A century after the cataclysmic Earth-Space War between the colonies and the Earth Protectorate, most of the human population now dwells in space. People depend on technology for every moment of their survival, and machines depend on technopaths - Autistics trained from a young age and modified to interface with computers directly. These are their stories.
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Space Nerds In Space is an open source (GPLv2) cooperative multiplayer starship simulator for linux (may also work on Mac). So go out and get together with a crew of your linux-nerd friends and their computers in a room with a projector or TV, and go forth and explore the galaxy.
One computer runs the central server simulation of the game's universe. Each player's computer acts as a station on a simulated spaceship. There are stations for Navigation, Weapons, Engineering, Communications, Damage Control, and the "Main View", an out-the-window 3d rendering. Multiple starships each with their own team may connect to the server for bridge-vs-bridge combat, or for cooperative play. Additionally, a game master may inject and control various NPC ships into the game to entertain the players, and scenarios may be constructed with a Lua based scripting API.
Source code: https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space
When and where can you see the northern and southern lights also known as the aurora? This page provides a prediction of the aurora’s visibility tonight and tomorrow night in the charts below. The animations further down show what the aurora’s been up to over the last 24 hours and estimates what the next 30 minutes will be like. The aurora’s colorful green, red, and purple light shifts gently and often changes shape like softly blowing curtains.
The SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) is a global network of neutrino experiments sensitive to supernova neutrinos. The goal of SNEWS is to provide the astronomical community with a prompt alert of an imminent Galactic core-collapse event. This will allow for complete multi-messenger observations of the supernova across the electromagnetic spectrum, in gravitational waves, and in neutrinos.
The observation of a neutrino burst can thus provide a warning for astronomers that the opportunity to get a rare glimpse at the collapse of a star, resulting in a supernova, may soon be presenting itself. In addition, there is a real chance that a Galactic supernova may be observable with the naked eye, making this alert interesting to hobby astronomers and the general public alike. Most large-scale neutrino detectors around the globe thus joined forces in the SNEWS network to provide a high-sensitivity alert to interested parties. In addition, gravitational wave detectors like LIGO and Virgo have sensitivity to asymmetrically-collapsing supernovae and can both benefit from and contribute to such an alert.
The early supernova alert project has a central computer which accepts neutrino burst candidate messages from neutrino detectors around the world and sends an alert to astronomers if it finds a coincidence within a few seconds.
A free service for querying which satellites will be passing over a known location on the globe.
In Centauri Dreams, Paul Gilster looks at peer-reviewed research on deep space exploration, with an eye toward interstellar possibilities. For many years this site coordinated its efforts with the Tau Zero Foundation. It now serves as an independent forum for deep space news and ideas.
RSS: https://follow.it/centauri-dreams-imagining-and-planning-interstellar-exploration/rss
Mothership is a sci-fi horror roleplaying game where you and your crew try to survive in the most inhospitable environment in the universe: outer space! You'll excavate dangerous derelict spacecraft, explore strange unknown worlds, exterminate hostile alien life, and examine the horrors that encroach upon your every move. Designed from the ground up to be intuitive to run and easy to play, no system-mastery required. d100. Designed for very fast character generation.
The Player's Survival Guide is the core book.
Software that emulates the guidance computer of the Apollo space capsules.
The website for a classic space trading/warfare game called Elite run by one of the original authors. Includes a lot of information and even the novella which was published with the original version.
A far future RPG in which the players play field agents keeping the peace between a dozen civilizations by any means necessary throughout the universe. Also has strong themes of political intrigue, wonder, and responsibility. Published under the Creative Commons v3 license, though you can purchase PDFs of it from DriveThruRpg.com or buy dead trees from lulu.com if you want to support the project.
A point-in-time simulation of the position of the planets in the solar system, based upon date and time. Also calculates the ephemera for the planets at that point in time.