Sorry about the lame video but I wanted to talk about the latest updates from Mars Science Laboratory. The Most complex organic molecules found on the planet so far, in the sediment of a long dry lake bed, and a variability in the methane content of the martian atmosphere both point to interesting things. However it's still a long way from proving there was ever any life on mars. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_oMqVe-9Q
For people who are OCD about good looking rockets we have Fairing Factory, a web page that will create custom .part files to match your needs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIDU2zSyfRM
Blue Angels and friends showing their aircraft and skills over San Francisco Bay, just put together some video I recorded for fun.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmdF2aRK-ww
This is the game I've been playing more than anything else lately, it's a deck building card game developed by a pair of Pro-Magic players. It was originally kickstarted in 2013 and is available as a physical set, or digital versions for iOS/Android/PC. The Digital versions are cross compatible and content acquired on one plantform is usable on all digital versions.
Yes, I have an $800 VR headset and a $2000 PC, but this is a great game :)
http://www.starrealms.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrP0u6PKP9Y
Arena Commander v0.9 is the first really big update to the Dogfighting module for Star Citizen, the biggest addition is a new racing mode which lets you fly around a 3d racetrack against other players. As part of this they also added 2 new flyable ships which are designed for racing.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTJVZmpBMn8
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a vastly more ambitious sequel to Star Hammer tactics, offering a full 3d space warfare game in the mould of Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, but with turn based command and control.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbmLypyOCFQ
The Gemini spacecraft carried the first fully functional computer in space, it ran with a clock speed of about 7kHz, uses 26 bit data and 39bit memory words, with 4096 words of memory. It was one of the oddest computer architectures ever developed, for a tiny niche, only ever used on the Gemini. Some of the design may have made it into the Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital computer, but
The best source of information on the Gemini On Board Computer is here:
https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.htp
Amazing work has been done reconstructing the limited documentation into a version of the architecture and approximations of the software.
The simulator I used to show the computer operating is Reentry:
https://reentrygame.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OylMmZ54e7M
With a title like 'Space Food Truck' you can bet there's some strange genre mashups going on, but to add to the mix this is a 4 player cooperative card game played on a computer.
It's also quite addictive, in a similar way to FTL.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wxFxVHjOvI
Orbital mechanics can be oddly unintuitive at times, so I set out to cite a few examples where the most natural thing to do it the opposite of what you want to do.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5XPFjqPLik