What are you doing (ingame) now?

[robfm81]

Learned a couple of things.... Comdr. Al is cool, no idea how to get Robigo rep up so I can actually do a mission, long distance missions pay really well, and at 16 jumps don't take too long. Short hop military missions end up 350+ lay away...... Lies...

[Skipp]

Winged up with some awesome people stalking the new barnacle site in merope.

We shot at it. We shot at it some more. Threw buggies into space. I got my SRV smoked by packhound missiles. Shot some NPCs and I got to test my experimental "Science vessel" Clipper outfit.

I'd say it was a good night

[Bonsaipanda]

welp



Proud moment for a bunny hunter. ^.^

[Falcon_D]

welp



Proud moment for a bunny hunter. ^.^

Congratulations!!!

[Darr Valen]

welp



Proud moment for a bunny hunter. ^.^

Wow, very nice! That's certainly not an easy task.. but then again, I have much respect for any brethren that have become Elite in something.. Speaking from experience, it's not something you just "do".

Psychologically, I will try driving around on an Ice World Tonight to see if it makes me feel cooler. Heat here is killing me. I am a Polar Bear and anything over 25c is hard for me. When we get to over 30, I might as well be dead. I am hoping the cold of the world will make me feel better.

It's been low 40º's here, even worse with the heat index factored in.. so I understand playing cold games, thinking cold thoughts.

We virtually never break 40ºC here in Orlando. But I'd rather be in 50ºC in Las Vegas, than 40ºC in Orlando, with the sheer, constantly, 100% humidity.

Florida has been breaking records over the past year on precipitation. Of course, this also meant ...

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... the US Army Corps of Engineers stupidly let that "Big Sugar Coated" crap out of Okeechobee to prevent overflow, and the result was what exactly every Environmental Engineer in Florida predicted would happen. Not that today's "south Florida" should even exist, mind you, but the state -- despite what you hear in the US national media, let alone international, is tired of "the Feds" going against our wishes here, and causing issues.

I.e., the University of South Florida was partitioned in 1923 -- in Tampa -- for a reason. At the time, developed Florida was no further south than the line from Daytona through Orlando to Tampa, with some sparsely populated portions south on the coast, like Melbourne, at a maximum. Nothing was ever supposed to exist south of there ... from Lauderdale to Miami ... until the US Army Corps of Engineers filled it in under the "Wetland Reclaimation Acts." This is still something that everyone wants to reverse ... sans the developers who cannot sell enough land down there for big dollars.

If you don't believe me, visit "Highland County" in Florida sometime after any rain. Yeah, it's named much like Greenland, despite being within 100km of Orlando and Disney World. I love it when people ask if I'm concerned that half of Florida might be underwater in 100 years. I'm like, "Didn't you know ... it was 100 years ago ... before the US Army Corps of Engineers filled it in?"

Watching the US national, and even international media, talk about the toxic algae bloom is just a joke. I mean ... no one should be living down there, period. Worse yet, those freshwater wells are getting more and more drained by the year, and the recharge from Lake Okeechobee is something I'd never wish on my worst enemy. The water table is virtually right below any housing's foundation, and even we don't have basements even farther north in Florida for a reason.

Which is why they should never let the US Army Corps of Engineers release that stuff. Flood Okeechobee, that's what happens, that what always happens. If you're stupid enough to live near it, and aren't a sugar cane farmer, get out. Many are (finally). It's always been a virtual swamp, and the Lake is literally not anything like any other Lake in the US (even pre-cane industry).

I live in Seminole County for a reason, 15m (50') above sea level (still with no basement), and am looking at cheap land in Alachua County, for retirement.

And yes, I'm an American that prefers Celsius, and everyone is taught it as the US became officially metric in '75 (but the US media fails to use it). The 0 (freezing) - 10 (cool) - 20 (perfect) - 30 (warm) - 40 (hot, or scorching humid) - 50 (scorching dry heat) ... makes far more sense to me. Of course I majored in EE, and everything is metric, while US civil and mechanical have a lot of existing standards and history that cannot be thrown away (like SAE). Although even the SAE and all land records are dual-annotated since the '80s.

But at least the US Customary system has been based on Metric since the middle of the 19th Century, always to the same significant digits as Metric itself (first 5, then 7 and finally 9 by the first half of the 20th century).

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The US broke from the UK and adopted the French standards on measurement, which became ISO, seeing the value of making all Imperial measurements based on a base 10 system, hence when NIST came about and the US officially went off the UK Imperial system. Everything was redefined based on Metric, perfectly to with 3 significant digits if possible, or approximated to 5 (later 7 and then 9) when not, to the same precision as Metric's own definitions (per the NIST's requirements).

That's why the US hasn't had any issues with its military equipment in NATO, unlike anything British pre-SEPECAT Jaguar (circa '70s). Which is why one shouldn't say much about the US Customary system if you're from the UK ... even if most Americans are ignorant of the history, especially those that don't use metric, because they are still trolls of the US media who is the most mathematically ignorant, and scientific and engineering void, industry in the US.

I only do celsius. I'm trying to break the "another american generation that doesn't know the standard units that the WORLD uses" stereotype.
I'd take 50 and a dry heat over 40 and humidity any day of the week.. the humidity with low-mid 30s the past few days has been horrible.. Southern Summer for you there.

Maybe with the advent of Pokemon Go, americans will finally demand a movement to Metric from Imperial.. It gets old trying to explain what a "km" is to people..

Now, I've seen my first black hole, thanks Maia B, and I think it's high time I saw one of these barnacles. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Atlas, Maia, Merope?

Also, a final thought.. WTF is up with these NPCs being OP at interdicting.. I get that I am now in Lawless space.. but these NPCs are crazy powerful. Figured out I can scan them for... well I dunno what I get from scanning them, but it's something. Showing up late to an update is..fun.

[charlie2alpha]

In the end I ended up not launching Elite for a week now. I was playing fine until early July but then some real life events distracted me plus the weather here became just too hot to sit in front of a computer and play. I always end up stopping gaming during summer so it was kind of predictable. I'll be back at Fall!

[tinnitus]

welp



Proud moment for a bunny hunter. ^.^

Awesome Commander, Congrats.

[*Al*]

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Proud moment for a bunny hunter. ^.^

Congratulations BP

[Cometborne]

Proud moment for a bunny hunter. ^.^

Congrats, especially for making it against the 2.1 AI.

[JohnLuke]

Congrat on Elite, Bonsaipanda!!

Whoot Whoot!!