The Long Dark puts you in the shoes to a pilot who has crashed in the Northern wilderness after a geomagnetic storm wipes out electrical systems all over the world.
The game launched as a kickstarter in September 2013 and I literally backed the game within minutes. And now, the first alpha releases are getting into the hands of backers. These early alphas are only covering the survival sandbox, not the rest of the which features some well known voice actors.
Scott Manley and Asteroid Day present the September 2016 Edition of Asteroid Update. Scott speaks exclusively to Asteroid Day Expert and OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta, days after the launch of OSIRIS-REx on September 08, 2016.
We also answer the winning question from last months T-Shirt competition that Asteroid Day ran in partnership with the European Space Agency and it’s proposed asteroid mission: Asteroid Impact Mission. Last month’s winner is: @MusicLaneIT
You can buy the board game XTRONAUT which Dante Lauretta presented during this episode via Amazon, here: http://amzn.to/2d2wIRf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yznqfnGwg3k
I've had lots of requests to build something huge like this, so here it is, completely impractical, but huge, needing over 1000 parts and hours of build time and a faster computer than I know of to run it. Also seems to hit the 32 bit memory limit and crash the game occasionally.
Now back to sensible things.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ody-tK4mc4A
Many videos of Chinese Long March rockets show huge amounts of debris being shed immediately upon liftoff, and I often get asked whether that's normal. These are of course foam insulation panels needed for temperature control and depending on the rocket and the location they might be to keep them cool or to keep them warm.
Ariane V Photo in thumbnail by Trevor Mahlmann https://www.tmahlmann.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn-2Fd0e2RY
Ethanol has a long history of use in rocket fuels, and an even longer history of being consumed by humans for 'fun'. Why did so many early rockets use this when more energetic fuels were available, and, just how many bottles of Everclear does it take to fuel a V-2 rocket.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eauxlp1wN8Q
It's another game using the word 'roguelike' to describe itself, but this one has a much stronger claim to the word. Sword Of The Stars: The Pit is a sci-fi dungeon crawler set in the SOTS universe and borrowing heavily from their mythos. I don't have the spare time to play through the epic empire management that the original Sword of the Stars games represent, but I can die horribly within minutes of entering the pit.
http://www.kerberos-productions.com/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmfULm7aZrA
I can't build space planes to save myself, so I demonstrate that you don't need wings to perform a horizontal landing and take off when you're on Minmus.
Yes this is dumb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBV4oSsUITU
Privately developed launch vehicles are not a recent development, back in the early 1980's private investors developed the Conestoga launch vehicle, however after overcoming technical and legal problems the company was unsuccessful in the launch business but a spin off still operates under the guise of Celestis.
Celestis
https://www.celestis.com/
Space Studies Institute
http://ssi.org/
Some great photos of Percheron
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevefrancis/sets/72157629324639570/
Wikipedia page on the Conestoga
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_(rocket)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGCFWOVeSS4
Signal Delay is a minimalist game that lets you control a martian rover with varying signal delay, only up to 10 seconds though, so it's a long way from the 6-40 minute delays real rover drivers contend with.
It's available for free from:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=21246
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5m42Idke3Q
Youtube's caption generator has a lot of problems with my accent and my frequent use of technical terms leading to some really bad transcriptions.
Competition Time: Record your own version from my back catalog of videos, and post it as a video response, the best/funniest ones will get prizes (probably steam games). You don't need to do the video if you don't have the technology, just make sure you have the audio.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt3VWqGPwcM