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Heinlein's "Have Space Suit, Will Travel". The Heinlein juveniles were great reading for kids. Have Space Suit - Will Travel is rumoured to be in movie/screenplay development. I heard a lot of them rumours over the years. One of them was "Red Planet" (not to confuse with the mov...

Confutioos says: "If you are in a hurry, go slow. If you are in a real hurry, take a detour."

Hmm...

If i start to answer questions like that, wouldn't that lead to a completely different trivia game?

I'll make you a deal old man: if you attempt to solve the riddle with the name a "yes" to your question would lead to, i'll tell you if it's right or wrong....

not sure this would count as a bug, but .... in the nova system there's all those workholes. where are the ships once i've left the system? there should be much more ships present in the systems around it (well, only the one where the player is would be relevant, but even so), and maybe even more ar...

but it failed because of a supernova. leaving the main characters stranded on a far away planet.

back to the guy whose name we're looking for...

his invention made space travel a really small step for a man ...

One of the Grandmasters of science fiction wrote that novel.

the guy's story is a short sideline in the novel, but his invention is central to the plot.

JensAyton wrote:

...which puts it at similar density to the region where boring old Earthican spaceships get glowy.

but then, those boring ships had a speed of about 7000 m/s when they got glowy. the orbital speed just above the sun's photosphere is about 500 km/s.

nope, the name we're looking for here ain't terry pratchett.

a demonstration of his machine gave the chicken/egg question a completely new meaning.

esp since the egg was hard-boiled...

there's no point in a core change to make OXPs behave in a prescribed way. how an OXP behaves is up to the OXP developer, including interaction with other OXPs. there will always be OXPs incompatible one way or another with other OXPs. you can't really expect OXP devs to take into account -every- ot...

i think i know what happens.

my tico station has a radius of 1000 feet. when launching in the nova mission, i get kicked out at the coriolis normal position of 500 feet, then enter the docking port from the inside, instantly redocking.

it happened again ...

said no, then topped off the fuel, then i have that weird "can't get out of station" bug.

and nothing in the logs

There seems to be a bug there. once docked to the station, i'm presented with the question if i want to help or not. do i say yes, something completely weird happens. i kicked outta the station (or so it seems), but can't do anything but watch. do i say no, and then try to exit the station, then the...