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They didn't have good spaceship insurance ;P

That's how I understand it.

e^(i*pi)+1 / 0 for not making sense ;P

Ah. These people again. I sincerely hope that they actually do make a game one of these days, because they came up with this awesome concept way back when, but it's been vaporware for years :\ ...The fact that their website has no news posts since 2013 and that the promo website has nothing on it but a big splash image (which is a painting rather than a screenshot) is not reassuring.

Today I learned what a Herbig-Haro object is: a double jet structure produced by incipient stars as they accrete mass, similar to a galactic polar jet.

This sounds like a better idea for stuff like boat hulls and buoys than swimsuits. I'm all for cleaning the ocean, but preferably not by having all the goop stuck to my naked skin.

^ So I'd take this comment as a prediction that the amoebas will form a cyst in Hadean atmospheric conditions ;P I say good luck! This sounds like a pretty smart idea for an experiment, being useful yet still practical for a Science Fair project.

5/10 for at least trying to post an image.

"Rouge" is French for "red," e.g. "Moulin Rouge" means "Red Windmill." I believe what you meant was rogue.

No, because it is a building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_Tower

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Things I've dreamed recently: - Being John Wilkes Booth, except in some kind of steampunk universe. I had to face the reality of an impending death sentence while trying to defend my actions and the idea that Lincoln had really been acting tyrannically in court. - Being in a universe similar to Guardians of the Galaxy and helping track down a space pirate. - Having my dad visit my college dorm, except I had slept in till 5pm and, feeling sweaty, was on my way to the pool to cool off despite the fact that my dorm room was mounted on a pole above a swamp like one of those houses in Louisiana. And at the end it started raining right when I was about to leave. - A really awesome future version of Kerbal Space Program with much better graphics and terrain generation. The KSC was built spanning a fjord with beautiful cliffs and waterfalls. Oh, except that wasn't actually the KSC, that was just some government building. The KSC proper was a winnebago parked a few blocks away. In conclusion, I've found that dreams aren't so much related to what you were doing that same day as prior experiences in general, particularly topics about which you've thought a lot, even if they're not things you did in real life. I've watched Guardians of the Galaxy multiple times, I've played a lot of KSP, and I actually was feeling sweaty this morning when I woke up (that one was from today). I'm not so sure about the John Wilkes Booth dream, but I suppose I do play Devil's Advocate a lot so maybe I was trying to challenge myself.

Wow O_O This in the country famous for preferentially using bicycles due to the crowding.

As a general guideline I call a Fund $10,000. So the Kidonia has so far cost about $30 billion xD

OH I SEE! So the "holo" part is in the spectator's camera (and presumably also the player's). So I guess if someone walks by without a HoloLens it still looks like we're just jumping and flailing about fighting nothing.

Indeed. I've always wondered this: how do we know that dark matter really is Mysterious Invisible StuffTM? What we've observed is that, based on the motions of stars and galaxies, there is something out there that has mass and which doesn't glow or block light strongly. So it could just be a bunch of rocks. Or Pez. Or, if it turns out that we were wrong about photons and they have mass, light itself. And I suspect there's more than enough ordinary matter around, even if dark matter really is mystery goo, for white dwarfs to accrete mass and explode on their own.

Nope. Admittedly as far as I've checked, it hasn't been used for actual production models of rockets (for good reason), but research was done into mixing conventional fuel (e.g. kerosene) with Methylmercury in order to increase the thrust at the cost of Isp. Methylmercury is so toxic that during once incident during R&D, when a lab worker accidentally spilled a small amount on her rubber glove, immediately took off the glove, and washed her hand... she died from mercury poisoning.

I dunno if you can measure distance too well, but the above post about "if it's smaller than your thumb, you're probably okay" seems useful enough. Or perhaps Fallout Guy is just blocking the center of the blast so he can ogle it without getting blinded. Sort of like blocking the Sun when taking a coronagraph.

No, see, Kerbals turn a peachy tan color when they're exposed to radiation ;P

Also seconding FyunchClick. I use the Mk2 for self-illumination, e.g. in cargo bays, and the Mk1 for when I need to spot something far away such as a landing spot or docking port.

-20 Team Zero shall rise again!

...when you watch The Martian and gawk in horror at their ideas for orbital maneuvers and rescues, thinking about all the ways you would have done it so much better.