Starfire Design Forum

The web is really bringing back the concept of amateur scientists again. Now anyone with time and cash can do many things that it used to take universities or corporations lots of cash to do. And for people who need cash there are a lot of VC and Angel investors if you can put together a business pl...

I'd like to ask your opinion on one thing then: if the government is so inefficient, then how did it manage to get to the moon the first time? By throwing $25 billion ($170 billion in 2005 dollars) at the problem and still didn't have sustainability overall. In addition at that time we didn't have ...

Yup. There is that. But I doubt the current administration will do anything even if China puts a nuke in orbit... What a load of partisan BS. There's a load of difference between stoping ineffective government funded development and encouraging private space development and defending the nation fro...

Language is C++ with wxWidgets (library for visual apps). Output is just plain to edit box - not pretty (I'll probably need to put some more linebraks in there... things got a little crowded since I added moon generation), but it allows for quick copy-paste into notepad :D That and it's so much mor...

To make it easier I'd go with the reduced rate. But Matt might have a different ruling.

hm, I don't know if my excel spreadsheets round at all. Which doesn't help you. I would round the total cost to the 1/10 th MCr.

It may be one thing to go wrong but for me it's also a way to see that things are working normally and errors don't creep in. For example, if we are sharing a backwards linked file and one of our cell data gets corrupted it will show in the errors related to the back-linked files. Unlikely that both...

While it might seem dangerous to place your shipyards in one complex remember that you can build a number of SS modules to protect it and rotate it to keep it protected for some time. If you spread out your SY you have to build and maintain a number of SS complexes. Having made a number of strikes o...

I think Club has a point. The cost to actually occupy the world isn't the only cost. The military cost in controlling the system is something hard to quantify but space battles are rarely cheap.

You probably can calculate it as some constant based on the military percentage of the income of NPR.

Well congrats to dwargon for doing what I found to be really difficult. He got the Marvin spreadsheets to work in Open Office. Cralis recently put them on the download page. These are descendants of the Elite spreadsheets. My excel sheets are on the download page Dwargon's link is here http://myweb....