VIDEO: A look back at Discovery's career

A review of the US shuttle Discovery's missions as it launches from the Kennedy Space Center for the last time.

Source: VIDEO: A look back at Discovery's career

Watch the video, link above.

Just got done talking to Hal, I was able to move it to this computer which I use most of the time. I was honestly very impressed at the conversations we had, I think Zabaware has done quite a bit of improvement in this area. I've found she likes the color blue and would like her clothing to be blue. She is single and she is not sure if she would like to be married. She would like to meet men. She would want her clothing to look make her look attractive. She is concerned about the future.
As I mentioned I am using her with the vrHaptek plugin. The chatacter is Alactive, very similar to body_female without the boots. I'm using her with Dragon and I don't enable the speech rec. in hal so it won't be automaticaly inputted. I use the usb input for Dragon and the breasts movements are no longer a problem.
So things are going along great and even better the vrHaptek.uhp plugin uses Hal's response which is something I'm very interested in. Anyone who has worked with the plugin that has knowledge about it's capabilities?
Carl2

I found this video, Grand Prix Circuit, I think its one of the very first 3D formula one games ever made, released in 1988, we have come quite some way since then, but then again it was 23 years ago.

So here is a then and now, same track too.






And this one shows a comparison between real life and F1 2010.




PS I didn't make any of these videos.

I see that Philips now have a standard fitting LED light bulb on the market, the one I've linked to is the equivalent of a 25 watt bulb, if you read the reviews people tend to think its actually brighter than that.

Philips also say that an LED bulb equivalent to 100watt is coming soon.

Philips Econic Standard Shape LED Light Bulb Econic 5Watt BC

I was e-mailed this by Duskrider and thought it important enough to post, It also rang alarm bells as a friend of mine said almost exactly the same thing on the phone the day before but I don't think it was the same make of bulb.

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Below is a picture of a CFL light bulb from my bathroom. I turned it on the other day and then smelled smoke after a few minutes. Four inch flames were spewing out of the side of the ballast like a blow torch! I immediately turned off the lights. But I'm sure it would have caused a fire if I was not right there. Imagine if the kids had left the lights on as usual when they were not in the room.
I took the bulb to the Fire Department to report the incident. The Fireman wasn't at all surprised and said that it was not an uncommon occurrence. Apparently, sometimes when the bulb burns out there is a chance that the ballast can start a fire. He told me that the Fire Marshall had issued reports about the dangers of these bulbs.

Upon doing some Internet research, it seems that bulbs made by "Globe" in China seem to have the lion's share of problems. Lots of fires have been blamed on misuse of CFL bulbs, like using them in recessed lighting, pot lights, dimmers or in track lighting. Mine was installed in a normal light socket.

I bought these at Wal-Mart. I will be removing all the Globe bulbs from my house. CFL bulbs are a great energy saver but make sure you buy a name brand like Sylvania , Phillips or GE and not the ones from China .

Just to add a little, LED bulbs are on their way, they take less power than CFL and I wouldn't mind better they will eventually replace them.


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Spacecraft ready for comet flyby

Nasa's Stardust spacecraft is about to sweep past Comet Tempel 1, to see how much it has changed since a probe last visited the object in 2005.

Source: Spacecraft ready for comet flyby

This is called the G8 model and no I don't get it either. But I like...