably at Long Beach or Venice Beach, CA.

     

     

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  6. Why can't America fix our fucking phone system? And by that I mean, EVERY CALL should have un-spoofable caller ID that tells you the number and real name of the person or company calling you. If a call doesn't meet those specifications, the phone system should not allow it to go through. Any hacking or circumvention of the system should be a felony punishable by draconian measures.

     

     

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  7. 19 hours ago, luke duke said:

     


    How can you forget the amazing Pontiac Aztec?
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    It's hideous, but it's not that much more hideous than some crossovers being sold today. If the wheel wells were bigger, with meaner looking wheels and tires, and some of that lower black cladding that every crossover is sporting these days, it'd probably sell.  (Also assuming it had a competitive powertrain and interior, which I know it doesn't.)

     

  8. For some time, I've had an issue when I try to browse the Surly forums: it just crushes my PC, locking up my browser (current version of Chrome) and any other applications that are running. Everything stops responding and just becomes slow as molasses, and I get heavy disk access for no apparent reason. It seems to be maxing out my system memory. If I wait long enough (a minute or three) things slowly come back and become usable again, but still sluggish. This forum is the only website that I regularly have this problem with, including several other forums or bulletin boards that run very smoothly. What on earth is Surly doing to my PC? Virus and malware scans don't turn up anything. The only Chrome extension I have is ABP. System info: quad core i7 860 (2.8+ ghz), 4 gig RAM, Windows 7, plenty of free hard drive space). (Yeah, it's old, but not so old that web surfing should be a strain.)

    Thanks for any ideas.

     

     

     

  9. I'm only 49 but this year it seems like my body is just falling apart. I've started to randomly get pain in my ankles, achilles tendonitis, and pain/swelling/stiffness in my knees for no apparent reason. Plus my chronic back pain is acting up too. I'm starting to wonder if something systemic is happening, but so far tests have come back normal. (It's never lupus.)

     

  10. Why the fuck doesn't anyone seem to make a really lightweight, low-impact, no-BS free antivirus program. Over the years I've been through AVG, Bitdefender, and now Kaspersky Free and they inevitably decide that their shit needs a bunch of extra modules and "features" I don't want, and past a certain point you're forced to accept it because they won't release virus database updates unless you update the core application to the bloated version.

     

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  11. 2 hours ago, CHIEF said:

    I've been lucky enough to see two. One was when I was on a walk with Mrs. CHIEF down to the waterfall on Bull Creek right off of 360. The other one was up at Stillhouse Hollow one time. I feel pretty lucky, apparently coral snake sightings are really rare in central Texas.

     

    CHIEF

    My neighbor killed one in his back yard a few days ago (NE Austin). It was definitely a coral; "red touch yellow." I've never seen one outside of a zoo. 

     

  12. I have too much of my life savings tied up in the market, and I reached the limit of my downside risk tolerance the morning of March 16.  Sold off a bunch of stuff at the worst possible time. Lost enough market value to have bought my house again.

    Edit: On the "plus" side I'll have enough capital losses to roll over probably for the rest of my life...

     

  13. Seems like my hood was poised to get a big heavy cell moving up from the SW, but suddenly the edge of the heavy rain is retreating. Front pushing it back south, or dry air fucking it up?

     

     

     

  14. I was honestly expecting more questions about income level, level of education, what sector I work in, how many cars do I own, do I jerk it left or right-handed, etc.  I was almost disappointed in a way.

     

     

     

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