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- Nairn0
Hey e-pill, if you genuinely want to travel to the centre of the galaxy and see alien civilizations, I'd highly recommend 200mg of dextromorphan.
Weirdest shit ever - and I *did* see an alien civilisation, I shit you not. In full, hyperreal, luscious 3d goodness. I nearly came.
- Nairn0
(er.. 'dextromethorphan' and I'm talking pharmaceutical grade chemicals, not 4 bottles of cough medicine :)
Sorry for veering your thread off to Drugsville, TBO
x
- ghandolf0
e-pill
It's extremely sophisticated. You can travel many ways, light years, calendar years, or in real-time.
There is a complete manual here.
http://www.celestiamotherlode.ne…
or
http://www.shatters.net/celestia…
Keyboard controls are on pages 45,46,47. It also supports certain joysticks.
'F9' (windows) will bring up a controls overlay screen
Generally speaking, 'A' is increase velocity (hit it about 15 times to start moving), 'Z' is decrease, and 'S' is complete stop. Watch the light speed indicator in the lower left of the window. You can also use the 'F' keys for preset speeds.
A Increase velocity
Z Decrease velocity
Q Reverse direction
X Set movement direction toward center of screen
S or F1 StopF2 Set velocity to 1 km/s
F3 Set velocity to 1,000 km/s
F4 Set velocity to speed of light
F5 Set velocity to 10x the speed of light.
F6 Set velocity to 1 AU/s F7 Set velocity to 1 ly/sYou can also just take a position in space, sit there, and track Earth, and watch the 'real-time' passage of day into night anywhere on the planet. It works as an awesome screen saver program.
When traveling through the solar system in light years, remember you are moving really, really fast, and must slow down WAY ahead of arrival, or you'll shoot right past your destination. When you see your destination coming up, hold down 'Z' to decrease rapidly.
Enjoy!
- Nairn0
lol - aha, so e-pill was asking a serious question? I thought it was the product of an early-Friday joint!
soz, man.
- ghandolf0
That's quite all right.
However "an early-Friday joint" will help to expand his mind as he traverses the universe after learning how to fly this software.
- e-pill0
ghandolf-
thanks!! its a very nice app!! thanks for the keyboard commands controls and the zip.!!!
:)
Nairn...yes serious..but thanks for recipe for almost...you know you can always eat a Krispy Kreme if you want the same thing.
*shivvers
- ghandolf0
You're welcome.
It's a very cool app.Here's a key chart:
http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/planet…I found here...
http://www.celestiamotherlode.ne…
Watch out for space junk...
- e-pill0
ludacris speed here i come!!
- e-pill0
ghandolf-
can you reconmend any directional destinations??
i seen the milky way...
and i found haley's comet!:)
- ghandolf0
You can enter the name of a planet and hit enter and fly to there. When you add-in some of the Add-on's, you can find objects in space, such as the cargo ship from the movie 2010 (with the 'Pod' Dave is trying to escape in moving away from it), way out by the planet IO, or the rotating space station from the movie 2001, but you have to set the 'Time' to a year after 2010, or it won't be there yet. :)
There are Add-ins for Star Wars, Star Trek, the Death Star, the planet Alderan, Millennian Falcon, etc. but those are in other solar systems and you have to access them through the "Solar System Browser' tab once they are loaded.
Choose planets by pressing 1 - 9 and press 'G' to move towards it.
You can bookmark positions in space/universe. Try to go way out past Pluto, and with 'Labels' OFF, see if you can find your way back to Earth... the ultimate road trip.
I can suggest reading up in the forums for help with all of this. You essentially drop the add-ins into folders you create in the right directories. It's an amazing piece of software.
- e-pill0
ok that seems a lil too much...but since you staarted, is it possible to find the area where Krypton used to exist within? have you traversed into any black holes??
- ghandolf0
HA ha... no. That's as far as I went with it.
I've loaded the Star Trek and Star Wars stuff, just to be cute and to have something to find. No Superman or Black Holes that I'm aware of).
The NASA Mercury capsule, Shuttles, and other ships are also loaded and fun to find. That's as far as I've gone with it, except for the recording capabilities of Celestia.
I used an 'Earth Arrival' sequence using the 'Capture Movie' feature that saves as an mpeg. It actually turned out pretty good for the price!
- e-pill0
their demo is fun to watch
- Nairn0
I just flew from Jupiter to Earth at 10x the speed of light and realised just how fucking huge Betelegeuse is. This thing's brilliant - I'm not going out tonight.
- e-pill0
i wish there was a star chart to Cybertron.
- e-pill0
if you [follow] "Titan" and turn on all the displays and orbits and asteroids and comets and celestials you get a very nice view of realy cool vectors and you see saturn and haley's comet and jupiter and Cassini aand neptune pluto and your anus too!!
:)
- ghandolf0
I just flew from Jupiter to Earth at 10x the speed of light and realised just how fucking huge Betelegeuse is. This thing's brilliant - I'm not going out tonight.
Nairn
(Mar 2 07, 11:46)Yes... yes... excellent.... (Mr. Burns) NOW I've hooked you!
It will really make you realize just how insignificant you are.
It will make you think about a much bigger picture.
When you realize just how small and lonely our little planet is, way over there in the Great Milky Way... and all those other solar systems in there, it makes you wonder about lots of stuff other than the bills, and deadlines to projects.
- Nairn0
absolutely - but at the same time, i've just come to utterly appreciate how unlikely it is that we're going to even be able to send probes to other stars without some completely revolutionary developments in physics and technology.
it's made me a bit glum.
- Jaline0
ride on tha Magic School Bus!!
- k0na_an0k0
They got Krypton out there?