kerbiloid

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And as experienced trader, he didn't see any difference between the China/Nippon goods and what he is getting on Hispanola. The famous Haitian pepper... Oh, wait... The famous Virginian pepper. That's why they were calling it India.

Even if he was fooled first time, he knew exactly what distance does it take at the end of his life. And it was many times shorter that any Earth circumference.

By almost two orders of magnitude. Anyway, he did it four times.

Columbus could believe that he is going to cross a 30 000 or a 60 000 km wide ocean, but after he had arrived, he knew exactly, what distance separates him from the Europe. And especially, several crossings later. So, he could be telling everybody that he visited China, but he definitely was aware that it is "another China". It makes even more impossible for Columbus to believe in a 60 000 km wide China.

Floor 4771: a sign with the stroken out caption "Floor 4770"

Granted. Then one Kerbal on Tylo will be wishing to respawn on the Earth.

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Breaking the rules is exactly what they call cheating.

They should use a vacuum cleaner. It's a lot of vacuum around. Used astronaut diapers. This should also save the mass of the lunar ship by absence of toilet. *** Btw, has anyone suggested a broom? Of course, we know that there are no dust clouds in vacuum. A long broom with an alpenstock at the opposite end. An a PP-duster for fine cleaning. By nuking it first, they can have a flat lake of glass. *** Upd. Latex suits! Expendable layer of liquid latex spray. Spray it on the suit before EVA to look stylish on the Moon, scratch it off after getting inside. All dust will be in a trashcan.

Mi-28 has a radio compartment, also purposed for the evacuation of 2 (3 if tamp) people, or bail out a squad of hobbitroopers.

I believe that a person who crossed the ocean, was enough experienced in star navigation and thus aware of the Earth radius to understand that no China can be 30 000 km across. Exactly like Drake and others unlikely could believe in West India and East India occupying similar territory together. It's another question that they called every non-Bibleic land "China" or "India", and were keeping in secret everything possible to help their competitors with finding the lands they had found. Nobody was declaring "All! Look, we have found Australia! But we won't tell you where it is!" All of them got used to keep the tongue behind the teeth. So, like in the USSR there were cities like Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk-70, Arzamas and Arzamas-16, Moscow and Moscow-400 and so on, separated with hundreds kilometers, read their "China" as "China-92", and "India" as "India-12" and "India-14", or "a china", "an india".

Who wants to be a banlionaire?

Less than a half of manufactured V-2 was reaching London, but they were not effective not for this reason, but for poor navigation equipment and attitude controls. So, the prisoners' labour can into rocket science. It was not positive, it was considered appropriate. About a half survived. Originally they had captured more than were able to hold, but soon moved them into the labour camps. Only because V-2 was not enough accurate to aim the preferred targets. London was looking too desert those days.