Oolite Bulletins

[...] I've run out of options, as far as I can think, at this stage. [...] but I do most of my work in Linux, because I hate L0$e-doze, and rebooting back and forth is just not going to cut it for me. [...] Being myself a "Windows cutter" lately, I can hear you about desperation (although most of t...

[... ] I don't know if it might be part of the problem, or useful at all, but Nvidia drivers don't work for me on Linux. I have an ASUS i7 ROG laptop with an Nvidia GTX 1050 (4GB GDDR5), but using the onboard Intel Graphics 630. [...] Whew, this looks like an "Optimus" dual graphics hardware setup....

To be honest, I didn't install from the package in a long time, and I don't really know the layout of the installed application very well (I'm mostly running self compiled trunk). Did you run the installation as root, but are trying to run it as a different user, by any chance? Because it seems you ...

When you say "autopackage", is it from Oolite site download page, or is it from your Linux distribution packaging repositories?

You can also check in your $HOME/.Oolite/Logs/Latest.log to see if 1. is created and/or 2. has some more insight on what's happening.

[...] But the queuing system seems pointless - more realistic but adds nothing to game play and you have to keep an eye on the screens to find out when you get clearance, so no chance to make a cup of tea. You can always disable it by selecting "Docking Clearance Protocol: Off" in your menu. You'll...

Star Trek Deep Space 9, season 3 episode 22 -- Explorers -- captain Sisko and his son re-enact a solar sail trip.

From The Black Hole, those 'moonbuggies' on rails ? :) #4 "The Stone", a 290km-long (and then some …) asteroid ship in Greg Bear’s Eon . Internal travel requires aircraft (and "tuberiders", when things start to get stretched). #5 All yours big D! P.S. Two other examples I had in mind were Excalibur...

I'm pretty sure that the aliens in Independence Day used some sort of shuttle inside the big saucers, but they also carried fleets of attack ships so I may have mistaken them for an internal transport system - I'm really not going to watch the bloody thing again to check! They might had, but, the c...

Cody wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:37 am

[...] but I don't recall any shuttles.

Although I wouldn't be able recall ( ), I also couldn't find any mention of such, besides the "skybike" smuggled aboard. Sorry!

Disembodied wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:57 am

A Culture General Systems Vehicle[...]

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spud42 wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:18 am

Lexx had those bug shuttles [...]

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ffutures wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 05, 2020 10:48 pm

[...] The metaphorical ball is in your proverbial court!

Roger that!

Another "fives": big space ships that needed shuttling inside their hulls. Stations (as opposed to ships) and elevators (inside ships) don't count.
One per sci-fi franchise (books, games, movies, TV series, etc.).

Star Trek series also had such examples. I'd still come with a movie out of the series, Star Trek First Contact.

Stargate SG-1 had some episodes. The last event in the SG-1 franchise, Stargate Continuum (2008) was mainly a time traveling story.

I'll go with the journalist that appeared in all the initial Mass Effect trilogy episodes: Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani.

(Just re-reading:) Didonians referred to as Heesh (three entities, a sort of rhino, monkey, and bird -- krippo, noga, ruka - connected to form a higher intelligent entity than the sum of the parts) in The Rebel Worlds by Paul Anderson?
Jabba the Hutt ?

OK … name five intelligent alien species who are, on a human scale, very large. For the avoidance of doubt this means at least twice the height and/or mass of an adult human being, and by "intelligent" I mean able to hold conversations, discuss abstract ideas, etc. Bonus points if they're technolog...