Inspirational and Meta Sites Redux

[Threepony]

So, yeah.  Mech fight IRL? Yes.

Reality is disturbingly catching up with fiction.

[Threepony]

Oh, wow. Pluto.  Beautiful, MAD Pluto. Possibly as geologically/meteorologically active as Earth herself. A world that does not live, yet cannot die.



Those are mountains of near-pure water ice that are as tall or slightly taller than Everest. Total height of Everest, not the Massif height. 

[robkelk]

A 'dane-style Blue Hair Day:

Harvard scientists fire up BACON LASER
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Oh yeah, I saw that this morning. Not a laser for bacon, a laser of bacon!
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Matrix Dragon]

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... uto-charon

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This pretty much happened in Fenspace, didn't it?

[robkelk]

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2 ... uto-charon

This pretty much happened in Fenspace, didn't it?

Nah - too "fluffy" for The Professor (who was first to spend any length of time near Pluto in Fenspace)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Matrix Dragon]

I was talking more about NASA/Artemis, really. The thought of the Professors names being ignored just makes it even nicer [img]">

[M Fnord]

Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information

"I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!"

[Matrix Dragon]

Oh, NICE.

[robkelk]

Earth and Luna, from a million miles Sol-ward


Source: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/fr ... e-of-earth
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[robkelk]

Patent awarded for the technology to make a 20km-tall elevator.

Would anyone in the 'danelaw have built something like this by now, with 'wavium assist?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[robkelk]

Planet-building for 3D-art

Start here:
http://www.syacartoonist.com/comic/how- ... easy-steps

Okay, you've done that? Great! Now, lighten the ocean colour - it doesn't have to be an exact match for Earth blue, but it should be close enough to show this world isn't too alien to not support life.

Add a cloud-cover layer, and wrap that image onto a sphere primitive.

Bingo! One alien planet, ready to have a Fencraft orbit it!

(For close-up shots, don't add a cloud-cover layer to the map - put it on a second sphere primitive slightly larger than the one you put the map on, and make that transparent except where the clouds are. The two-level effect adds verisimilitude.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[robkelk]

NASA chooses the next target for a New Horizons flyby
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/31 ... xt_target/

It's a little thing, but we've never seen one of these up close before.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Matrix Dragon]

Trying to work out which planets are where at whenever your stories are set? This should help.

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

[Berk]

Just as a note.. concerning Shinji in Fenspace and Candle in the Dark, I can't help but think of the character from SRW generally considered to be Shinji's counterpart.
A Real Robot pilot, test pilot and engineer named Ryoto Hikawa. A soft spoken, unassuming young man voiced by a woman who, when push comes to shove, shoves BACK.

EDIT: And something for Mal. Soviet Bus Stops.
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

[robkelk]

Trying to work out which planets are where at whenever your stories are set? This should help.

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

Very pretty, but you can't add an asteroid to the display. For that, you need http://in-the-sky.org/solarsystem.php
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[JakeGrey]

(Found uncredited online)

[Berk]

Why is it that when I think of the Love and Rage Collective I can't help but think of the work of the Japanese artist huke? (Creator of the entire visual STYLE of Black Rock Shooter.)
- Grumpy Uncle Gearhead

[Cobalt Greywalker]

RE: Defiant Dev patch

That's the Official patch. If I could find where I put it I could give you the page number from the DS9 Technical Manual.

[robkelk]

Who calls a catgirl "Bubba"?

Especially one this cute?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[LynnInDenver]

A three year experiment shows that whisky matures differently in microgravity: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-sco ... s-34168471
--

"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor

[Tennie]

Custom gear shifters for pilots and flight simulator fans:







I'm willing to bet that there are some Fen who will 'wave these things to be functional (in a James Bond way, perhaps?).

[Star Ranger4]

in more than just a 'weapons and gadgets' sort of way, I'd agree.

after all, the POINT of all those widgits is to allow one to access functions without taking hands off the controls.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Rajvik]

i wouldnt do that to my nice new Fiat, but my tracker, oh hell yes
 

[M Fnord]

This has absolutely nothing to do with Fenspace, but I thought you might like to know what our sysadmin does in his spare time.
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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