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My self imposed rules are:
No googling anything.
Max five clicks to move location.
Can rotate and zoom as much as I want at each location.

Think I did fairly well last round.

edit: And two guesses within 100m.

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I'm disappointed that Resources won't be making it in the next update, but stability issues were probably more important. I'm a little surprised that they're making mod support such an integral part of early development, but it's still pretty awesome.

Mods make up a large part of the content out there right now. The modpack I'm using is so big it now takes long enough to load the game that I can watch two or three youtube videos before being able to play.

Haven't they hired 2-3 of the major mod makers as full time developers as well? That might have something to do with the focus on mod support too.

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General Discussion / Re: When Kickstarter goes wrong?
« on: May 04, 2013, 06:27:00 pm »
The laptops need EM shielding more than our laps, really.

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General Discussion / Re: Star Trek Discussion Thread
« on: April 29, 2013, 12:36:43 pm »
I've been watching DS9 lately, since I've been told it's the good spinoff.

There's been a recurring character that I haven't understood the purpose of other than comic relief, and it took me well into the 4th season before I suddenly got the in-joke: Morn - the depressed, lumbering, flabby-chinned alcoholic alien that's always at Quark's bar (where everybody knows his name) and everyone is trying to avoid - is an anagram of Norm.

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Hmm yeah this is martial law. This is not acceptable.
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Also their facial expressions are hilarious.
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Do you not feel safe yet citizen?

Am I the only one missing Robocop in those pictures?

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: April 19, 2013, 03:45:50 pm »
Every time I read about newly discovered exoplanets I end up spending a few hours looking for transitions on PlanetHunters.

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Judging by all accounts, the older brother was the religious nut while the younger was in med school smoking lots of pot like everyone in med school.

I wonder if this might be the older brother guilting his younger brother into joining his plan, or worse, bringing him along without actually telling him what was going to happen. Last rumour from the Boston Globe is that the police faced off with Tamerlane after Dzjokhar ran him over with a car.

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All the police sharpshooter teams are pretty much mapped out on twitter.

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Originates with AP which makes the claim more credible, although the way they've got this ID is very vague.

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The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge, just outside Boston, and said he "may be armed and dangerous."

I don't like these "tentative identifications" since they often lead to unrelated and innocent people getting very dangerous attention. Like the brother of the Newtown killer, or that 17-year-old Moroccan in the current case.

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RT would jump on any rumour that the bombers are Chechens, so I wouldn't take that article for granted.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: April 19, 2013, 03:48:24 am »
Two rock planets in the goldilocks zone discovered in the Kepler-62 system.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/apr/HQ_13-112_Kepler_62_finding.html
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WASHINGTON -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
The Kepler-62 system has five planets; 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e and 62f. The Kepler-69 system has two planets; 69b and 69c. Kepler-62e, 62f and 69c are the super-Earth-sized planets.

Two of the newly discovered planets orbit a star smaller and cooler than the sun. Kepler-62f is only 40 percent larger than Earth, making it the exoplanet closest to the size of our planet known in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-62f is likely to have a rocky composition. Kepler-62e, orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone and is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: April 11, 2013, 05:20:04 pm »
Their server is down/struggling.

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General Discussion / Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« on: April 10, 2013, 02:51:07 pm »
The guys behind that fusion drive have a website. The awesomeness of their proposals are roughly proportional to its sparseness, but it's got some publications and articles.

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General Discussion / Re: Private Spaceflight Thread
« on: April 05, 2013, 05:54:56 am »
SpaceX and their Grasshopper is making progress. Looks very Kerbal'y to me, they've just grabbed a stock Falcon fuel tank and a Merlin engine and attached some landing struts to it (along with some extra control systems).

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: March 30, 2013, 01:57:00 pm »
Can you imagine someone else moving into your house? All those faces in the wall, staring them down. Watching them.

I'd use a glow-in-the-dark sharpie for extra effect.

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