Pandora: First Contact, a science fiction turn-based strategy game developed by Slitherine that is reminiscent of Alpha Centauri, will arrive on Linux. Alpha Centauri is a very old game developed by Sid Meier and Firaxis Games, and released back in 1999. It's a 4X game (explore, expand, exploit, and extermi... (read more)
Astronomers are furiously discovering planets outside of our solar system. A recently found one, HD 85512b, is similar to our own Earth in that it resides within the Goldilock’s Zone, a range of altitudes above its parent star that could support life.
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I managed to install and get running this game in Fedora 14 using this install script: http://www.liflg.org/?catid=7&gameid=90
Then using this script to run the original Alpha Centauri:
Code:
cd INSTALL_DIR
LD_PRELOAD=./Loki_Compat/libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so:./Loki_Compat/libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 ./smac.dynamic
And this one for Alien Crossfire:
Code:
cd INSTALL_DIR
A team of U.S. astronomers has discovered a planet that is only a bit more massive than Earth, and they found it in the parent star's habitable zone, so it has the potential of harboring life. This is big news because the exoplanet is the first Earth-like planet found in the so-called Goldilocks Zone.
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: SpaceNASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth about 35 years ago. It is now traveling near the edge of our solar system. Before it reaches interstellar space, the spacecraft has discovered a new region of the solar system called the magnetic highway.
Written by: William Atkins | Published in: SpaceThe tiny moon P5 was discovered by astronomers in June/July 2012 using the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. This brings the total number of moons around the dwarf planet Pluto to five.
On February 2, 2011, NASA announced that its Kepler space telescope found its first Earth-size planet. In fact, it found five Earth-size planets all orbiting about one star, Kepler-11.
Astronomers are studying a planet called Corot-9b, which is about 1,500 light years from Earth, that they say will be studied in great detail because it is very similar to our planets in the Solar System. They think it might be reveal a "gold mine" of information.
Astronomers have directly tracked the orbit of an extrasolar planet (exoplanet) for the first time. And, the star about which the exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b, is orbiting is the youngest star known to parent a planet.
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