Comment Very cool! (Score 1) 1
Difficult but fun! Great rendition of keplerian orbits...
Submission + - TheSpaceGame.org: Design your route to Jupiter (thespacegame.org) 1
An anonymous reader writes: The Advanced Concepts Team of the European Space Agency(ESA) is celebrating the World Space Week (4-10 October 2010) with the release of 'The Space Game', an online game for interplanetary trajectory design.
The Space Game (http://www.thespacegame.org/) is an online crowdsourcing experiment where you are given as the role of a mission designer to seek for the best path to travel through space. The interactive game, coded in HTML5, challenges the players to devise fuel-efficient trajectories to various bodies of the Solar System via a user-friendly interface. The aim of the experiment is get people from all ages and backgrounds to come up with better strategies that can help improving the effectiveness of the current computer algorithms.
As part of the events organized world wide for the space week, the first problem of the game is to reach Jupiter with the lowest cost of propellant. The best scores by 10 October will be displayed on the Advanced Concepts Team website and the three best designs will also receive some ESA prizes.
The Space Game (http://www.thespacegame.org/) is an online crowdsourcing experiment where you are given as the role of a mission designer to seek for the best path to travel through space. The interactive game, coded in HTML5, challenges the players to devise fuel-efficient trajectories to various bodies of the Solar System via a user-friendly interface. The aim of the experiment is get people from all ages and backgrounds to come up with better strategies that can help improving the effectiveness of the current computer algorithms.
As part of the events organized world wide for the space week, the first problem of the game is to reach Jupiter with the lowest cost of propellant. The best scores by 10 October will be displayed on the Advanced Concepts Team website and the three best designs will also receive some ESA prizes.
Submission + - Perelman Turns Down Millennium Prize (columbia.edu)
bluescarni writes: Peter Woit reports on his blog that Grigoriy Perelman has turned down the one million dollar Millennium prize that the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) awarded him for the resolution of the Poincaré conjecture. The Interfax news agency quoted Perelman as saying he believed the prize was unfair and that he considered his contribution to solving the Poincaré conjecture no greater than that of Columbia University mathematician Richard Hamilton. “To put it short, the main reason is my disagreement with the organized mathematical community,” Perelman, told Interfax. “I don’t like their decisions, I consider them unjust.”
CMI president Jim Carlson said institute officials will meet this fall to decide what to do with the prize money.
CMI president Jim Carlson said institute officials will meet this fall to decide what to do with the prize money.
Submission + - How GNOME and KDE spend their money (linux-magazine.com)
bluescarni writes: A side-by-side analysis of GNOME's and KDE's quarterly reports sheds some light (and dispels some myths) on the nature and the quantity of the funds of the two projects.
