Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator

Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by bee_rider on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:03PM (#34988313)

Oh yeah — I got to tour a bridge simulator while interviewing at some defense contractor (didn’t get hired, though, maybe they could tell I’d want to load a spaceship bridge simulator up on the thing).

It is kind of funny, I actually got a “seasick” feeling on it. The simulated “deck” didn’t move, but the image through the “windows” did, I think having grown up near the coast I’d been on enough boats that my brain expected the floor to start moving to keep up with the horizon.

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Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by LoganDark on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:52PM (#34988866)

I guess I'm sort of lucky that it's impossible for me to get seasick. Though I don't think it'll ever be useful in a situation like that.

p.s. first time I've seen a real em-dash in someone else's HN comment, very nice :3

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Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by bee_rider on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @11:14PM (#34991919)

I must admit I didn’t do anything clever there.

I’ve limited social media like hackernews to just my iPhone (at least picking up the phone is a conscious decision to take a break, having the social media in my browser is a big distraction). The phone just translates hyphen hyphen to em-dash.

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Re:Thorium – A Starship Bridge Simulator by Aeolun on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @05:51PM (#34989449)

> The simulated “deck” didn’t move

I have absolutely no experience with ships beyond small sailboats, but watching the video gave me a very strong ‘that’s not a ship’ feeling, and it all comes down to it being a rock solid environment.

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