https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dxMnahknnVjrckqWOyJhvuS8IA0...
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=space.celestia...
"We're funded by the goodness of a team of volunteers" is a great answer.
Audacity: Free until 2021 when they were bought and introduced telemetry.
Streamlabs: Open-source but tried to monetise and attack the OBS brand
Bitwarden forks: Various forks of open-source code that included monetisation
OpenOffice: Great desktop apps until bought by Oracle
CCleaner: "free" software that contained trojens.
HoverZoom: Chrome plugin sold by original dev, new update included spyware and ads.
As I said, I don't mind if the answer is "we are volunteers who love this", but I do ask that formal webpage presenting a product, that even has an FAQ page, explains it's funding model. Their github (https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia) is much better at this.
openAI: Microsoft has invested US$13 billion in OpenAI, and is entitled to 49% of OpenAI Global, LLC's profits, capped at an estimated 10x their investment.
Being offended so quickly, I'm tempted to ask if you're new to the internet ))
Yes, I know Real Solar System is a thing, but still :D
I don't know if this feeling is common or not but I do remember reading about someone here on on Reddit feeling a similar thing, I believe it to be similar to thalassophobia.
Upon hitting the button to warp to the coordinates, I was presented with an entirely flat, beige plane. Thinking I had screwed up the coordinates, I began zooming out. Since Orbiter renders to scale rather than the scaled down planets in KSP, I began to realize that there was no mistake, and just how small my ship was relative to Saturn. It literally gave me a shiver. It's so hard for us humans to really perceive how mindbendingly big things are in space in a direct sense.
I still occasionally have pseudo nightmares from the pov of using celestia to orbit 'scary' celestial objects.
I'm not exactly sure what the deal is because I never had any conscious reactions to using the program. But apparently it made some sort of impact.
vodou•4mo ago
[1] https://timeloop.fr/vts/