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The Glorfindel who killed a Balrog isn't necessarily the same Glorfindel who lived in Rivendell. Tolkien used the same name without thinking about it for different people, but once he realised he'd done it (some time after publication of LotR) he considered making them the same elf.

Inertia is another one of those quantities that intuitively seem simple until physicists get their hands on it. http://www.calphysics.org/inertia.html

After they seemed to relax their position last week, the Greek government has done an about-turn and is once again heading to full confrontation with the other Eurozone nations Greek bonds and shares dive as Grexit fears grow - live updates | Business | The Guardian

Moving starports requires some big engines. The Python gives a sense of scale.

BBC Sport - Marussia comeback blocked by Force India no vote

A couple of screenshots from the 1.1 beta Parallax clouds - they put these in for the gas giants, but at the moment they look much better on normal planets. City lights Later today in beta we get this: Welcome to Elite: Dangerous Update 1.1 Beta - Things we'd like you to do!

In Spain the anti-austerity Podemos party is on the rise. It didn't exist a year ago, it's already won 5 seats in the EU parliament, and there are local and national elections this year. If Greece gets concessions now, then it might pose a significant threat to the mainstream parties. Tens of...

Coming late to this question but I enjoyed the dark humour of Tik Tok. It might be hard to find. It's also not set in space :P Amazon.com: Tik-Tok eBook: John Sladek: Books

There's a lot of truth in this. IIRC Greece is only about 2% of the EU economy, so if it could be dealt with in isolation, no-one would much care what happened to it, just like they didn't care about the rule-bending that went on before it joined the Euro. The problem is that any concessions...

It's fair to say things are not going smoothly between the EU and the new government. Greece holds tense meeting with eurozone finance chief - live updates | Business | The Guardian

From Dev posts: - discovery tags are supposed to be retrospective, so if you scanned and handed in the data first, your name will be displayed on the map in future. - when the patch goes live, you will be notified when you hand in scanned data if you are the discoverer. - they don't plan to...

All good points. I listened in on a debate about how the EU really needed a fiscal transfer mechanism in order for the Euro to work properly. something that was mooted for a long time (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2013/wp13198.pdf). What was eventually put in place was the European...

Some more info on what's coming in 1.1 next month (and beta next week!) Colonisation is coming... Dev Update 29.01.2015

The problem wasn't the accounting method, the problem was the figures Greece was reporting were a fabrication, and everyone knew it. It doesn't really matter how you add the numbers up if the numbers themselves are false. Here's an explanation of how they did it: BBC News - How magic made Greek...

Yep, I recommend the film highly too. My thoughts on the ending:

The problem goes back to when the Euro was created. All the countries that joined it had to fulfil some basic economic criteria, but Greece fudged it's books to make it look like they met the requirements when in fact they didn't. However, the blame doesn't only lie with the Greek politicians of...

It's good that the Greeks are standing up for themselves, but unfortunately I think the following analysis is correct: Hold the celebrations: Greece is still doomed - Telegraph The fundamental problem of the rich getting richer is that they bear an increasing proportion of the taxation that...

Human colonised space on it's own is more than large enough for a conflict. The in-game storyline, thin as it is, seems to be leading towards that with the Emperor dying and bits of the Federation breaking away. I am hoping that comes in 1.1, as it would tie in with the collaborative missions...

Ha something similar happened to me a while back. I was carrying a cargohold full of Palladium and it was getting late so I decided this would be the last run of the night. Flew in fast into the station, only to realise as I was entering the mailslot I'd forgotten to ask for docking permission...

From the forums... Time to cross the galaxy: 5 weeks 65,000 LYs from home, on the fringe of intergalactc space... And the videos he made: Elite Dangerous - Distant Suns Part 1 (The Lagoon Nebula) - YouTube

That should kill big ships pretty fast! - railguns are good at taking out subsystems, I'm playing around with them on my Viper. No turrets though?

As beta went on, I got the impression that it was a relatively small development team for a game of this size and they were dealing with game-breaking issues right up to the week before launch (IIRC they were even releasing patches on Sundays trying to get the network code working). They also...

The money rolls in faster once you can afford a Cobra, then it takes another jump once you can afford a T6 trader. I actually got to a Cobra just using an Eagle - bounty hunting (a Kill Warrant Scanner will pay for itself quickly), mission running and basic exploration, and kept moving about the...

Preview of what's coming in 1.1, with collaborative missions: Elite: Dangerous patch 1.1 preview: Community Goals revealed - PC Gamer One of the devs mentioned bug fixes to existing missions (where the results are being applied to the wrong factions) last week, so I imagine there'll be...

If you just nick a police ship's shields with your pulse laser, or a stray bullet from your multicannon, then you'll get some abuse from the NPC pilot but no more. If you zap them with something like a railgun, or hit them multiple times, or hit an unshielded police craft, then it will be...

It's fun to fly but steers like a skyscraper. However, it has a limited jump range (about 11 LY IIRC) so be careful where you buy one and make sure you have plenty of cash left over for the upgrades (like tens of millions).

Just screenshots from the forums, but nicely taken screenshots: The hi-res versions are at: Elite Dangerous - an album on Flickr (Shift+Alt+G removes the HUD, removing the cockpit was done with Photoshop and I assume a lot of effort)

Lost Beagle 2 spacecraft found on surface of Mars | Science | The Guardian

Frontier Development plans 1.1 ("new way to collaborate with players") in Feb, 1.2 (Multiplayer/ Wings) in March Development Update - 15th Jan *edit* from other dev posts, they plan on fixing the landing pad hologram vanish bug in 1.1, improve NPC AI, and allow a small tolerance for...

I think they've talked about wanting to add something like a "discovered by" tag to planets and systems. AFAIK there's no tracking in game yet of who first discovered anything, other than the threads on the forums. Naming after players can be a problem, just ask Jack Schmitt, or the infamous...

For those interested in how the factions and stations work to control a system, and how that can be changed by the players, the devs had a busy day posting on the forums. The summary is here: Mercs of Mikunn results after 3 weeks of effort - Also a request for documentation, in game and out -...

The lead developers seem to be pretty old school in their thinking. In some ways it's a refreshing change and in others very frustrating. The missions I would be careful about accepting are: - assassination of named targets (until you've got a combat ship you've spent several million on) -...

From deep inside the Empire I decided to head over to Alliance space to cash in some bounties. Briefly I got distracted by events around Soch: ...so I wandered a little off course and came across the system of Tiliala, or rather I didn't because you need a permit to get there. Well, this...

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Server Progress Update - 09/01/2015

If you're talking about the hunt-the-named-pirate missions that give 100k+ rewards, be aware those guys are in Anacondas. You'll need at least an upgraded Viper with shield cells to go up against one of those. Look in the Unidentified Signal Sources for clues. For "hunt X pirates / smugglers...

AFAIK once a faction goes hostile (red) you can expect combat ships to shoot you on sight. If they are only hostile in the island / instance but not in the system as a whole (i.e. you shot a buddy of theirs nearby but that's all you've done) you can just SC out and back to the Nav Beacon to...

I'm still at work but thinking about the patch note"When deciding if we should go hostile to a faction we just shot, consider whether the target has a local bounty rather than a bounty with their own faction", that sounds like it could be trouble if you hunt in Anarchy systems and a ship of the...

Patch 1.04 incoming. Bug fixes, including: Elite:DangerousUpdate 1.04 Change Log *edit* from past experience, the servers can take about an hour to settle down after a patch is applied, in which time you can expect to be randomly disconnected when jumping or dropping in or out of SC.

They are going to reveal what their plans are "in the coming weeks." Things we know: - Before Christmas they said that improvements to grouping were coming early this year. This is so you can jump from system to system with your friends. While it sounds like it should be easy, the oddball way...

I use gimballed burst lasers on the outer hardpoints, and fixed class 2 multicannons on the inner for when the shields are down (they really shred armour). This is a handy link to see what the Frontier developers are saying - from past experience they post quite a lot (Christmas to new year...