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yeah, it was just meant to illustrate the basic mechanism, but it can be used, without much hightech, to have the needed materials to make better ones. The hydrogen and oxygen is just one example of a wider range of possible uses, be it making bases or acids or purifying metals and other things. I thought of the chinese too, i wonder if maybe silk and some resin might be some medieval Kevlar-ish material to build things with.?

just a very wild guess here, but since it's a laptop there might be some powersaving thing throttling down because running a singlecore process and leave the other cpu cores 'unemployed' makes the laptop think that he uses just an average of 20% of his power and goes to powersave.

Chemistry to get materials is easier than it seems to be at first glance. This example illustrates the basic process, which works for a wide range of other endproducts as well. You'd be surprised what can be made at home. Considering you have a whole empire working for the project it shouldn't be a big problem to get sufficient quantities of materials. Speaking of ancient empires ... i bet there'll be enough 'volunteers' to take a ride Steel has less than ~2% carbon and is known since ~1000BC or so, i'm pretty sure the producers knew what they were doing. A lot of things which seem to require some hightech at first glance are things found in nature, asbestos for example.

whenever i get a new setup of mods for a new install, i get 'exception detector' (mod) and fiddle around with the mods until i get it started without any exception. Alternatively you could watch the alt-f2 console and try to notice the red errors. Since i follow that procedure i have pretty stable installs. Another thing, where i can't really tell what exactly causes it, i use opengl and texture replacer and noticed taskmanager barely ever hits 2gig for ksp even after hours of playing.

Examining the computer is a good advice, there migth be more processes running than necessary and chew up computer resources. My computer is an i3 and i have like 60 mods or so and don't have issues with constant crashes

the RAPIERs will produce more thrust somewhere past mach 1 (~340m/s). To use the benefits of an airfed engine and wings you should take up as much speed from the engines as long they've air. Depending on how it flies and how much thrust it has it will differ, but when i go for that, i pick up enough speed to have the rapiers giving more thrust and at 10km or so i go into a 10-20° pitch and let it run until it has most likely a speed above 1100m/s and is above 22km or so before i switch to rocket mode, mileage may vary depending on craft. p.s.: will most likely be not the best or economic method but works for me

The roman aqueducts were up to 100km or so long, with a constant minimal slope to keep the water flowing which somewhat require to be pretty accurate with measuring things. As really basic rocket fuel some sugar based one should be doable with pretty simple methods.

A lot of things were forgotten and had to be invented a second time. When you think about metallurgy for example, copper, bronze, iron were in use for thousands of years, glass also thousands of years in use, gunpowder (ancient china for fireworks and such) or japanese steel for the katanas. With some copper, iron, wood and a nearby river you'd have electricity pretty quickly. Electrolytic reactions to get some pure chemicals. So the starting tools shouldn't be impossible to get , to magnify that to some small scale industrial complex capable of launching a rocket to orbit will take some serious effort though. Best approach might be having some educational thing going. Thousands of brains thinking about problems will solve things faster than just one.

when the 0.76 cents number comes from the linked article your comparison is wrong. It says "The average fuel cost at a nuclear power plant in 2014 was 0.76 cents / kWh.", wind (fuel) comes a bit cheaper than that.

It's not really additional parts you unlock, the case is always the same, just the number of functions increase while you climb up the tech tree.

1mg DNA = 1 billion CD's

yes, and that might reveal why coal isn't an alternative. Uranium has to be enriched to be able to be used as fuel in the power plants, once the raw material falls below a certain level you'll have to invest more energy to bring the concentration up to useable levels. There will probably still be enough raw material to build all the panels and windmills when mankind has long vanished since it isn't really used up like fuel gets used, e.g. sand contains silicon and we have lots of it on this planet.

In my opinion, digging in waste (nuclear or not, doesn't matter) is the same as closing your eyes and say "I can't see it anymore, it's gone". Looking away won't solve things. As others mentioned before, if Chernobyl never happened some other plant would have taken that place (to be honest, there were enough accidents before and after as well as other fountains of constant contamination). The decrease of nuclear power plants will happen anyway, when the ore concentration falls under a certain level it will not have a positive power output anymore due to the effort that has to be taken for refining the ore into useable levels and all the other things that are involved into higher risk industries.

But wouldn't it be the same distances for me and my twin, since in my spacetime i wouldn't notice the dip, for me it'll still be a straight line. Is it a little bit like watching the whole race from a different frame of reference than for me and my twin ? Our both racetracks are drawn on two pieces of rubber (spacetime) which has marks every cm, we both need the same time to travel from mark to mark, now my spacetime gets a bit squeezed and stretched but i still travel the whole distance in the same time as my twin so we should arrive at the same time unless i watch the whole scenery from 'outside'. When you take a rubberband and stretch it quickly, it'll make a sound. Is it a bit like that what pushes one of us out of sync and can be detected ? Or is it more the difference between the 2 frames of reference watched from a third one ? ( i probably really don't get it right anyway :/ thanks for the effort though)

the methods of measuring i think i understood, but i really fail to understand that ... assuming i'm a photon (let me be the horizontal one) , i'll need a fixed time (1year) to travel a fixed distance (1 ly), the spacetime i'm in get squeezed but for me the distance and speed will still be the same, i'll reach the 1ly distance after a year. So will the vertical ones. Do i (the photon) have a slightly different colour when i exit the distortion ? Or do i actually really need more time to cross that 1ly than 1year ? The 'photons from outside' would explain it, but i don't get it totally, wouldn't that somehow say that c is different for the photons outside than the ones inside ? Sorry for spam, but i really want to understand it better ------- edit: the gravitational lenses might lead me to the path of wisdom but i think i'll have to digest it a bit longer

yes, i get that, but 1.000001 mm is only 1.000001 mm if you look from 'outside', being within the stretched space it will be 1mm. Maybe my misconception is this 'inside' 'outside' thing.

But what i can't understand (my brain lacks a dimension or two probably ) all that stretchin and squeezing still leaves 1mm being 1mm, no matter how hard i squeeze it. So, as far i understand, the time to travel for a laserbeam at 1c through 1ly will take 1year, no matter in which angle the distortion crosses the beam, assuming this, it doesn't matter how many beams are crossing at the mirror, they all needed 1 year to travel 1 lightyear. I'm not questioning the results, i just try to get it into my brain how the distortion doesn't affect the measuring of it or how it's compensated.

so there's a difference how waves and particles are affected by distortion ?

yes, when you look from outside it makes perfect sense, but 1mm will be 1mm in distorted spacetime too which sounds to me as there will be no forces applied, so it will only make sense to me when, as p1t1o said, the em radiation isn't affected by the distortion.

I'm not sure if i understood it right, but what puzzles me: How can you measure distortion of spacetime when you do the measurement from 'inside' that distorted spacetime ? How do you compensate for the distortion ?

Wanted to clean up the base . took a couple of minutes to stop ragdolling and get back to base. I'm not qualified for clean up jobs IRL either

did you check your computer if something is eating away the resources ? Maybe avira going mad in the background or something, i have just a i3 and can have a steady green time with medium sized crafts

How does FTL information transport break causality ? It's not that it travels back in time or so, since it still takes time from sender to receiver so i can't understand why it should break causality.

It's the Karibou rover from Roverdude (USI&Co.)

Scouted Minmus for a good spot to build a colony