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Kudos on announcing a more reasonable timeframe. Hoping the 2022 announcement means 2nd half 2022. Quality > speed

Please video update. --rabid fans

The most recent published article by a team of scientists on metallic hydrogen I can find is March 2020: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0002104 Seems very clear from reading those conclusions that scientists and scientific body looking into metallic hydrogen is not in agreement here and the questions are very much open to the scientific community.. Not in agreement and open questions = Tis possible AND tis non-possible. Means there is more work to be done. No more, no less. Your arguments implying "never" , implying "We all agree", and "disproven" are are blatantly false and emotionally charged. Have no idea what would cause a few people to get emotional about such a theorized subject. The evidence is very clear though, the scientific community disagrees with your implications of "not possible" , "we all agree" and "disproven".

Thanks for the link, that document does appear to state metastable metallic hydrogen would have a life span at ambient conditions to be so short as to not be usable. The document does not claim metastable state of metallic hydrogen impossible. That link and document does not prove that the scientific community agrees that metallic hydrogen is a waste of time. Quite the opposite in fact, much work has been done since 1974 to continue pursuing the theory of a usable stage of metal hydrogen. 2017 article of work, concluding that metastable metallic hydrogen is possible but only under 200-300gPA. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04900.pdf 2017 article of work, concluding that metastable metallic hydrogen is possible but also not under ambient conditions. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316955213_On_the_possibility_of_metastable_metallic_hydrogen Think I said "cryogenics" makes liquid hydrogen metastable inaccurately, but that is only inaccurate when considering earth ambient temperatures and pressures. Liquid hydrogen would be unnaturally occurring for most of our solar system, except the farthest outer edges. At the farthest edges, where extreme cold exists , liquid hydrogen would be considered metastable at the local ambient temperature. In interstellar space, liquid hydrogen would be considered metastable. However, we need to discuss more practical terms of earth ambient and 99.9% of our solar system metastable. Liquid hydrogen is engineered usable on earth with limitations because of engineering solutions(cryogenics) that provide for the temperature requirements for liquid to stay the required cold level for a limited time span. So if liquid hydrogen is NOT metastable and humans engineered a method to use liquid hydrogen, humans could also engineer a method to use non-metastable metallic hydrogen. Probably thousands of years from now when new stronger materials are discovered, but seems to me to make metallic hydrogen usable means engineering a material and method to handle insanely huge pressures OR mixing metallic hydrogen with another substance to make the pressure requirements not so extreme. Exactly as with done with many wonderful engineered solutions that humans use, such as dynamite. Centuries and centuries went by humans thought nitroglycerin was too unstable (but powerful) to be used ... until Alfred Nobel mixed another substance in to stabilize the substance. So this thread is no longer about: If metallic hydrogen is possible (Not seeing much disagreement here, seems to be agreed by all in theory) If metallic hydrogen is metastable (Disagreement here, but seems pointless in light of liquid hydrogen also being metastable at ambient conditions) Hopefully, we are all aware that new substances and elements are discovered by humans over time. The periodic table of elements has not remained static in my life time. Hopefully, we are also aware that humans do discover and develop stronger materials over time by mixing elements together. . Materials that one day might even be stronger than diamonds. Materials so strong that maybe the material could withstand the pressures of Jupiter. Maybe not even a new material by itself, but a new material along with strong electo-magenetic force to meet the requirements of the physics at hand. This thread went on and on about how metallic hydrogen is un-metastable which by itself proves metallic hydrogen can't be used. But that argument about metallic hydrogen being not metastable at ambient conditions is moot point because humans have engineered solutions for many substances that are not metastable at ambient conditions. See liquid hydrogen for example. Need to dig a little bit harder to tell humans why humans can't develop a solution to a chemical, atomic or elemental problem. Human history is full of examples of overcoming these types of challenges. Hanging a whole argument on "not-metastable" is quite thin and doesn't hold up to human history. Lastly, glad this got moved out of KSP2 game forum and to non-game discussions. Didn't catch that this thread moved read this response. I only went back to this thread today cause of a link from another post in the game forums. Will not be participating anymore in this garbage unless this drivel comes back to the KSP game forums. Please stop making more threads about these false science methods in the game forums, leave this drivel here outside the main game forums. If humans went through the ages with this type of thinking of only trying what we already know, humans would still be living in caves. Thankfully, great humans in history did not think like what I am seeing from the negativity flood by a very few in this thread. Thankfully, KSP is about Kerbals and a parallel universe.

Far as I can tell, the Earth scientific community from the about 1700's has moved towards scientists proving and dis-proving each other theories in the scientific community. Scientists publish their opinions on agreement and disagreement. Einstein's theories did not automatically get accepted because "he said so", he had to prove his theories AND the world wide scientific community agreed and some disagreed. These folks published their work on proving and disproving the theories, they did not just "Say so". This proving and disproving of theories through published works of opinions is the accepted way of scientific progress globally for hundreds of years now. From what I can tell in the scientific community, scientists love to prove and/or disprove each other. Searching the internets, there does not appear to be wide spread scientific published opinions claiming that metastable metallic hydrogen is impossible or even unlikely. There is plenty of published and by a large margin published scientific documents about the theory of metastable metallic hydrogen being possible. The amount of work and published theories disproving metastable metallic hydrogen theories is zero far as I can tell. Liquid hydrogen in use by humans today is NOT metastable at ambient Earth atmosphere temperature and pressure, yet humans have engineered tools and materials to make liquid hydrogen metastable and usable at earth pressures and temperatures. I.E. --> cryogenics. Please correct if this assumption about liquid hydrogen being not metastable on earth ambient conditions is incorrect. Real world scientific published works matters. The opinion of a few here and a minority from what I can tell is not backed up by published work of scientists published and searchable on the internets. "Trust me, I know more than anyone" is the overwhelming attitude I am seeing from the few in this thread. Few = 2 posters. Think what I learned the most from this forum thread of fantasy physics drivel is to have high hopes the KSP2 dev's ignoring or rejecting this whole line of thinking in this thread about what is possible in a parallel universe of little green creatures where the laws of physics of Earth do not apply. Published scientific works of opinions on the theory of metastable metallic hydrogen being possible: hhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/316955213_On_the_possibility_of_metastable_metallic_hydrogen https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.04900.pdf http://www.jetp.ac.ru/cgi-bin/dn/e_034_06_1300.pdf Published scientific works of theory disproving these works? Corrected for you. Where are these documents "since the 1970's" ? You have links? Book titles maybe we can read from a library if not available on the internets?

Where is all the published documents from the real world wide scientific community where the scientists of the world are agreeing that metastable is impossible in theory? My searches for this topic from the true experts show a preponderance of theory work showing that metastable metallic hydrogen is possible. I am not a scientist, so I need to see evidence from real scientist documents published works in theory and/or actual testing that shows metastable is impossible. I don't give a rat's tail about your scientific opinion and more importantly... I hope the heck that KSP2 developers totally ignore this talk about "realistic" near future technologies because KSP2 is a game, not a hard core physics simulator. Hell, in KSP2 I want to see worm-holes, close to speed of light travel and even getting close to a black hole event horizon in KSP2 and intelligent alien life. Arguing about the possibility of a real world technology in a computer video game reminds me of my dog who chases his own tail and even bites his tail at times.

Docking at the space station without RCS thrusters. Never again!

The Mote In Gods Eye came to mind for some reason. Best sci-fi book ever

Who would have thought, an R rated Kerbal discussion.

Those explosions were awesome looking. Thanks for sharing KSP2

Ground physics are wonky. Things bounce around for no apparent reason. A brand new rover when initially spawned and not being powered can start hoping around on the perfect level of the runway. The wonkiness gets much worse on other planets, especially when trying to hook base parts together or refueling 2 ground vehicles. Usually comes down to springs being overloaded, but not always. I end up saving and reloading a lot during any ground based operations.

The fuel transfer bug https://bugs.kerbalspaceprogram.com/issues/25680 is annoying as mentioned. Wish this bug would get fixed sooner. What I found for a work that seems faster then the other work arounds mentioned is to go into game settings advanced tab, and do a turn off/turn on cycle of the "Parts transfer obeys crossfeed rules" setting. Need to save the setting between on/off.

Wow, cool idea. Going to get this.

The dV calculations don't seem correct with these parts, both for stock dV calculations and engineering redux mod.

Blinking is the greatest feature of KSP2

Browse the web here, hope am paying attention back to the game during end of burn.

Think discovered the answer/issue. First, you will get a Sentinel scan for comets contract. After completing this mission, then will get the comet intercept missions. However, If you have an active Sentinel scan contract mission for asteroids you will not get a comet Sentinel scan mission. The simple version of the above: Active Sentinel asteroid scan contract will prevent the comet scan contract from appearing.

Surely, inter-galactic mention was intended ! Intergalactic proof was released to earth on July 2, 1997

With KSP 1.10 release, the code for how Payload Fairings work got changed. This KSP 1.10 change breaks the 5.0 and 7.5 Payload Fairings in these mods. In particular, while in the VAB, no longer able to "Build Fairing" for those 2 parts.

The DLC is good, recommend get. Over 1000+ hours played with KSP+Breaking Ground and why I can't play without Breaking Ground: The robotic pieces. Deployed science kits. - The seismometer thingy is a blast, nothing like getting extra science for crashing your junk satellites/etc into the ground. For the robotic pieces, the hydraulics are my favorite by far. With hydraulics, you can build stronger and more travel landing gear for those really big landers. My standard rover delivery rocket can't live without those hydraulics. There is just so many neat things to do with robotic pieces..

Only Elon Musk knows ...

HI, Also observed this same issue with the reaction wheel having the correct functional stats, but physical dimensions of 1.25 Posting acknowledgement here even though you guys already noticed because you guys have not mentioned the Z-2K battery. Yes, battery has same 1.25 dimensions issue. Checked all the other parts, seemed fine...Just battery and reaction wheel.

Hi, Was not able to install the new version of ClickThroughBlocker, because Toolbar Controller is dependency and ToolbarController is only for 1.9 and below according to CKAN. Also, there appears to be 2 dependencies: ToolbarController and MiniAVC Since you said it works with the ClickThroughBlocker on KSP 1.10, I went back to CKAN and allowed install 1.9 mods which re-installed MiniAVC+ToolbarController and this new version of ClickThroughBlocker. Sure enough, works fine now. The bug is gone with that 1 Breaking Ground science part now. Thanks for checking on this. Seems like there is a bug with CKAN not showing some modules as 1.10 when they should be 1.10. If CKAN had allowed me to install this latest version "for 1.10" version, would not have encountered this odd bug.

The way Snacks! mod does life support is best IMO. Light weight, simple, the "milk runs" as mentioned above is not too bad because of the parts put in place to generate Snacks via ISRU and also recycling. I tried the other life support mod, but then discovered Snacks! is way better for "game" play if not as realistic. Think the most important thing about KSP2 life support is the ability to turn off that feature completely in a difficulty settings manner. Life support seems to much to ask of new players at the start when just getting the hang of orbital mechanics.

KSP is a game first and foremost, So yes bring on all the far out physics engines the devs want. ‘It’s fun to imagine. Also fun to “drive” a rocket ship as KSP does. .. not realistic but KSP and KSP2 are first and foremost about fun...not a hard core reality physics simulator Someone posted here once they are concern KSP2 might try to make the game too real, agree with this statement very much. The fun of a GAME makes all these serious discussions about only using a technology that is hypothetical possible in the real world is just hog wash. KSP2 devs, keep KSP a game first and foremost in all design decisions