Added 2 new A* pages:Lots of links happened today!
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I came across a super-cool Frazetta space drawing from 1954 and posted it on the forum; the ship even has A*-like shading on it! (Mmmaybe a bit better =p)
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I got a nice bunch of hits from a post on "The Official Elite Forums; "Elite" was a computer space trading game that came out 25+ years ago--I actually played it on C64 (and its sequel, "Frontier" on Amiga) but it was really my brother who played it all the way to "Elite" rank, which took forever, and in fact he and another friend of mine, who was just revisiting it this past week, were talking about it in my presence this weekend! And now a link to A* pops up on the Elite forum! :o Anyway the post is by "DraQ," calling A* a "Minimalistic, Frontier-like SF webcomic." Yay! Thanks for the link, DraQ!
(I always wanted Elite to get a sequel or add-on or something that would let you spend the piles of money you can't really do much with past a certain point on building up your own trading empire that would then do the dirty work across multiple worlds for you: hiring traders and bodyguards, buying space stations and planets, investing in industry to mine valuable resources for lucrative trade, etc; and maybe you could buy like a super space battlecruiser and fly around in that with all your bodyguards and go conquer rival planets and... Well that never happened. But Elite's author, David Braben, is still in the game biz, so hey, maybe he'll become an A* fan and listen to my silly game ideas now. :D >_>
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After reading how Frazetta (darn him) kicked off his own anatomy study by sitting down with an anatomy book someone gave him and copying it all out in one night, I thought hm it wouldn't hurt if I had some sort of anatomy reference diagrams--aside from all the actual photos of people I'm always pulling off Google image search to remind me what people look like, I mean--so about ten seconds of searching later and I found a couple potentially handy things.
First of all, the Henry Gray's (hm he died of smallpox at age 34, gosh!) famous "Gray's Anatomy" medical reference book of hundreds and hundreds of illustrations of dissected human body parts is online--the 1918 edition, anyway. You can even see where veins and arteries and lymph nodes go. :P
Gray's kind of breaks things down into really small chunks, though, so the second thing I found might be handier for quick reference, and that's these muscular reference "photos" (they look more like drawings or 3D renders to me but hey). Although they really ought to have a side view in there.
And now I probably won't look at these much because I'm lazy and it's more fun to look at pictures of actual people. =p
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Sixxth posted a link on the A* forum to the Twitter feed of NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock, which is where the space-faring Colonel posts really rather gorgeous photos of his space adventures, including his current gig on the International Space Station. Actual space photos by an actual astronaut are happening on Twitter, nifty!
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