On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 09:24 -0400, Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:41:04 +0200
> Robin van Steenbergen wrote:
> >
> > As far as orbital graphics, Flight Simulator X has support for graphics
> > up to 1,000,000 feet, which is almost geostationary orbit.
>
> Not even close -- geostationary orbits have radii on the order of
> 120,000,000 feet out. Heck, the Earth itself has a mean radius of
> about 21,000,000 feet; so 1,000,000 feet up is definitely low-Earth
> orbit (well below low-Earth orbits used for satellites, really)
> with a very short period of more like an hour.
>
I think Douglas Adams summed it up in the best way:-
"Space is big - really big - you just won't believe how vastly, hugely
mind-bogglingly big it is. You may think it's a long way down the road
to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
Regards
George
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Flightgear-devel mailing list
Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
