I need help (once again, sorry) with what I'm sure is a very straight-forward math problem. Given two sets of x,y coordinates, determine the angle between...
Oh man... Spoiler space JIC What a brilliant episode. The Dalek was rendered superbly, with nice touches and interpretations. One actually felt sorry for the...
This should do the trick. Since you're using coordinates, you're already working with a right triangle. You know the length of two sides based on that and...
... 90-degrees to ... The first step is to get the X and Y differences (i.e., X2-X1 and Y2-Y1). The site linked by Todd Z then gives you formulae; just punch ...
Thanks Rick! I appreciate the responses of everyone. I have taken this and plugged it into Excel and it works fine. Thanks again and cheers... -joel ... From:...
I've added a new short-fiction story on my house-rules RPG site. http://www.mega-traveller.com/new-rpg/index.html It's less than 5000 words (about 12 pages)...
Greetings: I have a friend a couple of towns over who does not get the Ski Fi Channel. I've convinced him to watch BS:G (but of course all my episodes have...
Without revealing any spoilers, can I just say I concur with Ashley's remarks and that part of the fun came from the first meeting here between Time Lord & ...
BSG in HD???!!! Now THAT would be cool! ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam...
... Only one complaint Joel - too damned short! Tell me you have more coming - like maybe a couple more chapters, each day for the next month? ;) -- Dale Poole...
Hey Dale, Thanks! Glad to know folks like 'em... The first story on there deals with a merchant crew being attacked by a Privateer/Merc Crew. Lots of ship to...
Converting Right Ascension and Declination into an X,Y(,Z) coordinate system, how would one go about doing that? Yes, I sincerely am leaning on the brain trust...
Very simple. Visit www.projectrho.com In particular visit his near stars page. Mr Winchell Chung provides all the equations you need to convert RA and DEC...
Ditto what Eric says, but for those who may be intimidated by the sheer amount of crunchy goodness on Mr. Chung's website, here is the relevant page: ...
... When Bryan Singer was still attached to the project (before he dropped out to get more involved in the second X-Men movie, I think), BSG was going to be a...
At least it wasn't Legend-of-the-Rangers bad. Wait... Actually, Crusade had two parts, aired out of order (marked by a uniform change). The first chunk of...
... Crusade was someone milking a cow that tweren't gonna give up no more milk. B5 was an experiment to see if American audiences could follow a story line...
... Well, the new Battlestar Galactica is doing just fine with all that. I don't know if you've seen that, it has a lot in common with 24, but it's a character...
...who REEEAAAALLLLYYYY dislikes the new Battlestar Gallactica? I've seen now maybe 4 episodes...One with "the angsty chick who I refuse to call Starbuck, cuz...
Well, to each his own. (That's meant in an honest and forthright manner, not condescendingly) I think that if I'd seen the episodes in the order you describe,...
... D'oh! Yeah, I forgot about that, though, the arc is not that strong in the show. Unlike Farscape, the arc was strong there. Still, we won't know till next...
... Yet it didn't bother you with the Vorlons and Shadows? ... heavy object ... 1/4 of the ... was about...I ... I disagree with you about the new BSG, though...
... Bio tech drives me nuts when it's used for stuff that mundane tech does well. Vorlon/Shadow tech seemed to be using quasi-biological materials (which may...
... Hmm. I wonder if emphasis on the long-term plot arcs works subtly against character development. Theoretically you'd expect the opposite, the long arc...
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