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Calling 911 because you said that if SLS ever launches you would have a heart attack and die, but now they're saying they will launch at the end of the month, so you're unsure if a heart attack is now fated to happen or if you would be obligated to make it happen.

Calling 911 by squeezing an iPhone 8 into a cupholder until it calls on its own.

Calling 911 because every time you try drink a cup of tea, you get a sharp pain in the eye. ("Okay, I think I know this one. Have you removed your spoon from the cup before drinking?")

Calling 911 to charge a picture of a pipe with treason.

Calling 911 because you and your spaceship have been compressed into a cube. ("Yes...yes, sir, it is illegal...yes...but general notices were also issued that the dockmaster is neither patient or forgiving concerning unattended parking.")

Calling 911 to report that you have a need, a need for speed! ("We'll send out the next available officer to write up a traffic violation for you.")

Calling 911 to demand to know why they never internationally standardized all emergency numbers.

Rock-Bottom Progression Start with just a set of Kerbals (without suits), build a civilization that is advanced enough to create rockets, then play as normal.

I look at that new logo and think: "Introducing our newest innovation: the rocket-propelled R!" Ah...it's fine.

I'm wondering if we're not considering something here. If we can't sterilize the spaceship at launch, why can't we sterilize it while in space? I don't mean depend on space to sterilize, but send out robots or astronauts to take samples, then sterilize the ship while it is between planets?

Yes, it is true. But that 1250 Mt yield is coming from a 250 t bomb. If a 250 t bomb can be assembled, it would have to be done with incredible planning and care. If the plutonium concentration gets too high...well...there's a lot of plutonium there and now some of it is melting down. That sounds to me like something very horrible and thankfully no one wants to, or needs to, try it. I wasn't thinking in terms of space where the blast itself wouldn't harm someone. I was thinking more in terms of radioactive fallout, that such a detonate might expel to unprecedented distances and possibly in higher concentrations. Remember that the Tsar Bomba test limited the fallout by using a tamper that dropped the yield from an expected 100 Mt to 50 Mt. Although I suppose you could try to limit the test to 500 Mt or so. Assuming even testing such a weapon didn't cause more diplomatic incidences than it was worth.

If AN602 was a 'statement' of Soviet nuclear power, then a +1000 Mt weapons sounds like an 'immediate ransom demand.' As the AN602 was deliberately limited to keep the aircraft from immediate destruction and keep the (relatively) nearly civilians from encountering radioactive fallout, I don't think there's anywhere on the planet you could test a 1250 Mt weapon if you care about...anything. I don't know the limits of nuclear bombs, but I would guess you couldn't put one together without it melting down on final assembly. Regardless, MIRVs are more destructive and more efficient. But it makes for some scary numbers of a paranoid general to show his friends. I mean, the accusation, without evidence, that Starship/Superheavy is a weapon has been made. Just as well that Starship is currently a poor choice as a missile. I believe, for most ICBMs you want them to re-enter the atmosphere quickly to limit potential interception. Since you want a pointed nose for that, as well as no landing equipment, I think someone would notice if a Starship was re-configured for use it as an ICBM.

I was going to bring this thread back to point out how difficult to hide and ineffective an orbital laser weapon would be. But I thought of something better. Imagine that someone was crazy enough to make Starship into a nuclear bomb (instead of using a better, purpose-built ICBM.) That is, a Starship loaded with a single nuclear device (as opposed to a MIRV) somehow fitting into its cargo bay and used as a ICBM. If the whole cargo section could be used, and that such a nuclear device could be built and installed, how power could a Starship nuclear weapon be?

Talking with someone about the matter and there were two ideas: First, if Elon is serious about using Starships as self-contained orbital telescopes, what prevents Starship as a spy satellite? Second, if Starships is allowed to fly P2P as proposed elsewhere, what if someone develops a bare-bones, disposable, one-person vehicle that could separate at the top of the sub-orbital flight? What if said vehicle could be maneuvered just enough to land at a designated spot in a country that happens to between the two points of the sub-orbital trajectory? What if this could be used to parachute in intelligence operatives or similar types deep into other countries? I know it was mentioned that anything sounds plausible to a paranoid-enough person. But do any of these sound plausible to an authority figure who is much less paranoid and just generally concerned about the security and integrity of his home country?

More likely impersonating Not-Howard Hughes. Space-based laser weapons are so stock, the James Bond films used the same idea twice. Starting with Diamonds Are Forever

I'm going to go conspiracy theorist for this one, if you'll indulge me... To find what Elon's (whoever he is) true motive, we need to find the connections. He has a 'business' building solar panels and batteries. He is building a that Starship to take massive payloads to orbit. I hear NASA has proposed using one to put a large telescopes into orbit. It's pretty clear what's going on here. In case you can't see it, let me lay it out for you. Starship puts a massive telescope into orbit. Nobody is going to question it because it will be all public and official. Not a spy satellite, not a problem. Little will we suspect that this 'telescope' is actually the most powerful laser ever made. But it won't be enough. Next they'll send up a massive sunshade to go with that massive telescope. JWST needs one, why not this one? Nothing strange, right? But that 'sunshade' is a really a massive solar array to power the massive laser, something one of Elon's companies can easily supply without question. But that still isn't enough. Then there's a third servicing mission to add more things to the 'telescope.' They'll talk about scientific payloads, but it'll be a massive bank of batteries to make a capacitor for the laser plus a massed krypton-ion thrusters, like Starlink uses, for better maneuvering. With Starship's massive payload capacity and a bit of subterfuge, it'll be too late to stop it. Target this orbital death ray with ASAT launchers and it'll burn out the guidance of the missiles in flight, then it can turn and fire its laser to change orbit and avoid all interceptors. Then it will be able to burn all satellites on orbit and attack anywhere on the ground in a direct line to the laser. Everything on-board will be solar powered and by the time they need to re-supply krypton gas, all opposition will be too suppressed to stop a re-supply launch. It will dominate a huge area! ...Once again, I'm channeling the mindset of conspiracy theorist here. I doubt this would happen, but I think it would be more fun if I let everyone poke the holes in this one. I am well aware this is a stock villain superweapon. But it's not about how cliché it is, but plausible it sounds.

Calling 911 to get better terms for a contract in Career Mode.

Calling 911 because your friend refuses to agree that the moons of Duna are Erebus and Terror.

Wuxia KSP Allows Kerbals to train in martial arts. Training progress is shown with a starred indicator separate from the one that indicates Kerbalnaut training. Also adds training equipment as deployable inventory.

Calling 911 to ask, "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" ("We are required to inform you that, although your joke is a listed in crimes against comedy as a misdemeanor, tying up this line with your Holy Grail reference bumps it up to a felony. An officer is already on their way to arrest you.")

My first thought was to ask if conspiracy theorists were taking story elements from the Metal Gear Solid games seriously, because that's the only other place I've heard of it. But I'm not sure if there's enough points in common. Spoilers for Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Heaven help anyone who take Hideo Kojina's writing as fact.

Support For Twitch CrowdControl CrowdControl is an existing Twitch extension that allows Twitch viewers to interfere with the game played on-stream with assorted effects (often to hinder the streamer currently playing.) The limit on this interference is in the available CrowdControl coins (bought with Twitch's bits) with prices per effect set by the streamer. Common effects for 'classic gaming' may include: lower jump height/increase gravity, increase jump height/lower gravity, flip or rotate screen, zoom in on screen, change character sprite, restart level, activate effects from elsewhere in the game, and kill character. The Air In Space Kerbin's sea-level atmosphere is now applied to all locations in-game, including outer space.

The Use Mods mod: this mod recognizes the actions you take in-game and recommends a related mod for you that you don't have installed. Like if you don't have Scatterer installed, it will remind every five minutes. Or every time you add an engine, it reminds you of all the other mods that add engines to the game. Or every time you launch that you could be using MechJeb.

I'll re-phrase. I don't think it's intentional either. I just get the impression that Luna-25 has always been a low-priority during the 2000s and 2010s. Does the discussions of crewed moon landings change Luna-25's priority? Or has its priority stayed the same, but there's nothing else at this moment, of a higher priority to further delay it?

Right, I forgot about the Soviet Luna program and it's modern extension. You can ignore my silly talk of 'a crewed lunar lander being unused because no one would launch it.' Just looking up Luna-25's mission. A landing near the lunar south pole could provide some useful data ahead of Artemis III (assuming Artemis III goes to plan.) Any guesses if the current buzz about space will convince Russia to launch it, if only to say they're doing something? Or is it penciled into the schedule because there's nothing else in the pipe to delay it?