

Gary: And that's where the trouble begins. You are "invited" to board the ship and "asked" to help figure out why the ship is malfunctioning. Randy: The game starts out as you, the player, are at home and a huge spacecraft, the Starship Titanic, crashes into your house. Of course, he would probably say that Monty Python has a Douglas Adamsesque sense of humor. Adams creating an adventure game, because we are huge fans of his Monty Pythonesque sense of humor. Gary: We were really excited about the prospect of Mr. Starship Titanic is a game developed by Douglas Adams, author of such hilarious books as "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and ? Gary: Man, aren't getting tired of this? We should talk about the game. Randy: Well, I could kick it to you and you could kick it back. Gary: Hey! That's my box! I didn't say you could kick it! Randy: Can I see the box for Starship Titanic? Gary: Exactly! Especially since we love adventure games and even developed our own adventure game, I was really counting on Starship Titanic to show the naysayers that adventure games are here to stay.Īlright, buddy, let's go to the game room and play for awhile. After all, since the last good adventure game was Riven, everyone has proclaimed adventure games a thing of the past. That game is supposed to revitalize the adventure game genre. Let's go play it for awhile, and I am sure that you will rethink your position. Gary: Yeah, I know and I played it last night.

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And besides, Starship Titanic is out for the Mac now.
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Gary: Well, first he claims to love Macintosh, and his game Starship Titanic came out for the PC first. I mean, what are the odds that the projector would break on opening night? After we stood online for two hours in the rain?īut that's not why I am kicking this box around. Randy: Hey, Gary, why are you kicking that box around the cave? Are you still mad about that Star Wars debacle? Looking forward to all that SpaceX learns, to the next flight test-and beyond.The Mac Observer: The Name Of The Game-Does Starship Titanic Sink or Swim? , saying “Every great achievement throughout history has demanded some level of calculated risk, because with great risk comes great reward. ‘NASA administrator Bill Nelson congratulated the Starship’s team in a tweet How do you think any scientific and/or technological advancement happens? With failures, they’re what we learn from. How do you think The Gemini program, Apollo Soace program, The Space Shuttle program, The international space station program started? Test flights, testing. The SpaceX flight has nothing to do with submarine “tourism”, it isn’t carrying people and won’t before it is proven safe all around for human flight.

It is going to be the worlds most powerful rocket and be able to be rapidly reused in space flight once it’s “safe”, it is an amazing feat. It didn’t explode, it was made to self destruct. “Many people in the community were very concerned about the sub, and a number of the top players in the in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that needed to be certified.Įlons most recent test rocket wasn’t expected to make it past the launch pad. We have improved and the certification protocols that all other deep submergence vehicles - except this one - that carry passengers… is the gold standard,” Cameron told ABC News. “Deep submergence diving is a mature art. Titanic director James Cameron has weighed in on the tragedy that befell the Titan submersible, which was confirmed on Thursday to have imploded near the sunken steamliner’s wreckage, killing all five passengers on board.Ĭameron, who has himself made 33 dives to the underwater site and claims to have spent “more time on the ship than ,” noted the stunning parallels between the Titan and Titanic, while also touting the importance of safety regulations.
