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Jesus christ guys I never suggested it should be stock. It might just be a neat mod like KMP, for people who are interested in economics. You can always just turn it off.

Confirmed. In addition to this, I would suggest making the axes of rotation for surface attached parts aligned to the surface they are being attached to, instead of the global axes.

Since some parts are pretty valuable for construction, such as the cubic octogonal strut, players will purchase two or three nodes in advance to acquire them early. What if the price of unlocking a part in the game was determined by a free market? Let a server release one of each part per n seconds, and hold a brief online auction to determine which connected player gets to unlock that part in their game. They must bid science they earned in-game, and pay the bid if they win. The auction rate is adapted to meet average demand for parts in general.

If you've ever rotated parts in the VAB, you know that guessing which key you need to press on the first try is basically impossible. For some reason the mapping is totally out of whack with say, kerbal eva controls. So, I challenge you: pick a direction, hold shift, and try to rotate the part in that direction on the first try. If you fail, answer NO on the poll, if you succeed, answer YES. Hypothesis: Rotation controls in the vab are so counter-intuitive, that they cause player's guesses to be WORSE than random. Conditions for confirmation: NO accounts for greather than 5/6th of responses.

In the next 20 years we are likely to discover hundred or thousands more earth sized planets in habitable zones, and we will be able to determine their atmospheric composition as well with the JWST. I think we should start blasting a greeting and request for correspondence to every single one of them at full power around the clock.

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I think you absolutely should install FAR! It makes KSP a lot more realistic, and tends to make ascent paths simpler. In addition, it has a lot of awesome readouts that you will probably find useful. The optimal ascent is the one which reaches the target orbit with the least propellant, so another big factor in what your answer comes to is whether or not you install a mod that fixes KSP's totally unrealistic fuel flow rate based on ISP. in a real rocket, I believe, fuel flow rate is constant but thrust changes. The reason anything is changing at all is that the air pressure is dropping and so the rocket is getting more efficient as it goes up. I don't know what the current mod for that is though.

I've just started reading this awesome book. It's about a guy who get's stranded on mars and has to deal with it. It's hard sci-fi. I was wondering if any other kerbonauts are reading it or have read it, or would like to read it and we could discuss it here.

I'd say when you design a complex interplanetary mission featuring all the aspects of the game (and all the mods you have installed) and it goes according to plan on the first try without a single problem.

I think we should run experiments that attempt to grow plants on the moon under pressurized domes with water brought from earth.

I'f we're going to include a small solar panel for auxiliary electronics, where will we put it? if it's on top of the balloon, won't the weight collapse it? and if it's on the basket, won't it be shadowed by the balloon? Maybe we need to stick it out on a pole.

Wouldn't antimatter also annihilate with virtual pairs and emit something like hawking radiation?

That would suggest that the measurable properties of the universe had never been computed until we bothered to look. That would mean that our own evolution had not happened until we attempted to measure say, the mass of the earth, and its magnetic field strength, and other variables life is sensitive to. If our own history had never been computed, how did we come to exist to do the experiments that triggered the computations? Do you think it is possible that something like this is happening even if the simulation is not created for our sake?

YES, Thank you! I'm always looking for more of this. If you want to learn some things about advanced black holes and quantum mechanics, check out Leonard Susskind's lectures.

Perhaps there are other ways of simulating the physics of our universe on a digital computer. If it were somehow possible that the laws of our universe could be simulated exactly, and not just approximated, then if it were being simulated on a computer we would never know. Furthermore, that computer could be anything from a Game Boy to a Matrioshka brain, because the speed of the simulation in the host computer's universe is not related to any information in our own universe. However, with quantum mechanics, it would seem that our universe cannot be exactly simulated.

I just watched this lecture and found out that a small dust cloud has brushed past the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Pretty soon, some of it will begin to fall into the black hole and we may get to see what that looks like up close

I try to construct my launch stages so that they have just enough fuel to put something on a nearly orbital trajectory, and then the payload's own thruster can finish it off.

I'll be trying to make an asteroid snowman on Tylo.

Perhaps exponential technological development is not the trajectory we are on. I believe we are seeing the first half of an S-curve in which we plateau at a level dependent on our inherent abilities, until we are displaced by a different species which plateaus at a different level. That succession of species may not be necessarily lead towards greater technology. I suspect that another alien race is not likely to be any more than a few thousand years "more advanced" that we are because a technological revolution probably does not last much longer than that before plateauing. I do concede of course that we may encounter planets that have had life for billions of years longer or shorter than Earth, but I suspect that any intelligent systems we encounter there will have "power levels" drawn from a fairly narrow normal distribution, and that we are no exception.

This can be partially mitigated with baffles and vanes to draw the fuel towards one end by capillary action. For example

Let's forget the idea of going 0.1c and just send a bunch of super light probes at nearby stars at speeds of merely 30 to 50 km/s using traditional chemical rockets. Our descendants in 30 thousand years will thank us, and it won't even be that expensive.

I really like all these textures!

In addition to all the modifications you mentioned Teiwaz, Conic patch mode = 0 conic patch draw limit = 8 I reduce the burn time of the sepatrons to 1 second. When I have KW installed I always edit the 2m service module engine to have a normal blue flame instead of that large RCS jet white flame.

Honestly I don't see why there would be any point in physically fighting with a civilization that we cannot actually reach. We can only talk to them. Nor would there be any reason to keep secrets from them. I imaging the two societies would communicate constantly and that this would cause them to converge to similar cultures and levels of technology. Even if they later develop the power physically cross the gap between them, they will have been communicating for hundreds of years and may not have any interest in fighting at that point.

I've played KSP for a few years, but I don't think I've ever completed an entire interplanetary mission without making some small mistake, but I think I'm very close. I also like to play Go. I have not yet played a whole game without making some kind of mistake, but it feels like I'm very close. In life, I make a lot of mistakes too, but I think any day now I will go to sleep and think did I make a single mistake today? and the answer will be no. I wonder if I am actually gaining aptitude and dicipline, or whether it is my perception of failure and success that changes.