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It is a free space flight simulator that you can download it orbiter.org
Originally posted by slowfade
reply to post by draco61
It is a free space flight simulator that you can download it orbiter.org
That site is no good. Is this what you're talking about?
orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk...
I have a Mac so this will not run on any of my machines.
Originally posted by draco61
I have an idea and a question!? Not if anyone has seen a UFO or have filmed to one. There have been plenty of credible witnesses and film.
Has anyone heard of orbiter?
Here is my idea using this program as a share point. Taking information about different UFO craft in a 3-D format. Not just fly them. But to show what they may look like. One of the advantages to using this program is that local geography and topography can be put into it. So for example if someone saw all a UFO in the middle of the Arizona desert. You can load the USGS topographical map of the area into this program can get exact location. And put the model at the altitude at relative distance and see what you got. By the way gay maps of the USGS is free and orbiter is free.
Here is an example only an example! What happened in Roswell New Mexico back and 47. You take the USGS topographical maps in a 3-D format for orbiter. Place a UFO model at the crash site. Using one of the many different types of craft that are available for orbiter. If you can duplicate the original version of the story and debris field? Or the current US Air Force version of what happened.
The reason why I suggest using orbiter are several good reasons. One it is free, two it's easy to use
...anyone can use it
Originally posted by slowfade
reply to post by draco61
It is a free space flight simulator that you can download it orbiter.org
That site is no good. Is this what you're talking about?
orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk...
I have a Mac so this will not run on any of my machines.
Originally posted by CHRLZ
Originally posted by draco61
I have an idea and a question!? Not if anyone has seen a UFO or have filmed to one. There have been plenty of credible witnesses and film.
No there aren't. But that's a little offtopic..
Has anyone heard of orbiter?
Yes.
Here is my idea using this program as a share point. Taking information about different UFO craft in a 3-D format. Not just fly them. But to show what they may look like. One of the advantages to using this program is that local geography and topography can be put into it. So for example if someone saw all a UFO in the middle of the Arizona desert. You can load the USGS topographical map of the area into this program can get exact location. And put the model at the altitude at relative distance and see what you got. By the way gay maps of the USGS is free and orbiter is free.
Gay maps? (O:
Anyway, yes, so far so good...
Here is an example only an example! What happened in Roswell New Mexico back and 47. You take the USGS topographical maps in a 3-D format for orbiter. Place a UFO model at the crash site. Using one of the many different types of craft that are available for orbiter. If you can duplicate the original version of the story and debris field? Or the current US Air Force version of what happened.
Problem. Unless I'm badly mistaken, Orbiter is not designed for accurate crash modeling - the idea is to successfully complete your missions... And do you have crash debris maps to compare to anyway? I'm no Roswell expert, so do inform me on this.
The reason why I suggest using orbiter are several good reasons. One it is free, two it's easy to use
No it isn't. Easy, I mean.
...anyone can use it
No, actually you would want to have a reasonable basic knowledge in spaceflight concepts to use it with any degree of accuracy. It's not impossible, don't get me wrong, but if you think it's like a flight sim where you can just click a few times and fly... No. From the front page of the actual orbiter site ( orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk... ):
"But make no mistake - ORBITER is not a space shooter. The emphasis is firmly on realism, and the learning curve can be steep. Be prepared to invest some time and effort to brush up on your orbital mechanics background. Good starting points are JPL's Basics of Space Flight, and R. Braeunig's Rocket & Space Technology."
Indeed, may I beg the question of why *you* haven't tried at least a basic version of what you are suggesting, before posting this?
Wait, you're just the "ideas person", right!!
Originally posted by CHRLZ
Can you give any examples of incidents where three or more people have reported the same object, the reports appear to correlate, and the reports all contain useful and accurate observations?
Ok, how about two reports?
One?
It's a nice idea, but I'm afraid I don't see much indication that you would ever get a decent enough set of data to do this. If such cases exist, I would wager that simple triangulation from whatever obs you can get, would probably be plenty, given the likely accuracy range.
Sadly, I don't think it will fly (pun intended).