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Hypercosmic

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  1. You're given a single molecule of water. Can I have a bottle of rocket fuel?
  2. If telescopes, I'll probably be able to open a telescope shop. If it gives me patches, maybe I could still sell them to astronomy lovers. If I get the flags or the logos, then, well, I don't know.
  3. 2D: nothing much, but the game's gravity now obeys the 2D version of the formula.
  4. You got a capsule plus heat shield with ten parachutes on it. 'Lander', not including 'launcher'. A bottle of xenon, please.
  5. 8/10 Nice, soft lighting. The caterpillar is slightly off center. Is not a major problem though.
  6. Do not throw the magic boulder at Jool. It will create a singularity that heats that planet up unpredictably and causing catastrophes on its moons.
  7. Floor 5043: As you step into this mostly empty room, you notice a single, warm, comfy bed at one corner of the room, and working desk gently emitting a calm, nostalgic atmosphere next to it. On the desk is a piece of paper that reads: Dear [your name], who I do not know. It must have been a long and exhausting trip up here. I hope you're still fine and happy. Well, I don't know if you still have somebody waiting for you at the surface, but if it's your wish to go up further, then feel free to continue your adventure. I've prepared some gifts for you in this humble room, as you may have already noticed. I'm sorry that I cannot help you any more than this, but please, take these. I wish you safe travel, There are some supplies in the room, including some water, food, and medical kits. You decided to take them, then take a short rest on the bed, although the word 'short' may or may not really mean anything at this point, as you feel that the time is getting more and more erratic as you climb up this seemingly endless spire. When you wake up again, you check around the room for the last time. There is a parachute which you can use to return to the surface safely, so you decided to take it even though you do not have any plan to return there. A glance at the letter, you're surprised that its contents have changed. This time it wrote: Thank you for helping us. Stepping out of the room, a transparent cube appeared in front of you. You took it and put it in your backpack. You've obtained a piece of the memories of the Planet. You smiled softly, before continuing your advance to the next floor.
  8. Here's your 'The Dog and Boosters' concert ticket. It's for its concert in 2018. I'd like to have Earth, please.
  9. Banned because your location is ' ', AKA nowhere, therefore you don't exist, meaning that this account is just a bot.
  10. 7/10. The art style dissonance is just too strong in this one.
  11. I don't have strong opinions on this one, but OPM? Oh please, just no. I'd love to see more original, loosely-based-on-reality planets, not literal Solar System-ripoffs down to their names with the slightest bit of tweaking to make them fit the Kerbal system. Maybe reimplementing those old planet concepts by NovaSilisko would be a great idea, including a crystal moon around Eve, a trojan dwarf planet in Kerbin orbit, and GP2 with original concept worlds as their moons. Kerbal Origins mod offers that. This, or adding another planet then focusing on what to do on the existing planets.
  12. A nuclear (fission or fusion) reactor module plus red hot radiators, attached to a long truss and a proper shielding, because you need lots of energy to run all those stuff, and solar isn't going to cut it I'm sure. If (in case of fission) you're concerned with some incompetent Kerbals deorbiting the station and contaminating Kerbin atmosphere with radioactive dust, a power receiver dish module receiving beamed energy from solar thermal power collectors is fine.
  13. I'd say 'no' and give out the points, but ProtoJeb already did that. Personally, I think if you want an Earth-like-ish habitable extrasolar planet, I'd say Kepler-62f, Kepler-186f, and Kepler-442b (this one could even be a 'superhabitable planet'). Those have their own potential showstoppers, but at least they're not at risk of having their atmosphere fried or going runaway greenhouse like most other so-called 'potentially habitable worlds'. Wouldn't bet too much on vacuum-dwelling, radiation-resistant lifeforms, or supercritical carbon dioxide biochemistry.
  14. Note from my own lazy research: Barnard's Star is a BY Draconis variable star, which means its brightness mainly varies due to sunspots. We've also found that it emits intense flares too: From Wikipedia: In 1998, astronomers observed an intense stellar flare, showing that Barnard's Star is a flare star. (http://www.astronomy.com/news/2005/11/a-flare-for-barnards-star)
  15. The Core ---> The CoE: people dealing with the consequence of the engineers forgetting to account coefficient of expansion into roadbuilding, and said engineers dealing with the consequence of the people not forget to report the sloppy work.
  16. ...by the way, according to Drew ex Machina https://www.drewexmachina.com/2018/11/16/our-new-neighbor-orbiting-barnards-star-details-historical-background/, there is a mention of the second planet in 5 years orbit, and other signals.
  17. Barnard b, a cold super-Earth? Now that's something different AND interesting.
  18. is it possible to make a separate coolant loop that takes the heat from the core away to the radiator when there's no propellant flowing through? I imagine that the coolant loop, other than permitting quicker engine shutdown, could also be used to heat the propellant itself removing the need for the propellant to touch the reactor, with some, probably significant loss in exhaust velocity as a trade-off.
  19. Iterstellar A story about scientists at ITER trying to come up with ways to power the missions to the stars with fusion reactors.
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