MalletFace

I just want to know where you people have seen yourselves, or other people being awesome. What I mean by awesome in this case is anything that a person does to better themselves or others in a way that isn't selfish, like the child you know who works steadily towards changing their failing grade to a passing grade, or the person who outright tells somebody else that they are a great person, even if they don't know them personally. Other people tend to feel better when they see good done in the world, and if this person saw that you told other people around the world about something great they had done (Without using their personal information), would it not most likely make them feel a little better? It could even be something you yourself did. Its good to talk about how you helped somebody else, and it normally makes others feel better to see good being done. If you don't know of anything you or other people have done that fits this, go and do something and tell us about it. Its never a bad idea to tell somebody they make the world a better place, by doing or by example, and its normally easiest to start by doing exactly that.

I have loved every school I've been to. There has only been one teacher that's driven me over the edge, but she was so bad that she had even been sued once or twice before.

If you could combine the point of that with Neil deGrasse Tyson's point when he said "... kids are born curious. They're always exploring. We spend the first year of their lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.", you would have what is very likely the most powerful reason many people hate school, the reason many kids find it pointless, and the reason many adults and children alike think most educational systems are failed. Even if children and adults don't realize it, they ask two of the most important questions from a very young age; "Why?", and "How?". Its surprising for me how they actually very rarely get answers to these two questions at home or at school, and even more so that most adults will rarely admit to a kid, while not showing anger or irritation, when they don't have the answer to one of those questions.

Most of the reason anybody dislikes school is because of how it is structured. Even teachers tend to dislike it and the students because of how they are forced to go about it. If all schools were structured differently, and education, too, school would be a place you wouldn't want to even leave for the summer. My high school is an early college in America, and those tend to work really well from what I've seen. There aren't too many people going there, and everybody is generally friends with everybody else. The teachers in my school were also asked to teach there based on skill, and they are generally smart enough to find loopholes that allow them to fulfill the curriculum while doing things that are actually entertaining and informative for everybody. We didn't even have a building for all but a few months last year, and we still learned a lot, and had a lot of fun. I'm going to hate finishing my fifth year at my school.

We notice the noticeable. Those people harassing you are abnormal, and just trying to make themselves feel better. Humans are naturally kind, and one of the few creatures that go out of their way to help total strangers, even to the point of risking their lives. We will even go out of our way to save members of other species, which I think says something remarkable about how we think. Almost all of us help another creature at some point. Noticing the noticeable is something that will probably never be taken out of our society, as all living things are meant to react to the most "noticeable" stimuli. It does help for survival on many occasions for almost all creatures, but on other occasions, it can lead to things like racism and sexism in human society. We all notice the woman who drives her car off the bridge into the river, but we all tend to forget what could possibly be thousands of women that crossed that bridge, all driving politely and safely. This is something we all do, no matter what.

I had to shut the server down for a few days, but I am trying to get it back on tomorrow.

I haven't played too much of Towns, but I know quite a bit about DF. Incomplete List of Pros: -Dwarf Fortress is free -Dwarf Fortress offers extremely deep and complex stories and myths for every world you generate -Mods allow you to escape from the default ASCII, giving it new tiles, or playing it in isometric 3D -Decent sized modding community -Other people's stories can be fun to read (Boatmurdered, and Operation **** the World) Incomplete List of Cons: -It takes quite a while to learn how to do everything in the game -Its default look is ASCII (I have no problem with this, but others do) -You have to be in the mood to play it That's about all I can give about DF off of the top of my head.

Oh, today it was down because of some problems with electrical cables, but it will be brought up again very soon.

The server isn't down, but the connection of players has been failing on several servers, and not too many people are sure why. I believe it is only happening to stations running a current /tg/station build. I've been trying to figure out why it does and doesn't fail for certain users at random, and the problem is noted on the server, and on my second post in this thread.

I hate when I don't have a good internet connection. All of my hobbies and "jobs" really need internet to be fully realized. On another topic, the admins and I were considering organizing a unique event at some time to get people interested in the server, and on the server at one time. We get quite a few people on the server, but not too many at the same time. We were wondering how many KSP forum users actually play SS13, and how many of you would be interested in a special event. It would likely be some type of PvP, battle related event, but there are so many possibilities there, and even some other types of special event the three of us couldn't come up with. Right now, all of the ideas we have are (None of these may sound smart, but neither are we ) a wizard 2v2 tourney-based event, a battle where players are provided armor and weapons and placed in teams, and some type of monkey related event. If you play SS13, and you would be interested in such an event, or you have an idea for one, it would be greatly appreciated if you voice your opinion here. Please note that if this does happen, and we get some players together at the same time, it will not be something that happens every round, everyday. Edit: I've not seen someone get rejected on our server before they even get in yet, or even on another server. Some amount of lag is normal for BYOND games, though. BYOND isn't the best engine, but it offers some interesting possibilities.

There is not a single player version, as almost all BYOND games are and have to be based around player interaction. If you are concerned about griefing players, most servers have admins that deal with them swiftly. There are servers where admins themselves are griefers, or sandbox servers where almost anything goes, but those are best to be avoided.

If anyone does happen to join and your connection fails often or almost immediately, let me know here, or try to let an admin know if they are on the server. Several servers are having this problem for numerous reasons, and we need to know if it is happening to our server.

Space Station 13 is a game made using the BYOND game making engine that simulates life aboard a space station, and the main point in the game is to stay alive the whole round. You can play as one of the doctors, engineers, security, or in many other roles, and do your part in keeping the station together. However, some players may be assigned the role of a traitorous crew member, an operative of another organization, or even a space ninja. They are only placed there to make somebody’s job harder, or even to kill them. Sometimes the admins may even decide they want to have a little fun, and will turn someone, or even themselves, into one of these antagonists. I’m hosting a server for this game, and I hope that some KSP forum-goers are interested in dropping in occasionally. Right now, there isn't much about the server that is customized, besides the KSS prefix to the server name, but I am looking to make this server a fun place for people with a common interest in KSP to have some fun in space. The current admins are likely to be lenient on roleplay. (We are okay with a botanist doing first aid or opening an oxygen canister, but a botanist doing neural surgery or turning on the singularity is not acceptable.) Other rules, however, we are still discussing. I, along with the other admins, have only ever had to permaban one person for causing a problem, and we really don't want to have to permaban too many more. If you have never played Space Station 13, all you have to do is download the free BYOND client, set up a BYOND account here, and choose a Space Station 13 server. I am trying to create a few video tutorials for this server to teach new players how to use the interface, how to do specific roles, and how to follow the server rules while still having some mischievous fun, as almost every tutorial is either a Let's Play with some general advice, a person showing how not to play the game properly, or for a different/outdated station build. A good resource to use is the wiki for each build. This server runs a nearly up to date /tg/station build, and the /tg/station wiki can be found here. If you have never played the game, and you don't want to play it before you see it or learn about it, one of the wikis is a good place to start. Please remember that none of this applies to all stations, but most of the ideas and guides work well in most cases. For those who know how to connect in the cool way: byond://24.74.59.137:3306 For those who don't, you can use the "Games" tab in the BYOND client, click Space Station 13, and search for KSS, or you can visit the hub page and search for KSS there. Current Game Admins: MalletFace - Game Master Diamand_Dude - Game Master Flipy222 - Designated Station Guy (Don't ask) We hope to see some of you drop in! We advise players new to the game to use our server when there aren't too many people on to learn how to play. There are other servers that don't have many people on, but they are not restarted too often. We are okay with the station being accidentally destroyed when nobody is on. Its all about learning. Please try to remember that we are not the Goons, Baystation, or Yog groups, and we do not have a large number of server regulars, yet. We are trying to do our own thing, and are trying to purge ourselves of the ERP and griefing admin-filled nightmares some other stations have become. (I'm hesitant to say I might have to, but if I do, I will update this information as needed. I would like to see that my server gets used and adapted, but who knows if it will.)

I almost always read signatures, as I have found that the users often pick things that are funny, are insightful, make me feel good, or reveal something about how they function. I do not like it when people fill their signature with random nonsense that just takes up space, though.

I really don't know what to say about private companies that provide the equipment. The companies that provide the equipment make weapons of terror, and they make instruments of advancement. They make ingenious devices to keep people alive, and they come up with ingenious ways to take lives. I really don't want to say anything bad about the company that made the Saturn V, even though they make the Apache. All I can honestly say is that they do what is required of them. There is, has, and will likely always be war, so I suppose making your own kinsmen safer while increasing the danger for this "other" you are fighting is fine, but this is getting into psychological stuff way beyond what I usually worry about, as it is something that will probably always be on Earth. Normally, though, if you focus on the space-related technologies these companies develop, I don't see any more harm than good coming from it. Everything we do will always have a bad side if you look hard enough, like I said before. Research into how diseases actually work helped develop vaccines and medicines, but you could also point to the biological warfare it helped create. Nuclear power helps keep pollution low and produces many times more energy than other methods, but if you can't control the material, it can cause damage to organisms around it. It really depends on how you see the good and bad, and if you can actually see one or the other, and as far as I can see, the farther along we come in almost any field, the better life gets for all, and the poor get fewer(Relative to population at the time, not to the poor years before. Population changes).

Without having a way to monitor what is going on, there is absolutely no way to do anything about it. Without satellites, we would be reduced to using scattered weather monitoring stations, ocean buoys, and manned weather stations. NASA delivers massive amounts of data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, along with several others. NASA, also, is the top educator on climate change in America (I would assume this the same for the RFSA, JAXA, and the like), and one of the biggest forces of change in alternative energy. Solar energy was invented as a result of space exploration, and advances in the aerodynamics of wind turbines was actually made by NASA at a point. Most of our tin actually comes from China, and Indonesia, and America even has a very large supply of cassiterite ore in Alaska, by the way. Most of what we import from The Congo are pharmaceuticals, poultry, and machinery, anyway. Edit: I hope I don't look like l am trying to argue. I am just trying to provide answers from the perspective of one side. I won't even talk to somebody who I don't think is trying to listen, and I never try to force anybody to believe what I do. I apologize if I seemed rude in any way. I also got thinking about the satellite question. Companies pay to have their satellites brought into space, and anyone who is doing space exploration will normally be eager to get this money. If you look at where these companies get their satellites built, the materials normally come from "clean" sources. I look at these satellites as a nice benefit of space flight, and a way to get a little more money to space agencies doing important work. There also isn't much you can do about these satellites, even if you do happen to want the money used on them to go elsewhere. The satellites you mentioned are built with private money, and space agencies are payed to put them up.

That is why I used the statement "I could argue" so much. There are positives and negatives to everything that has and will be done by humans. Who is to say the man who received a cochlear implant won't kill a man for something he says about his wife(Happened before in my area, and really saddened me)? Who says the person who receives food from humanitarian aid won't go on to fight in a war? Fly-by-wire doesn't mean wireless, it actually means the control surfaces of an aircraft are not directly attached to the controls in the cockpit, and are controlled through an electronic interface. There is no way either side would get much information from any captured astronauts. Even if they captured personnel directly from the other agency they couldn't learn enough to be worth it. The agencies themselves don't actually make the rockets. For example, Grumman built the LEM for the Apollo mission. Something they could easily get is the method they took to reach the moon (Lunar Orbit Rendezvous). If they had done so, they would have discovered that our method was exactly the same as their own. On climate change, most of NASA's current missions are actually studying the things that affect Earth's climate, such as pollution, clouds, ocean salinity, and even things like plankton. You can find a relatively accurate list of their ongoing missions here. Unmanned drones are actually not a result of any space research. They actually began major changes during WWII, and later became the aerial drones we know today. Bunker busters have existed since WWII. Military napalm was invented by a man by the name of Louis Fieser at Harvard University, during WWII. Frank Whittle invented the jet engine during WWII. Strafing has existed since aerial warfare, which was mostly WWI. The Apache could be argued to be descendant of space technology, but that is mostly because the company that makes it also makes most of NASA's rockets. ICBMs would have come about anyway, especially if the Germans had won WWII and continued military research. Surface-to-air-missiles began during WWII, as flak was getting hard to use against American and English bombers (I guess those are what you meant, as ATGs would just be dropping a missile from a plane, which came from WWII, also). Cluster bombs have existed since WWII, and are technically not allowed by the Geneva Convention. The Tomahawk is mostly the product of Boeing, who, again, is the company who make's most of NASA's rockets. The MiG line of aircraft has existed since WWII, also.

Just to give a few examples of things that exist because of space flight that have saved lives since they came about; ionization smoke detectors, safety grooves on pavement, improved pacemakers, viable artificial limbs, dialysis machines, CAT scanners, MRI, remote robotic surgery, satellite weather monitoring, and water filters. Many American and European farmers also pay to use satellites to help them to plan and produce as much as they can. I would argue that this preserves lives, since a large portion of the world relies on the crops grown in these areas, especially the corn and wheat. There are also countless inventions that are a result of space exploration that benefit society without directly saving lives, such as cochlear implants, insulin pumps, ear thermometers, long distance communications (I would argue this has saved lives, too), microchips, LEDs used in joint therapy, and aircraft that don't have to be "fly by wire". Space exploration is also doing many things that are not helping us right now, but will later, like studying climate change (It really makes me worried that NASA, JAXA, and the RFSA, have very few climate monitoring satellites still up, due to their small budgets), studying solar activity, using satellites to monitor extreme deforestation, and many others. Outside of what they have developed, space agencies are actually working to make space a frontier for not only scientific research, but peace. For example, despite being America's biggest "enemy" during the space race, Russian ships were ready to grab the Apollo crews from the ocean if they went too far off course, and American ships would have been ready to do the same for any Russian crews on a similar mission. All countries capable of orbital spaceflight have signed the Outer Space Treaty. Included in this treaty are ideas like "...the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes...", "...the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind...", and "...outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States...". It also says that "...States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner...", which is a major statement about nuclear proliferation, and how most people feel about it. In my opinion, the space agencies of all nations should actually get more support, and more funding in order to promote the advances in all areas that they are actually creating. I could reasonably argue that this should come from other areas of a nation's budget, but that could be seen as me being a hypocrite. If you want to see how extremely small NASA's budget is compared to other organizations in America, though, you could go here. On the note of suggesting cutting the budget of a space agency, telling a person who's job it is to study and explore space that their job is worthless compared to the work of a humanitarian is the same as telling a humanitarian their work is worthless compared to the work of a person who's job is researching space. It really isn't nice, as they both benefit society so much more than most of us can imagine. Edit: A space agency isn't like what we see in KSP. It isn't launching rockets just because we can (anymore). Space exploration has advanced every type of natural science, and you probably use things every day that are existent as a result of advances in spaceflight.

On the modding part, I have been wanting to mod PZ since the start, but I knew I would have to wait for a while or my mod would be outdated too fast for me to update it. I think that I might start soon, though, since they are confident enough to release new mapping tools. I have had an account on the old forums, and made an account on the new forums in the first hour they were up, but I am really not sure about posting. I really enjoy posting about my Kitten knife zombie kills and the times I have escaped a house through the Kitten, and having the word Kitten changed to kitten would make my posts really boring, sad, and most certainly ruin the greasy goodness of my Kitten stories. Kitten=kitchen and kitten=kitten, for those of you who have never been on the Zomboid forums since Rathlord decided it would be funny to add a kitten filter.

Race into Space was awesome, and I still play it every single day. It is too bad that so many people would try to greatly mod the game, or make a modern remake, and would fail so often.

What about the art of Spaceisbeautifulul? His even says beautiful in it.

From my experience, Isaac Asimov would be an author you should look into. He is one of the men who helped create science fiction as we know it, and he is famous for the "three laws" he felt all robots would have. The collection of nine of his short stories known as I, Robot, is likely to contain a few stories that interest you. Runaround has to be my favorite of those short stories, so I recommend that one very highly. I believe the price of this ranges from 5-10 U.S. dollars if you want to download it legally, and be assured of a clean conscious and no viruses. (The movie I, Robot did not draw directly from any plot elements in any of his stories, and was merely another look into what could happen with Asimov's "three laws") Most of his works came out between 1950 and 1970, and people around during this time really didn't have what we do now, so their sci-fi worlds tend to be much simpler, and are more likely to only include the low-level tech you are asking for.

I believe he was talking about people who assume all minors are not capable of advanced levels of thought and learning, not the ones who feel computers and games are bad for children. Those are two different things: the second being wrong to do, and the first being really really wrong to do.

I remember the librarian when I was in the third grade sitting me down and checking that I could understand the words used in Robinson Crusoe. She was happy that I knew them, but she thought it was weird. I don't remember how she thought of children in terms of behavior and thought, but I can remember that she was a bit... off, and that she did miss working at the school so much that she cried in front of the whole faculty once.

I really don't want to hate something until I fully understand it. When I fully understand it, I might hate it if it tries to make an argument that goes against all of my collected sources, and interferes with my life.