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  1. I like rocket companies that can get it up on the first try.
  2. I'm guessing the emoji parser might be having a problem with the ":/" emoji and one or some of the other characters in the URL. I noticed the ":1437623226_rocket_1f680(3):" emoji has some parentheses in it. I'm shocked the parser can deal with those. I've used a bunch of software that fails in creative ways when dealing with special characters. Given that it's the last emoji added, perhaps the parser is seeing the emoji list as unterminated. If that line of inquiry is plausible, I'd test it by adding another emoji to the list and seeing if the forum software can actually find it.
  3. I was trying to link a video from youtube, and when I embed it and hit submit, the editor throws this error: I tried just the text of the video id in the test thread, and it works fine. URL of video in question with a space added, and the link removed. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=6R8hdRiEWkY Another random video from the same channel, just to see if it works: Huh, that worked. I'll try the original video again: same error ...yep, it's that specific URL. Trying the short URL also throws an error, unless I remove the embed. https://youtu.be/6R8hdRiEWkY
  4. Video URL throwing embed errors I think. Trying this with JUST the last part. 6R8hdRiEWkY This is the error when I do the full URL
  5. Octopus Lady covers deep sea hydrothermal vents, including a little tangent on exobiology. I love her work, and this one is even better than her average. To describe her as "perky" would be a gross understatement, but you will never have so much information shotgunned into your poor little brain in such a short period of time. https://youtu.be/6R8hdRiEWkY Weird, the regular video embed isn't working, no matter which style of link.
  6. If I had to go back to the root causes? Well, let me relay that in as politically neutral and factual a manner as I can muster: Some very ugly events happened in 2001, and the U.S. got busy invading at least one country that had absolutely nothing to do with it. Several trillion dollars and approximately a million innocent lives were wasted as a result. Then some comically stupid and greedy bankers caused a recession that just barely avoided turning into a second Great Depression, burning up even more trillions of dollars. Now imagine that was written with 50% of the words not making it past the forum filter and my NSA/FBI file becoming actionable.
  7. If Benjamin Franklin time-traveled to the present day, he'd be wrecking fools on Twitter within two weeks. (Also, all his purchases would be made with hundred-dollar bills.)
  8. I thought everyone just turned the percent thrust slider down on the engines...
  9. I want to see a benefit to all science instruments having persistence. Drop a temperature probe on a planet, open up its properties and hit timewarp. You see a graph with a diurnal sine wave. Let that run for a day, and you get some science points. Let it run (and automatically transmit back in the background) for a local year, and you get a lot more. (The calc in KSP1 is deterministic, so this is extremely low overhead.) Determining position on other planets is hard, so that data also has a quality rating. Over time, your relay satellite / ScanSAT bird can refine the position of your probe, perhaps using radio-ranging. Over time, and depending on the strength of the antennas, the quality metric goes up, acting as a multiplier to the basic science points you're getting from that instrument. (The calcs for this can be simplified a lot, and they depend on existing signal strength calculations, so it's also low overhead.) Zoom out to map view and hit a theoretical Thermal View button, and it displays the running average temperature from that probe as a red radius around that probe. Drop probes all over the planet and watch all this data shift and blend together as you timewarp. (Some observant players will notice that it's latitude-dependent, and they may learn something.) If you've got enough coverage, and you've run it long enough, the planet's info panel will show you the minimum and maximum temperatures for that planet.
  10. You're absolutely right, and I recognized that as a flaw in my argument. Perhaps a better example would be Star Trek making up the "particle of the week", such as the oft-used tachyons: https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/particles4.htm#t It's considered somewhat lazy writing / technobabble, but having magical particles is perfectly fine as long as that matches your story tonally or thematically. Or you just have more important things to get to, and don't want to belabor the mechanics of them. The issue is that your readers might spot the OBVIOUS LITERARY DEVICE , and it could break their immersion. So, you might want to bury the magic in something more subtle. What if it's just a heretofore unknown attribute of particles and quantum mechanics, and doesn't require anything new? I was doing a little reading, because I hate walking into a conversation unarmed, and found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann–Wigner_interpretation It contains this fun bit of text: So which of the multiple observers governs which way it collapses? The most powerful psychic, of course. Who most strongly wants Schrodinger's Cat alive or dead? If I remember the plot of The Stars My Destination correctly, the main character is able to unlock his teleporting ability by being desperately angry and afraid. As it happens, he's the most angry and afraid person in the solar system, so he's really good at it. Just giving you food for thought. Have fun. See also: Moving Mars, or Blood Music by Greg Bear
  11. I'll just point out that George Lucas ruined the entirety of Star Wars by introducing Midi-Chlorians as a concept. I remember watching Episode 1 in the theater and thinking, "I'm gonna slap the beard off this man." If you're going to explore the Anthropic Principle, there may be more elegant ways to go about it.
  12. Works for me. Temporary error, probably. Joe's gonna die if he can't post in S&S.
  13. Great news! Congratulations Anth, you're a credit to the community. There's another highly-technical game I play that just released a DLC and major update that busted the whole game down to the fundamentals. Dev communications about it have been abysmal. They even went so far as to publish a dev note whining about the negative Steam review-bombing from people with thousands of hours in the game. I'll say one thing for Intercept: You guys do a fantastic job understanding and engaging with the community, and hiring Anth is a clear sign of that.
  14. I'm guessing we don't have enough information yet to compare to ULA's canceled ACES project? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Cryogenic_Evolved_Stage https://www.ulalaunch.com/docs/default-source/exploration/evolving-to-a-depot-based-space-transportation-architecture.pdf
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