TheExplosionist

Heh? BSE = prion disease of cows CJD/vCJD = prion disease of humans that ate non-organic infected beef or had an infected tissue transfusion It takes anywhere from months to decades for CJD symptoms to develop.

How recent is that book? Recent reports indicate up to 12% of dementia cases could be CJD. I'd say it's more common than we'd like to admit. Very scary disease.

Unreal 3 would be a major improvement. It made use of all the tech available back in 2008. I doubt Unity is anywhere near as sophisticated.

The earth getting hit by those is like a grain of sand hitting an elephant. If there was a rock the size of Africa on it's way then things might get exciting.

Unlike in movies or videogames there would be no fires, big explosions or non-Newtonian physics. Space vessels would engage at vast distances beyond visual range using x-ray lasers, missiles and projectile weapons.

It's the only 2-man Eve return vehicle in existence. It also has 89 stages, over 3000 parts, takes 5mins to load and tends to explode spontaneously on the launch pad. http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/eve_explorer/

The EU has to tow the yank line. I continue to find it highly amusing the yanks have no manned space craft of their own since the space shuttle retired.

There'll never be any cities on any orbiting bodies in this system. Either the atmospheric pressure is too high or the gravity is too weak. I imagine they'll be mining colonies and space stations though.

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It says somewhere nuclear engines are roughly 3x better than H2/O2 and I think that was for steam. Nukes that exhaust H2 should be even better.

Use lot's of 8x symmetry asparagus nukes.

But they're filled with orange Lucozade.

Population control is political suicide and people of Islamic culture or from "istan" countries don't want to know or care.

Why didn't Clooney try to refuel his MMU ? An obvious factual error is yanks have no operational manned space craft for starters since the shuttle retired.

Apart from hydroelectric dams, "renewables" are useless. Unless we burn coal/peat/lignite/fracked gas until the air is so polluted with heavy metals that 99% of people get terminal cancer by age 30, start building nuke plants which is unpopular or wait for fusion despite fewer and fewer people going into physics or engineering, it's inevitable that western living standards will be decreased drastically.