Hyperspace Industries

Yeah, around here hunting is big too, my dad's colleagues from the engineering company went out to the grasslands a while back and came back with meat for everyone in the office. We got a juicy square meter of meat, everything from Koedoe to Springbok to Wildebees (buffalo) in there. Salami, sausage, biltong, droëwors, steak, maalvleis (mincemeat), ribs and everything. Still probably have some left in the freezer. Uh oh, now I'm hungry.

Someone probably posted this, but:

We drove to the sea and are staying at the house of a (absurdly rich) pair of friends of my parents for the long weekends, today, while my parents were looking at the whales in the bay, after I made lunch on the braai (South African barbecue), I started watching the ships. Skip here for if you want the interesting bit : I watched slightly, but later I got the binoculars, and the fun began. I watched and tried to see as much as I could about the ships, later I got to the internet and found this: Ship 1: the MSC Aido, going between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, and passing by us on the way, container ship, giant one. One of MSC's 570 strong fleet. Ship 2: the Hellas Aphrodite (boy, that's one cool name), also departing from PE and coming here to, according to my dad's guesses on what she (yes, I know she's a ship, but she's too cool to be referred to as a mere object) is and has been doing, bringing diesel for 'backup' generators. She's a tanker, much smaller, built in 2016, flying under the flag of Malta, and she's a beauty. Got a picture through the binoculars, unfortunately I can't send pictures to imgur on my phone, should probably send it in a while. We're going back home in a few days, no ships there, though we do live under the landing course for the airport (and definitely the yearly air-racecource).

I use nearly entirely metric in non-school calculations, with one minor change, I scrapped newton and replaced it with kilogram force. It’s soooo much better! Need to lift 1 ton at two g?: 1x2 = 2ton x1000 = 2000kg Displacing 100 cubic meters of air, weigh one kg?: 100x1.4 = 140-1 = buoyancy of 139kg.

On military systems, it depends what system it is. For example, a better bulletproof vest, a helicopter designed/altered for rescue/civilian evacuation, or a system designed for containing or protecting against bombs, all equally useful for saving lives as for a military. Honestly, there is no such thing as an un-weaponizable system. A cargo plane can carry tanks to a military base, a gun can just as easily be used for hunting as for war, a drone that finds survivors under rubble could just as easily find enemies hiding away, or worse, serve its original purpose. But, other than that, I think it is a good policy to not actively build those systems, if it is used for bad stuff you didn’t intend it. As for companies, in the space sector, pick someone making actual good progress, not taking 20 years to get suborbital and then saying you’re going to finish that massive orbital rocket in a year or two. (Not saying they won’t do it, just that they are not going to do it soon.) In aircraft: according to a conversation I had a while back with Sean, my classmate who is obsessed with piloting and planes: Stay away from boeing, they are apparently not good, and making no progress.

Not really, it would require so many new parts that you may as well build a new phone, and anyways, the sum of it’s parts is more useful to me. I’ve been wanting bigger polarizing filters for a while now.

Found the remains of a phone in a trashcan at school, naturally it had already been gutted, no camera, circuits or battery, but the backlight and polarizers for the lcd are still in usable condition.

The mammoth 2 appears to be 3.75 meters, but one big engine, so, I could probably imagine it having the thrust of the maximum amount of vectors squashable into that space, so, about 9. As for open cycle, it's built for thrust, not isp. The muscle car, dragster, ramjet gas guzzler of the rockomax range.

Knew it, I muddy knew I was wrong! Thanks a lot for the help, sir!

What is "the whole thing," the github repository has 5 files: Kex heightmap thingy (I'm writing this from memory) plugins examples Kopernicus expansion alpha 9.11 zip The previous one but a different format. What exactly, of these things, should I install?

Nice to see you here. Unrelated: As for me, I did nothing in ksp, but quite a lot to ksp, intalled among others, persistent rotation and kronometer, also built ore-to-materialkit converters into sandcastle printers. By the way, @Misguided Kerbal, when installing kopernicus expansion, what part should I download and install (for footprints in ksrss, which provides configs), just the plugins, or what?

Impactor slowing down. Quickly. Did not think I could get the flyby to orbit, but I did, with only 165 or so m/s. Sorry for no more detail, it's almost bath time.

No, but I must say, if I remember right, @AtomicTech made a mod for this, also retrofitted from kerbalrenamer, but it has support, which, since my one can be slightly temperamental, is good.

A (my-lastname)-burger, two actually, invented by my grandma, burger bun, tomato sauce, and sliced up Viennas, or whatever they’re called. That’s it. If you’re wondering about butter, I hate butter, can’t explain why, I just have a vendetta against it. By the way, this is one of the very few things I actually can (for a loose definition of the term) cook.

For this entire quarter, we will have another ap maths teacher! No more hippie dippy nonsense! Finally! Proper math!

Today is the 53rd anniversary of 1: apollo 11 splashdown, and 2: my mom's birth! Unfortunately she doesn't like space much.

Woo HOOO!!!! The day before yesterday: Today:

The expanse has ftl, ftl communications (thanks to Einstein, and robots) that means time travel, and holograms, thus it is soft sci fi, and dystopian at that.

My cousin, 6 years older than me, to the day, and 20, not 21 as I previously incorrectly stated, came over yesterday and stayed with us so as to not have to ping-pong between towns or get a hotel. Today I jogged/ran with her for 3km, going 1 km, then resting back to full operation while she made another 1km lap, then joining up again. After that we climbed to the top of the hill on the other side of the block, took photos, and came down. I slipped and while stabilizing myself, whacked my arm into a thornbush-thingy, fortunately the holes it made were tiny mosquito-bite class holes, didn't even need to patch them. Oh, yeah, I'm still taller than her by the way. I also declared plumbing pipes to be big-boy lego blocks.

For some reason my brain refused to let me sleep, at all.

I have recently put my lego, with the exception of some organized stuff in drawers, and a custom space layout, and a Saturn V, into a drawer, since I have been starting to focus my efforts on building things that can't be easily accomplished with lego, like electrolyser... This just gave me a very, very dumb idea. Fortunately I like dumb ideas.

Wrote my last exam, took it slow and steady, taking a full 20 minutes of the 1 hour timeframe to do it. (it was a music exam, and mostly multiple choice/fill in, and there isn’t really that much in the side-subject of music, well, not an hour’s worth). But back to the point, VACATION!! Three weeks of it! Alright, it is an icy cold winter-fingers 18°C indoors (let alone outdoors) but still! (Before the eskimos say that that’s not cold, I have to say, 34°C is normal not-too-hot summer temperature here. ) I also bought myself a pack of double A’s and some switches to build a rudimentary power supply. I tell you, 5 amps per battery is the last amp measurement I expected!

South Africa. On another note, sorry for not checking this thread, forgot to follow it. As for some other questions by others: 1. We are planning to hire an installer, my dad knows some people. 2. We do have a generator, but it’s a load of trouble to start, petrol is not cheap, and well, my dad wants to just stop paying eskom (the electricity provider) out of sheer spite.

New ideas: Iron oxide: Heat it up and react it with carbon monoxide (it needs to be hotter, but it saves you the trouble of getting carbon, though you could still get carbon) to make iron. My preferred in situ spaceship construction material, because I refuse to spend the ridiculous amount of energy needed to get aluminium. (And it is ridiculous, on earth aluminum ore is sent to places like Iceland to be processed purely because of the cheaper electricity there.) Crew biowaste: Solid biowaste can be heated in a low oxygen environment to produce carbon monoxide (wood gas), water, methane, and carbon residue (ash and soot). The water would be drunk, the carbon and carbon monoxide would be used for iron refinement, the methane could be cooled and used as fuel, or burned for more water, along with CO2 to feed microalgae to be turned via heating to oil (literal oil, fun fact, pretty much every geological compression based reaction can be replicated in seconds with sufficient heat (notable exception, diamonds, since carbon burns)) for fuel, and which can liberate oxygen for oxidizer, or feeding farms for algae (specifically the bacon tasting seaweed Dulse (I think that's how to spell it), or alternatively regular plants which can either be eaten or fed to livestock (I know it's a waste of mass but I love me some pork and chicken wings). I once again ask, does anyone have any other ideas?

Well, turns out Harvard beat me to it, I found a paper which discussed extracting regular hydrogen (just H2) from lunar regolith, according to the apollo mission samples the concentration ranged from 50-220 parts per million (average of about 150 grams per ton of regolith), not much of course, but it's everywhere, and we have industrial capacity and automation to play with. They discussed using bacteria to do it, but they also stated that it could be baked out. You could have a bunch of rovers which take in regolith on the front, bake the hydrogen out in the middle, and spit rocks out of the back, then when they have gotten, say a 150 grams of hydrogen (which could be done in 20 minutes if they can process 50 kilograms per minute, which ought to be feasible with sufficient heat and/or sufficient numbers), they go back to base to deposit it. This is probably not just on the surface level though, so you could mine down into everywhere else, and since you already would need other mines, you could extract the hydrogen first.