Theoretically there's nothing 'wrong' with traveling faster than the speed of light. Just as in the same way there's no problems for us traveling slower than the speed of light. It's just there's a catch - at the speed of light you need infinite energy, have infinite mass, time stops etc... and if you are just 'near' the speed of light [either side] the effects are also quite problematical for your day-to-day life. This means that objects traveling very very fast on our side of the light-barrier can't readily accelerate without dire consequences, and in the same way objects traveling above the speed of light can't readily decelerate down towards the speed of light either. So ne'r the twain shall meet! We are talking about transporting information, as much as physical objects here... The 'alternative' idea of 'warping' space itself... so that an object has less of a distance to traverse in the same time-frame could have the same effect as traveling faster than the speed of light... but controlling the forces involved in doing this 'wormhole' [or similar] in a way that doesn't squish the traveling object so much that its information is lost, have not been worked out at all well! Since 'you' are going to be the most important bits of information in the object that is traveling this way, then your chances of 'you' still being 'you' at the other end are, at the moment, very slim... Also, let's say you did successfully go one way down this 'tube', then how would you return ? Any given 'wormhole' is probably going to be transitory and difficult to fine-tune in where/when it ends up at all, let alone doing it in the exact 'reverse' way - so you might easily arrive back before you left or return long after you departed, either way this would not a satisfactory result... Unfortunately 'Star Trek' et al is/was made with little basis in reality... Although I really do hope that someone somewhere manages to sort out this seemingly insoluble issue... I won't be one of the first volunteers...

Coverage of the return of the Dragon-X to Earth, splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, is on NASA-TV: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html Good Luck to the entire Space-X team and NASA.

thanks, that's VERY interesting. Just as I was getting the new X11 version figured out. I had a major D'oh moment setting 2.8 X11 up realizing something I could have been doing for years I won't even say what that is. I'll just say, take a good look at preferences first off. Now this wonderful news!

This topic thread is about a specific modeling application named FreeCAD, ... not about all free CAD applications in general. I am sure there are other threads for that (as I have posted in them.)

@unknownuser said: Dates in the same time missing You can guess most of the dates though (True that I have a ~MA in history)

@alan fraser said: @starling75 said: @unknownuser said: About the zoom, seems you can make the same with Zoom view + Zoom previus Zoom view + Zoom previus ... plugins? or something basic I missed (duh?) Nope, no plugin; it's right there in the zoom section of the Large Tool Set. Ah you mean Zoom previous ... Pilou, no, you can't do the same. Snap loupe is very quick function - you place cursor over desired area and then hit Z key .. here and there.. very fast [flash=480,360:2rwausae]http://www.youtube.com/v/2B63LIfE6Jc?version=3&amp[/flash:2rwausae]

SpaceClaim seems like a better version of SketchUp But too pricey!

wheeeeezzz ... [flash=640,480:3501oy45]http://www.youtube.com/v/zm2CqHktBxE?version=3&amp[/flash:3501oy45]

Absolutely stunning imagery. I was only thinking the other day (while watching a David Attenborough documentary) that we are really privileged to be able to see aerial shots, sweeping over a coral atoll or the African savannah, when all the generations before us (until only my grandfather's generation) had no such perspective on the world...other than a fairly static one when standing on top of some hill or mountain. These even broader panoramas, with the aurorae and electrical storms crackling all over the place, are even grander.

That would be great.

Ah, that's where the confusion lay. (I know Bricsys is an ACAD clone) Looking forward to the soon-to-be-announced Mac version.

@tobobo said: Very cool A bit buggy though Beta ...

@ecuadorian said: They all fall within my tastes. Quite ironically, I loathe typical latin music, such as salsa, merengue, bachata, reggaeton, etc. Are you looking for music for a video? You can try looking for music which is royalty-free, or even better, licensed under a Creative Commons-type license. No, I am not looking for video music .. It's just only corner bar topic Samba Pure beauty

I guess masterbating beats praying in the satisfaction department.

Doesn't Blender's UI look the same on all platforms?

@solo said: LOL Okay so the best render wins Keyshot, what if the best render is a Thea render? all the Keyshot guys gonna give up with Keyshot and get Thea? Too bad that keyshot is the prize, as IMO it's limited to only car renders anyway. Not so bad .. http://www.keyshot.com/keyshot/k2_overview.html Well I don't know how they measured that KS2 is world fastest render engine ... probably guessing

COTS 1 - new era of space travel... [flash=600,450:27jbzpqg]http://www.youtube.com/v/dzWA5Mv2fKw[/flash:27jbzpqg]

@starling75 said: @utiler said: Nice work Bohdan. where are those trees from? Trees are made in treed .. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=29722&hilit=tree+starling&start=15#p262163 COOL, Ta!!