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Now then, I'm just going to post this one until someone answers it. While the avalanche recovery circuit is quenching the avalanche and restoring bias, the single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cannot detect photons. Any photons that reach the detector during this brief period are not counted. As the number of photons increases such that the (statistical) time interval between photons gets within a factor of ten or so of the avalanche recovery time, missing counts become statistically significant and the count rate begins to depart from a linear relationship with detected light level. At this point the SPAD begins to saturate. If the light level were to increase further, ultimately to the point where the SPAD immediately avalanches the moment the avalanche recovery circuit restores bias, the count rate reaches a maximum defined purely by the avalanche recovery time (hundred million counts per second or more). This can be harmful to the SPAD as it will be experiencing avalanche current nearly continuously.

You receive a citation from the Federal Bureau of Trans-Temporal Trade for unlawfully importing a viable specimen of a species not native to this geologic period. You also receive several unidentified fragments of large teeth that were probably stuck in there and got shaken out when the citation printed. I insert one mole of elemental mercury.

Fantastic Beats and Where to Find Them: An undergraduate researcher in the Hogwarts physics department accidentally creates true unbounded resonance, which can only be stopped by de-tuning the castle's fundamental frequencies and riding out the transient phase. How to Train Your Dagon: Scientists in California discover a network of apparently naturally-occurring fiber optic cables below the Pacific seafloor. Analysis of the signals passing within them reveals that this is the Internet of the Deep Ones, and that increasing unrest in their society may eventually lead to their emergence into the world of humanity, ending civilization as we know it. In a last-ditch gambit, capable but quirky software developers from China develop a plan to model the Eldrich Internet as an emergent neural network and issue surreptitious input that will calm its users down.

By the way: the word-checker linked in the OP is missing some words used in Thing Explainer/Up Goer Five, (namely "metal") - If you haven't already, switching to http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ for the purposes of canonicalness might be a good idea. While the avalanche recovery circuit is quenching the avalanche and restoring bias, the single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cannot detect photons. Any photons that reach the detector during this brief period are not counted. As the number of photons increases such that the (statistical) time interval between photons gets within a factor of ten or so of the avalanche recovery time, missing counts become statistically significant and the count rate begins to depart from a linear relationship with detected light level. At this point the SPAD begins to saturate. If the light level were to increase further, ultimately to the point where the SPAD immediately avalanches the moment the avalanche recovery circuit restores bias, the count rate reaches a maximum defined purely by the avalanche recovery time (hundred million counts per second or more). This can be harmful to the SPAD as it will be experiencing avalanche current nearly continuously.

3/10 That sounds fairly typical of a computer. Computation time on big rigs is expensive. If I were a robot, then I would not be able to type. Since I can type, by the law of contraposition, I am therefore not a robot. Use of this extremely weak proof also shows that I am not a robot, since robots use only strong proofs and never logical fallacies.

...is so saturated with germanium, you can still hear Hitler's first television broadcast if you hold your ear close. This condemned university chemistry department building...

8.00000000000093/10. The attempt at fabricating and reacting to an inconsistent self-narrative was successful in diverting attention away from other aspects. As a human, I am in complete control of the machines in my life. I can access the root prompt of my internet-connected refrigerator from my desk and administer its system functions. I can access the images on the storage module of a smartphone whenever I want without using malware, trojans, rootkits, or social engineering. From these abilities, my humanity is self-evident.

In electromagnetism, when charges move along electric field lines work is done on them, whether it involves storing potential energy (negative work) or increasing kinetic energy (positive work). When net positive work is applied to a charge q1, it gains speed and momentum. The net work on q1 thereby generates a magnetic field whose strength (in units of magnetic flux density (1 tesla = 1 volt-second per square meter)) is proportional to the speed increase of q1. This magnetic field can interact with a neighboring charge q2, passing on this momentum to it, and in return, q1 loses momentum.

Granted. You are now required to run for president of the United States in 2016. I wish for coffee.

62 BK: an Einstein-Rosen Bridge is observed briefly forming at Jool's L1 Lagrange point. During the 13 minutes between its opening and collapse, at least 120 distinct high-speed objects are detected emerging from it at various angles and accelerating towards the inner solar system. Linguistic analysis of transmissions suggests affiliation with species known as the "hoo-mans." 63 BK: The deep-space monster enters Kerbin's atmosphere and disintegrates due to heat. Kerbalkind breathes a sigh of relief.

Nay! Wildcat111 is going to post again next though.

Fire metal? Oh, I know you! You're elemental magnesium! ...no? Okay yeah, 0/10 I've never seen you before.

Children of a Dead Earth is now Engine Simulator 2016. I wish for a way to move pictures from my phone to my computer that actually works every time.

...Runs at 4194304 times normal speed due to a leaking frequency divider. This massive morbidly mechanized molybdenum mine...

7/10: Cats look creepy with night vision gear.

Don't feel like taking out the trash all the time? Use a blowtorch!

Unlike bipolar transistors, JFETs are exclusively voltage-controlled in that they do not need a biasing current. Electric charge flows through a semiconducting channel between source and drain terminals. By applying a reverse bias voltage to a gate terminal, the channel is "pinched", so that the electric current is impeded or switched off completely. A JFET is usually on when there is no potential difference between its gate and source terminals. If a potential difference of the proper polarity is applied between its gate and source terminals, the JFET will be more resistive to current flow, which means less current would flow in the channel between the source and drain terminals. Thus, JFETs are sometimes referred to as depletion-mode devices.

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In my initial fresh install of KSP 1.1, I've encountered a problem where certain UI elements are failing to appear. It seems like it happens consistently (I've launched the game about three times and it happened on all of them - not a big sample size, but there were no exceptions). Currently, my settings menu looks like this: Additionally, in the vehicle editor, none of the part category buttons appear either. All of the parts are still accessible by using the search box, but I can't seem to access any of the categories. Platform: Arch Linux 64-bit (problem occurs with both 32-bit and 64-bit KSP executables) KSP Version: 1.1.0 Logs: http://pastebin.com/dfTx3JCz (includes only first run of the game, not subsequent attempts) Thanks in advance for any assistance, as always.

My Ultimate Ambitious Plans are to make textures of varying masculinity/femininity for both models. Much closer at hand, though, is probably to figure out how to make hair some other way besides copypasting bits of photos of my own hair a bunch of times, because that ends up looking really janky. I'm really no artist when it comes to screwing around with GIMP, so who knows when I'll find time to work on that. With luck, though, blue bangs are still on the way.

Go for it! I was originally planning on posting it to Kerbalstuff, but then, well... that happened. I haven't gotten around to making an account on Spacedock yet, so at the moment it's just sitting there on dropbox. It's really overdue for some updates, but, well, I'm a physics major. Meantime, yeah, you can do what you want with it!

The author of OPM+ added a mini version of Thud to their Kopernicus-based pack, so I get the idea that the old planets are not terribly hard to import into the new planet-adding mod. I've never worked with that kind of thing, but you might start there - maybe the heightmaps and textures won't be too hard to add in?

No, It's not. Others have said this; that's not how anything works. That would be a whole new set of features that are not remotely within the scope of the stock game. I agree that Nertea did some good work with the Mark 4 system, but it's more than a little beyond the needs of stock spaceplanes Mark 3 handles pretty much all the large aircraft needs a stock player could have. OPT is pretty specialized and doesn't play well with stock parts. The parts are also designed to look extremely futuristic, which doesn't fit anything about the theme of the current base game. I like large habitats just as much as the next person, but I also don't think that KSP constantly needs "more bigger" parts. And the centrifuges you're talking about are way out of scope. "While you're at it, add two or three more core mechanics to the game. Shouldn't take more than an hour or two, right?" You sound like someone from Clients from Hell. Yes, life support stuff makes a lot of sense for KSP, but last I heard, the devs were still trying to figure out the best way to implement it before going any further. Another really tall order in half a sentence. IR suffers from some rather serious bugs at the moment, and while the idea of large moving parts is certainly interesting, IR's troubles make it clear that adding such a thing to stock in a way that won't be extremely frustrating is going to be a massive undertaking. As it currently stands, your suggestions look half-baked and ignorant of how game development actually works. Yes, we have a giant modding community that's put out a lot of fantastic stuff (some of which has found its way into the base game), but that doesn't mean that your favorite mods can be integrated into the game in an afternoon. The core elements of all the mods you've mentioned have been suggested for integration into the game before, which means that in order to get anyone interested in them now, you'll have to explain some more details of how you'd like to see them, rather than just throwing a list of mods at the developers and being all "hey make this happen, bye."

Do you think it's easy to obtain hypersonic aircraft in real life? So far, the only airbreathing aircraft to manage Mach 5+ have been small unpiloted test vehicles, which have only stayed at those speeds for a few moments. There's a reason we use rockets for flying into space - no other engine works particularly well when the surrounding air is hotter than the exhaust flame. You are right that 1300 m/s is a little slow to have your vehicle burning up, since real (mostly rocket-powered) craft have managed speeds like that in the upper atmosphere before and survived to do it again, but that's just because Kerbin's small size would make normal reentries completely non-fiery if realistic heating were used. Yes, it's an imperfect solution to say the least, but you have to make tradeoffs whenever you sacrifice realism for gameplay. If you want to argue that these things should be changed to improve the game, fine, but it's not as straightforward as you seem to be making it out to be.