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It's a race between three companies. Lockheed Martin, Ultra Safe Nuclear and Blue Origin. Although no idea what Blue Origin know about nuclear power. I agree with him that a Hall Effect Nuclear Electric propulsion makes more sense.

We've discussed the Fermi Paradox a few times on the forum. A new study makes it even more paradoxical than before. Even setting very significant constraints the galaxy should be replete with lifeforms but none seem to be there. Seems to me, civilisations don't last long enough to colonise other star systems. Seems to me a civilisation might be constrained to just their own star systems.

I´m actually working on LSMD for P3D5, enhancing the default one. The airfield is still in use but the military has not much operations there anymore. So the state of the default airfield is without any parking spot. Adding a few details I came across this strange object (right side) on the ground. Anyone who knows, what this is? Next item looks like a little shed and an antenna lying on the ground (pure guessing) I have another picture on this one Feel free to look at it with Google earth or Zoom Earth etc. https://zoom.earth/#view=47.40031,8.641949,16z/layers=labels:off Both objects are pretty much in the middle of the airfield,…

Requiem for a Fighter Pilot Jesse Callahan passed away this morning. He was 98 years old. He was a fighter pilot. He flew P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs over Germany during World War II. After the war he transitioned into transports and flew C-97s from California to Japan. At Hamilton Air Force Base he flew C-119s. When he was stationed at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona he would drive up to the Grand Canyon on some long week-ends and fly the Ford Trimotor sight seeing airplane. He was also a flight simmer. While Jesse was short in stature he was quite a man. And he was my friend. After retiring from the Air Force Jesse began a second c…

Wow, I love learning new stuff! I suspect that most of us have no factual understanding about what the causes of tidal action are. Now I know thanks to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson having explained it in easy to understand and humorous words.

As usual the experts at Avsim are on hand to make sense of it all. Quite a few cases involving kids at school. Fascinating video to watch. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-57749238

Looks realistic in flight!

I missed posting last weekend since I was in the emergency room getting a pulmonary embolism diagnosed. It's a small one and I have medication for it and am back to normal now. Here's another of my boyhood stories that some of you might relate to. The Entrepreneur The kitchen table was the center of our household universe. It was a bulletin board for notes Mom and Dad would leave each other. It was the place snacks would appear when Lee and I came home from school. It was the place we did our homework, and it was the place family discussions were held. When anyone came into the house, the first order of business was to check the kitchen table. There…

FYI -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2021/07/16/twa-flight-800-crash-anniversary/

Is there some way to get rid of those obnoxious, ugly orange smoke plumes RTMM has at several airports? I was just flying to Bella Coola this morning and I have valley I fly down into the Bella Cool valley through and then make my turn down the river and look for the runway. This morning there is that blazing orange plume of smoke RTMM must think are beautiful. I could possibly live with them if they were restricted to RTMM airports, but not when they are put into Orbx scenery. I hate them! In all my days of flying I have never seen such a thing. If I can't get rid of them then RTMM will have to go. Noel

When I installed P3Dv5.2 a few weeks ago I decided to use the Return To Misty Moorings mega install for P3Dv5 instead of installing it piecemeal as I had done before. The only sceneries I have installed are RTMM and all the Orbx North American sceneries and airports. Bella Coola is one of my favorite airports for exploring central British Columbia. But RTMM has literally butchered it and made the airport unuseable. This is what RTMM has done to my Bella Coola: Obnoxious orange flare visible from the moon. Water Tower right smack dab at the end of the runway. Flagpole in the middle of a taxiway flying an AMERICAN flag, NOT a CANADI…

Maybe she saw one of William Shatners Gremlins from the Twilight Zone? American Airlines passenger is duct-taped to her seat with her mouth sealed shut after she 'tried to open plane door and bit a flight attendant' Video shows the unidentified female passenger restrained with tape on an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Charlotte on July 6 Woman alleged to have attempted to open the door to the aircraft while in flight Before being restrained by the cabin crew she allegedly bit a flight attendant The passenger was duct-taped to her seat and even had her mouth taped shut As passengers deplaned she could be heard screaming despite…

It seems to be consistent with what Aerosoft reported last year. Here is the quote from JustFlight: The full comment is here: https://community.justflight.com/topic/2415/is-the-f28-dead-for-p3dv4-5/4

Poor Phil Mickelson, like Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack, no respect. Jon Rahm +800 8/1 Brooks Koepka +1600 16/1 Xander Schauffele +1800 18/1 Justin Thomas +1800 18/1 Jordan Spieth +1800 18/1 Rory McIlroy +2200 22/1 Dustin Johnson +2500 25/1 Louis Oosthuizen +3000 30/1 Viktor Hovland +3000 30/1 Patrick Reed +3300 33/1 …

Hi guys, I'm new here, I need help with Airsimmer's Paint Kit, the site has been down for a month. Anyone have the pait kit for download? tks!

Good day, jokes aside (in the title), I've been into flight simulation since my Commodore 64 days. I have no education around software development or the economics involved. This is not a developer "whipping" exercise, but throughout Avsim, I have seen many questions or queries regarding projects for platforms other than MSFS which have not been developed or advanced as originally advertised or where there is confusion as to whether a particular project will ever go ahead. I thought we could maybe post here, and the respective developers could "chime in" and give us their perspective? Examples: Latest UGCX, still in Beta since last year, although the MSFS version - PushBa…

Hi There I need help with something personal. I need you to help me check a translation to Swedish for a thing at work. If you could help please send me a PM. Thanks, Simbol

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/06/nasa-is-actively-searching-for-life-in-the-universe-official-says.html Given the distances involved I would think that proof of extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe could only be determined by intercepting radio transmissions that indicate intelligence. Has there ever been any evidence that any the UFOs that see to be crowding our skies are communicating with their home planets? If they can solve the problem of vehicles exceeding or bypassing the speed of light could they also communicate back home by somehow having the transmissions bypass or exceed the speed of light? Would we be able to intercept those communica…

Watch live as the bearded daredevil becomes a spaceman and demonstrates the safety of the vehicle. And beats Bezos into space which some would argue is a good thing to do.

Sabine herself had no idea that its not out of the question for a solar storm to be so intense that it puts life at risk on this planet. Imagine something many many times more powerful than the Carrington event!

So, having just installed my first NVME drive, I had been fiddling around in Bios and looking at the new storage in various ways, when I noticed what appears to be a hidden virtual drive on my machine. (Hidden meaning that it seems to be invisible to normal scans) Using Minitool Partition Wizard and others, this read-only space Identified itself rather unhelpfully as (Disk 8 GPT 1.64 GB Read ONLY) Which did not tell me much. Further probing gave me a name for the drive, which was MSFT XVDD, and I was unable to affect or modify it in any way. Some searches revealed this as apparently having something to do with GamePass, and the only game pass item curr…