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So, yeah. Apparently, one of our spy satellites has lost power and may hit earth. We all very well may die!

But I get ahead of myself. Officials say that they had no control over the malfunctioning satellite and that people may be in danger of falling debris, of which they have no idea as to where it might land.

“Appropriate government agencies are monitoring the situation,” Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a statement. “Numerous satellites over the years have come out of orbit and fallen harmlessly. We are looking at potential options to mitigate any possible damage this satellite may cause.”

Satellite specialists believe that it is a Lockheed Martin experimental satellite and that technicians lost control over it as soon as it entered orbit.

Officials say that satellites fall from space all the time and that we may not be in danger.  The fact that the satellite was pumped full of rocket fuel and that it barely used any up has caused some concern, due to rocket fuel’s reputation for being, you know, flammable.

So yeah, in the coming months, be wary of giant fireballs falling from the sky. Wear armored hats and fireproof earmuffs and you should be fine.

7. Alice allows you to place objects in a 3D environment and manipulate them as you please. This includes moving them, making them perform actions, and associating sounds with them.

8.  A computer program is something that tells a computer how to process data.

9.  An elegant computer program should be flawless in nature. It should run smoothly, do everything you want it to do and then some, it should look nice and produce a pleasant emotional response from the user, and it should have a very graceful flow to it.

10.  A 3D model is similar to a blueprint in that it gives you an idea as to the final output, it is much more malleable then the finished product, and it allow for easier replication.

11. You can have more than one object of the same class in the world because this is the way the engine works and duplicate objects are simply registered under ddifferent names.

12. An object is said to have six degrees of freedom in Alice because objects can only move in six ways, up, down, left, right, front, and back.

13.  The center of an object is not always at the center of mass, this is determinedby the artist who created the object.

14.  One object’s distance from another is measured from it’s center.

15. Animations are created by use of multiple frames. An object is moved in a certain way and this is one frame. Continued frames create a sequence of frames, which in the end produces a full animation.

16. An Alice billboard is considered 2D because it only moves in 2 dimensions.

(By the way, Alice 3 is being written by EA and apparently Sims 2 models will be available for use.)